The Best in the Game

The best the game, they have become much more than household names.  Their fame beseeches them in more than one way, yet their three disparate tales equal the same.  I’m speaking of, with no underlying message a truth from the heart, about my three favorite sportsmen.  Bred to lead, these signal callers still all bleed.  They go home in pain.  To them without pain there is no gain.  There is no forward progress or first downs. 

            Starting from the bottom and growing up through the dirty.  A Mississippian and a Virginian, complement the southern cool cat from South California.  Equipped with strong presences they all; bare arms with ease.  They’re winning while electrifying and captivating their audiences.  Their fans they please. 

            While the eldest two face more scrutinizing defensive pressures, publicly, adversely, and defensively, the youngest one has as much to prove and remove.  Coming off of a season ending injury, he must once again show why he’s the golden child.  No he is not a movie star but he is still the dude!  Born by the bay Brady must say and do everything wavy.  His cool demeanor sharpened by his couth.  His attention to detail allows him to succumb over his draft status.  Elevating him past Jigga in the booth, he sets the blueprint like the Jay-Z off the ball game.  In a single season he can throw the rock up in any end zone and follow up with the best record in football.  Making Mercury envy Venus, proving all the 72’ fins wrong.  Now it’s his thrown but there were ones who came before him and now they’re both home. 

            I favor this one as the best of all time until it is time for Tom to resign.  Number four on his chest and back for all of the stats and records he’s best at.  Number one shot caller above all of the rest.  Maybe, no that is the reason why he won’t leave the game.  Never giving scribes, journalists, score keepers, and defense a rest. 

There is no more time to catch their breath because Farve’s the ultimate quarterback to set the bar for a passing litmus test.  He has all the intangibles, a desire to win, and equipped with a cannon that blasts past and breaks fingers and hands, causing receivers to catch the ball out of defense.  He’s also known as John Madden’s All Madden man.  “Bang Boom” if know one can do it, I’m sure number four can!” 

See what happens when you allow an old dog to heal his wounds?  You can’t teach old dogs new tricks but they can treat you on any date on any given Sunday and if you’re facing Farve you’ll be the one walking away with more bites and more licks.  Known for his makeshift decisions and lateness, he exemplifies what “IT” is. 

He’s always been a journey man but not in normal stands.  Football is his game and quitting is not in his plan.  For a man to be able to simplify complexity, he simple is just the man. 

            The Michael Vick experiment in more ways than one.  Daring, electrifying, supernatural, on and off the field he just erases the mind.  Doing things that shouldn’t be done.  Finishing what easily can’t be.  Doing the unthinkable, thoughts brought to life with swift tenacity to better those he is among.  An unbelievable knack to come off the block and run, he changed the game.  He switched up old routes while maintaining his normal routine. 

            The Vick ride was exactly what it was deemed, and experiment.  The tests weren’t failed but sabotaged.  Lab rats sacred to the cause couldn’t see past the money.  They chose not to look after Mike’s life but instead were the ones who got tunnel vision and ran off to the feds. 

            What was done was wrong and that remains said.  Statements were made and an iconic symbol came crashing down because of his love for the game.  For the love of his dogs, yes, for the love of his FAM not fame.  Time was served and still people complain.  They bitch about bitches that would be put to sleep and the overall outcome of the dog’s lives ending would have still been beseeched. 

            From uplifting and selling out Atlanta to getting sold out and banished while others in like professions buy out families who don’t stall worth on taking money for their loved ones who vanished. 

            Blessed number seven is back on his back.  An endangered dirty bird allowed back into population.  Round two of the Michael Vick experiment relocated to the city of brotherly love, allowing him to change feathers and once again lead the flock. 

            Along with old dirty birds that packed up and jetted away to remain a Northman, this Viking teaches the noble Patriot lessons of humility and how to become cemented for all eternity.  The Eagle will be able to deliver the message in due time. 

            No one knows who will have the best comeback season but to me that don’t matter.  The best of the best are back in action to give us more than excitement and entertainment.  Allow you to read past their lives and get into their statements.  No matter whom you are and where you started, hardened dedication and drive will keep you in the game.  While your playing or cementing your name.  These men have instilled the greatest movement in my brain.  Winning isn’t just shown in the win columns and once you’ve got it in you, once you’ve gotten a taste, you must be able and willing to do anything, heal or stop everything, go anywhere, just to remain on top of the game!