The NFL provides ?normal? guys like you and me with an outlet to scream, yell profanities, pig out, drink beer, and escape our nagging girlfriends ? and for a whole day! Apparently our society frowns upon drinking spirits before noon, or at least that's what girlfriend tells me. But guess what guys? That rule is completely thrown out the window when watching football! In fact, morning drinking is encouraged on Sundays. The local sports bars usually have drink specials during games, which start at 10 am. If two beers for the price of one isn't incentive, I don't know what is.
2. Gimme some meat and potatoes!
Is Thanks giving one of your favorite holidays? I like food. Actually, I love food. Here is point I am trying to drive home ? Football is more than a game. Thanks to football, every Sunday is your Holiday. I gather with friends and family, pop open my tailgate, and we eat, drink, and be merry for hours. Everyone brings their own dish, so there's always enough food to go around. It's basically a big potluck. From Doritos to dips and steak tips to pork chops. We eat like kings.
3. Sport your colors.
Putting in long hours at the office? Ever feel like just screaming? Let out that testosterone in a constructive manner ? by screaming at professional athletes, referees and opposing fans. You get to throw on your jersey, and breathe in that mob mentality for a few hours. Heck, you can even paint your face if you want. Football allows guys to break out of social constraints and unleashes the primal warrior that's lurking deep inside them. Ok, my description may be a little far fetched, but you get my point.
4. I suffer from emptywalletitis.
Running low on cash these days? It seems like everything cost money nowadays ? a lot of money. I went to the movies the other day and my popcorn cost more than a ticket! Enjoying football doesn't have to cost you anything. Just head on over to your friend's house, the one with the nice, new HDTV. Sometimes, after a long Saturday night, I prefer to enjoy the game from the comfort of a home rather than being surrounded by thousands of screaming fans.
Basically, football gives you a reason to live. It gives you a reason to get through the work week. It gives you an escape. I would have a harder time coming up with reasons why you shouldn't like football.
Don't worry if you don't know the rules. It's super easy to learn. All you really need to know is that two teams are playing against each other. You want your team to score more points than the other team; easy enough. When everyone gets up and cheers, let out a holler and slap some high fives. When your buddies start cursing, just start insulting the referee's mother drop an F bomb. It's that simple. If you're still hesitant, head over to a nearby sports bar this Sunday and you will see what I am talking about.
Mr. Butch Jimenez did. Head of the Media and Strategic Department of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), he delivered a speech with the title “What’s better than…?" during the University of the Philippines Diliman Class 2003 Commencement Exercises. There he tackled five “better than" examples for us to ponder. And here they are…
Better Than #1: Focusing on the positive is better than focusing on the negative. According to Mr. Jimenez, most people focus on the negative aspects of other people than their positive side. That reality is very evident not only in the corporate world but even in our daily lives. Try asking someone if they have seen your professor like “Have you seen Ms. Santos?", and they would ask back “Who, the pudgy one?", or something like “Yung tagihawat na tinubuan ng mukha?" Why not try to concentrate on someone’s good traits rather than the bad ones? If everyone would just be able to do that, then, as Mr. Jimenez said, this world would be a much nicer place to live in.
Better Than #2: Working hard is better than working smart. People always tell you to work hard, not realizing that working smart is better than that. An example Mr. Jimenez gave was the “empty soap box" case. One of the biggest cosmetic companies in Japan received a complaint that a customer had bought an empty soap box. So to find out which boxes are empty, two engineers devised an x-ray machine. Two people worked hard watching the boxes pass through the machine just to make sure that they were not empty. On the other hand, a rank-and-file employee had an alternate solution to the same problem. He bought a powerful industrial fan and pointed it at the soap boxes’ assembly line. As he switched the electric fan on, the empty boxes which passed by it were blown away. The rank-and-file employee absolutely worked smart.
Still one couldn’t just depend on his ability of finding better solutions to a problem. We still have to work hard. But working hard plus working smart would definitely spell success.
Better Than #3: Imagineering is better than dreaming alone. What is imagineering, you might ask?
Mr. Jimenez stated that imagineering is a Disney word formed from the combination of the words “imagination" and “engineering". And those who engage in it are called imagineers.
The difference between dreaming and imagineering is that in dreaming, you just dream. You just imagine things happening. But, does these things happen? No. However in imagineering, you dream, you imagine, and then you make things happen! Imagineers create something out of their imagination, they experiment and explore out of their curiosity. So Mr. Jimenez’s advice is, don’t be just a dreamer. Be an imagineer.
Better Than #4: Doing something for your country is better than doing something for yourself. Isn’t it that when you want to get something, you have a bigger chance of accomplishing your goal when you’re doing this for others, for a love one perhaps? When you do things for the welfare of others, what you would get in return would be very much rewarding. Not only that, the deed you’ve done for your fellowmen and for your country would be one of the achievements that would make you feel really good and proud.
Better Than #5: Having a cause is better than having a vision. A cause is way much powerful than a vision. According to Mr. Jimenez, no one is willing to die for a vision, but people will die for a cause. You possess a vision, but a cause possesses you. A vision lies in your hands, but a cause lies in your heart. A vision may involve a sacrifice, but a cause involves the ultimate sacrifice. Fight for the right cause and you will win.
These five “better than" examples from Mr. Jimenez, when given the time to think about and acted upon, would definitely create a much better world for us rather than what we have now.
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