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Comment by BunkerQB on October 24, 2010 at 12:26am

naymominohio, wow. I'll have to write the sports director at OS and ask if they can video tape a session for us.

Comment by BunkerQB on October 22, 2010 at 10:03pm

NavyXXXY, your husband must have had to fight off a legion of football diehards.

Comment by JJ on October 22, 2010 at 7:51pm

Paymaster...that is so awesome! What an honor to have met him. I have watched that landing on the Hudson many times and am impressed everytime. Trying to land an ailine jet on water is diffinately something that I wouldn't want to do, but thank God he knew what he was doing! I think that his training with gliders helped a lot. Putting that jet down without hitting the wings in the water was truly a miracle!

Comment by Sweet*Southern*Lady on October 22, 2010 at 6:33pm

HoooooRAH!!!! Anybody beating Notre Dame makes me smile (my bestfriend is marrying a ND fan she converted its a pretty terrible situation for her at least in my eyes...) LOL

The DB' just started practicing for his NROTC vs AROTC football game in Dec. I'm so excited! He pretty much pumped. Guess I need to start making a poster that says "Go Navy! Beat Army".

Comment by Paymaster on October 22, 2010 at 6:03pm

Ok, I have just had the highlight of my week. I just got to hear and meet Capt "Sully" Sullenberger, Hero of the Hudson this afternoon.

What a impressive individual along with being very humble. One thing that impressed me was that throughout his speech he keeping giving his crew, the air traffic controller, the passagers of his flight and the boat captains and workers from New Jersey and Manhattan credit for making everything turn out right. So impressed!

I don't remember the last time I felt like this, so imspiring!

Comment by BunkerQB on October 22, 2010 at 12:58pm

Sports, at least from a youth sports perspective, is about teamwork. The benefits of being as part of a sports team is learning to work with your teammates of all levels of ability. My son is a nuke officer on a sub. We had a discussion about this several years ago. He said many of the enlisted nukes (as well as officers) were not into team sports growing up preferring individual sports. Those sailors have more adjustments to make - not critical or anything but still an adjustment. He thought the leadership skills he had learned as a multiple sport star athlete really gave him a great foundation. After he graduated from high school, parents would come up to us and lament that they wished our son was still in school because their sons were floundering on the teams because there was not another athlete to pick up the slack. He wasn't a rah-rah type of guy but he led by example - being on time, ready to play, knew the rules, followed the rules, unselfishly passed the ball to someone else who was more open, accepted responsibility if and when he made an error. He didn't tolerate bullying. On one visit home during Xmas from college, he suggested to former teammate (who hadn't been motivated and partying too much) to apply to a community college near a university where he really wanted to go but had no chance of geting in. This boy did just that and graduated from that university. His parents were thrilled that our son was able to give him guidance that made sense. Unfortunately, some needed more daily hands on supervision. A super talented younger former teammate got in with the wrong crowd the next year, eventually booted off the team for academic ineligibility. His father was (still is) convinced that things would have turned out differently if our son had been there.

Of course, our preoccupation with professional and collegian sports borders on insanity. Heck, the primary reason my husband married me was because I figured out how to connect his TV antenna so he could watch the Niner - Cowboys game with a clear picture (instead of one with speckles all over). :)

Comment by navymom9875 on October 22, 2010 at 12:49pm

There's nothing like going to Wrigley Field to watch the Cubbies!!!

Comment by Sweet*Southern*Lady on October 22, 2010 at 10:53am

To each his own! Every family has a different dynamic. We Skype family in IL, Japan and HI while watching the Bears, Cubs, and UofI games. It keeps us in touch even though we can't attend games together since were so far away. Since were in spring training town (baseball) we'll be seeing alot of family during the March and April we're so looking forward to it! We are also horse racing fan. Can't wait till Derby time! So so looking forward to traveling to the Midwest. I still haven't found a Bears fan sportsbar in here Tucson, but I accidentally found the Packers one eek gag gag :) .

Comment by BunkerQB on October 21, 2010 at 8:26pm

JJ, good for you. Now where is the clicker? The Giants are going to beat the Phillies tonight! I just missed seeing the limos with the President Obama who is here fundraising with the Google guys.

Comment by LZ27 on October 21, 2010 at 7:07pm

JJ you are right. You can go shopping except my favorite mall is on fire as we speak! What a way to have Roseville make the national news! Pray for our firefighters.

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