The values in football

My Mother used to tell me some amazing stories about her football Father and his five sometimes six brothers with their legacy as being one of America’s first pro football teams.

    The Nesser brothers were mostly all immigrants in a new world filled with opportunity and challenge.

     My grandfather worked alongside his own father and brothers as boilermakers for the Pennsylvania railroad for ten to twelve hours a day. Afterwards they would all meet at a local field to play football. In those days the size of a football was a size of a huge watermelon. They wore leather helmets and when one of them tackled you it felt like a freight train, but there was a state of mind in the roots of American football that continued to bring it to life.

  And it wasn’t a need for control or nutritional supplements.

    Someone once wrote an article about my grandfather that described him as having the grace of a ballet dancer on the field, a natural and yet where does such ability come from?  We should always reflect back to our roots for wisdom and understanding.

    Football began with a sense of natural self development. It was the desire to achieve not be achieved over. 

       Wisdom we can take with us in life in all that we do, are the lessons from our ancestors and the values still within us a long as we are willing to remember.

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