Life is a Business

People are constantly looking to scheme their way into winning money. Life is a business and greed drives our emotions. Who doesn't want to have more money than they already have? The only downfall is our economy and way of life requires slackers and poverty-struck people to exist in large numbers. To what extent I wonder would people go to get rich?

There are two classes of people in the world. Those who can make money and become successful and those who go through life feasting off of others success. Trickery and manipulation become a large part of the business known as life. In order to make money someone else has to be losing money. So, how do you as a businessman create situations that are favorable for you to have a serious cash flow? I have found that talking and false bravado are two major qualities needed to sell your product. Lets say my product is apple flavored chap stick. In order for me to sell the apple flavored chap stick I would have to be able to approach people and talk to them about my product. People want to hear good things about themselves involving the product. For example if I were to see a woman who I wanted to sell my chap stick to I'd want to make her feel like this product was made for her.

Also, advertisement is key in being a great money maker. The best and most effective products sold in our country most likely have been advertised heavily on television or billboards. Alcohol abuse is a debated topic in our society to this day. If we look to television commercials and took a survey I bet a large majority of people would say beer commercials are the funniest most of the time. This is not coincidental but rather smart on behalf of the men and women selling the beer. It is not a science but rather a lifelong learning experience when talking about making money.

Who would you rather have running the offense of your team, Peyton Manning or Brett Favre. The brain master or the kid stuck in a forty year old's body? Personally I would rather have Manning behind the helm but who in the past six weeks can say they haven't enjoyed watching Favre bring some more magic to the field. His antics and love for the game have thrown Minnesota right into the mix of things for the NFC championship talks. 

I think the only people disappointed in Favre's miraculous performances are Packer fans. The ownership of Green Bay let Favre go nearly three years prior to this year and they have ever since tried making sure anything but this happened. They offered him millions to stay out of Minnesota but the iron titan refused to be paid off. He came out of retirement yet again and brought some fire with him. 

As fun as it is watching Favre win games in the final seconds, everyone knows who the true captain of football is these days. Peyton Manning is a Zeus among men and it is obvious every time he steps foot on a football field. The Colts have quietly slipped into a nice 4-0 record at the top of the AFC South. Every team they play they seem to scheme together a game plan that is impossible to beat. Two teams who you do not want to see your team playing in the playoffs are definitely the Colts and the Vikings

BILLS

Time after time I give the Bills my time and respect but after today I have never felt so sick over a football game. Not only did the Bills get kicked in by the worst team in the game but they also lost respect of over eighty thousand fans. 

The home crowd of over seventy thousand people poured into "The Ralph" desperate to see there team get back on a winning track. Eager and hungry for victory, led by soon to be fired head coach Dick Jauron, the team came out playing tough defensively. Going into the fourth quarter everyone in Western New York was feeling the crisp air travel up their backs causing a nervous stench to be breathed in by the fan base. 

Going into the final two minutes the Buffalo defense held strong and the offense was prepped to go win the ball game. Close your eyes for a moment and picture the scenario. You could almost taste comeback like turkey on Thanksgiving. The punt. The catch. The drop. Roscoe "butterfingers" Parrish muffed the punt and the frail Browns happened to be in the right spot and the right time to recover the fumble. Still some hope glimmered in the eyes of the fans. Somehow, someway maybe a break would still happen in favor of the bills after Cleveland kicked the field goal. Twenty two second left in the game for the Bills to score. The kick goes out of bounds and Buffalo catches the biggest break they could have caught. Did they do anything with it? Of course not folks this is the same team that has missed the playoffs every year since I was nine. This is also the same team that has not won a playoff game since I was four. It is border line pathetic and nothing short of disappointing on so many levels. I feel like week after week my heart gets ripped out by this team and there is nothing I can do about it. 

Career

"I know what I want to be and I don't care what anyone has to say about it." I don't know about anyone else but this is the attitude I carried with me up until the summer of sophmore year. I thought my life was set and everything would fit together like a puzzle in dining room.

There was a minor problem in my thought process. I did not take into account that I would have to sit down and work at this metaphorical puzzle. Everything in high school came to me so easily and when I came to college, my lazy study habits and lack-luster attitude led to falling behind and grades dropping. The college life showed me that maybe my plan of sliding through life was not going to cut it. I told myself that something in sports would be my profession after college.

 Since I entered college I have changed my mind and my major at least three times. Something that when I was younger was "unacceptable" in my eyes. I believe finding what your good at is much easier in the college environment rather than in a suppressed high school with many stereotypes and hypocritical people. Your dreams mesh with what skills your good at to find several professions that could fit your lifestyle. In my case, teaching might be a profession I would look into. It is not only exciting, but each day is different and the interactions made with kids seems to fit the mold of what I am looking to do with my future. 

"The Double Life"

Often times going away to college is a life changing experience. Many kids cannot handle the double life that needs to be balanced between their hometown and the college town. When I was home my mother did my laundry, made dinner, and did several other chores that I was not at all interested in.

It is not just the chores that keep many kids our age from going away. The emotional aspect of trying to balance friendships and relationships is very difficult. Before I went away I did not go more than a week without seeing my mother. I saw my friends every day. Now I rarely talk to my friends back home and every few days I call my mother. At the same time when I go home in the summer time it is difficult not seeing anyone who I see everyday up at school. You develop a strong bond with the friends up at school because you see them every day. 

Beyond emotional ties are several other reasons students have trouble living with this double life so to speak. With the lifestyle and freedoms attached to the college life, students are prone to slacking off and falling behind. Classes often have laid back attendance policies, the dorm life apt to lounging around often times and homework is not monitored heavily. As fun as it is here, several times I think what would happen to me if I did not have the work ethic that I have.

Buffalo on the Rise

Hard work and dedication in most scenarios lead to nothing but success and improvement at the very least. Buffalo Bill's coach Dick Jauron preaches nothing but hard work and dedication to a common goal. It just so happens that this goal is a playoff birth which any true football fan will tell you is not out of reach this year for the underdog Bills.

The Patriots dominating mentality is evidently fading. The Dolphins are less than par and the Jets are as unpredictable as the weather in Western New York. The Bills are quietly sniffing around the dog bowl and the smell of a division crown is at the tips of there fingers. The Bills did everything in there will to beat the Patriots and came up just short in the final two minutes. It was extremely unfortunate for the Buccaneers who played the Bills this Sunday. Plenty of anger was lashed out at Tampa Bay as the Bills came to tear heads off. By the end of the first quarter fans were snickering for the southern team to catch a bus home early because of the 17-0 score that shined on the jumbo-tron.

When the game finally did end in a lop-sided 30-20 victory for the home team, nothing could have cheered seventy plus thousand fans more than to hear that the Patriots received a heart-breaking loss to the Jets at the Meadow Lands. Incredibly, the Jets gave them all they wanted and forced the boys from Boston to go home without even scoring a touchdown. This is a feat that has not happened in over five years! The division is up for grabs and so many hands are looking to dip into the cookie jar known as the 2009 playoffs. No one asks for anything more than a chance and if the Bills take advantage of the opportunity sitting in front of their eyes they'll get nothing less than a chance to play with the big boys in the playoffs, a task that has not been accomplished since 1999 when Doug "The Jet" Flutie ran the Bills into the playoffs against the Titans.

PAC'..The Real Truth

Unfortunately, the world is easily manipulated and will believe anything that is seen on a television or google. Tupac Shakur, the most prominent and established rap gangster from the west coast could have possibly tricked the world into thinking he is dead.

Even though there are pictures and "evidence" to support 'Pac was murdered, there is also substantiating facts to hint he could be alive. Now people may say that my theories are complete insanity and the shear fact of the matter is those people speak with no knowledge of the theory and have no back round information to support what they say. Yes Mike Jackson is dead. Yes Elvis Presley is dead. Those are rumors backed up with no factual information besides obsessive fans who blog about there superstar heroes being alive. 

Now time to open some eyes. Tupac gets ousted out front of Circus Circus after the Tyson fight. Anyone who has seen the Vegas strip after the Tyson fight would know how crowded it was. As crowded as it was, not one person sees the shooting; not even one of his seven body guards in his entourage. Three people rob the Rio in the year 'Pac gets shot up and air enforcement was  used to track down the culprits. The biggest gangster name in history gets shot up and not one call is received for air support. Shakur's cab driver, who helped him stage his death, was grazed by one bullet whereas Tupac got hit in the head and heart several times. Let it be noted that Shakur and the entourage would not cooperate with the police after the shooting. 

To top this madness off I will leave you with one simple statement that is directed towards all of the people who are witty enough to say we should dig his body up or look at pictures of his autopsy. First, he was cremated a day after his murder (doubtful in my mind that the process would take only twenty-four hours). Second, for all of those who tell me to look at his dead body on google; I took Media just like everybody else in high school and can photoshop as good as the next person who created those blasphemous pictures.