Commitment to Excellence?

Being a loyal sports fan is a hard thing to be, and I have to say it has not been a good decade for my beloved team. I am an Oakland Raiders fan since the day I can remember. I grew up loving the Raiders always thinking that they would bring home the super bowl trophy and show the rest of the league how superior my favorite team was during the good old days. But teams get old, owners pass away, and a fan base get stereotyped into being thugs or bullies which I am neither of, well okay maybe not all the time. But the love I have for my team does not sway; I will die an Oakland Raiders fan.

But every September the new season starts and I feel the pride and passion of the pass start creeping up my spine and into my heart filling it with confidence that they will be a great team once again. When the start if the season begins I feel like no team can overpower us or even come close to matching our superior play calling. But then reality slaps you hard around week four or five and I start to realize that my favorite team sucks still to this day. I wonder of the possibility of switching to another team, but my heart will not allow it! I have been down this road several times and my passion for my lovable loser team has not waiver.

So every year it’s a new coming of age for me, due to the fact my team is not moving in the right direction. I start to wonder if I still have the passion to put all my emotions in to a team that is down on its luck. Or maybe it’s just the fact that I love losing teams?? But I can’t abandon my favorite team that I grew up loving, but I can’t help to start wondering if I will become the new loser team on the block. Just like the Boston Red Sox where, a team that took one hundred years to win its next championship. I don’t want to died before I get to experience the celebration parade of the next super bowl championship. But I always wonder if I’ll be alive to experience something like that.  I just hope and pray that I’ll be alive to see my beloved silver and black parade down the streets of Oakland with the tinsel falling from the building and the crowds of Oakland Raiders jerseys lining the streets. But till this date it’s still a mirage that seems so close, but in reality it is something that will take a long time to repair.