Let me establish from the beginning that this is not another “Let’s take Bleacher Report to the next level” article. However well-meaning those may be, that is not the intent of this article. My purpose is simply to offer some suggestions on how you can gain a hearing from your peers.
What you do with it is entirely up to you. You may want to print this off and blow your nose on it. If that is the case, I feel my duty is to warn you about the perils of a paper cut on the nostril. Not only is it painful, but it can also be a severe hindrance to any pathological nose-pickers we may have in this community. So please be careful.
I am addressing this to those of us who have two things in common: We love college football with a passion, and we also love the opportunity that Bleacher Report has afforded us to connect with people of like passion. This comfy place has become our cyber-home!
Having been blessed with six wonderful children, I am somewhat of a shade-tree psychologist, but more importantly a referee.
Rule No. 1: You are not allowed to kill each other. Rule No. 2: If you send your brother or sister to the emergency room, the hospital bill will come out of your allowance.
One of our favorite times is around the supper table. (For those of you from up North, supper is the evening meal. First breakfast, then lunch/dinner, then it's suppertime!) Long after the meal is finished, we are still sitting at the table talking.
We talk football, we talk politics, we talk Bible, we talk religion, we talk favorite movies, we talk who is the best ever at...whatever. You name it—we’ve discussed it.
It is in this setting that my children have learned (are learning) to articulate, to engage in conversation, to express feeling and conviction, to listen to another’s point of view and consider what is being said.
The rule at these table debates is simple: No yelling, no name calling, and no personal insults. Sort of like a verbal hockey game, if that rule is broken during our debates the offending party is exiled from the discussion until he, or she, cools their jets and is ready to talk civilly again.
It’s never good to run the mouth when the brain has been shut off!
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