Our country is more divided now than it has been anytime over the past 10 years. The rhetoric of the past 18 months has been that of hate and mistrust from both sides of the political isle in this election. Its over now, let’s step back from criticizing candidates and our new president and appreciate the wonders of our country and its democracy. On Tuesday night there was no government over throw no civil war simply people protesting peacefully in the streets in mainly college towns across America and people in awe of what in the world had just happened watching from their living rooms. That is a sign of unity in and of itself the fact that no matter what we as American’s can be united in what our system has accomplished and respect results.
I am writing this piece not because I am a political pundit or an angry editorialist. I am writing this because you could feel the tensity of America today. In school,. In work, in our own homes. America needs to as Aaron Rodgers so elegantly put it a few years ago when talking about a slow start for the Packer’s offense, R.E.L.A.X. What better way to do that than through the healing power of sports.
I urge you this weekend don’t go on twitter and keep posting about how this is the end of everything we hold dear as Americans. Turn on some football watch Patriots Seahawks the game that simply has too much hype to fail. Or if the NFL isn’t your thing tune into the NBA on Sunday to watch the Thunder Cavs and Warrios demolish there 3-5 opponents. Get out go play catch with your friends take your kids ice skating show the world through sports that you are not afraid of what is coming. Because no matter what happens there will always be a constant somewhere in some shape or form there will always be sport to help us get away and that is, the beauty of sport itself.