Every one has one
The great thing about this argument is that everybody has an opinion. I have never said otherwise. I do take offense when someone tells me what I think I should think. Or what I should consider a toy. It's my opinion.
Ravenna Al, I have much love and respect for you and your opinion. I may get offended if someone calls it a toy. I don't know. I do respect what you have to say when you put it in that way.
To me, it is a toy. To me it's a game. And then it's a hobby. Heck, I think a corvette is a toy. It's a diversion too. So to me, anything that takes my mind off the seriousness of life is classified as a toy. But that's just my definition of toy. I think school and education has facets of being toys. It's challenging. It's a diversion. It takes my mind off stressful things. But that's my definition.
What I have issues with is when anybody tries to railroad me into thinking something other than what I may want to think. I make one comment on a word and how I defined it. That's all I did. I never asked anyone else to define it in that way. That's just how I view MF.
Even when I go out and give demonstrations, I don't mind much if people consider it as a toy. Their views change when I show them how I can make the players do what I want them to. When I can show them actual plays being ran. When I can show them I can kick from 60 yards out. When the magic of the stadium is thrust upon them. When I show them how intense we get in playing this game. Then, the respect level for the game goes up ten-fold.
Those things lend credibility to what we do and make it very easy to recruit locally and nationally. Guys know I am crazy! They know I love to have fun! They know I live in Never Neverland. And some come here just to be a part of that fantasy world. Whether they think it is a toy or not, that's their opinion. All I provide them with is an avenue to be a kid again in my land of toys.
Reg
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