Two great victories

It has been a great week in sports. Last weekend my team, The Ohio State Buckeyes, beat our greatest rivals Michigan. We will be playing for the National Championship. One of my favorite parts of beating Michigan is hearing the excuses people make about why Michigan lost, expecially the Hansons. It's so much fun to argue back and forth. I love it! It was a really good game. But Ohio State came out on top, again, and Troy Smith, (the ohio state quarterback) will most likely win the Hiesman trophy. And as an added bonus right now, the OSU basketball team is rank #3 in the nation, and there are talks of a national championship in Basketball also, which would be the first time in NCAA history that one school has won both Football and Basketball National Championships in the same year.
On Friday I went with the Sigar's to St. Louis to watch the Webb City High School Football team play for the state championship. Football in Webb City is LIFE. I have never seen people so into high school football as the people that live in this little town of 9,000 people. It's like something you see out of the movies, and I'm not just saying that, it's real. Anyways, it was in the Dome that the St. Louis Rams play in, so that was also cool to be in. WC dominated this other team. It was a very exciting game. We, meaning everyone in that stadium, probably saw the biggest hit they had ever seen at any level of football. On a kick return, probably the biggest guy on the WC team hit the return man at full blast and you could almost feel the shock way from the hit. I'm suprise the kid got up. It took him a little while, but he eventually got up, I'm just suprised it wasn't on a stretcher. Anyways, WC has an explosive offense, which makes them fun to watch. Needless to say, Webb City won the game 26-0 and collected the State Championship.
So two great games, two great teams, both who I wanted to win came out on top in both the biggest games of their collective seasons. Next up, the national championship for Ohio State. I love sport!

Today is a BIG day, perhaps the biggest day in the history of college football. Of course I'm talking about Ohio State/Michigan. I sitting in St. Louis during our break at SuperStart. Unfortunately when the game is going on will be tearing down and driving back to Joplin. The biggest game in History and I will be missing it. Yeah I set my DVR to record it so I will watch it when I get home, but there is something about watching it live, with friends, enemies (Michigan fans), or family. The picture above was taken last year after OSU beat Notre Dame in the Feista Bowl. This is my family, we watched it out on the farm in Ohio. It was an amazing way to watch the game. Any time anything big happened we were all jumping up and down, cheering and giving high fives and chest bumps. I will very much miss watching it this way. Because I will be working. So the challenge is this: Stay away from any kind of outside world media outlet or people of anykind until I get home and watch the game. Then my phone will be turned back on and I will rejoin the world. Then I will post about how THE OHIO STATE BUCKEYES beat Michigan and the joy it has brought to my heart. I know you all will rejoice with me in our time of glory. Then a month later when we win the national championship. GO BUCKS!!!

I'm in Portland this weekend with Believe. The first night is over and it was pretty cool. People keep asking me if I miss traveling with Believe. I tell them no. Not because I didn't like it, I in fact loved it, but I also love traveling with Superstart. Two totally different programs, so it's hard to compare the two. Anyways, Portland has been awesome. Chase and I found our way into the Rose Garden where the Portland Trailblazers play. We walked on the floor and sat on the Bench. It's crazy because no one said a thing to us. We just walked around like we belonged there. It was sweet. It's also nice to be at a CIY event and not have to really worry about doing anything or making sure everything is running well. I worked the infatables and had fun joking with the kids and watching them be silly Jr. Highers. It was great.

Portland is a beautiful city. I have to walk by two starbucks on my way to the convention center, there is a Jamba Juice down the street, and it reminds me of Pittsburg or Cincy. Which are both awesome cities them selves. It is cold and it's been raining since we've been here, but that's okay.
I also helped drive the semi out here, I hadn't driven it since this summer and was a little worried that I might have forgotten how to drive it, but it's like riding a bike, it comes back as soon as you get back in the saddle.