... mine once told us, as eager teenagers thinking that everything in life lay ahead of us, the greatness of life was that, like in sports, you live to fight another day; the key was to never give up.

That message stayed with me throughout the rest of my life, and it applied to everything in my life—my career, my marriage, my family.  Through good and bad, fighting on, not just hoping but believing that things would ultimately get better.

However, in times when economic stability is an illusion, our country is torn apart by ideologues that are rampantly trying to divide us, and there is a loss of traditional values in a country I love, it almost seems petty that I'm focusing on the Oakland Raiders. Their success—or lack thereof—ha...

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