The Player Edition: The 48 Year Old Rookie.

When I talk about Will Ferrell, most people will say what a funny guy he is or how many movies he’s made. But I one of his greatest accomplishments is when he played on 10 different teams and playing 10 different positions all in one day.

Now let’s think about this, what’s the real reason he’s doing this? At first I wondered if this was just a huge publicity stunt. And there’s no doubt in my mind that it was. But it was all for a good cause. As I started to watch the documentary and the reviews of this I learned all of this was for “Cancer for College.” College for Cancer is an organization who offers college scholarships to children, teens, and young adults. In a matter of one day Ferrell helped donate one million dollars.

In this 2015 film, Will Ferrell embarks on a journey to play on ten different baseball team, while playing all ten positions. Now you’re thinking to yourself there isn’t ten positions in Baseball!! Ferrell also played Designated Hitter for the Chicago White Sox. The ten teams Will played for were Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, and the San Francisco Giants. Now besides him playing all ten positions, my favorite parts are when he got traded from team to team. He threw these fits and threw Gatorade tubs in the dugout. But after that he’d go and change and go to the next team.

College for Cancer and Will Ferrell have been working together for years. As it explained in the documentary Ferrell and Craig Pollard (Founder of College for Cancer) have been friends for years. They’ve been trying to come up with a way to raise a large sum of money for kids. There final idea was a baseball game, which rapidly turned into Ferrell Takes the Field.

As I watched this documentary, I truly felt a part of the game as well. Even though Ferrell said “Was I the best player out there today? Maybe. Maybe? Can you all chant that with me? Maybe maybe maybe!!” At this point in the day it doesn’t matter how cocky he was, the point is that he raised over one million dollars. Pollard and Ferrell gave hope to kids everywhere. And in my book that’s all okay with me. I suggest that you Watch “Ferrell takes the Field.”

For Tate

Week 1: Green Bay Packers at Chicago Bears

     The NFL has many rivalries such as Seattle and San Francisco, Minnesota and Green Bay, Baltimore and Pittsburgh. But, the most notable rivalry in history is the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, dating back to 1921. All of this hype was started by the legendary Coach Vince Lombardi.  

      This rivalry means much more to these fans than what meets the eye. Since 1921 the Chicago Bears have lead the series 93-90-6 which is extremely close for a rivalry that's been going on for more than 90 years. With two of the largest names in the NFL battling it out at least twice in the regular season, Aaron Rogers in slowly putting the Green Bay Packers back on top. On the other hand Jay Cutler is slowly running the organization into the ground. Back in the 1970s and the early 1980s the Bears just dominated the rivalry. Players like William "The Fridge" Perry and Walter Payton were such dominate players, the Packers just couldn't preform in the draft like the Bears did. Now that Aaron Rogers is Quarterback he's now 11-4 all-time against the Bears. The only Quarterback to have a better record against Chicago is Brett Favre.         

      As we saw in the season opener we didn't know what to expect, with Chicago being 5-11 and the Packers being 13-5 last season. Both teams kept the game very close, which was very surprising. Even with the Packers not having Star Wide Receiver Jordy Nelson they still ended up pulling out the win. Surprising as it is, the Bears were the first to score with a field goal. It wasn't until the end of the first quarter that Green Bay finally scored. After a lot of back and forth play in the Second quarter is when the game was all tied up again at 10-10. The game didn't get interesting until the 3rd and 4th quarter, when the Packers started to rack-up the points against the Bears. Once Green Bay got on a roll Chicago couldn't stop them. Every time the Packers scored the Bears came right back with either a touchdown or a field goal, but the Bears just couldn't keep up with them. 

      This was the first game of the season for both teams. As everyone knows, first games never go well and this game was no different. But who knows, maybe one of them could be Superbowl champions. But until next time...





For Wesley.