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This excerpt appears in Dean Hartwell's A Fan's Folklore: Six Seasons of Triumph, Tragedy and Tough Luck, available on Amazon
A Fan’s Folklore: Six Seasons of Triumph, Tragedy and Tough Luck
by Dean T. Hartwell The book is out NOW - get it here! I write about my favorite team, the Oakland Raiders of the mid-1970s. They are legendary to me and to the National Football League in which they played. I recount my favorite games, Raider wins and losses. My team is the protagonist in this folklore. Their nemesis, the Pittsburgh Steelers, play the role of the antagonists. Like the mythological character, Sisyphus, the Raiders climb up the hill every season toward the top, only to face the enemy who pushes them back down. Other events and players add to the legend. My feelings of guilt over a player who was paralyzed by a Raider. The death of a favorite baseball player at around the same time. A missed call that cost my favorite baseball team the World Series. I realized that I was writing my own legend. Events in my own memory brought me to the point of writing this book. My burdens in life include a kidnapping, a beating and institutionalization. I do not compare my problems to anyone else's. I simply claim them as my own. At first my experiences conquered me. They were like demons I could not understand or fight against. Then, thanks in part to writing "a Fan's Folklore," I came to understand my value as a person and the importance of looking forward. I started facing my demons and began competing against them as a football team would. The biggest victory is to feel genuinely good about oneself. You become your own legend. Ken Stabler was like a snake. He zig-zagged all over the football field and slithered toward the goal line. Teammates knew he had no real venom. He never bad-mouthed his fellow players during the football games. Then he found he could not slither any more. He had to be crafty to defeat his opponents. In one of the games his team was down by 6 points and down to its last play. He was about to be tackled. He had nowhere to run and no one to throw the ball to. He refused to give up. That meant breaking the rules. He rolled the ball to a teammate upfield. The teammate then rolled the ball to another teammate, who fell on it in the end zone. The other team cried foul. They pleaded with the zebras to call a penalty. But the Snake got away with it. Guess the zebras were blind as bats. He rolled the dice and the other team came up snake-eyes. The San Diego Chicken fainted in horror. Read this chapter in A Fan's Folklore: Six Seasons of Triumph, Tragedy and Tough luck on Amazon and other retailers!
Click here to go to Amazon site for my book The government did not conspire on 9/11. In fact, the government can’t even tie its own shoes. Individuals act on behalf of the government to collect taxes and to pay for services for its residents. Individuals acted on 9/11. Some of them reported what they or others did to the media. The media is not one person or one entity. But people who work for the media with the greatest range to broadcast messages frequently choose to say the same things and to not say other things. No one saw the alleged hijackers of 9/11. No one witnessed the alleged hijackings of 9/11. How did we learn of hijackings on 9/11? Individuals falsely reported to individuals in the media that they received calls from people claiming to be hijacked. Many in the media and who act on behalf of the government continue to tell us about hijackings on 9/11. Most people hear the lie about hijackers – on television, the radio and the movies - and do not react to the lie. They may not see what good it would do to challenge it. Or they are waiting for someone else to speak up. The author uses this book to speak up and call a lie a lie. Your government won’t care, because it can’t. The question is whether you care about where your leaders have taken you and where you may go next. Freedom does not end with a bang, but a whimper. Read Planes without Passengers, 2nd Edition and get to know one piece of truth not just about 9/11 but about us. Click here Thank you to Barnes & Noble for putting Planes without Passengers: the Faked Hijackings of 9/11 on the "Current Affairs" bookshelf of my local store! This is a personal milestone!!!
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