NEO Soccer

This week's blog comes in the from of a podcast. I sat down with my brother, Andrew, to talk a little about the program at NEO.
NEO started its soccer program in the fall of 2008, my first year of college. Since NEO had a lousy reputation with graduates of Miami, I decided not to go play. My brother, however, was vey excited to go play at the young program. He signed with NEO and played 2 years. During this time they won their conference and entered the national tournament.
This is a general interview with my brother about his experience in the soccer program.

Smashlahoma

For the past couple weeks I have been focusing on soccer in Brazil, this week will be different. I attended an event unlike any other and I am compelled to write about my experience.
Saturday, February 25, 2012, I went to my first professional wrestling match.
It was interesting to say the least. Everything I had expected and then some.
I actually laughed out loud when I first saw the posters around town. I've seen professional wrestling on TV as a kid, but I've never had the desire to go watch it live. That all changed when i told Nathan Mills about it. Then a couple days later when he told me his wife got him tickets, I knew I had to go. Not really for the wrestling, but to watch and listen to him watch it.
I told my dad about it and he laughed at me. He asked if I remembered going as a kid. I had no idea I had ever been before. He told me the story where he took my brother and I, along with a guy from church, to watch pro wrestling. He said we went early to get good seats. At the start of the match, there were 8 people there, including the four of us.
With that in mind, Ash and I headed to the Civic center. I was shocked. The parking lots were full. We went in and was further amazed. They transformed the Civic Center into a place just like on TV. This was the real deal.
The matches started and it was awesome. Not awesome as in something that left me in awe because of the incredibleness of it, but the lack of reality going into it. I mean I know professional wrestling isn't exactly real (there is some real parts, see Nathan Mills blog on this) but at some points they didn't even get close to connecting the punches. I had to continually remind myself and Ash Lynn that this is a show, not an honest competition to win. We saw head to head matches, we saw a table match where the little guy won, we even saw a free-for-all match.
Overall, I enjoyed it. I liked listening to Mills yell at the wrestlers and fans. I liked watching the home town kid win the Battle Royal. I liked watching Ash be embarrassed when we saw people.
It was a once in a life time experience that I hope to tell about for many years.