The Chosen One

"Out of all the people in the world he could have chosen. Why me dawg?"

So many times as sports fans we become selfish and only want what’s best for us and not what may be best for the athletes that play the games that give us so much enjoyment. We’d rather see our favorite athlete push the limits of their abilities and even play through injury because it’s all entertainment for us. However, we forget that they are human beings with real human issues just like everyone else.

Well the Honey Badger is a mere human being! He’s not some super hero that so many college football fans wanted to believe that he was. He doesn’t wear a cape and float around on a magic carpet during the week bruh. He’s a kid from New Orleans with a drug addiction that happens to be able to play football at a very high level.

We all have been waiting to see where Tyrann Mathieu would enroll in school to play this fall after being kicked off of the LSU football team a week ago and he’s finally made a decision. According to WVUE-TV in New Orleans, instead of trying to play football this fall his dad has confirmed that he’s enrolled in a drug rehabilitation center in Houston.

Praise God for that bruh! Football is a game that he can only play for a short period of time even if he’s able to make it to the league but he has to be able to live drug free for the rest of his life. Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! If he makes it to the league with a drug problem he’s sure to graduate to the more addictive stuff and completely destroy his life because money is like alcohol. It doesn’t change you, it just brings out what’s already there. If you’re getting high now you’re only going to get higher the more bread you have access to. That’s real talk!

So I applaud the Honey Badger for making a grown man decision and getting control of his life before moving on to the next phase of it. Football may not be what God has for him right now and only through prayer and supplication will he find the answer. He has a bigger calling on his life than just playing football.

God has allowed football to be the vehicle by which the attention has been drawn to a kid from New Orleans checking himself into rehab! People go to treatment everyday but it never makes the news. So because it’s the Honey Badger we’re talking about it and for that reason he’s blessed so many other kids that may not have ever admitted that they’ve got a problem too.

Like I’ve said before, nobody starts with crack or heroin bruh! They start with weed and over a period of time they get comfortable and then somebody says, “Man if you think that’s good you gotta try this!” That’s when the more powerful stuff is introduced. You aren’t running into very many 20 year old crack heads. However, by the time cats are in their late 20’s and have been smoking weed for years they take it to the next level because it‘s no longer enough. So I’m glad this kid has attempted to pump the brakes at this point in his life.

Ain’t God good bruh? He has a tendency of using flawed individuals to make an impact on his people. He chose Moses, a murderer with a speech impediment, to lead his people out of Egypt! Noah was a highly intelligent alcoholic that built the ark and the Honey Badger is a poor kid from New Orleans that showed the world that it’s OK to go to rehab. Hopefully his influence can save the lives of millions of kids just like him! If the Honey Badger can go to rehab every kid on campus that was getting high with him can go too.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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