There Is A New Favorite Sport Coming

I have said this here on this blog before that I think in fifty years soccer will replace football as the #1 sport in America.  Those of us that say oh that will never happen just think of this.  100 years ago I bet the people that made wood matches thought that was a great business to be in.  People had wood stoves to cook and needed matches to light it.  How about the clothes pin maker.  Everybody had to hang their clothes out to dry.

Today with the invention of the Bic lighter you can't find matches in a grocery store.  They are on one shelf right beside the five packages of clothes pins as every one practically has a dryer and don't hang clothes on the line any more.

Football's violence and with insurance getting to the point that people will not be able to let their children play football because injuries will cost so much when someone has an injury.  Soccer is already a world wide sport and America is just now getting into the World Cup Scene.

I have told you before that I have two grand children that play in the CASL league in Raleigh.  The complex at the WRAL soccer complex in North Raleigh has like 40 fields and that is just one complex.  Today I was talking with Lynn Driver Rocky Mount Athletic Supervisor about what he had going on this late in the fall that we might record some shows for the Stretchlon Sports Show.

Lynn told me a statistic about participation in the Rocky Mount rec that stunned me.  He told me that the Rec department had 500 people in baseball and 700 in soccer.  This is the second year that the soccer fields have be open and already more people in soccer than baseball?  Rocky Mount is a baseball town and to already been past by soccer is astounding to me.

Rocky Mount and Nash Central will now play round three of the State Duel Tennis Championships at 4.00pm Tuesday weather permitting at Nash Central.

The Telegram on Sunday had a great article on Colt Brake and his life a year removed from his spinal injury playing football.

Today's paper had a great article on Former Rocky Mount Cross Country State Champion Nick Winkel who is now an assistant coach for Dee Davis.  Nick was an inspiration for my son Brooks who was on the cross country team as a freshman the year Nick won the State Title.  Nick was Brooks' big brother and Nick helped mold him for his love of running and now years later it helped lead him to coach long distant running at the Olympic level.