THE BEGINNING II

There was not enough time for you GETTING TO KNOW ME. THE BEGINNING II is a continuation into GETTING TO KNOW ME. Enjoy the second podcast ever for GPS WITH BILL SMITH. 

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Hi, this is Bill Smith with God Politics and Sports. And I want you to take a listen to some of these past podcasts. You get to know me, and this is from the very beginning. So sit back, listen, and enjoy these awesome podcasts. Getting to know me as we get to know each other. God Politics and Sports. Three areas that people say you need to avoid. But here we are. I'm Bill Smith, GPS God Politics and Sports. We'll talk about faith, sports, and political activities. I look forward to talking to you. What is going on, El Paso? What's going on the country from coast to coast and border to border? This is me back again. And here we go as we get rolled again with God, politics, and sports. And I want you to know it's a great time. This is an awesome time once again to live in the greatest country in the world. It's an awesome time once again just to be able to come before you and to talk with you and let you know, hey, this is me. This is who I am. And that's what we're going to do over the next uh minutes, uh, 20, 30 minutes, whatever it might be. We're going to talk a little bit about everything. We're going to talk about me. We're going to talk about God. We're going to talk about politics. And we're definitely going to talk about sports. Because we have one of the greatest events ever in my life. Every year that comes up. It's a great event because it's the Super Bowl. It's also a sad time because it's the end of the NFL season. And then it's just that I know they got UFL and other things that go on, but it's just the end of that. And I was sitting there thinking over the evening time. So what is it about me that maybe I didn't touch on? So I just thought, you know what, who I am? I was a youth pastor for 18 years from uh 1993 to 2010. So it's about 17 years. I was youth pastor at Joyce Center. Awesome time. I will tell you one thing, uh, being with teenagers and and seeing how these teenagers can be, uh, it's it was really funny because now all them, especially my first group, some of them have children in their 20s. And now they can look back and they can some will come back and they say, Man, thanks a lot for what you share with us, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, how much it changed their lives. Uh, and a lot of times we don't realize what we say to people, especially with children, we think is always going to take root immediately. But one thing I've learned over my years, not just as a youth pastor, but over my 29 years of coaching football, track, wrestling, and anything, basketball, whatever it might be, is there are things that you may say to them that you don't think is getting through their like, man, this is not getting through their dick skull. They ain't paying attention to it. Then you look up and they come back to you and they tell you thanks because what you shared at this time really made a difference. And I know my life with the with all the coaches that I mentioned in the first show, and the people, there were things that were said to me, I didn't grasp hold of at first. But then as you get older, those things start to really start to root. So I would encourage you, everybody, when you out and about, it may not be a kid you know that well, but sometimes you can just say one small thing to them, and you may think they're ignoring you. You may think that they can care less what you're saying, but what you said will come back. What you said will come back to them and will come back into fruition in their life, and you'll see what you did was something powerful. So I just really wanted to get into shout out to uh especially my peeps back in Jersey. Uh I got some awesome. I was mentioning men, and they made an impact in my life. But you know what I didn't do? I didn't I didn't mention my fam. I didn't mention my cousins. I have some awesome cousins. I'm I'm the only boy that four well. My dad has four, my mom has three, but either way, I'm the only boy, four kids. We don't do steps. I don't have a half-sister, she's a whole person, so I got four, I got three sisters and me. But then I didn't give no props to my cousins because I got some awesome cousins. And they all help mold. That's one of the reasons why I'm a Raider fan. That's why you see that Raider thing shit right up there in the back, right there. There you go. That's why I'm a Raider fan. Because this is funny. I used to pick every year, whoever was the Super Bowl champion was my favorite team for the next year. And it came down to it. We were 12, 13 years old, and these cats said, Yo, Smitty, you gotta pick one person. You gotta pick one team. You can't run around every year picking a new team. I said, Alright, whoever wins the Super Bowl, that's gonna be my favorite team. And it was a 1980 season, but the 1981 Super Bowl, I believe it was Super Bowl, oh, let me think. 13, 14, 14, 15, I'm sorry. Super Bowl 15. I believe they have Super Bowl 15. And it was the uh Raiders and the Philadelphia Eagles. Now I wasn't a big Ron Jaworski fan. I wasn't a big Ron Jaworski fan. And Webwood Montgomery hurt my feelings because I had a uh them old, uh I'm not it's not old, but I had a racquetball, and I wanted him to sign it, and they were doing they had some uh uh celebrity softball game or something going on out there in in Jersey, and uh he wouldn't sign it because he said, I've caught I never forgot it. I never forgot this. I must have been 11. And he said, I'm not signing that because all you're gonna do is just knock the name off of it. As if I would take a racquetball with his name on it and go out and play wall ball or racquetball or whatever. So that that kind of ticked me off. So I was really hoping the Raiders would win. And and Jim Plunkett and Rob Martin and Kenny King, uh, they came through for a brother when I needed them. Uh Cliff Branch, they all came through for me. So I ended up being a Raider fan. So I had to pick, I I that was a team I had to pick. So thanks to uh Blade, Sean Phillips, thanks to uh Thrill, Mike Hill, uh Dwayne Robb, Steve Robb, uh, you know, all my cousins up in there, they was they that's that's the reason why I'm a I'm a Raider fan. Because they they told the line, and they're all younger than me, but they told the line and they said, nah man, you gotta pick one. You can't keep running all over the place picking teams every year. And and we used to we it used to be big time Steelers because this is awesome. Our our team growing up, Fleetwood Indians was black and gold, so or black and yellow. Everything was based, and we were the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the team that one of our rival teams was the uh Beverly Road Runners, I believe, or something of that nature, but they had the Raider colors, so they were the black and silver. So with me liking the Raiders, I I I felt kind of like I was doing uh Fleetwood Raw because of the colors, but you know, I I grew out of that because I had to I had to my colors actually, you know what? My colors never changed all the way up through high school. We were always in that same colors from the time I was eight all the way up through the time I was 17. I was in the same color scheme. Only time I wasn't was when I wrestled for Green Tree, and of course that was green. But uh all the way up through that that time, and then I was I started thinking, I said, man, you got you had a lot of nicknames attached to you over the years because of sports. I mean, we were Indians, Warriors, and Chiefs. I think they're definitely what ended up being a Chiefs, I think it was the uh Boy Indians, the youngest, Warriors were the middle, and Chiefs were the oldest age group. I can't remember. And then from there, with Green Tree, there was no nickname, it's just Green Tree Wrestler. And then from there, when I went to high school, I was a Quaker. And we did the Quaker thing uh for a while. And uh when I went to college, well, we ain't gonna count that really. Um, even though it was the Chihuan Chiefs at the time, I think it was, but that don't count because only only uh I didn't wrestle. I was supposed to go there to wrestle, but I didn't want to cut weight, very immature. Very much so like that maturity and discipline that was that was necessary. Uh so and and I I'm not I'm not ashamed of it. I'm thrilled now in one aspect that it happened because uh in in my process, and I this is how I ended up in the army, so you guys know, because people always ask me, how did you end up in El Paso? Well, because I was laying on my couch. I was laying on my couch, the recruiter showed up. Now, growing up in my neighborhood, you could leave the front door open and the screen door wouldn't even be locked, and you know nobody was coming in. You can't even do that now. Even in my hometown, you try to do that now. Folks, somebody might come in like like uh Bru Man uh on the fifth floor, fourth floor, fifth floor, anyway, and just show up and want to walk up in your house. So I'm laying on the couch, recruiter knocks on the door, I come around, he's looking for my sister. I don't know where she's at. He said, So what are you doing? I said, Well, I'm going to college and bring on the couch. He said, How would you make money to go to college? Sounds good to me. And uh, long story short, I went and took the ASVAB. Um, and this is not a proud woman. I wasn't, I think I was uh I think I was hungover when I took it, so it really didn't help my score any. But I took the ASVAB, enlisted, uh, and they said to me, You said you got two choices for the Army College fund, field artillery or airborne. And I just thought to myself, why would I jump out of something that's flying perfectly well so I can start walking? So man, brother, I gotta give it up for you cats in the Air Force, the the the uh uh air assaults, the just straight up 11 Bravo, uh, whether it's light or or whether it's mechanized, whatever it might be, you guys get out and just walk. And I'm gonna give you props on that. In basic training, they assign you where you go. Now, of course, with me, when they say uh when they say El Paso or Texas, the first thing you think of is, well, I'm thinking of uh Dallas and Dallas, Texas. And I'm thinking of you know that area. I didn't know what in El Paso was until I saw it. We were on our break uh because we they gave us a Christmas break for basic training at AIT, and I was on my break and I look up and on the map because it was the uh the bowl game that they have here, and it was showing it on CBS, and you see Dallas in the middle and El Paso on the other side. I said, Man, Lord, what did you get me into? So anyway, that's how I ended up out here with that too, just to kind of close all that together. But it was a great, it's it was a great experience. Uh and and I'm really glad. I really I really thank God that it it went down that way because I was able to uh grow and and learn. And of course, uh I once again, those those cats that I grew up with and and it's still we still stay in contact with each other almost on the daily. Every couple days we we get in our text group and we start tripping uh with each other. But uh we had things we would call each other. We got some mean names. Today we today, today, let me see how I put this. Today folks might call us bullies. Today they might they might say you guys were mean to each other. But to us it was just that's just how you did. That's how you conducted yourself. Everybody knew where you were, you shot straight from the hip. There wasn't no shucking and jiving, and either you sucked it up and moved on, or you stayed in your feelings and everybody talked about you a whole lot. So these cats, we played football. I played football with them all, wrestled with with, well, Mike wrestled, Sean was tracked, Mike Muse was tracked, Dwayne was tracked, Steve was, so they was all tracked, etc. Me and Mike was football and and wrestling, the other ones were football and and track. Uh, and Mike Muse went to Overbrook. So uh great hurdler, one of the best hurdlers I've ever seen. So it was a that's that's what helps make up all about some of those things uh with me. So now why did I choose these topics? Why did I choose these three topics? Why did I say to label it God, politics, sports? Why would I take those three things? Because one of the things people say is man, you don't those folks are always banging heads on those things. And I I may have covered this in the first show, first podcast, but I want to hit it again because I think it's important that everybody knows that, yeah, these these are some big time topics. Now, sports is a little bit lighter. Um and and unfortunately, sometimes people take it too too too much when it comes to sports. And with uh when we come to the talk of the things of God, people want to debate instead of just study the word and see what the word says. And that's why I don't think I know it's important that you have a pastor, because God said he'll give you pastors after his own heart. And I will say this flat out. I'm not a believer and I think it's wrong when people say, Well, I can just pray and stay home. You gotta have somebody giving you the word. You got to have somebody that's sharing the word of God with you. And then even with that, when you go to church, take your Bible. Study, the Bible says to study to show that self-improved. It doesn't say just listen to somebody, because you never know what somebody may be sharing with you, and you're just sitting there thinking, oh, well, this is all good. Look at the script, and I love that my pastor, Dr. Brown, and he'll be one of our guests uh soon. He'll be one of the guests soon, is go back and reread everything that was shared with you. Go back and read those scriptures again because you'll begin to see, as you begin to read those scriptures again, so many important and awesome things that are going on in there. And then you can attest it for yourself and see how that truth is and see how things are being brought to life in your life. What are you jumping on? What are you moving? How is God talking to you? What is God saying to you? When the man of God begins to share a word, I don't know if you've ever seen somebody say, Oh, that was that was just for them. I'm a firm believer in one thing. When you go forward and you're hearing the word of God, you should never walk out of the church comfortable. There should be something that's stirring up your spirit that says within you that I need to be doing more. What can I be doing? What am I not doing? What am I not that you don't feel good coming out, don't get that wrong. But something should be ignited in you, not to motivate you. There's a difference because you could be demotivated. So it's not to motivate you, it's not to get you pumped up and fired up. You're not trying to get it on fourth and one. No, it should be something that ignites within you to go forward to that next level. And I and I said once again, this podcast probably should have been started four years ago. Probably four years ago. I I did a I did a podcast with my son-in-law. Him and his buddies had a podcast, and I believe it was 2019, 18, 19, something of that nature. And it may have been before that, I can't remember. And I was on it, I had a great time. I said, man, this is this is something I want to do. But I sat on it. But then as that word came to me, towards the end of uh 2025, it was I couldn't sleep. I could eat. I the eating part was not gonna have a but it was sleeping, and it was three o'clock, 2 45, 3 o'clock, every morning. I was getting up. So I got to do this because I know God is ministering, sharing with me because of the words that I've heard. So it's important that you you're listening to the word and that you're hearing the word. And with that word that you're hearing, you move on it. So that's why the God part of this thing is so powerful. Because we'll have a chance to talk about things, and I'll share more testimonies, and other folks will have people in sharing their testimonies of how God has really blessed them, not just financially, but with children, uh, breakthroughs, uh bringing marriages back together. These are the things that are uh but we're still gonna keep it light. We're gonna have folks in here crying all the time. Um I had a young man ask me, hey, it's just gonna be I said I'm not trying to get on here yelling and screaming and hollering uh at people, um, and when folks are watching it on YouTube and and and Instagram and when we're doing our live, you know, when we're doing this every week and people are answering up. I want it to be light. Uh I want to hear testimonies. I want to hear now some you're gonna have some folks are gonna disagree. I don't mind hearing that either, but we will disagree without calling names. We will disagree uh if if you choose to disagree and don't like something that that is said, we'll do it with class, or I'll delete you. I've got no problem with doing that. Not because of the disagreement, but the words that are shared. The rhetoric will always carry itself in a godly manner. So I've I have no problem. Then the politics, all the political side of this house. Why would I pick politics? Well, let's go all the way back. We're gonna go all the way back because I've I've always enjoyed I'm I love history. And part of history we know that especially U.S. history, everything's political. From the Boston Tea Party up through Make America Great Again, everything has been politics. So I love history. I love war history, our country war history. Um I love reading about it, seeing what it is, the the uh some things, the the falsities that get uh exposed or the truths that that come to light. I love reading and seeing those things. And also I'm a firm believer in one thing your leadership. You start to see how to conduct yourself as a leader, the pros and the cons in warfare in that time of struggle. So I love I love read I love looking and reading about, and then some people will say, well, this person was a racist, or this person was this. One, we need to stop doing one thing. Stop holding people accountable for how for 1885 when we're in 2026. I think that's one of the dumbest things we ever do. How are you gonna hold somebody accountable for something they've been dead for 100 plus years, 200 years? Whatever was happening in 1884, 85, 86, 65, and what they were saying, that fit that time period. Would it work in 2026? No. It probably wouldn't because people are so much more sensitive now. But first thing we want to say, well, this person was this back in that, he sure was, or she sure was. Whether the person was black, white, hispanic, Asian, that was that time period. And what was was not acceptable now may have been acceptable then. We need to stop pigeon-holding people into 2026 standards. I said 2025 in the beginning because we're only a month in it, but we're in 2026 standards. We can't hold people to those standards. So when I talk about uh uh uh Ulysses S. Grant or George Washington, um, Robert E. Lee was a great general. Uh Sherman, you know, these were great Longstreet, these were great generals in Civil War time or or Patton, uh, uh Pershing. Great generals as you roll through into Custer up into Sitting Bull. Custer was a bad man, but then you know Sitting Bull put it on him. So these were great men and military standards men, and they displayed leadership and strategy. Uh like I said, Pershing, Eisenhower, I think I already said Patton, MacArthur. These uh great uh strategic men, Bull Halsey, in the Navy wise, great strategic men, and then you rolled into um some in in the Korean conflict where you had some great generals there and and leaders that were commanders that did a great thing and and even in Vietnam, now remember one thing in Vietnam, if I'm correct, I don't remember as I really losing a battle, and I could be wrong with that, but the battle of public opinion was where that was lost. But those men, those men like my father and uncles and cousins, and many of your fathers and grandfathers that are watching the pack podcast when they when they were beaten in those jungles and on those rice patties and on the on the Mekong uh rivers and and flying in in jets and the etc. They fought a battle and they would take land and had to give it back. And it's really hard for me to fault them and say, well, they lost the war, because on the ground they never lost the war. But in public opinion and in the world and how people saw the country, yeah, the battle was lost. There's a lot of separation. Which is unfortunate because they did a tremendous job on the ground. But they weren't allowed to win. And then you go into whether it was in you know, invading Panama Or you go into Desert Shields, Desert, Desert Storm, which I was a part of. I got my Gulf War veteran hat up on my wall, and and having people like a colon Powell, it was awesome. Schwarzkopf. Even our from our regiment squadron commander to regimental commander. I was in the third ACR. To the generals that were out there, was tremendous. And all that that we did. And then the second time we went back. Even even in the time period in s in Somalia with where you get from Blackhawk down, it wasn't the greatest thing for our country for that moment, but those soldiers fought. So you see all the great leadership that we've had militarily. So that's why when it comes to politics, to get back to the political side of it. Uh I I I think that we we it should be something that we talk about. It should be something that we address. Because as much as I love history and all those things I mentioned, all of it still leads back to politics. Everything's political, whether it's Democrat, a Republican, Libertarian, uh uh, uh an independent. Um, they had other things. I'm sorry off the top of my head, I I don't remember all of them uh growing up throughout history before Federalist, that was before Democrat and Republicans. So you had different parties even before that. So all these things that go on in politics, our whole country is based upon it. Even the things when it comes to church, not being taxed. Uh if you say so, and every four years depends on who's president, how the how the church is is addressed politically. So those things are are very important. And I and I do want to say something to my conservative uh friends, more conservative friends, we do need to take account, or we we need to take some take some uh responsibility for the lopsided uh coverage or speak towards uh our current president. Because as I look back and I've always told y'all, and I said this from the very beginning, I hold us all accountable. I have no problem with it. Uh whether you're considering yourself more conservative, liberal, whatever it might be, there'll be there'll be honest and straight up accountability that goes on uh with us. But I look back at it and I was watching um uh I think not the History Channel, it's called uh War. It's a war channel or something in the nature. Uh something like that. But anyway, they were talking, you saw different. I'm sorry, I was it was a class I was doing, and you saw how they addressed and talked to each other politically over the years, and everything stuck to policy. Very little became personal, most of it stuck to policy. Yes, you had people flat out said that Roosevelt's New Deal was more socialist and communist, things that were being impressed, but they didn't attack him as a person, they attacked the policy that he wanted that he was under. You would see that, and I think you would see that for years, and my my Lincoln love to or getting rooted into politics started in high school in uh probably 1980, when uh when Reagan ran. So actually I wasn't even in high school yet, I was in eighth, eighth grade. Eighth grade, seventh grade. Uh when when Reagan ran for president and he beat Carter. And I started paying attention to it then. And I liked what he said. And I still, you don't have to agree with me, I still think he's the best president ever. As far as Ronald Reagan, I don't uh there's a you know, some everyone will have their favorite, but it's all subjective, so it's not it's not really a debate. It's not like we're debating who was greater, but who's the greatest basketball player of all time. Hands down is Jordan. That's a whole nother discussion in itself. LeBron shouldn't even be mentioned. Jordan, Kobe, and then we'll go from there. So, but even if you want to put Jordan, Jabbar, Jordan, Russell, Jordan, anybody, then you go from there. But, you know, if you said to me real quick, I'll get back to the politics parts. It's definitely gonna be Jordan. Kobe's gonna be in that top three somewhere. And you have to go down the line and look throughout history. So you you might pick up uh uh uh a Kareem or Magic Johnson or Larry Bird. Um not that LeBron should be up in there in the top six or seven-ish, but I at least five or six I put in front of him. Some people are gonna watch this and they're gonna get on YouTube, they're gonna say, Have you lost your mind? He has this, that, this, that, this. He got all the stats in the world. If I play 50 years, I have all the stats too. That dude played a long time. But anyway, back to this. So a lot of the rhetoric that we hear now, or the feedback that we hear now that's going towards this president, it started, and he was one of the ones who started it when they were tied. And I'm not an ob I'm not an Obama apologist. I'm just keeping it 100. The things that whether it was the birth certificates or this, the identity politics started. Identity politics started in 2008. Everything was done by identity instead of who you are as a person. So when identity politics and then the attacks that came, it led because then it was both ways. It would be attacking a person. Are you really an American? Are you this? Whatever it might be. And then it was, well, people don't like policies because he's black or I'm black, whatever. And so these things, these identity politics really started. And I can't, I gotta keep it 100. Our current president, he he kept some of that rolling. He helped some of that uh to get gone. I'm sorry to take that out there. I was getting a little reflection in there. He helped some of that get gone with some of the things he said. So now, when this guy could walk out, hand you the cure to cancer, and still be attacked. And that's the sad part about it, is because I believe that conservatives ushered in the uh the attacks. Uh they ushered in that identity politics with some of the attacks, some of the things that were said, and now liberals have taken it to a whole new level. And we see so many things happening in our country because the Bible tells us the kingdom divided will surely fall. And one thing is media or medium, that's something that the enemy controls. But media, and nobody, whether you're conservative or more liberal media, everyone has an agenda. But the agenda is not always the truth, it's ratings. Remember that. Look at it, ratings. Everybody judges stuff off of the ratings. And you have so many that will stop what they're doing, and man, they'll go at you like they'll go at you like a mad doll over their ratings. So that's what so those things, politics, that's why I put political things in there, because I love talking about politics. I think that it is it would be wonderful to get back to having open bipartisan debate and settling those things in the chambers, in the halls, in the chambers, by intelligent people, not emotional, not sitting there being uh uh what's that word I'm looking for? Uh uh bait, uh clipbait, saying things just to try to grab somebody's attention. No, it's it's time to get back to where it is good, open discussion that people are sharing, and they can sit down in a partisan, not partisan, excuse me, bipartisan manner, and just don't just don't make decisions just across what best fits this country. And that's why I love talking about politics because someone has to be a voice to say, hey, the common man, we see the common person, and I say common, but nobody's really common, but I'll just use that word because a man, Dusty Rhodes, used to call himself the common man when he was in uh WWE, but before that, he was the bull of the woods, big dust, the American dream, the tower power, too sweet to be sour. That's what he would say. He would say, I've I've uh uh uh uh dined with Kings and Queens and uh slept in Alley and ate pork and beans. So big dust, that was that was big dust. But so many things that are that can be changed with that. So that's that's what really got me into that and looking at. And I love history, but I also want to see what can make a change. What how can we make a difference in the things that we're saying? And I believe it's important that we talk about politics with one another because it's such an important part, and of course, sports is sports. And I told y'all before, I believe I was conceived during football season, and we're gonna finish up talking about this one thing. But let me go back to something real quick. We're talking about the things of God and in the Bible. My favorite Bible characters are Joshua, Samson, David, and Peter. And uh, if you want to guess why and say why, and see people home, because they were the most hostile, violent ones that I could think of. Joshua was a warrior. Joshua didn't play games. He's very obedient unto God, and God made the sun, the time stop for him to go to battle. He prayed for that. But I love what it says in Joshua 1, 7 and 8 about being of good courage and being courageous and hearing what God is saying. And then, of course, Samson. Samson went through some things, but Samson was obedient unto God to his last breath. His disobedience caused his fall. But I love the fact that he got back up and his last breath in that time period. If you look in that scripture, you see his hair was growing back. His hair was growing back. And everyone says his strength is in his hair. We we see that, but it was his obedience with not cutting his hair. And when he got disobedient, Delilah, mmm, Sam had a woman problem that that was at. And of course, David, probably one of the greatest kings of all time, leaders of all time. But he went through. And I love these guys because they faced challenges. Peter faced challenges, and they overcame them. And within that, they still finished up strong as a leader. And I loved that. I love the fact. So these are those are four of my favorite. And then I also looked at him, how would they be as a football player? You know, David would probably be that quarterback. I got Peter playing more of a defensive tackle. Samson, I was like, mmm, that boy, he's like, we put him at D-line or linebacker, and and Joshua just gets it and goes. So I hand him the ball, let him go with it. Yes, I locked it all in, I and I and I did think about that. But they were aggressive, they were all aggressive leaders, willing to seek conflict, with m with a mindset to win at all cost. And they trusted God in all that. So that goes right back into the sports phases. Why did I pick sports? Well, because I love sports. I don't think there's I I know there's many great things on this planet that people do, whether it's singing, dancing, whatever it might be, um, acting. I just think that there's nothing greater than sports because it's a conflict no matter what sport you're playing. There's competition, you're competing. It draws out the best in you. It can draw out the best in a person. And so that's why I love so much. I love sports. And that's why I thought it was important because I believe they all tie in to each other and with each other in some way, shape, or form. So with that, when this great event that's coming up, Super Bowl 60, which by the way, my Uncle Dave Robinson, number 89. You see his jersey right up there. He was in the first, that jersey was in the first two Super Bowls. So you so you know, the first two Super Bowls, Green Bay won, they beat the Kansas City Chiefs, and then they beat the Oakland Raiders. So they won the first two Super Bowls. So anyway, the Super Bowl matchup, a lot of people say, man, who do you think's gonna win the Super Bowl? Well, my question is, how did football become the number one sport in the country? Because in from 1817 to 1920, it was horse racing and boxing. In 1920 to 1950s or so, baseball really took over. And then in the 60s, it was 60 through the 80s, football began to rise, but boxing re-emerged itself. Baseball was always hovering around. And in the 1990s to 2000s, that's when football just really took off. And in the 2000s uh through now, you have football, if you look at it, it's football, basketball, baseball, but I love hockey too, as far as the top four sports in our country. Soccer's starting to move its way up. Uh a big burst of lacrosse. The cross is really starting to explode. Then you have your tennis and your golf and things of that nature, but you have so many things that's going on. But number one is still football. Now, will it still be around 50 years from now? I don't know. Uh let me see. I'm 57, that's 100. So I plan on living to 120. So I'll I'll let you know uh in a hundred in 50 years. But coming up on this Super Bowl, as we as I before I close out in the next five minutes or so, what are who am I picking away? Well, offensively, the Seahawks are putting up more yards in the playoffs than the Patriots, excuse me. But some of those Patriot numbers are are strewed uh because of the weather that they played in in Denver. So offensively, you got the Seahawks for yards, uh passing yards, uh rushing yards does go to the Patriots and points per game in the playoffs. Uh Seahawks are averaging 36, and the uh Patriots are averaging 18. Now, once again, the Patriots had to play a uh terrific Texans defense, and then they had to go into that mess of a weather and playing against a terrific uh Broncos defense, and I don't think the Patriots, I mean I'm sorry, I don't think the Seahawks played either team that they had to play had the same level defense. Plus, they were good, fair, there was nice weather, same level defenses that the Patriots had to play. Defensively, though, defense is the strength of both teams. Uh during the season, the Patriots gave up 295.2 yards per game, and uh in the playoffs, they're giving up approximately uh 209.7 yards. Of course, a lot of that is helped by that whether that was in Denver. Um Seahawks, 285.9 yards given up during the season. But in the playoffs, they're averaging 357.5. That's because the Rams got out there throwing the ball around the field like they lost their mind. So that was really big. So uh pass-wise, well, that was total yards, but pass-wise, uh, they're giving up 246 yards, and uh Patriots are giving up 138.3 yards per game uh in the playoffs. You have uh total points. Uh I'm sorry, the rushing, they're only giving up 71.3 yards, the Patriots and Seahawks 111. Scoring-wise, Seahawks are only giving up 16.5. That's because they chewed up San Francisco in that first game. And the Patriots only giving up 8.7, but a lot of that had to do what was going on in Denver and the weather and the fact that Denver did not have its starting quarterback. So all those things add up into those statistics. I love this part. During the season, Patriots have 35 sacks, Seahawks 47, interceptions, uh Patriots have 10, and the uh Seahawks have 18. So you really see across the line, they're really balanced out statistically. I'm gonna take the Seahawks. I think the Seahawks are gonna win this football game, and I believe the Seahawks can win this football game because I believe they're a more complete team. They're coming with the better defense uh if they can uh limit turnovers, and and Sam doesn't get out there throwing the ball to uh the other team, and they really, if they can run the ball. Now, they've they lost their best running back, but these other cats have really stepped up and they've really been running well. So if they can do those things, I really believe they're gonna win this football game, but I think it's gonna be a really tight game. This will not be a blowout football game. So I got the Seahawks winning, I'm gonna say 27-24. 27-24. Let's go with a last second field goal. Let's really make it exciting. I'm not watching a halftime show. We can get into the um I'm not watching it. Uh I I uh and I think it's only gonna take away from the game. Um and I wish they get back to putting artists out there that all they do is go out there and entertain, and they're not coming out with a political statement or any other kind of statement. I just want you to go out there and be the Michael Jackson, be the prince, uh be uh, you know, those those acts that get out there and you just do your thing. You just perform uh what Snoop Dogg and Dre and them, and you're not coming in with a political agenda because you don't like somebody. For one Sunday, one Sunday of a big sport, let's just go out there to enjoy it. But anyway, that's it for uh God politics and sports. Uh I really appreciate you being with us today. And please make sure you fill up those comment, the comment area of all the things you and then also things you want, you may want to hear me talk about. But once again, our first guest will be uh down the line, and I will only start, I will only start with Bishop uh Dr. Michael Brown. Um he's a great mentor, he's my spiritual father, uh, terrific businessman. So that will be our first guest. And then from there, we have a lot of exciting things that are gonna happen. I can't wait to start interviewing uh these little athletes out here. We'll we'll talk to the the high school coaches um around the city. We'll we'll work on getting uh Coach Warner from uh Pebble Hills to talk. Um Coach Torres from around the city. Uh I I believe he's I know Coach Valise at uh Hanks and and uh El Dorado coaches. So we really want to get um all these coaches involved in in the things that we're doing, as well as businessmen like uh financiers like uh Jason Murray or future uh uh mayor of El Paso, Tanya Murray. We want to get these folks in and get them uh interviewed and all the great things that are that are going on. So once again, God bless you, love you all, and know that this is the greatest time because you live in the greatest country in the world. GPS out. That wraps up today's episode of GPS God Politics and Sports. And as always, thank you so much for joining me. Stay engaged, stay grounded.