Tell'em My Motto!
Mean what you say and say what you mean...

“It’s time to give the game to the Players!!!” “Your recreation is our business!!!” Sounds like solid marketing strategies designed to attract flag football teams who seek structured competition at the highest recreational level. But if you’re a team that’s been around the block a bit, you already know the aforementioned mottos are hollowed proclamations. There are very few instances when you’ve participated in an organizations tournament and it lived up to its “motto”. Under the USFTL, can you really re-call when the game was truly turned over to the players? Under the AFA, its important you read between the lines in that one sentenced motto, the word “business” is exactly what they mean. Your concerns and issues with professionalism, fair play and respect are not covered under their interpretation of “business”.

I am a person who shoots straight from the hip and will tell you what you need to hear and not what you want to hear. Therefore, when dealing with any business entity, from my mortgage company to the gas I purchase, I expect honesty and integrity with their service. I expect a service provider to “say what they mean, and mean what they say.” If I find discrepancies between their advertisement and their actual service or product, I discontinue my business relationship. As a loyal customer who brings credibility, reliability and marketability, I refuse to continue paying for services that do not live up to its billing nor equal my financial obligation. I refuse to not be heard. I refuse to be taken for granted because the provider believes I’m afraid of change.

If those mottos really meant what they say, there would be no purpose for the “U”. There wouldn’t be several flag football organizations saturating the game across the country. It would be a business but it would be in the best interest of its customers and constantly moving toward the player’s common goal of determining a true National Champion. It kills me to hear one organization proclaiming to be the better over the other with no factual basis for proof.

How do you give the game back to the players when you’ve told several of this countries top flight organizations they’re BANNED from ever competing in any of its events because it dared to streamline the game? The ego’s involved with these tournament Directors are tremendous to the point where they believe they’re bigger than the game. A flag football Hall of Fame!?!?! What does one receive for that honor, a pension five years after retirement? Is there a Canton type facility so I can take my kids there one day? If I were truly your “business”, you would hear my opinions regarding your services and not respond by telling me (the customer) I’m at fault. You wouldn’t dare look down on your customers as though they are beneath you and should feel privileged they have an opportunity to play in your event.

If these organizations insist on continuing with their ways then they owe it to us to develop mottos befitting to their business techniques. “Your recreation is our Profit” and “Its time to sell MY game back to the players”. If they ever joined forces again they could combine mottos, “You pay to play AND do what we say, because there can be only one true NATIONAL champion, one on the east coast and the other on the west coast.”

Tell them my Motto!!!!

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything….

What kind of man are U?

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