There is a reason this is the first section on THE ENFORCER NATION. Volunteers rule this thing. They just do. If it weren’t for the likes of (OMG, this list is going to be long…)BOBBI ”SGT. AT ARMS” AKENS, MISTY DE ARMAS AND JANET WONG, LAURISA VALENTIN, GEORGE “THE GRILL MASTER” JACKSON, ZOE ”THE THERAPIST” SIMMONS (and her WREKING CREW), DONNA “MRS. WARRIOR FAN” WALTON, DAVE “THE LEGEND” KING, (long list, about to get longer…) RAELEINE NABORS, SHAWN MAYFIELD, KAROLYNN ESTRADA, “THE LOVELY ONE” FELICIA GONZALES, DANIEL “GET YOUR TAXES DONE WITH” LOVE, TRAINERS: RYAN ULRICH, ALICE DAVIS, MARCIA KLALBER, TEAM DOCTORS; PAUL “DOC” MARSH, JULIE CHUAN, (is this list seriously going to continue?…) PLAYER VOLUNTEERS: JAMES “SWINTONIO GATES” SWINEY, JORDAN ”THE MIRACLE” MIRAKIAN, and SEAN ”THE FIGHTIN’ IRISHMAN” DAVIDSON, EQUIPEMENT GURU’S MIKE “BULLDAWG” DAVIS, and GARY ”NINJA MASTER” CROFT, (…catching my breath…) mix in a NICOLE ”THE BANK” EIDAL, SCOTT “RING OF HONOREE” HOLSLAG, RONAN ”MAN OF” STEELE, DAVE “THOUSAND WORDS” ELLROD, CHRIS ”WWW.insert name here. COM” OBERMILLER and announcer CHIP “GOLDEN VOICE” THOMSON and…and…(I’m about to black out) AND others to include TEAM MOM; DANIELLE CASON, then our little NATION here would be no better than the California Blue Knights…with talent. (No offense, Blue Knights, but you have ONE GUY as the president, vice president, sponsor, secretary, treasurer, coach, assistant coach, media outlet, web master, I think he runs the scoreboard and snack bar too – Now THAT guy loves football.)
So, No big deal?…try looking a fellow public safety HERO in the face when at half time you don’t go to a locker room, but the opposite end of the football field…after staying the night at a marine corp barrack…wearing jersey’s that barely look better than those vintage 70′s t-shirt jerseys bearing a faded out number 82…cringing at the thought of attending a donation ceremony in which your ‘charitable cause’ gets a check for $100.00…with three people in the stands because you didn’t wake up the few ‘transients’ who were still asleep by kickoff…in your one field goal post bearing multi-colored grass stadium. (Those were ACTUAL examples from other teams.)
So yeah, No big deal…THANK A VOLUNTEER ALREADY!