I confess that football, how to play it and why you'd play it, has always confounded me. Its not that I didn't have exposure to it. Examples of football fans were all around me! My Mother loved it, even her mother loved it plus my cousin's Craig and Ron Wolfley played professional ball. So,what was my problem? Weird artist I suppose. I was headed to Arizona to teach a workshop in Tuscon and as a bonus, I was going to get to visit with Ron. Before I took off, I did a bit of researching about cousin Ron's career. After all, I couldn't arrive totally clueless again! I had to come with some knowledge about his life as a football player. I learned that Ron played for the St. Louis/Phoenix Cardinals from 1985 to 1991 and that during his career, he was selected four times to go to the Pro Bowl as a special teams captain. Ron now co-hosts a morning, drive time talk radio show with Doug Franz called, "Doug and Wolf"(thank you Wikipedia for helping me )! I arrived in Phoenix on the 19th and the following evening, I was right in the thick of things with dedicated, Cardinal fans, at the Big Red Rage broadcast at Majerle’s Sports Grill. It was fun and great to see Ron in action! Sometime during the evening, I'm sure he glanced at me and thought, " Yeah, Georgia doesn't have a clue what we're talking about but it looks like she's enjoying the french fries"! It was all good! I was there to share apart of his life and hang out with his daughter, Savannah, who was quite at home with all the football fans and talk. What I do have a clue about, what I am sure of, is that I had a rich and rewarding time reconnecting with a cousin whose house I spent so much time at growing up. I also had the privilege of getting to know his generous and caring wife Stephanie and their children, Savannah and Vetter. Ron and I talked of many things, family, faith, failures and triumphs. Some hard, some funny, but all with deep caring and knowing that comes with a shared family history. It was such a pleasure! Thank you.
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