PURE PRAIRIE SCHOONER

 J. Robert Byrom has posted an excellent article on http://soonersnews.com about the loss of hard working farm boys playing football. 

Mr. Byrom says: 

"My parents were brought up on farms, they spent their childhoods picking cotton, bailing hay, and rustling animals that were much bigger and stronger than them everday.  You can workout all you want, train three times a day and take supliments galore, but nothing compares to working outside bailing hay from dawn till dusk all day everyday for a month straight. 

Growing up on a farm makes you both strong and somewhat mean. Trying to get stubborn animals four times your size and pure muscle to do what you need it to is not easy and you get a mean streak dealing with them day in and day out.  You have to learn to impose your will on something that weighs half a ton or more. After doing so your whole life doing the same thing to someone your size or smaller is nothing for you.

Farming is a hard life. If mother nature is not kind to you, you starve both financially and physically.  Almost everyone who has based their lively hood solely on farming knowstrue hunger. They all have spent atleast one winter eating the bare minimum to survive and praying to God for more rain the next spring.

So, what farms sow and farm as human capital is men that are extremely hard and strong and can be as mean as they need to be, when neccesary.   

That is exactly what is missing from midwest football they have lost these farmboys and with them their edge.  They still have kids that are big and strong but not in the numbers before."

http://soonersnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=113:americas-loss-of-small-family-farms-is-killing-midwest-football&catid=34:j-robert-byrom&Itemid=53

So, when you buy that piece of Pure Prairie cheese, you may even be supporting your favorite football team.