Year after year, well four years after four years in conjunction with the World Cup, I read message board posts and blogs from dozens of soccer’s detractors in the United States.  I also read responses from defenders and fans of the game in the US.  The detractors usually criticize the game as too boring, too [...]

For those of you who don’t know, HFO has been around since early 2002.  I believe I started this website as a way to provide pictures of the kids to my family that couldn’t be around.  Over the years it developed into a media conglomerate and social giant in the blogging scene (perhaps that’s a lie).  [...]

Last week Kevin came to me and explained that he had “promised” everyone a new blog from me. It felt like there was so much to say and where to begin.  I haven’t talked to you in nearly eight months.   That is a lot of ground to cover.  I started writing a couple of [...]

Congratulations to the 2010 Chicago Blackhawks on winning the Stanley Cup!  I have a few thoughts, but perhaps I should have you read one of my old blogs first before you continue on with this blog.  Perhaps you’ll understand where I’m coming from on my thoughts.  —–>Here is my blog<—– on being a Colts and [...]

I think everyone during the course of their life is friends with someone that they like to “brag” about to their other friends and/or family.  Over the course of my life I’ve been friends with Purdue football players, NFL Quarterbacks, and local celebrities.  I try not to make a big deal out of my friendships when [...]

It seems like every so often, I will visit HFO and feel bad that I don’t update it often enough.  Over the past few weeks, I started to wonder why I don’t update it very often.  I came up with a few good reasons why I wasn’t updating the website and decided to fix those [...]

I’ve got all the excuses in the world why this site hasn’t been updated since February and pretty much all out ignored since October 2009, but I don’t have time to go into it.  Just know that I’ve been giving HFO some attention lately.  Moving forward, you might see a few changes that may include [...]