A day in the life of a Cleveland City Star

Everything in Cleveland moves slow... the traffic, the people, the talk, the cops, and the way of life. Cleveland is a very blue collar city... It is a beautiful city... Green, hills, forest, rivers and streams, Lake Erie. However it is also the poorest major city in the US according to a study in like 2004 or 2006... From what I can see, from my extremely perceptive eyes (you can roll yours at this point...) is that there is not very much middle class. There are rich areas and there are poor areas. To me, it seems like either you have money or you do not! People here seem to be so focused, so worried about everything, and so straight laced, straight as an arrow that they forget to actually live life. So it is really funny to watch us (Cleveland City Stars or CCS boys) interact with people living in the area. We are all about spreadin' the love any way we can... whether its gettin kicked out of wal mart for throwin a football or tubin' down the chagrin river or takin' a palm sunday/Cleveland City Shake/Cleveland City Rocks from Dana or Kickin' each other in training day in and day out... We love to our utmost. 

Usually our days consist of trying to figure out what to do... We train in the morning and are done by 1 or 2 at the latest. We sometimes have player appearances and have to sign autographs. Sometimes we go into the inner city to hang out with less fortunate kids. Earlier this year, I went into a school to read to a bunch of crying kindergartners or another time we went to a middle school assembly where it was so loud you couldn't hear each other yell... No matter what it is or what we do, adventure always finds us and we love to take advantage of it. 

I keep bringing up Dana. Let me explain Dana just a little bit. Dana is a free spirit that everyone loves. He does what most people would never dream of, for example, putting the mascots head on in just his underwear in the middle of DC traffic with a guitar singing worship songs to cars as they creep by. No matter his antics or what crazy thing he thinks of, he always puts a smile on other peoples faces. With us, he helps to bring us together by his antics because we love to do it along with him and at the very least watch him do his thing. He is a liberator. He is not afraid of what other people think about him because his confidence is firmly rooted in the Rock. All I know is, he is one of the people who has affected me most in my life because of the way he lives his. If there was more people like him in the world, the world would never know what hit it and would be forever changed for the better.