GlocalNet

Yesterday after both services, I was at the first sporting event at the new Cowboy Stadium with a group of lawyers and some friends along with my sister and brother-in-law who put the event together and man did we have fun!!!!  Our skybox was just down from Jerry Jones – we waved and I got to visit with his son Steve.  We watched Mexico and Haiti play – Omar was Mexico all the way.  Sherman was with us and since being in the US wanted to visit Mexico but it didn’t work out.  The stadium was packed to capacity at 90,000!!!  I told him, since you couldn’t go to Mexico we brought Mexico to you. 

Some observations:

But what we call football and what the world calls football is very different!  We call football – football!  We call soccer, soccer – they call soccer football.  Not even Jerry Jones could stop the globalization of the sport.  I sat there thinking – 20 years from now, I’ll bet there are far more soccer games played in here than football.  Is Jerry Jones global?  I don’t know, but it doesn’t matter – he may not get global, but global got him!

Jerry Jones was getting the stadium ready for the Cowboys.  They were watching everything – I mean everything – sound, seating, flow, lighting, all of it.  He was using us as guinea pigs to get all the kinks worked out – but frankly – I didn’t see any kinks.  You can learn a lot from that man about vision and execution.

I didn’t hear any local news stories about 90,000 mostly Mexicans filling up Cowboy Stadium.  How could that go so un-noticed?  What pulls them together?  This sport.  They are here – and we need to all realize our old ways of interacting with one another will not work for the future.  Respect and engagement – just like I’ve learned working in other parts of the world.

I’m not sure when the first Cowboys game is there – but I want to be there.  I’m calling on all intercessors to pray aggressively to put me in the sky box to get to see the game!!!