JCI became a professional football player

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The Bleacher Report names for these two people are JCI and Damali. Although the length of these two people's journey spans 47 years, there were gaps in their communication, one of which lasted for 26 years.JCI became a professional football player. He played for the Oakland Raiders.Damali became the mathematics professor and writer. Both have reached goals that are to be respected, since all of us get transformed for the better, especially as we mature.

A third component of this circle of friends and colleagues is Damali's brother, Rev Edsel Warren Brannon, Jr. He, too, has been through transformative experiences.The Beginning, the IdeaOne day the man, JCI said to Damali, "You with your big head, and you are suppose to be so smart, and me, with my big head and NFL data that got the attention of so many people...let's put our heads together..."His comment suggested that something needed to be corrected, resolved, and made clear by a gleam of dawn from the heavens. The truth is that light which shines on all situations and let's us "see" clearly and correct errors, misconceptions, or distorted perceptions which plague the lives of so many celebrities in sports and other professions.Those words are profound because JCI was affirming that the gifts that the professor and the professional athlete have, together, can spell out a story of a miracle on Fourth Street on Christmas Day, 2009.How did they meet again on Dec. 23, 2009 Well, it is an intriguing story that is developing into a saga. The recent chapters are reported in this article.An Intriguing EncounterIt was Dec 22, and Damali was working on her laptop. It started to crash, but one picture was frozen on the desktop. It was a picture of JCI, and nothing else showed on the screen Control, alt, and delete were pressed, but nothing happened.

Finally, Damali felt that something was going on in another domain or realm. She shut off the computer and began to think, "Why was the picture of JCI the only one on the screen when there were so many icons on her desktop"Next, Damali went to a website for a national mathematics conference that was to be held in San Francisco. As she looked at various links, she stumbled on one tagged, "In Memorial." At the top of the page was the name of a professor from an academy who was to facilitate her session on Sports and Mathematics, planned for Jan 16, 2010 This great professor passed away on Nov 23, 2009, and Damali was totally surprised. The professor helped Damali get an article published on the Oakland Raiders who played many years ago. Her topic for the planned presentation is on "Intensity and integrity on the playing field." The NFL data of JCI and other senior players is to be analyzed using various mathematical techniques so as to reveal and shed light on the power and impact of the senior Oakland Raiders contributions on the playing field.Now there are four contacts who were giving various levels of advice to Damali as she worked on her project to become a sports writer, and each of these men has passed away since Feb 2007.Her brother, Rev. Edsel, said to her, "God wants you to depend on him alone as you do this project on the senior NFL players."The Transformations, the DeparturesOne of the sports historians who passed away was Bob Carroll who had a significant role in the development of the Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA).