The Rise of Leicester City

One of the greatest moments in Barclay's Premier League history happened not that long ago. You see, there once was a football team (real football, not American Football) who did what some would consider impossible. Leicester City is this football team. They play out of King Power Stadium in Leicester, England. This team started at the very bottom of the league, having just been bumped up from the lower league into the Premier league and having just barely avoided relegation back to the lower league. No one really thought of them, they didn't have any major star player, well except maybe James Vardy. Over the course of season, however, they just about became one of the most known and at the top of the Premier league.

No one would have thought Leicester City would win the Premier League that season. They did though. Having only one somewhat well known player didn't convince anyone they could do what they did. They started from the bottom of the table, put in a lot of hard work and wound up at the very top with a trophy to take home with them. Leicester City beat a 5,000 to 1 odd by winning the Premier League. That's absolutely incredible. It almost seems mythical. In fact, their journey to victory is very similar to a heroic journey in mythology. They rose from the ashes of the bottom of the table and became champions, just like a hero rises from conflict and defeats the issues in order to become of better person.

I really love Leicester City's story. It shows that even the underdogs can win. All it takes is hard work, dedicated players, working together, and confidence in your team. Leicester City's story could easily be a mythological hero's journey to success seeing as they did something so many thought would be impossible to do in one season. It would have seemed plausible over several seasons of course, but not over the course of one season. We can learn something from Leicester's story, another similarity to mythology. Leicester taught us exactly what you need to win and it isn't about having star players.

The Mythical Land of Florida and the Florida Man

Florida is known to many as the sunshine state. We have beaches, theme parks, and year-round sunshine. Tourists fill the streets of Florida, especially Orlando, to see all the joys our great state has to offer. However, all this sunshine still cannot mask the absolute absurdity and ridiculousness Florida residents are or deal with.
Often, Florida is known as the United States version of Australia. We are a state filled with scary animals, such as the Floridian Swamp Cat (Google it, I promise you won't regret it) as well as crazy people, aka the Florida Man. In fact, my favorite description of Florida is, "Florida is a godless place. I went there once, got in the ocean, and immediately had to evacuate because a bull shark was swimming right towards me. There was an alligator on the side of the freeway. Meth addicts and men on tractors roam free. Florida is America's Australia." Promptly after this description someone responded with "Leave us alone." Florida has quite the reputation for being a mythical and crazy place. One of the most well-known characters being the Florida Man. The Florida Man will quite often pop up in headlines linked with absurd crimes and a not so pretty, if not terrifying, mugshot. From getting into brick fights, dancing on police cruisers to ward off vampires, throwing alligators at fellow citizens, and most famously: eating faces off of people while on baths salts (happened not once, but twice now). There is no end to the madness of the Florida Man.
In the end, Floridians are really in their own world. We do crazy things, have crazy creatures, and inhibit some weird, crazy people. We are a land of strange, often making people think if we are an actual place of existence and not some mythological land of crazies. Floridians, however, will most liking never change. We are a diverse culture that really doesn't know what to do with its self. We will keep loving up the sunshine and keep doing what we do best: being the stupidest and craziest people in all of America.

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