Open Havoc Begins

Today I thought I’d start off by outlining the basic ideas behind Open Havoc and what future plans are in store. Open Havoc has been a running project of mine for many years now. It’s kind of always been how thoughts have come out of my head – in a very chaotic and non defined way. Open Havoc was my way of attempting to take those chaotic / non defined thoughts and focus them in on important subjects.

What I got was many of my friends telling me that I needed to get into broadcasting. I’d meet people on the street and their first response to me would be, “Do you work in television / radio?” after my response they’d always reply, “You seem like a person that would be good at that.” Well, here I am years later still deciding how I would use this open havoc approach to not only get my thoughts out there, but get them out there in a way that would be interesting, informative, and entertaining.

I tried many different avenues of this. Through art / comics, photo blogs, etc. etc. etc. The problem was I always came back to the same point. I’d get tired of these other things, and in my free time what was I doing? I was calling into Sports Radio talk shows doing just what I loved to do. Talk Sports.

Finally after enough prodding (mainly by my brother) I decided to take my open havoc idea and use it on sports. And here’s where we are now.

Am I a professional journalist? No. Hell I sucked at Spelling and English in high school. But what I do have is a passion to entertain and talk sports.

Instead of trying to cover all sports and cater to everyone – I know that’s not possible and I don’t plan on doing it. I’m going to focus in on the Southern region of sports. CFB, NFL, NBA, and yeah whatever else I find interesting too mostly with a southern region slant. Let’s face it, if you’re looking for up to the minute late breaking news, that’s not me. But if you’re looking for fun and informative sports, you’ve come to the right place. Whatever comes out of my head is what you see. Very opinionated, very informative, very chaotic. Very. Open Havoc.

In the future as the blog develops I’m going to add a few more aspects to it. There’s going to be more official site posters, more people giving you Open Havoc worthy opinions. I’m also going to be starting a podcast in the future where once a week either I on my own or with a few other people talk about current sports topics. We don’t have a big network behind us, so we can say or do whatever we want. Plus there’s many more ideas coming around and as they come to fruition you’ll hear more about them.

Oh and let me say this, my idea is not to be like some shock jock who just says controversial stuff to bum up listeners/visitors/viewers. I could care less about that type of person everyone knows Tom Brady is a good QB, some man getting people fired up by saying otherwise is full of crap and not worth people’s time.

Also let me put this up front too. I’m a fan just like anyone. A homer. A ever hopeful that my team can come back with 3 seconds in the 4th quarter down 7 to win the game. So if you detect any homerish comments in my posts, just roll with it. I’m under no obligation to present “just the facts” to you and while I will try to keep it from getting out of hand, I don’t have to. You want reports, go get them somewhere else. You want something entertaining, come here. Odds are the reason you’d be upset with what I have to say is because you’re a homer too.

No, I have no idea what type of format I’m going to use yet. Will it be one topic and that’s it? Sometimes. Will it be multiple stories? My thoughts about recent developments? Give me ideas, I’ll listen. As of now, here’s how we’re going to do things:

I’m going to try to have some form of informative article that goes beyond just Player X did Y to Player Z. Lately I’ve been in a big kick about the strategies behind how an offense lines up on the line. So at some point I’m going to go into the technical aspects behind a plays. But along with that I’m going to try and see what news is out there and give a little bit about all that. Daily? Eh. . .I’ll try that, odds are however that we’re looking more at 3 – 5 times a week.