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Look at the flowers, man ...

PICTURE THE World League, if you would, as a garden. The NFL owners are the architects, with Oliver Luck, the general managers, office staff, players and coaches as gardeners. In the garden there are presently six flowers ... blue and silver, blue and gold, blue and orange, purple and orange, red and green, red and black.

Something which any good gardener will tell you is that you need patience to achieve pleasing results. Certainly, some of the flowers may not currently be as large as or blooming as brightly as others, but the WLAF is still in the first few weeks of spring. The flowers will take some more time to grow and flourish.

They can only grow strong and healthy if they have care and loving attention from those who tend to them, the architects and gardeners. They have to be fed well with the correct food, not just any old fertiliser which the architects may have lying in a shady and unkempt corner of their own garden. The gardeners must do as much as they can to ensure the flowers are in suitable soil to give the best growth. Consideration and judgment needs to be shown when deciding whether to uproot weaker flowers and re-plant them elsewhere, always remembering that a good garden takes time to grow.

Most important of all, when a garden is good, it is important that other people see the garden, so that they can find inspiration and grow window boxes of the same kind. These people can later become gardeners too, and work to improve the garden, making it bigger and more beautiful than could have been imagined.

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