Generation Jets
Episode 3: The Spice Of Life
Transcript by Kizzy

Jessica: Have you ever watched a kicker on the sideline they look so different than the rest of the team. They've got the funky little face mask, the two different shoes, they're built different but when they come on the field at that moment they are the most important guys on the team doesn't matter what they look like everybody on the team depends on them no matter how different they are.

Xl: (on the museum steps playing football with Jessica) Put some air under it girl right on!

Spike: Man there's a lot of different kinds of people in NY.

Aska: With 18 million of them they can't all be alike.

Spike: Yeah, but it would be easier if they were you know everyone would get along.

Willie: Is there a bathroom around here.

Xl: Got me

Jessica: Don't know.

Willie: What about over there?

Xl: Oh yeah that's the museum they'll have one.

Willie: It's huge. What is it a museum for like everything?

Xl: That's the library of the world's diversity.

Aska: You've never been to the American Museum of Natural History?

Willie: No, but I have a natural desire to use their bathroom. Somebody come with me I don't want to get lost.

Jessica: I'll go.

Xl: Let's all go

Spike: Nah, I'm just going to hang here and shoot.

Aska: Come on Spike you might learn something.

Spike: Alright.

Willie: Out of my way people I gotta go.

Spike:(entering the museum) That's incredible.

ASKA: Believe it or not, this girl roamed the world 140 million years ago.

Jessica: It's like five stories tall.

Xl: Imagine getting on her bad side, dinos, earthworms, gems,whales, rock meteors, sculptures, fossils, stars from Kenya to Mongolia, from the North Pole to the south if you can find it in this universe you can find it in the American Museum of Natural History.

Spike: What's the point of this place do they collect anything and everything

Aska: It is a celebration of life's diversity.

Jessica: Oh my god, the elephants. Let's go check out the elephants.

Xl: What About Willie.

Jessica: He'll find us.

Willie: Wait up.

Jessica: I'm always knocked out by how big they are.

Xl: Imagine them leading the sweep in front of curtis martin

Jessica: Talk about a ground game that couldn't be stopped.

Spike: They've got a lot of different animals in here.

Xl: Kind of remnds me of a football team.

Aska: Oh please there is no way you can compare a football team to the diversity of the African savannah.

Jessica: Ooh sounds like a challenge.

Spike: Aska, are you ever going to learn?

Xl: You think football players are all the same

Aska: Let's see big, muscle bound, mentally limited in a word, yes.

Xl: Girl diversity is what makes the game so great stream it up

Xl: Yo Dog this might sound a little out there but if you were an animal

Aska: What do you mean were?

Xl: What kind of animal would you be?.

The players said what animal they would be.
Wayne Chrebet wide receiver would be a snake.
Vinny Testaverde quarterback said he would be a lion.
John Abraham defensive end said he would be a cheetah.
Kevin Mawae tight end said he would be a elephant.
Jerald Sowell fullback said he would be a rhino.
Jon McGraw free safety said he would be a hawk.
Sanatana Moss wide receiver said he would be a lion.


[Back at the Museum]

Willie: That was cool. Sometimes I like to think about what it would be like to be an animal, you know? Or what kind of animal I might be.

Aska:That's easy Willie. You would be a monkey.

Jessica: A Monkey? I don't see that Willie is more of a squirrel.

Aska: I think you are forgetting about something Jess primates are the only animals with thumbs.

Jessica: You got more than a point there.

Willie: Monkeys can play.

Aska: Thumbs are a part of what makes primates, humans included different than the rest of the animal world.

Xl: Yo Aska is there a little more to football than you thought?

Aska: I'll admit it there's some diversity I hadn't seen before not quite the animal kingdom but more than I thought.

Spike: Is there anything else to check out?

Xl: Anything else?

Jessica: Spike you can spend a week in this place and not see everything.

Willie: It's like a TV that you walk around to watch.

Aska: Careful Willie... you might learn something.

Xl: Come on boys and girls beleievers and non believers those with thumbs and those without the journey has just begun to the Hall of Biodiversity. Santana Moss gives the school yard lesson of the day demonstrating the different ways to catch a football.

Willie: Oh Man, the jungle.

Aska: This is a replica of the Dzangha Sangha rainforest in the Central African Republic.

Jessica: I don't think of South America when I think of rain forests.

Aska: I know but they are all over we even have some in America in the Pacific Northwest there's a rain forest that stretches all the way to Alaska.

Xl: Yeah bit it is the tropical rainforest like the Dzangha Sangha that has the most diverse population you talking thousands of insects plants, mammals, you name it.

Jessica: It is so mysterious like you never know what might be around the next tree.

Aska: I love the surprises. Everyone is so different.

Xl: That's what's so great about diversity you never get bored with the same thing.

Spike: Everybody is always talking about diversity being such a good thing, but really it is just kind of neat being different right?

Xl: Yeah, I guess.

Spike: So why is that such a big deal Aska and I are pretty diverse and the differences between me and her are just a pain in the neck.

Aska: How enlightened Spike. Are you suggesting that we would be better off if we were all the same.

Spike: I am just saying I don't know how come diversity is such a big deal when it comes to somehting like the rainforest or a group of friends or anything else.

Dr. Niles Elderidge: I think I can help out on that I am Niles Elderidge a curator here at the American museum. I was responsible for this Hall of Biodiversity. We are trying to teach people here how important biodiversity is to human life on earth. We depend on all of the different species living in all the world's ecosystems for fresh water, for the production of oxygen even some of the medicines and foods that we use. It is very imortant to maintain the living complexity of life on earth.

Spike: So the difference between the plants and animals is a way of making sure there is enough for all the different species?

Dr Elderidge: It is a cycle of life that is endless just like a football team every role is important. You start taking out a couple of those key players in these ecosystems. Just like a football team you don't have eleven guys on the field each doing their own job, the job doesn't get done. It is exactly the same thing that happens in a rain forest. So we humans have got to learn to be much more careful to the environment that we grew up in and have been taking for granted for so many years and now with so many people on the planet we find we got to be carful with what is left.

Aska: So ,do you see how being different can be a good thing?

Spike: That's cool for the rain forest but I still need help figuring out how the differences between you and me are a good thing.

Aska: Maybe you are beyond help Spike.

Jessica: Whether you are talking about a rain forest or a group of friends you gotta have differences to keep things fresh like a good offense.

Xl: Right on.

Aska: I am dying to know how this is going to tie in.

Jessica: Have we been wrong before?

Herman Edwards NY JETS COACH: Diversity in the game of football is not too complicated it is one of where you ahve many different players in the game that you are going to substitute in certain situations you have a lot of players asking to do a lot of different things if you can do that as a football team. You can change personnel groups or offense or defense you always put the other team keep them on their heels that is what we call diversity in football that you allow everyone on the team to have the ability to play you make it very difficult for the other team to figure out what you are doing all the time.

Spike: But like if your guys are better than their guys why don't you just stick to one play and keep hammering them with it.

Coach: Well true we can stick to one play but sometimes we want to make it look different we can run the same play but in other words have different personnel in the game that's what people try to do to you they put different personnel in the game and run the same play. You are right you have a couple of good plays you'd like to run them over again and generally you can but the way you do that is by being diverse having different options to run the same play.

Xl: So coach where can we look for diversity on offense?

Coach: You can look for diversity on offense in the fact sometimes we will come into the game with three WR, 1 TE, 1 RB sometimes we will have 3 WR, 2 RB or 3 TE, one WR and one RB. There's a lot of ways you can do things I think the more diversity you have with your offense in other words the more you make people change because you have changed then all of a sudden you can attack them with maybe a better personnel than they put on the football. Diversity to me is obviously like a rainbow all different colors just like a football team what you try to do is blend them all together so you become a team it is a great thing to watch and obviously a great thing to look at it is like a rainbow beautiful when you have diversity on the football field teams can be that way too.

Willie: That was cool coach.

Coach: Time's up guys I have to get back to the football field and you guys have to get back to the museum.

Aska: Who would have thought there was so much to learn about football.

Jessica: Keeps you on your toes doesn't it?

Xl: Spike you digging this diversity thing.

Spike: Oh I definitely get it for football. I never thoguht about how different guys on the team can do different things on the field.

Jessica: It's all a part of how you keep the ball moving.

Willie: And in the rain forest different plants and animals keep the circle of life moving.

Jessica: Circle of Life. I like that.

Xl :Willie dog, where did you come up with that my man?

Sorry, the rest of the episode has not been transcribed.

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