We all know how it goes – your phone lights up, a hazy glow spreading across the ceiling as the march of one text after another buzzes its way into your sleep-heavy brain. You click it quiet and roll back to your rapidly cooling place amongst the pillows and blankets when the light and the buzzing return, again and again. Or maybe you check your phone after a workout, backhanding away the beads of sweat on the screen as you scroll through text after text, trying in vain to remember where you dropped the thread of the conversation.
And while most group texts are little more than a means of making plans or needling friends, maybe for keeping in touch over long distances or safely separating one friend group from another, for some, it serves another purpose entirely.
For Team Eazy, a group of guys who grew up together – literally and figuratively – in and around Michigan, many of whom attended Detroit Country Day School, it’s about motivation. It’s about keeping one another focused and on the right track, day in and day out, buoying spirits and ensuring, as best it can be ensured, that success is never far off.
And if recent history is any indication, the Team Eazy group text is working like a charm. They’ve now got three titles, three big rings, between them – two Super Bowls and an NBA Championship – in the last two years alone.
And there very well may be a fourth on the way…
Calvin Setar 