Football and Business: Coming From Behind, and Never Giving Up!

Week 4 of the16-week NFL season looms large.  But we, who champion the underdog, had a fine time with Week 3.  Two teams, who have historically been “losers”, have started the season 3-0. It’s extra sweet that they represent cities that are among the most economically depressed in the nation:  Detroit and Buffalo.  Remember how…

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Football Poetry? Sure!

Well, it’s not exactly football poetry, but the connection is there!!! So today the Dow dipped 500 points, and closed 391 points down. So now do we get all depressed ? Or just realize that when the whistle (closing bell in the stock market) blows, the play (day) is over, and yes, Scarlett, tomorrow IS…

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Business and Football: How’s Your Week 2 Going?

Game 2 of the NFL season looms extra large. I am fascinated by a statistic quoted on the tv show, ESPN First Take (which is how I start my weekday mornings) by host Dana Jacobson (a fellow NJG– Nice Jewish Girl from the Midwest, and a GREAT sports commentator). It appears week 2 is crucial:…

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Football Inspiration: Get Your Passion, Folks, from the NFL!

Football is such inspiration…ladies, there is so much to LOVE about watching football, it’s not even funny!  If nothing else, you HAD to love Head Coach Harbaugh of the Baltimore Ravens being all fatherly, and KISSING running back Ray Rice on the head!  I’m telling you, the NFL brings out the beast in men, but…

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Women Business Owners: LOVIN’ Football!

Women-owned businesses and star football teams. . .Both groups work their butts off, find ways to win even when the score is against them, and never quit.  I encourage women to WATCH football this season—college and NFL—to be inspired. Women business owners ROCK!  Just got back from the Manchester Grand Hyatt, site of this year’s…

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My Love/Hate Relationship With NFL Preseason Football

I have a love/hate relationship with preseason NFL Football.  LOVE the fact they are playing FOOTBALL in a STADIUM.  Love the spandex, the thighs IN the spandex, and all the running around of the beautiful, athletic bods. However, there’s the HATE side.  It looks like the team we know and love at the beginning, but…

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Thanks to supporters of “Necessary Roughness”

So I get this great comment on my Facebook Wall from Chrissy Carew, who sought me out because a friend told her about my book, “Necessary Roughness:  New Rules for the Contact Sport of Life,” and Chrissy is a “football girl.”  Besides being a master personal and business coach www.coachcarew.com , she founded another website,…

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Women: Do You Play Fantasy Football? Why?

Over 18 million people engage in Fantasy Football in this country.  Some of them are women. Can women be happy (fulfilled) playing Fantasy Football?  This woman cannot.  My brother-in-law sweetly invited me to join his “league”—he has 14 men and one woman so far, and I turned him down.  He responded, “maybe down the road.”…

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