Newsletter #35

On Football Season

The Growing Together book discussion of How People Change kicks off this Thursday! Email the Executive Office at questions@nafwb.org today to participate.

Finding Football

Football season is here! I realize that some people will want to click off this screen to find something else to read right about now, but bear with me.

In the larger span of my life, my interest in football is relatively recent. I only began watching football very closely around 2009-2010. Before then, I would only tune in now and again for big games. I would also watch my home state South Carolina Gamecocks play whenever they weren’t a complete dumpster fire. But baseball was largely my sport of choice to watch and play from childhood through early adulthood.

Somewhere along the way, this interest dwindled. Baseball became too slow and less strategic. Average players were paid exorbitant salaries. The aftermath of the “steroid area” was also discouraging. Meanwhile, professional football came into my line of sight.

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