Calling Audibles Part XVII: Game Plan

Game strategy drawn on blackboard

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the LORD For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts ~Isaiah 55: 8-9 Lots of people ask me what football coaches do while they are working all those long hours.  “What could they possibly be doing in there for all that time?”  Early on in our marriage, I use to ask my husband, John, the exact same question periodically.  During his years in the NFL the answer was mostly “watching film”… Read the full post

Calling Audibles Part VI: Arrested Development

iStock football child

When you watch college football today there is one thing for sure, women will take up space in the spectacle of it in very limited ways.  Most, if not all, of the women you will see will be cheerleaders or in beer commercials.  There may be a few women reporters on the sidelines–there is only one who ever does play by play (ever)—a tepid attempt the networks are making to have some women around who are not simply “eye candy,” as I heard one sports radio host describe women at football games.  If there is one place that football suffers… Read the full post