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SUPER BOWL TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP

Super Bowl Sunday ought to be a national holiday. So should national voting day, national Election Day, but I’ll start with the more important day. I’ve seen the shampoo ad with football players talking about doing things 100%. Here’s the link to Head and Shoulders dandruff shampoo, but this is the important part: “I eat […]

TONY ROMO WINS NFL BROADCAST BOOTH

    Count me among the sports fans who watched the NFL playoffs on Championship Sunday. Did I watch NFL games at a sports bar with my crew? First I’d need a crew. Did I watch it with my football player family members? No, but I do have football player relatives. One was a small […]

How Teamwork Is Supposed To Work In Real Life

    A team is a temporary group with the same goals. Whether it’s sports, school, work, or family, it’s important to know how teamwork is supposed to work.   The biggest element of teamwork is cooperation, which is in shorter supply than most expect.   For example, in the armed forces all entities compete […]

SUPER BOWL RECORD BREAKS ON MY DVR. OFFICIAL REVIEW

  One Super Bowl record goes to the top of the list. No spoilers.   Every modern sports fan has a back up plan, as in DVR back up. Especially on Super Bowl Sunday. At least that’s the plan. Since every commercial isn’t Super Bowl grade, or even close when you can actually figure out […]

MUHAMMAD ALI AND MARCUS MARIOTA, MOST BELOVED SPORTS FIGURES ON BOOMERPDX

Muhammad Ali and Marcus Mariota lead the way. No surprises. Why do readers love Muhammad Ali and Marcus Mariota? Because of their shared fierce competitiveness? We’ve already seen the best of Ali, and he was everything he promised he’d be, floating like a butterfly, stinging like a bee. He came up fast, won early, retired […]

HARRY POTTER, WIZARD ROYALTY OR SPORTS HERO

Game changers: Harry Potter, Muhammad Ali, O. J. Simpson. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone showed author J.K. Rowling as a sports writer. Her narration of the games played at Hogwarts was as riveting as any slick play by play. She showed Quidditch in the same light as Al Michaels calling the Miracle On Ice, […]

PORTLAND SUPER BOWL PRIMER WITH CHINESE NEW YEAR

Oregon Historical Society celebrates Chinese New Year before Portland Super Bowl. The Super Bowl date has been set for years. The only mystery is who will play the game. Unless you live in Portland, Oregon. Then you have more to do besides grill some cow and chug beers. In Portland you need something special before […]

CHIP KELLY TIME SHOWS A SILVER LINING

Do you know what time it is? Chip Kelly time. Football coaches and m0torcylce riders share this in common: They’ve either been fired or crashed, or they’re about to. With Chip Kelly time finished in Philadelphia, you can expect to hear variations of the following: He should have played it safe and stayed in New […]

10 BOOMERPDX LESSONS FROM THE 2014 NFL SEASON

Be Smarter In 2015.  10. Smart coaches hire smarter assistants. And stay out of their way. Teams don’t get better with retread coaches barking the same song. George Allen isn’t walking through that door. Mike Ditka and Jimmy Johnson off the ‘for hire’ list for a reason? Who in your life drains the joy and […]

RUSSELL WILSON JOINS DEREK JETER

Domestic Violence Faces A New Opponent. The Seattle Seahawks quarterback is a former bully? When Russell Wilson’s voice came out in an ad last year encouraging fans to ask him anything, to learn all about him, who expected this? He was a face grinder as a kid, a slammer who put others on the wall, […]