At the beginning of the year, I wrote a post about how I lost my fandom: The Snow Bowl Took Away My Fandom. It describes how the Snow Bowl in Foxboro Stadium in 2001 was my last recollection of being a sports fan. It’s not that I stopped being a fan, it was just that the […]
read moreTake The Ego Out Of Sports Marketing
Sports Marketing is unlike any other business you’ll experience. It’s one where the most powerful business people and visionary CEOs succumb to their fandom and make incredibly bad choices. I have witnessed this many times throughout my career and, initially, because it suited my short-term goals, I was a big fan of the ego buy […]
read moreTalent Is Great, But Attitude Will Take You a Lot Farther
The NFL draft this past weekend got me thinking about talent and unrealized potential. Think of all the first-round draft picks over the years who were busts in the NFL. Having talent is a wonderful gift that can lead you to success, but no matter what the circumstances, attitude will carry you a lot farther […]
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