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10 BOOMERPDX LESSONS FROM THE 2014 NFL SEASON

February 5, 2015 by

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 […]

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RUSSELL WILSON JOINS DEREK JETER

October 9, 2014 by

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, […]

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THE TEACHING MOMENT IN FOOTBALL

October 1, 2014 by

Can The Old NFL Learn New Tricks? The sports world looks down at the acts of some NFL players. Even worse, fans suspect their behavior is just the tip of the abusive iceberg. How many sports gods of the past knocked their women out or laid the lash on their young kids? Do you really […]

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USE SPORTS EARLY TO CURB ABUSE LATER

September 18, 2014 by

But Which Sport? Early sportswriters didn’t write about sports as we know them. Those were desperate times of high mortality. Humans didn’t seem as far up the food chain then. If we believe wiki, sprinting and wrestling made it onto the first sports page/cave painting 17,000 years ago. Say, “for your life,” after each sport […]

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A BOOMER DADDY TALK FOR ADRIAN PETERSON

September 16, 2014 by

A Walk In The Woods Full Of Switches. My name is David and I’m a father  Adrian Peterson is a father also. Me and Adrian. He’s got sons, I’ve got sons. After that we’re not much alike as parents, and the news on Peterson gets worse. First he’s up on charges for caning a four year […]

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