I always carry it thinking “I’ll read until kickoff” or “It will be a great way to spend halftime” but it has never, not once, been something I have actually used.

Samantha is a social worker living in Louisville, KY. She and her husband have been married for 11 years and have 2 dogs (Rocky - a Beagle and Luna - a Whippet/Jack Russell mix). Her husband has been coaching football the entire time she's known him, and has coached at the youth, middle school, and semi-professional level. He is currently coaching for a high school in their local public school system. He's a lifer and she's happy to be with him for the ride.
I always carry it thinking “I’ll read until kickoff” or “It will be a great way to spend halftime” but it has never, not once, been something I have actually used.
For this reason, I do feel that I often have difficulty connecting with other coaches' wives who lament about traveling to games solo with children, getting up during the night to care for children, worrying about their children finishing their homework, making it to their own extracurricular activities, the list goes on. We all struggle, but the struggles look different and sometimes I feel there is an unbreakable barrier between us.
As spring football approached this past year, my coach shared with me that he was going to take a year off to focus on completing his associate’s degree and determine what he wanted to do next. We talked about his feelings about being away from the game, my feelings about him stepping away from something …
As spring football approached this past year, my coach shared with me that he was going to take a year off to focus on completing his associate’s degree and determine what he wanted to do next. We talked about his feelings about being away from the game, my feelings about him stepping away from something …