Every single one of the 54,557 Citizens and United away* supporters (*a relative term in derby parlance) knew it as they filed in through the turnstiles at the Etihad Stadium for a Sunday teatime kickoff this past March. Whether in their hearts or in their heads, every football fan from […]
It was tired, tenacious and, at times, tedious but it was priceless too even though I may have watched the greatest football player’s final match for his country. When Mastercard so kindly invited me up to MetLife Stadium for the Priceless experience of watching the Copa America Centenario Final between […]
Maybe you’ve heard the news: Leicester City won the English Premier League on Monday. Only, they hadn’t kicked a ball since Sunday. How’s that? Well… There are no playoffs in English football. That’s right. No playoffs. That’s a strange concept to an American sports fan, I know. “You mean, the […]
More so at the neighborhood shed in the portion of Liverpool painted blue than at the stadium on the baby blue side of Manchester 45 minutes away, big time football is an intimate family affair. Like a hankering for meat pies and a distaste for the cherry red side of […]
Photo of Claudio Ranieri from Leicester City’s Official Website Sometimes a child must stand face to face with boredom in order to find new ways to play with old things. This is part of a larger thought that came to me as I marveled at the accomplishments this season of […]
Throughout the course of an American football game, there are countless opportunities to get up from your lucky chair — the one that, thanks to you sitting in it religiously for every game while wearing your unwashed jersey, undoubtedly propelled your team to victory last season — to replenish your […]
Not exactly a feminist dad dream sequence but the way I pictured it in the weeks and months leading up to the 2015 World Cup in Canada, there would be a #15 on my back, the name Rapinoe splayed out from shoulder to shoulder, and a #2, #10, #11, #17 […]
I’m over on Family Vacation Critic, a fun subsidiary site of Trip Advisor, talking about why my family traveled to Portland, Oregon last summer during our 2-week Pacific Northwest road trip adventure. It wasn’t the doughnuts, although they were delish, and it wasn’t Portlandia (I still haven’t seen that show), […]
