Dear Dr. Buckingham, My husband and his friends range from 40-52 (All married or living with someone). During football season, they turn into drunken clowns and buffoons. They use the NFL as an excuse to drink excessively and hang out 8+ hours every Sunday. They all drink and drive and have a CDL license. I can't take it anymore! Now it's spilling over to Thursday nights … [Read more...]
Movie Review: Will Smith Takes Center Stage in the Christmas Day Release of “Concussion”
By: Dwayna Clark BMWK was honored to be in the presence of brilliant forensic neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu (played by Will Smith) and the incomparable Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, at the red carpet premiere of Concussion held in Atlanta to discuss the upcoming film’s Christmas Day release. In the movie, Will Smith shines as the American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, whose … [Read more...]
Money Monday: What Drove a Millionaire NFL Player To Live On Just $60,000 a Year?
To most, the idea of a professional athlete choosing to live on a $60,000 a year budget might seem a little strange, but, for NFL wide receiver Ryan Broyles such a choice is the first step to financial freedom. In 2012 Broyles was drafted by the Detroit Lions, signing a contract worth $3.6 million with nearly $1.4 million of that amount guaranteed. Sure, he could have spent … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Cope with Being a “Football Widow”
Football season is upon us ladies! You can say goodbye to your men for the next 4 months,beginning around Labor Day Weekend as they place all of their focus on that grid iron. Yes, I am a "Football Widow." A football widow is a wife whose husband spends the majority of his free time totally engrossed in football during football season. My husband is a huge sports fan but … [Read more...]
NFL Player’s 4-Year-Old Daughter Fights Cancer
Earlier this summer, Devon Stills, a player for the Cincinnati Bengals, decided that he was giving up his NFL career because the love of his life, his 4-year-old daughter, Leah, was diagnosed with stage 4 Cancer. Leah underwent chemotherapy, after she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, and lost all of her hair. Still shaved his head, pledging that he would not let his grow … [Read more...]
BMWK Visits NFL Headquarters to Talk Youth Safety
Earlier this month I was invited, along with other bloggers and press, to NFL headquarters in New York for a luncheon on youth safety in sports. If you follow football even just a little bit, you know that player safety has been in the headlines, and more specifically concussions. We spent the afternoon getting educated on concussions, and what the NFL along with it's partners … [Read more...]
Video: TheDad Tells You How To Impress Your Man During Football Season
For football information from a woman's POV check out: Pigskin Loving Lady This site is great and will be featured in Website Wednesday soon! This week's nuggets to fake it impress your man after you've seen the video above: "The Giants/Panthers game for home field advantage is a bigtime game!" "The Giants really needed Brandon Jacobs last week" If Miami makes the … [Read more...]