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Hey ya’ll. We are gearing up for a hot Chicago summer filled with BBQ’s, swimming and outdoor anything. That doesn’t mean we have forgotten about football! Can you believe that next year’s Super Bowl is going to be held in New York’s Jets and Giants stadium? Can anyone say freezing?

Until the season kicks off we are actively recruiting ladies like you who, like us, like football. We want to share and tell more stories of people like you. Last week Jackie emailed us…but didn’t include an email address. Jackie, if you are out there, will you send us an email at football101women@gmail.com? Thank you!

In the next few months we are going to introduce you to three ladies who have already contributed their stories. Till then, if you would like to share, please email us and let us know! We will be in touch as soon as we can.

Fans Tell All Part 2: Ex-NFL player dishes strategies on how to love the game and ideas on where to watch ‘em

FB 101: What do you think are 3-4 good resources/ways for women to learn football?
SB: One of the best ways is by some sort of common interest and rivalry and competition. “My school is better than your school; my city will beat your city.” Any sort of side competition makes the game more interesting. I don’t like to bet money but I do get people involved in Games like ESPN has the Pigskin Pick’em. It is a website that lets you set up teams an pick the winner of each game each week. There is a lot of luck in the guessing but several people who don’t know the game can still pick the winners. They can do there own research and still compete.

Fans Tell All: former Los Angeles Rams NFL player dishes the dirt about football.

Stephen Bates, a good friend of Lisa’s, is going to give us some tips and tricks on football resources as well as what influenced him as a player in the NFL; the players, what he misses most and who to watch out for next year. Stephen spend time on the Los Angeles Rams, before the team moved to St. Louis in 1995, and also played 4 seasons in the Canadian Football League.

A native of Pittsburgh, (Go Steelers) he currently resides in Chicago and is an active member of the Chicago Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.

After nearly 10 years in the local Pittsburgh radio sales and sales management, Stephen moved to American Urban Radio Networks in Chicago as their Executive Sales Director.

Football 101 Women: Learn the Game from Sarah Spain: Part 1 of 2

I was only five years old when the ’85 Bears won it all, so for my whole life the city has been looking back on one of the greatest teams ever–one that I was too young to enjoy rooting for. As I got older, though, I began to really appreciate the real athleticism of football players. Speed, strength, toughness, jumping ability, hand-eye coordination–you gotta have it all to succeed in the NFL. Now I love it so much it frustrates me that football isn’t a women’s sport, too. I would’ve been a fantastic wide receiver in my prime…although now I think I’m more of a tight end.

Fantasy Football: A Woman’s Perspective

Written by Trisha P.
Believe it or not, my husband actually said, “Hey baby, I need you to draft my fantasy team for me, there is just no way I can get out of work in time.” I had no idea what kind of “fantasy” world I was about to enter, with team names like Mc Lovin and Rock-afire Explosion. I would share my husband’s team name, however my face gets red just thinking about it, and he’s much too old to have a name like that anyway.

I knew I was in trouble when I walked into a room full of stone-faced men, each with a laptop and pages, I mean PAGES, of research notes about their team hopefuls. I, on the other hand, walked in with a one year old, a diaper bag and some tasty ham roll-ups I whipped up for the occasion.