Carolina Panthers coach John Fox – don’t hang up the curtains

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Barry Sanders cooking some dogs for his Mom

Sunday is Mother’s day.

You gotta love your Mom!

She brought you into this world. She raised you. Yeah, she raised even you and no one paid her to do it either. Think about it.

Go get her some flowers or something.

Your intrepid author will be visiting Mom today and it will be special.

Mom is getting up there in age, although she rarely admits to being over 29. You would think we might have a quiet afternoon together reminiscing about old times or something.

Not my Mom.

She will probably want to go to a Sports Bar for some Steak and Beer and then maybe back to her apartment for a few glasses a wine, while we discuss everything from sports, to current affairs, to politics, to family happenings, to just about everything.

You guessed it, my Mom is pretty cool!

Guess how cool of a Mom is the wife of Carolina Panthers Coach John Fox?

During his first eight years in the NFL, Panthers coach John Fox and his wife, Robin, moved five times. In 1995, when John was defensive coordinator with the Raiders, Robin told me that every time she hung up curtains in their home, John would change jobs. So she began to be hesitant; should she hang up curtains or not any at all? Robin knew the job might only last as long as it took to buy and furnish a house. And I have to think that she must have been also secretly wondering; if I hang up curtains, will we move? (i.e.) Is hanging curtains a sure sign that we will move? source

And you thought it was just all Campbell’s Chunky soup out there in football land.

What does Steve Mariucci make of this entire Coaches wife being a Mom thing?

Former head coach Steve Mariucci once said that the most difficult job on the team is the coach’s wife. And yet, the coach’s wife is the last one to admit that her role is difficult. She’s the last one to demand a new contract. The last one to claim free agency. The very last one to take credit and spike the ball when she very well knows that without her selfless commitment to him, his job, and their family, the entire team could very well collapse.

Hey, remember Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions? He tells this story of his Mom and makes us remember all the sacrifice that goes with being a Mom.

Shirley was the quiet one, but the rock of the family.

Barry had talked about how his mother, after raising the last child in their large family, returned to school and graduated from Wichita State’s nursing school, and the pride he felt when he attended his mother’s graduation ceremony.

“I was in either the eighth or ninth grade,” Sanders said. “I remember going to her graduation. It was a proud moment.

“I remember how hard my mom worked. She wasn’t just a mother. She wasn’t just a student. She also had to have a job. I remember her leaving out of the house to work the third shift at 11 o’clock, or whatever time she’d leave, and turning the reins over to my older sister.

“She worked hard around the clock. Her graduating college, it was just a very proud moment.” source

So, don’t just sit there. Pick up the phone and tell your Mother how proud you are to be her son or daughter. Take her out to eat or buy her a gift to remind her how special she is. And if Mom is not around anymore, then sit quietly and just meditate on how lucky you are to be here, because of her.

But whatever you do, don’t hang the curtains!

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