“Football is For Lovers” by Bob Brooker and Kay O’Dougherty Guest Post

About the Authors:

Bob Brooker and Kaye O’Dougherty have been adventuring together for a lot of years now. They first met at a recording studio on 42nd Street. Yes, that 42nd Street. They recorded a commercial for E.J. Korvette’s, who went out of business soon thereafter.

Bob is an old saloon singer who, as Bobby Brookes, recorded for Victor and Capital back in the day. Kaye has trouble carrying a tune in a bucket. Nevertheless, over the years, as Brooker and O’Dougherty, the two have collaborated on a variety of theater projects, performing, writing, directing, managing, and producing. In keeping with the changing times, they have even created a cyber alter-ego named eBobb.

Recently, Bob and Kaye both took long-overdue turns at being rather mature college kids. Kaye now holds a Bachelors Degree in the Humanities from St. Peter’s College in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Bob was graduated magna cum laude from Montclair State University with a BA in Theater, and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

You can visit their website by going to www.FootballforLovers.com.

Guest Post:

The subject is passion.

A recent blog post about Football is for Lovers expressed mild shock at the racy cover image on a book about football. Frankly, we were mildly shocked that anyone should be . . . well, mildly shocked. After all, both love and football are – or at least should be – subjects of passion, yes?

And here’s the thing: as we see it, one passion can be used to enhance the other.

It’s all about the sharing. Do any of you remember the song about Running Bear and Little White Dove, who had “a love big as the sky”? If you don’t, Romeo and Juliet is pretty much the same thing.

Anyway, in the case of both pairs of these doomed lovers, passion was enflamed to the point of meltdown by the shared fact that their families were determined to keep them apart.

Passion culminating in death by drowning (as in the case of Running Bear and Little White Dove, who tried to swim to each other only to have the raging water pull them down) or in death by double suicide (as in the case of Shakespeare’s star-crossed duo) is certainly dramatic. But passion culminating in a good time being had by all would certainly be our preference.

Football can give you this. Without raging water. Or poison. Or daggers.

Now, isn’t that a relief?

With football – once you’ve learned how to share it (like by reading Football is for Lovers, hint-hint) – you get to experience together the passion of the game itself. Action! Suspense! Dare-devil maneuvers! The thrill of victory! The agony of defeat! The ultimate reality show!

Gets the blood flowing.

And then, with the two of you cuddled up on the sofa, and all that blood still flowing away post-game . . . hey, you’ve got passion to spare.

Might as well use it, yes?

About the Book:

Can learning about football be sexy? According to Football is for Lovers, when it comes to your love life, football can be better than oysters.

The good news is that Football is for Lovers makes the basics so . . . well, so basic that learning the game is easy as eating an ice cream cone. And just as much fun.

With anecdotes, illustrations, and a lot of laughs, Football is for Lovers not only makes it easy to understand the game, but also shows you how to put an end to the TV clicker wars, improve your relationship, and spice up your love life.

It just takes looking at the game of football a little bit differently.

Then again, since Football is for Lovers contains references to football great Jerry Rice in a pink tutu, images of paintings by French artist Jean Dubuffet, an alert about the dangers of speaking Northeastern Mandarin, an explanation of the value of M & M’s in a relationship, and a Burma Shave sign, to say it looks at football “a little bit differently” may be something of an understatement.

But if your football-obsessed partner has been making you a ‘football widow’ from August NFL pre-season through the February Super-Bowl, thus convincing you that you hate football, this little book may be just the ‘different look’ you need to discover that, after all, Football really is for Lovers!