Week 8 Reflections

For this week I found a youtube video about one of the greatest football coaches in the history of sports.  His name is Vince Lombardi and this is just a short clip from the HBO documentary done about him.  Vince was so important to the game of football we named to super bowl trophy after him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEELeovGCa8

If you can ever watch the full Vince Lombardi video I highly reccomend it.  This man had suck great passion for the game but almost to the amount that it was unhealthy.  Vince could barely rest at all because his mind was constantly thinking about the next game or the next practice.  They would have parties after the Packers won a game and people would see Vince start to sweat and worry about the next game.  He wasn't even able to enjoy the victory for five minutes.  This sounds crazy to most people but coaches really are a different bread.  We are highly competitive human beings that have a desire to win at all costs.  To me long hours and hard work is the exciting part of being a football coach.  I do unsterstand that with these long hours come some sacrifice from my family but I am willing to do this because of how much I love the game of football.




Discuss two new key terms that have emerged in my research.  The first key term is work-life balance.  I want to discover what this actually means to people.  Do they live to work or work to live?  Is there suck thing as a balance?  Do we actually want it to be balanced?  I would say most americans would prefer an unbalance work-life favoring the life part.  The problem with this is that coaches in my opinion are the other way around.  We obsess about working and the preparation that goes into winning.  The other word that was introduced is communication.  This is probably the single most important attribute that a family needs in order to be successful.  A coach endures long night and several days a week away from home so communication is key.  A coach needs to communicate on a daily basis about what is going on in their life in order to make the spouse feel included and important.  This is important in life aside from coaching but extremely important for a coaches family.