This episode I fall back into professor mode and take a deep page out of my old academic expertise, the connection of certain sports to certain national identities, to mine the meaning out of two big time sporting events I experience this week. The first was a Saturday Night hockey game in Utah and the second is the wave of NFL games played on the American Thanksgiving Holiday.

Come along for a journey through history and interpretation as I discuss the meaning of both ice hockey and American football as national sports, one looking to take root in a new environment (Utah) and the other deeply engrained in the national consciousness (football).

I end with a direct takeaway lesson as a coach who guides individuals, athletes, and the Temple Group I run through difficult new journey in their lives on how to successfully learn something new. Just as these traditions that we now know by heart had to be invented and learned, so to can you adopt successful approaches to getting fit, living by life by your own design, and breaking limits you believed impossible. 

This one was a ton of fun, hoping to bring more specific knowledge from my old professor days into future pods. 

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