I'll preface this with something:
I love sports ...
My
favourite is baseball, followed by hockey at #2. Although I watch a little bit of football, and know enough about it and some players to not embarrass myself (most of the time, see below), I'm not a football guy.
Ok, now that I got that out of the way ...
I had Todd Herman on Natural Born Coaches today. Todd is the creator of "The 90 Day Year", and a big name in the peak performance world. He's worked with many
Olympic athletes and professional sports teams, so I was keen to pick his brain on stuff that mixed coaching and sports.
Todd has worked with the Cleveland Browns organization in the past, and I asked him about Johnny Manziel, the team's troubled quarterback who can't seem to stay out of trouble off the
field (and isn't doing too well on the field, either) .
I asked him how he would handle Manziel if he were his client, and we had a good discussion about it.
The problem? I mispronounced Manziel's name throughout the interview. I went with "Zeel" at the end, instead of "Zel" - it must have something to do with the Canadian pronunciation of the letter "z"???
Once would be bad enough, but I did it
a number of times. Todd was a pro about it and didn't correct me. But my brother Matt, who edits the podcast and is a huge football fan, was ready to strangle me after a bunch of mispronunciations of "Manziel"!
Ah well. Besides that rookie mistake, it's still a good interview and I
think you can learn a lot from Todd Herman (don't hold my football knowledge against him!)
Marc "Not a Football Guy" Mawhinney
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