Heels & Helmets: Understanding Fantasy Football: Pick Your Quarterback

The office chatter about fantasy football has already started.  Which fantasy league are you in?  When is your draft?  Ochocinco may not get a lot of points with T.O. in town.  In some cases you will hear more about fantasy football than real NFL games.  What’s all the hype about?  Fantasy football allows a lot [...]

Understanding College Football

Compliments of Guest Blogger Heels and Helmets: It’s August and college football is here!  Over the weekend, college football programs opened camped and the USA TODAY Coaches’ Poll released its 2010 Preseason Top 25.  Here are the teams that the 59 head coaches on the USA TODAY Board of Coaches voted to be on the [...]

Football Moms: National Signing Day

By Shavannia Williams, Heels & Helmets Recently, I received several questions from “football moms” seeking advice on helping their sons choose a college to play football.  So, I decided to share a few points to help moms go through college recruiting with their sons.  This is not an endorsed list from a university or the NCAA, [...]

Heels & Helmets Deserves its OWN Show

Many of you are familiar with our popular Heels & Helmets series written by Shavannia Williams.  She helped us understand the game of football and the analogies that go along with it. Well now, she is trying to turn Heels & Helmets into its own show.  And she needs our help to do it! Heels [...]

Helmets & Heels: 4th Quarter – Game Time

blackgirlgrown is proud to feature the final post in a 4-part series of guest posts from Shavannia Williams of the SW Group. The NFL season is 17 weeks long.  Each team plays 16 games and has one week off, called a “Bye.”  So at week 12, we are approaching the last quarter of the regular [...]

Helmets & Heels: 3rd Quarter – Special Teams

blackgirlgrown is proud to feature the third in a 4-part series of guest posts from Shavannia Williams of the SW Group. Now that we have mastered the offense and defense, we are going to look at the special men that make up the third unit in football—Special Teams.  Appropriately titled, this unit plays a special [...]

Helmets & Heels: 2nd Quarter – Defense

blackgirlgrown is proud to feature the second in a 4-part series of guest posts from Shavannia Williams of the SW Group. Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant said, “Offense sells tickets.  Defense wins championships.”  The “Bear” was a famous college football coach and is still considered the world’s greatest college football coach by many.  He led the University [...]

Helmets & Heels: 1st Quarter – Scoring and Offense

blackgirlgrown is proud to feature the first in a series of guest posts from Shavannia Williams of the SW Group. It’s fall and in America that means football! The National Football League (NFL) is in Week 4, so I’m sure by now many of you have heard your colleagues (in particular men) walking around the [...]