Night Owl Cards

    I just soldiered through another Jim Nantz broadcast to watch the Buffalo Bills wrap up a victory and the second seed in the playoffs.   It's the completion of an emotionally exhausting week for the Bills after the on-field collapse and hospitalization of  safety Damar Hamlin, and I am, once again, very proud of my favorite team. Weeks before this happened, I was watching head coach Sean McDermott during a press conference after the Bills' win over the Dolphins and it struck me how impressed I was with McDermott as a coach. He answered reporters' questions, he smiled, he joked a little, he wasn't defensive, it was not at all what I am used to with a lot of NFL coaches. Many of them can be jerks, oafs, condescending generals, I've seen it in person. McDermott doesn't seem to be like that. He's a true leader. I think a lot more people came to that conclusion this past week. This prompted me to look around and see what I could find as far as a football card...

As much as I don't like to admit it, there are some people that I know who view me as nothing other than "the boss." I don't like being known as "the boss." I cringe when people call me "boss" or "bossman." I want to be known as a regular guy who really isn't any different than he was the day he took the title of "boss." But that can't happen. For one, being the boss means you have to do boss-like things that fundamentally change you. You're not the same person as you were before you acquired the title. Your job has made it so. Secondly, people look at you differently when you're the boss rather than a co-worker. They expect things from you (boy, do they ever) that they would never expect from you as a co-worker. And even though your personality is the same, nothing else is. When I first became a boss, I had some issues. They weren't any different from the issues anyone else has learning a new job,...