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In the Beginning There Was a Little Girl Who Loved Sports
The Founding of Incidental Contact, LLC
When I was 5 years old, my Dad, a sports fanatic, didn't know if a son was in his future. He decided to be enlightened for his time, and to teach a little girl his passion for the games he watched. “Here Paula, this is football. You get 4 chances to gain 10 yards.”
A son did come along a year later, and then the three of us bonded by listening on radio when the games weren't televised and watching and screaming at the screen when they were. My father taught us all he knew. We watched history being made during the first Super Bowl, saw Roger Maris break Babe Ruth's home run record and finally got to see the Knicks win a championship.
I could talk to boys in high school about sports when I was too embarrassed to talk about anything else. I more easily maneuvered through 20 years of high level management jobs at major corporations talking with male executives and clients about sports. When I was financially able I indulged my ultimate fantasy: I bought season seats, first at Yankee Stadium, then after relocating to LA, at the Forum where the Lakers played til the new Staples Center opened. Sports became not only a passion but a release from high stress occupations and in true Freudian terms, a “Daddy” moment shared with the men I love.
Men who thought of me as too aggressive, too smart or just plain intimidating had no trouble talking sports with me. I knew it crossed all lines of difference: gender, temperament, race, geography. I knew very few women who understood the power of sports or had been as lucky to have a Dad like mine.
Incidental Contact was formed to bring the news to women who still can't find the right guy or who want to make friends with whom they can share a laugh, a hobby and feel comfortable in the friendly surroundings of sports bars. Women learn better from other women, especially in the subject matters at which men have excelled for generations. There is no fear of seeming stupid. The method of learning is tailored to women and it works. It's truly a girlfriend network based on sports: Incidental Contact, LLC.
This is what I was born to do.
Paula V. Duffy