Anyone or anyone's DH work in sports?

madelyn07

My husband is a college (SEC) softball coach. And I work in marketing/communications for Enrollment Services for the same university but a lot of my job targets our prospective student athletes.

Anyone else work in sports at all?

HazelEyes730

If teaching Phys ed and coaching girls basketball count than my husband does. but nothing like you or your husband do. That must be fun! Me nothing I just love sports!

Sunflower22

I wish. I have a MA in Sport Management, but couldn't make ends meet with the $7/hr no bennies job I had with the A's - I tried to stick with it to move up, but I had to pay the bills. Some day I'd like to go back to working for a team again.

pabride2007

Does DH being a middle school lacrosse coach count? hehe

I interned with the Yankees when I was in college. It was fun.

Dr.Loretta

Sadly, no.

I seriously dated a guy who did local sports talk radio in a 3-sport town, and it was da bomb.

Nova726

I wish

I have an ex that's an official scorer for a local minor league team, that's about it.

avila01

I used to work in the ticket offices at Coors Field (Rockies) and at the Pepsi Center (Avs, Nuggets, Mammoth, Crush).  To get to and from the office at Coors Field, I had to walk through the tunnels below the stadium.  I'd occasionally see the players down there, which always gave me a little thrill.    I also sometimes got to help with the pre-game parades (where the little leaguers get to walk around the warning track), which was fun.

Molly Jean

I used to do marketing for the United States Hockey League. I loooved working in sports, but I had a new marketing opportunity that I couldn't refuse.

The goal is to get back to sports though.

Jakeybabe16

Now, DH is the general manager of an IFL (Indoor Football League) team.

He started out as the mascot for a team in the Frontier League (an independent baseball league), then moved up to front office staff, but he kept being the mascot b/c he was really good at it.
I worked game day staff for a different team in the Frontier League for 7 years.
DH and I met through our connections to our baseball teams :-)

umwife11

I work in sports

If you consider being a sportswriter "working in sports." Technically, I suppose it's working for a newspaper but still...

And no, it's not at all like you see in My Boys. Or what you saw in Everybody Loves Raymond

H used to work in sports--he worked in sales and marketing for three of our four professional teams here...he got out of it once he realized he would make absolutely no money for years. And he wasn't ready to put in 10 years to get to the point where he WOULD make some money...

TheLinkBride

No, but I think that would be awesome!

pbear

my husband is a NASCAR official

MrsNJSwimmer

My DH has worked for several pro teams on different levels, and now he just does stats for NHL teams on a freelance basis.  The perks were definitely nice, the the pay was awful.

BeckysinLuv

i wish!  it would be my dream job!

missjake

I used to work for the Houston Texans in corporate sponsorships, but then I had a baby and decided not to go back.  It was the most awesome job and sometimes I wish I was still there but working in sports is very demanding and the pay is not all that great.

sjb&apa

Yes, I do. I work in athletic communications at a Big Ten university.

DH and all his friends think it's so cool that I work in sports and get to go to so many sporting events for free. What my DH is learning is that it's not really so glamorous. I mean, you get to go to a lot of events, but you're WORKING, which is definitely not the same as attending a sporting event as a fan. You have to be there hours early, and you leave the arena/field hours after the competition ends. And you can't cheer from press row! Even when I go to a sporting event as a fan now, I don't cheer, because I've been conditioned not to cheer after working on press row for 12 years. Yes, you get to work with coaches and athletes and meet famous people, but they're not always a treat to deal with. After awhile, you get tired of all the egos.

I hate to sound like I dislike my job, because I don't, it's just that the parts of my job that outsiders think is really cool are the parts that I don't like so much. There are other aspects of my job that I like so much more.

And the funny thing is - I'm the one who works in sports, but I'm not really a huge sports fan. There are a few sports I really enjoy, but DH is a way bigger sports fan than I am - he loves EVERY sport!

melissa4252008

A girl over on my local knot board used to be a sports writer for the Boston Globe and is now a football editor for espn.com!!!! I am so jealous of her job. I had grand visions of being a sportscaster when I was growing up, but alas, it did not happen. booo.

Mrs.Angeles

i work for an accounting firm that has a "athletes and other famous ppl" tax advisory division, but i don't work in the division.  the closest i've been to working in something related to one of these guys was complying financial statements for a company owned by an ex-college football player turned movie star.