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Crock Pot Recipes For Football Sunday

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Crock pot recipes are perfect for football Sunday. When you wake up in the morning, just set up the crock pot with your favorite appetizer, barbecue or Sunday dinner and it will be ready to eat before, during or after the game. The last thing you want to be doing while the game is on is slaving over a hot stove while the shouts of your family and friends can be heard in the next room. So put your feet up and enjoy the party, while you smell the food cooking by itself in the kitchen, with these easy crock pot recipes for football Sunday.

Easy Crock Pot Sloppy Joes

What you need:

2 lbs ground chuck
12 oz jar chili sauce
1 medium onion, diced
1/2 c green pepper, diced
1 celery stalk, diced
2 T sweet pickle relish
1 T Worcestershire sauce
1 t salt
1/8 t black pepper
1/8 t garlic powder
red pepper flakes per taste (optional)

What you do:

Brown ground beef in a large skillet with onion, celery and green pepper; drain. Place ground beef and vegetables into a 3.5 or larger crock pot. Add remaining ingredients and mix. Cook on low for 4 hours. Serve on hamburger buns.

Spicy Crock Pot Country Style Ribs

What you need:

3-4 lbs country style pork ribs
1 package fajita seasoning mix
1 c water
1 large onion, sliced
1 garlic clove, minced
2 T olive oil
1 t beef bouillon granules
1 t red pepper flakes (optional)

What you do:

Heat oil in a large skillet. Place ribs on a large plate and rub with fajita seasoning (save excess seasoning that remains on plate). Place ribs in skillet and sear over high heat 1-2 minutes per side or until browned. Place ribs in bottom of a 3.5 or larger crock pot. Top ribs with onion. In a small bowl, combine water, garlic, bouillon granules, excess fajita seasoning and red pepper flakes and mix. Pour mixture over ribs. Cook on low for 7-9 hours, or until desired tenderness.

Spicy Bean Dip

What you need:

15 -16 oz can refried beans
4 oz sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
1 c picante sauce
black olives, sliced (optional)

What you do:

In a small crock pot, mix together refried beans, cheddar cheese and picante sauce. Cook on low heat for 2 hours or until cheese is melted and bean dip is heated through. Top with sliced black olives. May double ingredients for larger portions.

Finding The Best Deals On English Premier League Football Merchandise

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The next time you want to make a purchase for any English Premier League merchandise, pause and think for a while. Think about where you can find the merchandise with the best quality and prices. What comes to mind? Unless you’ve been exiled to some god-forsaken island to live for the past ten years, you should have already thought about hunting for bargains on the Internet.

The Internet is a huge place, so not every website offers the right deals if you’re looking for bargains. The best places to look for bargains on the Internet are auction sites. That’s because all auction sites started by allowing sellers to sell their unwanted merchandise cheaply. The lure of auctions is that potential buyers have the chance of buying something way below the actual retail price, making auctions an interesting and exciting way to buy something at a very low price.

So the mentality of buyers is one that is looking for top notch bargains. For the same reasons, it is almost impossible to try and sell something at a really high price unless it’s something that’s very rare or exclusive, like an antique pen or a sandwich that looks like a saint.

Most merchants on auction sites are already very familiar with this mentality, so it is not uncommon for them to put up merchandise in good condition to be auctioned away, starting with low bids. And here is where the English Premier League fan can really take full advantage of the number of great deals available on these auction sites.

You see, sometimes, people sell stuff they don’t want for many different reasons. Some may auction off their football items collection simply because the collection is growing too big. Others do it for a profit. While some simply grow tired of the team they are supporting, and wants to have a switch. For whatever the reason, the important thing that really matters is that the sellers now do not want the merchandise anymore, and are more than happy to get rid of them, even if it meant selling them away at low prices.

But here’s a quick tip on how to capitalize on the deal if you’re made a bid. Never get into a bidding war with someone else. You do not know their intentions for bidding for that item. If they want the item more badly than you do, they are also more likely to try and outbid you. In this case, no one wins, except maybe the seller. Whoever wins the bid ends up paying a much higher price, and whoever loses the bid ends up with nothing. So it’s important to always have a cut off point. That means having a maximum bid in your mind. If it goes beyond your maximum bid, simply stop bidding. Remember, bids have no ceiling. It’s possible to keep bidding and bidding until the prices sky rocket and blow out of proportions. So be wise, and stay prudent.

Armed with these tips in mind, you should now be more confident of sourcing for English Premier League merchandise at auction sites. Good luck!

Coaching Youth Football – Offensive Line Play – Using Carpet

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Youth Football Coaches Handbook – Offensive Line Play – Using Carpet

Coaching the offensive line in youth football is a skill that can make the difference between an average offense and a great offense. The offensive line has more information to learn than most any other position on the football field. Players need to be able to process the play, locate their blocking assignment and then execute the proper techniques to get the job done. If you have watched much youth football you know that this process fails on a regular basis. One of two circumstances occur on most every failed block, the player forgets his assignment and blocks the wrong person (or no person) or the player remembers his assignment but utilized so much brain power in remembering that he was incapable of executing a good technical block. This article covers a way that you can make blocking technique what it needs to be in order for youth athletes to succeedand that is a “Reflex”.

There are certain things we know instinctively. Cover my mouth when I sneeze or to jam on the breaks when I see danger on the road. Blocking technique is definitely not instinctive and thus we must build it from the simplest and most basic steps, being sure to insist upon proper technique each step of the way. One secret I have discovered over the years is to use carpet strips that are 12″ in diameter between the players legs as we execute our individual lineman station every night of the season. The carpets strips are usually about 6′ or 7′ long and I have four strips on the ground each night. We have our players do their stance and starts (fit drill), fit and drive and running drive blocks each night while keeping the carpet between their legs. The players are not allowed to step on the carpet and thus they must keep a wide base during the exercise. This really helps to prevent the main killer of all blocks, which in my opinion is over striding. The player cannot over stride without stepping on the carpet because when they step too far ahead they have to narrow their stance. We also coach short choppy steps, proper back and head alignment and all the fundamentals needed to succeed as an offensive lineman every night in this manner.

The carpets really seem to make a difference and they are much easier than carrying around a plank of wood or buying a specialty item from a football vendor. You can actually see this technique being practiced on YouTube by typing in Football Academy. There are many great videos for youth football and the coach that has created the materials actually is the author of “The Youth Football Coaches Handbook” and operates The Football Academy which instructs youth athletes in Charlotte NC.

Watch Live Football On Your Desktop

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Junior College Football Recruiting – How To Get Recruited

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The junior college football recruiting process isn’t much different from that of the bigger schools. You shouldn’t feel bad looking into junior college football recruiting. I started out looking into junior colleges and later on, towards the end of my senior season I was fortunate enough to be recruited by the University of Hawaii as well as Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

There are a lot of high school athletes that aspire to play at the Division 1 level and currently aren’t getting looks from the Division I schools. Some of them are only getting looks from junior colleges, and some aren’t getting any looks at all. My biggest piece of advise would be: don’t be discouraged. I know a lot of athletes who took the long route, or developed later, or were just overlooked by coaches that didn’t see their talent – and they went to play at junior colleges and persevered through it all – and now they’re playing professionally.

If it’s something that you really want to do it can be done. Whether you’re interested in a bigger school or the junior college football recruiting process, you have to work hard. Hard work beats out talent when talent doesn’t work hard. There is no substitution for hard work.” -Inoke Funaki (Quarterback for the University of Hawaii)

“Some advice that I would give to kids that want to get recruited for football coming out of high school going into college: I’d tell them to work hard and make sure your grades are up – that’s the most important thing, and it’s the first thing that colleges look at. Other than your athletic ability they’re going to check up with your GPA, your grades, what’s up with that. Going into your senior year of high school I’d focus on that a lot, especially if you want to get recruited for football.

And then, also, heading into your freshmen year of college – the important thing is to work hard. When I was in college, the two things that I would tell myself are:

1. ‘Do you want to be a hero or a zero’ – and that means: do you want to take the easy way or the hard way. The hard way is to be a hero, and the easy way is to be a zero – to be a nobody. And so I’d always tell myself to be a hero: do things that are out of the ordinary, do things that are extraordinary. Let’s say the team starts working out at 7:00am, I’d get there at 6:00am and get an hour extra. Because I know that if I’m doing it you’ve got to believe that someone else out there is doing the same thing as me. So you can never work too hard.

2. My dad used to always tell me ‘winning is everything because the losers go home and cry’ and you know, that’s the mentality I had throughout my entire athletic career. You’ve got to win, and in order to win you’ve got to have that state of mind that if you lose it’s the end. Because winners go on to be bigger, better, more successful and get recruited for football, and losers – they go home.” -Jayson Rego (Running back for the University of Hawaii)

“Football’s pretty big in the community where I grew up, and so I always focused on how to get recruited for college football. I didn’t think that I would be able to play at a division I. I guess I always saw myself – because I saw my brothers playing at a smaller college – that I would also play at a smaller college. But, fortunately for me, the University of Hawaii and some other schools came around toward the end of my senior season.

School is definitely very important to focus on. If you don’t have the academics, if you’re not taking care of school right now (at the high-school level) – as much as any coach would want to recruit you, or bring you to their college, they won’t be able to if you don’t have the grades to be eligible. So that’s always been a big priority of mine.

Something that my parents have always emphasized to me is ‘School first’. Also continue to work on your skill – whatever sport it may be – as an athlete. You can be the greatest athlete in the world, but if you don’t have the grades to get you into college then it’s going to be an unfortunate circumstance. School is a very important part of how to get recruited for college football. Definitely take care of school as you continue to develop yourself in your sport.” -Inoke Funaki (Quarterback for the University of Hawaii)