MSF Mothers Day Contest: Nominate Your Mom for Coolest Sports Mom Ever

April 23, 2009 By 3 Comments

mothers day contest - coolest sports mom ever mother's day contest - mother sport fan recognitionI am taking a quick break from fantasy baseball, the NBA Playoffs, and NFL Draft rumination to announce a Mothers Day contest beginning immediately: The MSF Coolest Sports Mom Ever Contest.

We’ll be accepting nominations (details below) up until the Friday before Mother’s Day (May 8th), with the winner to be announced on Sunday, May 10th. Then, that following week, the winning mom (a.k.a. the coolest sports mom ever) will be receiving a bouquet of flowers courtesy of MSF, along with a headlining post highlighting the qualities that made her the winner.

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Mothers Day Contest

Now back to the Mothers Day Contest.

The way I see it, dads always get lots of recognition for their sports influence, and rightfully so — and, in fact, we’ll be doing another contest come Father’s Day — but the influence that moms have omercury morris - mothers day contest - coolest sports mom ever - mother sport fan recognitionn young athletes and sports fans should not go unnoticed, unrecognized, or uncelebrated. For example, while my dad was always the one who would go out and shoot hoops with me, or throw batting practice, or take me to QB camps when I was young, it was Mom who really showed me what being a passionate and dedicated sports fan was all about.

There were her stories of going to Dolphins games back in the glory days of the early 19XX’s (out of respect and fear for my life if I do otherwise, dates have been redacted so as not to give away any age information) to cheer on her favorite player: Mercury Morris. And there was her superstitious insistence on wearing the same earrings or socks or other accessory if the Dolphins were winning and playing well, something I do to this day.

There was her complete and unyielding support for whatever team my dad was coaching, as well as her constant support and attendance at every single athletic event I ever participated in.

There was her willingness and desire to always plan weekend duties and meals around whatever major sporting emothers day contest - coolest sports mom ever - mother sport fan recognitionvents were going on, plus her understanding that unless it was a matter of life and death, nothing came before IU basketball games.

Plus, and this is perhaps her greatest contribution to my life as a sports fans, she gave up her season ticket to IU basketball games so I could go to every game with my dad and become the IU fanatic I am today. (Bob Knight grabbing then-IU freshman Delray Brooks by the jersey might have had something do with that one, but it’s neither here nor there.)

So, I will leave my own mom out of the running, because I’m not sure anyone else’s would stand a chance. But I want to read as many stories as possible about your moms, or moms that may not be your own but that you would like to submit, before we ultimately settle on the official MSF Coolest Sports Mom Ever.

So over the next few weeks, leading up to Mothers Day on May 10th, we will be in search of the coolest sports mom out there. I am leaving the criteria and description relatively vague specifically because I do not want to discourage anyone from submitting a nomination.

Here are your rules for The MSF Coolest Sports Mom Ever Contest.

  1. The deadline for nominations is Friday, March 8th, at 12:00 PM Central Time.
  2. Email your nomination to jerod [ at ] midwestsportsfans.com or use our contact form.
  3. Your nomination prompt is simple: tell us why your mom is the coolest sports mom ever. Whatever that means to you, whatever the reasoning, and however in-depth you want to get. Take it and run with it. Obviously the more detailed and compelling your entry, the better your sports mom nominee’s chance of being considered the coolest.
  4. Understand that anything you write in your nomination can and probably will be reposted here at Midwest Sports Fans. Even if your entry isn’t chosen as the winner, we’ll be posting excerpts of the most compelling and interesting stories.
  5. If your nomination wins, please be prepared to send us a picture we can use when the winner is announced as well as an address to where we can send the flowers, which will be sent in your name courtesy of MSF.
  6. We have not decided specifically how the winner will be chosen. It will all depend on how many entries we get and how soon. If we get enough entries in the next ten or so days, we will post the best stories and allow readers to vote on the winner. If entries are not that plentiful, or if they all come rushing in before the deadline, the Mothers Day contest winner will be chosen by our editorial staff.
  7. If you have questions (unless they are somehow personal in nature), ask them in the comments section. That way I can reply and it will answer the question for anyone else who may have it.

I think that about covers it. I’ll update this post if I can think of anything later. Now, go get busy writing your nominations.

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About Jerod Morris

A proud graduate of Indiana University, Jerod Morris founded Midwest Sports Fans in August of 2008 and has been its Managing Editor every day since. Follow him on Twitter (@JerodMorris) for MSF updates, sports discussion, and a compelling daily assortment of funny and interesting links.
In addition to his work at MSF, Jerod hosts the fast-growing Indiana basketball postgame show The Assembly Call and provides regular music recommendations at IndieChristmas.com. He also helped develop the Synthesis Managed WordPress Hosting platform on which MSF and all of his other sites are run.

  • Brittany Buckley

    All mothers I have ever heard of have been sweet, loving, and very dainty. My mom is the exact opposite. Since the age of 5 I have been playing softball, and my mom was always there. I want to make a point of saying that although she was there it seemed she always had something critical to say to me. Whether it was telling me to keep my glove out in front or instructing me on how where to hold my bat, she couldnt just let me play. This may seem harsh to some, but to me it was the exact encouragement i needed to press onward and become a better athlete. My mom played for her collage softball team back in the day. I always tease her abour it being slow pitch but she really is my ideal. My main goal is to someday play softball for the university of Florida. My mom really is the coolest sports mom ever.

  • http://www.midwestsportsfans.com JRod

    @Brittany Buckley, thanks for participating!

  • coachmo

    My mom grew up on a farm in central Iowa, and although she went to high school with Bob Feller(Indians HOF pitcher)she was not a baseball fan or a sports fan growing up. Then she married my dad and was thrust into a world of sports. My dad was a high school baseball coach and girls basketball coach(the 6 girl variety). I heard stories, that before I was born, every vacation that my family went happened to be at a time and a place where the Yankees were playing. Then I was born(with my dad listening to the World Series in the car)and my mom had no choice but to learn to like baseball, basketball and football. Our vacations still included the Yankees, as we saw them play the Anaheim Angels in Chevaz Ravine in 1963. I can’t think of many moms who would shag balls in the outfield as her son took batting practice off of her husband. She did this up until I was 18 years old. Then there was he day when I was 8 years old that my dad, who was the umpire called me out of a third strike in the last inning. Mom took my side, “hwo could you do that to your son” she expclaimed as we got in the car to go home. Then there was the time, when I was 13 years old, that my dad said I was not going to pitch in the game that night, but when we got down 8-0 in the 4th inning against the last place team, guess who came into pitch? I did, and did my dad get an earful when we got in the car. It didn’t matter that we won the game with a last inning comeback. We ate meals at crazy times because of my sports schedule, but mom always had a hot dinner waiting for me when I got home. And then there was the grilled steak every Friday night before my high school football games. I was real sick before a football game my sophomore year in HS and my mom made me her special concoction of honey and hot tea, and it did the trick. I think I played one of my best games of the season that night. My mom couldn’t always follow the ball when I was playing QB, and she failed to se me score a TD on a option play because she thought I had handed the ball to the FB, but I kept the ball and went around end to score a TD. She was upset at me in her own way after the game. My mom spent years of her life sitting on bleachers in the heat of the summer watching me play baseball, in stuffy gyms in the winter watching me play basketball, and in the cool and sometimes cold Colorado nights watching me play football. She never complained, except about my dad’s coaching during baseball games, and was always there to support me. My mom and dad traveled to see me play every game that I played in college, while attending CU, both baseball and football games. She did stop shagging balls for me when I got to college. My soon to be wife took over those duties. While I was growing up my family celebrated Mothers Day by, you guessed it, watching me play baseball games, usually a double header. My mom was the best. She wasn’t a great “sports fan”, she got forced into it because of my love of sport and my dad’s fanatical support of the Yankees and Bronco’s, who my mom loved to cheer against. But she was “MY” biggest sports fan, and that is all that matters.