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The Official Football Widow's Survival Guide

Is your man sequestered in the living room? We've got your Sunday survival guide.
Official NFL Widow Survival Guide
Football Widows Guide
By Pat Tucker · Updated October 28, 2020
If you’re like most Football Widows, Sunday is quickly becoming your least favorite day of the week, followed by Mondays. Who can blame you?

Football season can turn your usually loving man into someone you hardly recognize. Game day has him sequestered in the living room, eyes glued to the plasma, with his hot wings and beer, and the remote tightly clutched. Yes, the season is well underway. 

And while that often leaves you sidelined, you can still score, but doing so requires strategy. Here are ten tips to surviving the NFL season.

Pat Tucker is the author of new book “Football Widows,” a novel, out now, about an NFL wife who catches her husband having an affair and decides to air out the entire league’s dirty laundry.