Marriage Advice from the “Mack-Daddy”

Yes, it has finally occurred, I have come out of my College Football Bowl Season detox session.  Think about it, when a man who enjoys college football has the opportunity to watch a game a night for almost a month and then “bam” it’s gone – detox is needed.  Thankfully, March “Madness” is right around the corner.

Bowl season this year was particularly “sweet,” because the Texas Longhorns were in the National Championship (yes I went to Baylor but I have always cheered for the Longhorns – another blog for another day).  I have and continue to give credit to the University of Alabama for a well-deserved “perfect season” and “umpteenth” national title – now to the reason for the blog.  College football is infamous for its scandals, scoundrels, and flat out scumbags both on and off the field; however, every now and then a story comes across from “off the field” that catches you by surprise.

Such is today’s blog: marriage advice from Coach Mack Brown of the Texas Longhorns.  (Disclaimer: this is in regards to his marriage life as presented publically and no other aspect of his life private or public).  The following comes via Rick Reilly and his advice for those attending the National Championship game a few weeks ago.

If you’re in Pasadena right now and want to take a picture with Texas football coach Mack Brown, you might find it a peculiar experience.

Brown has some very specific rules for taking pictures with fans. He knows that today’s sports celebrities live in an age when one misunderstood iPhone snap can suddenly have you back managing an Applebee’s. So if you want a shot with Brown, who tries for his second national title Thursday night in the BCS Championship Game, you’ve got to follow his three rules:

1) He never takes a picture with a female without a “Hook ‘em Horns” sign up. That way everybody knows where his hands are and what they’re doing.

2) If he’s with his wife, Miss Sally — and he usually is — she takes the pictures. Nobody else. That way nobody can come up behind him and make him look stupid, or salacious, or drunk. Nobody can pretend their hand is his and put it somewhere that isn’t Vatican-approved. Nobody can flip anybody off, nobody can set him up. Miss Sally won’t cotton to that kind of behavior. “Sally knows her way around every camera, cell phone, video camera, you name it,” says Brown, 58. “If it’s out there, she knows how to work it.” (Wish there were somebody like that at Best Buy.)

3) He never takes a picture with only one female. “Always two or more,” he says. “It just looks better.”

Hey, Mack. Tiger on line one.

Now, I do not know what Coach Brown’s views are on Jesus Christ, the Bible, salvation, sanctification, justification, or any other “Biblical” doctrine, but I do know this – a lot of Christians need to heed his advise on marriage.  To quote scripture, “abstain from all APPEARANCE of evil (1 Thes. 5:22).”

“Hook ‘em Mack – in your marriage that is”