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It might be the end of an era, but this could be the beginning of something big for us lovers of sports romance.

For years now the big leader in sports romance has been hockey. Now I like some good pucking action the same as any other girl, but there are other sports that are just as sexy. Personally, I’m a basketball girlie through and through. Can’t shoot a basket to save my backside, but I lloovvee the game. I generally pay more attention to the commercials and the halftime show than I do to the score of the Superbowl, but I do know a thing or two about football. However, the thing I know right now is that Ms. Swift and her boy are changing the game and I’m one hundred percent here for it. 

I might be showing my age here but quite some time ago when Holly Robinson married Rodney Peete she wrote a book for women about football. I never read it but I remember all the buzz as if it was okay for women to watch Monday Night Football with their hubbies now that she gave them a pass. All of a sudden women were wearing jerseys and going to the games. They understood it more because she broke down the rules for them. While Taylor isn’t giving tutorials on the finer points of a fourth down and one, it does seem she has made the sport cool again for a new generation of women. The great thing for us readers is that it has also opened the door for more football-centered romances with really hot, alpha males, who know how to score.

Since the two T’s made it official I’ve noticed women wearing jerseys and talking about the game. One vlogger I watch went with her boyfriend in hope that Taylor would be there, and so many of them are looking for books that speak to the “Lover” inside their heart.

When I launched the Storming Cobras series I had no idea if it would work. It wasn’t hockey, but it felt timely and I adored the characters. I also knew I wanted to try a series where all the books took place over the same period of time. Training camp just felt right. I also have had it in my head to write a marriage on the rocks trope since I first read Hope Ford’s “Forever Mine”. I’m a sucker for a second chance romance and there is something about a couple that swore to love each other forever making through a really rocky patch that speaks to me. Boone gave me that chance. 

One of the other things I like about football romances is that there are so many players. I’ve already got a few ideas for other teammates and let us not forget Caleb’s brother’s team, Midnight Dragons. I will also admit that having Caleb be a tight-end and have an older brother who is also in the league was fully inspired by Travis and his brother Jason. The difference between fiction and real life is that unlike Jason Kelce, my Noah doesn’t have a wife and a family. I feel like we are definitely going to have to do something about that. Don’t you think?

I’m excited for the future of sports romance and while I don’t see football or any other sport dethroning hockey anytime soon I’m glad that the only competition is baseball. Now there is a sport I simply can’t get behind. I need time limits and way less innings, but that’s just me.

Toodles.