🍽 Derrick Henry Spends $250K to NOT Eat Before Games

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In today’s newsletter:

🗞 The Big Story: Derrick Henry Spends $250K to NOT Eat Before Games

📉 Biggest Loser: The Washington Commanders Will Determine the 2024 Election

🏆 Winner’s Circle: Why the Packers Are (Purposely) Losing $3.5M/yr

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🗞 The Big Story

Derrick Henry spends over $250,000 per year on his body, but the price isn’t even the craziest part of his routine.

Background: The average age for a running back in the NFL is 27.8 years old. In fact, this year, there are only four running backs on an NFL roster over 30.

So why is Derrick Henry the only one still playing like an All-Pro?

According to his financial advisor, Henry spends over a quarter of a million dollars annually on so-called “body maintenance.”

This includes the obvious, like daily:

• Personal training

• Cold therapy

• Infrared sauna

• Massage therapy

Diet: However, Henry takes it a step further when it comes to his health.

He employs a private chef who prepares every meal while avoiding:

• Fried foods

• Gluten

• Dairy

• Artificial sugars

And he only eats two meals a day.

Meal 1:  

• 3x Chicken breasts

• Rice

• Broccoli

Meal 2: 

• Gluten-free pancakes

• Scrambled eggs

• Diced potatoes

• Home fries

• Steak

However, the craziest part of Henry’s training routine is that he doesn’t eat his first meal until 4 or 5 p.m. during the season.

Meaning, he’s essentially playing every single game on an empty stomach.

Now, Henry does admit to often having a pregame snack which might consist of kale, avocados or a banana - but other than that, he’s not eating his first meal of the day until after the game.

📉 Biggest Loser

The Washington Commanders will decide who wins the upcoming presidential election.

Background: Since 1940, the “Redskin Rule” has been correct 17 out of 19 times when it comes to predicting a presidential election.

1940 is significant because that’s the year the team moved to Washington, D.C., and up until 2012, the rule had never predicted an election result incorrectly.

The Rule: The rule states that if Washington wins its last game before a presidential election, then the incumbent party will win.

But if Washington loses, then the challenging party will win.

This rule has only proven incorrect twice: once in 2012, when Obama defeated Romney, and again in 2016, when Trump defeated Clinton.

But in 2020, the rule correctly predicted Biden would defeat Trump and now the fate of the 2024 election seems to rest on the Commanders October 27th game against the Chicago Bears.

2024 Outlook: The books currently have the Bears favored to win by 2 points.

So, if you’re rooting for Trump to win, you’d be a Bears fan and if you’re rooting for Harris to win, you’d be a Commanders fan.

🏆 Winner’s Circle

The Green Bay Packers are losing over $3.5M per year…on purpose.

Background: Starting in 2000, the residents of Brown County, WI, had to pay an extra 0.5% sales tax to help fund renovations to Lambeau Field.

This tax helped raise an average of $20.6 million per year for the team until 2015, when the tax was finally retired, good enough for a total of $309.5 million over 15 years.

But as a way of thanking local residents, the Packers created one of the coolest programs in all of sports.

Ticket Lottery: Every year in March, Brown County residents can pay $524 to enter a lottery where they receive four tickets to a random Packers home game.

The games are announced by mail every June, and if you get a preseason game, you’re refunded about half the cost.

Now, $524 might seem like a lot of money when you don’t know which game you’re going to but in reality that’s only $131 per ticket.

For those of you who don’t live in Brown County, the cheapest ticket you could get on the secondary market to this game is $232 on TickPick (they don’t add any fees, so this is the actual price and the best one I could find)

Why it Matters: It also means that when the Packers give out 2,500 tickets to local residents at a reduced price of $131 to every home game—that’s $393,000 they’re willingly losing eight to nine times per season.

This means the team is okay with missing out on over $3.5 million every single year as a ‘thank you’ to its local fans.

⏱ In Other News

• The Washington Commanders released a cinematic masterpiece.

• The award-winning reporter who exposed Brett Favre could go to jail.

• Are college football games getting too expensive?

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👋 Happy Friday!

I’m back in Green Bay for Packers-Vikings this weekend. Should this game have any bearing on my week?

No.

Will the outcome potentially ruin my mood for the next 7-15 days?

Absolutely.

GPG 🧀