If I thought my family was bad about NFL games, I was wrong. There was a whole new level of Ward family competitiveness that emerged from a very unlikely source—my niece’s soccer game. Molly’s daughter Luna (currently at striker) and Isabel’s daughter Willa (playing defense) were on the same rec soccer team—seven- and eight-year-old girls—and I almost moved to the other team’s sidelines so that I wasn’t associated with the people I was related to.

