A longtime friend, enduring and endearing enough that he was best man at my wedding and vice-versa, is visiting Antarctica with his wife on Super Bowl Sunday -- one of very few places in the world the NFL championship won’t be televised. A lifelong Giants devotee, his claim is that it was to obviate any chance of him seeing the Eagles in the Super Bowl again. Seems like a long way to go, but I suppose penguins have their appeal, too.
Words of wisdom: “It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet." -- Ernest Hemingway
Connect Partnership Group brings on Lee Stacey, Jeff Deline
Connect Partnership Group, Dallas, is expanding with the addition of two sponsorship sales pros. Lee Stacey joins as VP/property sales, with most of his focus on selling marketing inventory for the Commanders, along with some other properties in the Mid-Atlantic region. For Stacey, who will continue to be based in the D.C. area, it marks a return to the NFL, where he sold for the Jets from 2001-2008. Most recently, Stacey was VP/global partnerships at Monumental Sports & Entertainment from 2014 through last year.
Also joining Connect as a New York-based consultant is Jeff Deline. He was most recently EVP and CFO at the Mets, preceded by 23 years with MLSE, where he rose to CRO. “Ten years in, we’re feeling good enough to add some experienced sellers, and look to add more people by the end of the year," said Connect founder and co-CEO Ben Cahalane. “By all indications, the market is strong.”
