Why QB Connections?

🏈 Why QB Connections?

QB Connections was created with three primary goals:

• To create connections between quarterbacks based upon our common experiences

• To drive health and wellbeing in quarterbacks, both current and former

• To support young quarterbacks in their life’s progressions

What challenges is QB Connections seeking to address?

• Older (former) quarterbacks often move on from the game and its natural camaraderie, and when “real life” sets in, we can become busy and disconnected. Evidence shows that our society actually has an epidemic of disconnection, and this leads to negative consequences of multiple forms.

• Overall, we as a society suffer from poor physical and mental health. This can be especially true of former athletes who lose the routine of team workouts and the support of their teammates, strength coaches, and athletic trainers.

• Young (current) quarterbacks need support with off-field progressions, especially when it comes time to transition to “real life” and their careers and vocations. Their needs are many, especially as it relates to building strong connections, networking, and telling their stories with conviction and confidence.

QB Connections aims to support quarterbacks, current and former, young and old, and to bring us together based upon the common histories and experiences we share.

What, exactly, do we share?

• Being a quarterback is a combination of reading situations, leading teammates while also relying almost entirely upon them, making decisions under pressure, accepting responsibility, watching your mistakes, and moving on to the next play. It’s almost never easy, and it’s never what it seems to the outside world. It’s hard, it’s stressful, and a strange existence in many ways.

But when the game ends, those skills and challenges can become your greatest advantage — if you know how to use them, and if you maximize the relationships you build along the way.

That’s what QB Connections is all about.

QB Connections is Connection and Community for Lifelong Quarterbacks.

What to Expect

We will start with a video-centric newsletter, called Film Sessions, designed to help quarterbacks — no matter what level or status — learn from the experiences of others and translate those learnings into success and happiness off the field.

During Film Sessions we will:

• Spotlight QBs creating real-world impact in careers and communities

• Explore insights related to physical, mental, and emotional health

• Foster skills that drive success and happiness

• Build a community of Lifelong Quarterbacks - a “QB Room for Life”

The weekly Film Sessions are free and available to anyone.

As our QB Connections grow, so will the opportunities for collaboration, mentorship, and impact — all focused on helping quarterbacks stay connected and healthy, and helping young players navigate the transitions ahead.

If that sounds like your kind of team, welcome to the Huddle.

A Note From the Founder of QB Connections

Hi, I’m Vin Ferrara, founder of QB Connections. Over the years, I have had the privilege of wearing a lot of different hats … or helmets, I suppose … as a student-athlete, Harvard Quarterback, entrepreneur, consultant, investor, and most importantly, as a husband and father of four. Each stage has brought its own lessons, challenges, and opportunities to grow.

• I’ve lost a number of my own teammates over the years, due to causes that seem to center around a lack of connection with others. We as quarterbacks have an opportunity to do something about that. Not just with other quarterbacks, but also with our other teammates, friends, family, and colleagues. The leadership opportunity never stops.

• I’ve spent my career in and around the health, wellbeing, and impact spaces, and the needs here are paramount. I have been blessed to be surrounded by experts and innovators, and want to bring that expertise and innovation to others.

• I’ve also had the chance to mentor several student-athletes, including my own children, as they reached the end of their playing days. Some were considering medicine or business; others were just trying to figure out their next move. They all need help, especially with telling their stories with conviction and confidence, and they all appreciate and benefit greatly from it.

I decided to try to do something about those things, and try to bring people together around a common theme, (re)connect them to each other, drive health and wellbeing, and support the next generation.

In a world where many people are too disconnected, your bond with other QBs, including those from your own QB room, your competitors on the other sideline, or those you watched in admiration, is likely strong and valuable.

Please subscribe and consider sharing this with other QBs as a way to build much needed human connection and foster success and happiness.

In fact, share it with anyone you think might benefit. This Huddle is open to all.

Thank you.  

— Vin