How do I use a controller for a "partial" view in Laravel?

Here is my situation. I have a layout.blade.php which most of my pages use. Within this file, I have some partial pieces that I include, like @include('partials.header'). I am trying to use a controller to send data to my header.blade.php file, but I'm confused as to exactly how this will work since it is included in every view that extends layout.blade.php.

What I am trying to do is retrieve a record in my database of any Game that has a date of today's date, if it exists, and display the details using blade within the header.

How can I make this work?

via Chebli Mohamed