How much does your spouse know about football?
 

Reading the latest "Getting Married" thread made me think about this. Most of us probably has a spouse that doesn't care/know much about football. I was just curious about people's experience with this. Here is mine:

My wife is really not much of a football fan, and like many wives dislikes the beginning of the football season...a bit. But I have to give her credit, since she's come around a bit and toned down on her dislike of football. I think a lot of her dislike came from not understanding the sport. So I've actually taught her a bit about football, but I try to be funny about it (i.e. explain to her that a nose tackle is a big fat f*ck that takes on two offensive linemen, etc., etc.). She now watches some games with me, especially during the preseason. So I can't really complain about my situation. Although sometimes I do have to payback and sit through an episode of Project Runaway or something like that.

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My wife hates football. The only time she was remotely interested was when she saw Jason Taylor standing on the sidelines and started to drool. Even taking her down to the sidelines, sitting in the production truck, meeting players does nothing for her.

She pust up with my sports life every day though so if she doesn't want to watch the game with me, it's just as well. I prefer that she go off and do her thing while I watch the game than bother me. Unlike her mother, who thinks she knows everything about football and thinks we're football buddies, yet she really knows less than a 1/3 of what she does.

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[quote=SmootSmack;828920]My wife hates football. The only time she was remotely interested was when she saw Jason Taylor standing on the sidelines and started to drool. Even taking her down to the sidelines, sitting in the production truck, meeting players does nothing for her.

She pust up with my sports life every day though so if she doesn't want to watch the game with me, it's just as well. I prefer that she go off and do her thing while I watch the game than bother me. [B]Unlike her mother, who thinks she knows everything about football and thinks we're football buddies, yet she really knows less than a 1/3 of what she does.[/B][/quote]

Oh that's the worst. Doesn't just apply to MIL's, but people in general. I hate having a football related conversation with someone and then someone else comes up and butts in with a stupid remark like, "Talking bout the Redskins huh? They'll never be good with Mark Brunell at quarterback (That convo took place in 2010)."

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According to her "it's game with men in tights with possible homosexual tendencies." I am working overtime to convince her otherwise. Me saying "football is like ballet only on grass" this past thursday wasn't helpfull.

I got her "Complete Idiots Guide to Foodball" by JT about two years ago and she has yet to read more than the first page. I am on the verge of giving up on educating her and trying to get her to be interested in football.

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Seasonal MIA..........

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My wife will watch it if there's nothing else to do, but she doesn't really care. But she knows a fair amount by osmosis. If shown a helmet she can identify the team it belongs to. She knows most of the rules. But she doesn't want to sit down and watch.

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My wife HATES football and i do mean HATE.. She watches ONLY when we play dallas and thats because her dad is a huge boys fan.. O well

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She knows more than most men, she's also far less of a Homer than I am so I occasionally have to throw things at her for not siding with me on bad calls and the like.

Her Dad took her to all the UCLA games from a young age, lucky lady.

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My wife is pretty damn into football. Not nearly like me of course but she knows the rules more than basically and has a pretty good handle on the Skins roster most of the time. She also bought me season tickets 5 years ago and went to plenty of games with me in the past. Outside of the rare super-football wife I doubt there are many that get into it like my girl.

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Maybe just as important a question, if your wife is not into football, do you wish she was?

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[quote=Schneed10;828999]Maybe just as important a question, if your wife is not into football, do you wish she was?[/quote]

Not if it means I would have to take interest in all her realty tv and vampire shows. Part of me like the idea of football being a guy thing and having her spend her free time cleaning the house and running errands. Plus it can be annoying to hear her cheer against the skins and say "same ol' skins."

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[quote=FRPLG;828987]My wife is pretty damn into football. Not nearly like me of course but she knows the rules more than basically and has a pretty good handle on the Skins roster most of the time. She also bought me season tickets 5 years ago and went to plenty of games with me in the past. Outside of the rare super-football wife I doubt there are many that get into it like my girl.[/quote]

Lucky guy.

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[quote=FRPLG;828987]My wife is pretty damn into football. Not nearly like me of course but she knows the rules more than basically and has a pretty good handle on the Skins roster most of the time. She also bought me season tickets 5 years ago and went to plenty of games with me in the past. [B]Outside of the rare super-football wife I doubt there are many that get into it like my girl.[/B][/quote]

My wife, a professional choirester, screamed herself horse at a Dallas game we went to the Saturday night before a huge solo she had on Sunday evening.

When we started dating - she could not care less about sports of any type. Then she got into a football pool at her work and won a couple weeks in a row which perked her interest. Slowly, I dragged her into my addiction. Now, 15 years later, she knows the rules, knows the Redskins and has a pretty good idea of who's who of the more well known players. While not hard core, she knows enough to make watching football fun for both of us and to discuss a game intelligently.

By the way - after resting her throat as much as she could, drinking honey, etc., she proceeded to sing the crap out of her solo. Pretty f'ing impressive feat considering she was barely able to speak 12 hours earlier.

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My wife knows enough to know she doesn't like it! lol

I think she appreciates an exciting playoff game now and then, but overall I'd say she could live without it just fine. But she married a football fanatic so she puts up with it. I was way worse when we first started dating, so I've kinda met her halfway on some things.

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My wife is really into it. She even runs a fantasy football league for her family and friends. (I'm not into FF)

She didn't really know much about football when we got together, but she picked it up real quick and has come to love it. She is a diehard skins fan now, just like me.

She is super competitive and football really brings it out.

She also likes fast cars. She's a keeper.

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My wife's family is from the Chicago area so they are all Bears fans.
But she didn't know squat about football until she met me.
She has a pretty good grip of the game and knows who most of the important players are.
I get tired of the Bears rah rah stuff though.
At Christmas time I always move her Bears ornament to the back of the tree.

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God Bless my wife. She couldn't have cared less about football before we got together, but with me playing, coaching our son, and eventually coaching HS, she's been "all in". She was team Mom a couple years for my son's team and has been on the sideline helping in mid-30 degree driving rain.

She knows and understands most of the game and can hold a knowledgable conversation on it. She likes Brees (he's really accurate and does a good job) and Clay Matthews (he Fs people up), she's a Raiders fan but she knows "they won't be good with Al Davis or his son running it". During the season, football's on every night but Tues/Wed. Like I said in the other thread, suffering through Bachelor or DWTS is a worthwhile trade-off.

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Not married but my gf doesn't really like it. I'm glad she doesn't like it too. Football Sundays are my day. Leave me alone.

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My wife will watch the skins games but it is not as easy with a little one. She had her nap timed with the games but that didn't last too long. I'll have to say she ask every year about going to a game or two and its me who has not really cared if we did or didn't go.

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My wife grew up in a household that watched a lot of football, hockey, baseball, boxing, so she has a genuine interest in watching those sports. And while she doesn't keep up with current rosters and such, she knows who the big name players are. We go to one Redskins game a year, and our 3 year old and 2 year old know that Sundays in the fall are for "touchdown redskins". I even get to watch it during dinner instead of Dora or Wonder Pets, or whatever cartoon the kids are into that very moment.

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I had my wife believing that everytime the skins scored that she was suppose to remove a peice of clothing for good luck. She either figured out that I was lying or that it was not working.

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I am a blessed man. My wife is actually in more fantasy football leagues (3) than than me (2). She LOVES football, knows the ins and outs of the rules, and knows just as much about stats/players as any guy I know. On Sundays in the fall, she's completely content to just chill and watch game after game. It started with her love of Gator football when she was a kid growing up outside of Orlando, and when she met me, she got really into the pro game.

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[quote=firstdown;829143]I had my wife believing that[B] everytime the skins scored that she was suppose to remove a peice of clothing [/B]for good luck. She either figured out that I was lying or that it was not working.[/quote]

Sorry about your decade-long dry spell. During those Zorn years, it seems like 17 points was our ceiling...and we only hit that a couple of times!

Things are looking up this year though!

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Nothing!! Plus, she doesn't care that she knows nothing.

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[quote=skinsfan69;829081]Not married but my gf doesn't really like it. I'm glad she doesn't like it too. Football Sundays are my day. Leave me alone.[/quote]


Yep.

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[quote=GMScud;829145]I am a blessed man. My wife is actually in more fantasy football leagues (3) than than me (2). She LOVES football, knows the ins and outs of the rules, and knows just as much about stats/players as any guy I know. On Sundays in the fall, she's completely content to just chill and watch game after game. It started with her love of Gator football when she was a kid growing up outside of Orlando, and when she met me, she got really into the pro game.[/quote]


Dude your the luckiest guy in the world! I can't get my wife to watch OU (where she went!) much less NFL

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[quote=skinsfaninok;829195]Dude your the luckiest guy in the world! I can't get my wife to watch OU (where she went!) much less NFL[/quote]

The best is when she's wearing nothing but a jersey (actually happens a lot when it's just the two of us watching a night game) and she's cheering and yelling at the TV. It's so awesome. Trust me, I don't take it for granted even one little bit. Reason #632 that I asked her to marry me.

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[quote=skinsfan69;829081]Not married but my gf doesn't really like it. I'm glad she doesn't like it too. Football Sundays are my day. Leave me alone.[/quote]

This is me, too. For me I'd feel like George Costanza, the worlds would collide. If relationship Schneed walked into the living room on Sunday afternoon, he would kill football fanatic Schneed.

Spouses need their time apart and separate interests. Football is mine. Book club is hers.

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My wife loves football, a diehard Giants fan but other than that she knows a lot about it and watches every Sat and Sun.

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[quote=gmscud;829198]the best is when she's wearing nothing but a jersey (actually happens a lot when it's just the two of us watching a night game) and she's cheering and yelling at the tv. It's so awesome. Trust me, i don't take it for granted even one little bit. Reason #632 that i asked her to marry me.[/quote]

**** u dude lmao

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[quote=Schneed10;829209]This is me, too. For me I'd feel like George Costanza, the worlds would collide. If relationship Schneed walked into the living room on Sunday afternoon, he would kill football fanatic Schneed.

Spouses need their time apart and separate interests. Football is mine. Book club is hers.[/quote]

I totally get that. I think if my wife didn't work or we both had 9-5 type jobs, that would be the case with us. But given our conflicting work schedules, sometimes we'll go 2 or 3 days without seeing each other, aside from sleeping next to one another. So football is actually some nice quality time for us.

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Mine knows enough not to make any plans for use when the Redskins are on and that even goes for preseason. Maybe one year she will have to hold off making plans in the post season.

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I'm in a somewhat new relationship.. she just bought me sec 240 row 1 ticket for the Dallas game to serve as my bday present... she's from SF and a Niners fan, but she doesn't follow football

We had talked about going to the niners game since she wanted to and then surprises me with this, though it is only one ticket.. but that was unselfish of her, possibly foregoing a cheaper game to attend, gotta try to get her a ticket so that she sees my passion firsthand lol

So she may not be IN to football but she knows what's important.. and just locked me down for another 2.5 months now that I think about it lol

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my lady knows the basics. she acted like a big skins and Os fan when we first met, asking me to explain stuff to her so she could trade knowledge with my brothers wife who knows alil bit . . but while she has jereys and hats, she really doesnt bother watching the actual games.

last night we were watching wonder years, during a commercial i changed it to the Os game, she started making a low growling sound.

kinda sucks actually, i end up walking to the bar to watch a game if i really want to see it. she actualy left me for a few days after we fought over watching the skins first preseason game. probably didnt help that i didnt come home that night until 3 am, drunk and spitting on the floor but whatever she texted me "goodnight" when i was out which i interpreted as "stay out as late as you want and get wasted, im sorry for getting mad at you for you wanting to watch the skins game, im sorry please forgive me". apparently that wasnt what she meant and i was supposed to come home right after the game and not be shit faced drunk like we agreed before i left and she was just saying good night.

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[quote=tryfuhl;829518]I'm in a somewhat new relationship.. she just bought me sec 240 row 1 ticket for the Dallas game to serve as my bday present... she's from SF and a Niners fan, but she doesn't follow football

We had talked about going to the niners game since she wanted to and then surprises me with this, though it is only one ticket.. but that was unselfish of her, possibly foregoing a cheaper game to attend, gotta try to get her a ticket so that she sees my passion firsthand lol

So she may not be IN to football but she knows what's important.. and just locked me down for another 2.5 months now that I think about it lol[/quote]

be careful man, i ended up staying in a relationship longer than i should have b/c the wretched woman had almost front row 4 season tickets to skins and i basically got to bring anyone i wanted. right before the start of reg season and after she tried to get invitro fertilized and say it was my baby i had to kick her out.

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[quote=over the mountain;829674]be careful man, i ended up staying in a relationship longer than i should have b/c the wretched woman had almost front row 4 season tickets to skins and i basically got to bring anyone i wanted. right before the start of reg season and after she tried to get invitro fertilized and say it was my baby i had to kick her out.[/quote]

Lol I hear ya bro

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Welp, turned out I was a rebound and she's right back with dude.. her $250 ticket is getting returned tomorrow...

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[quote=over the mountain;829671]my lady knows the basics. she acted like a big skins and Os fan when we first met, asking me to explain stuff to her so she could trade knowledge with my brothers wife who knows alil bit . . but while she has jereys and hats, she really doesnt bother watching the actual games.

last night we were watching wonder years, during a commercial i changed it to the Os game, she started making a low growling sound.

kinda sucks actually, i end up walking to the bar to watch a game if i really want to see it. she actualy left me for a few days after we fought over watching the skins first preseason game. probably didnt help that i didnt come home that night until 3 am, drunk and spitting on the floor but whatever she texted me "goodnight" when i was out which i interpreted as "stay out as late as you want and get wasted, im sorry for getting mad at you for you wanting to watch the skins game, im sorry please forgive me". apparently that wasnt what she meant and i was supposed to come home right after the game and not be shit faced drunk like we agreed before i left and she was just saying good night.[/quote]

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Seriously...invest in DVR and record the games to watch when "you're allowed" or she's sleeping. It might save the marriage. :D

Feel sorry for you man...no one should be forced to choose between the Redskins and the wife.

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Seriously...invest in DVR and record the games to watch when "you're allowed" or she's sleeping. It might save the marriage. :D

Feel sorry for you man...no one should be forced to choose between the Redskins and the wife.[/quote]

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