Calling all straight males!

[FunBobbyMucha]

Now that I've made the title as intriguing and double entre as I can, I have a question. How many straight males are there in America that, like me, don't give a single solitary damn about football? I perpetually feel like the only husband in the country not abandoning my wife for the TV on Sundays. I am so non-football that, I kid you not, I cannot identify when the Superbowl is or what two teams participate. Am I a freak? A stranger in a strange land?

[judge_smales]

1. Troll alert!! Troll alert!!

And I don't abandon my wife!! She watches too.

[papau]

2. I also missed that DNA - but my Dad felt the same way - so it may be

inherited!

in any case - you are not alone!

[ET Awful]

3. Same here. . . . I just know the Superbowl is in winter. . .

and that the Pats won it a year or two ago :).

Other than that, I don't know shit about it.

[SpiralHawk]

28. The Pats are gonna win this winter

Win one for the Babe -- Babe Parelli, original Boston Patriots quaterback.

Go Patsies !

[mhr]

4. Stopped Watching Professional Sports 15 Years Ago

You Are Not Alone!

[RedEarth]

34. I also stopped watching the majority of Professional Sports, however

I am a huge fan of college sports....primarily Big 12....BB and football. March madness is the greatest sporting event going.

[RandomKoolzip]

5. OOoooh. Don't let Trumad see this....

There were a plethora of threads like this a couple weeks ago...turned into an "IHATE FOOTBALL" vs. "I LOVE FOOTBALL AND PEOPLE WHO HATE FOOTBALL ARE ABUNCH OF CREEPS" flame war.


For the record, I can't stand sports and find no interest in them at all.

[Faygo Kid]

20. Or Hawker Hurricane, either

Back to their threads for me, thank you very much.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. I have a mutant variation of that gene

F1 races every other Sunday morning, from March to October.

[Loonman]

7. Not sure I catch your drift

You mean gay guys don't like football en masse?

:shrug:

[HuckleB]

11. Good point.

Plenty of gay men love football. And some of them have significant others who do not. I guess that means that they "abandon" them on Sundays.

[Mikimouse]

17. You forgot to add...

gay guys never PLAY football, right?:evilgrin:

[Faygo Kid]

8. What do you abandon your wife for?

Not sure what your point is, but a hearty so what from a straight guy who loves football, and so does my significant other! What do you abandon your wife for? Are you a freak? No, of course not. But, we really can't answer until we know your interests. All we know is that football is not one of them. How about them Lions? (Trick question, I know).

[tigerbeat]

13. what i'd leave my wife for...

....i hate football (all professional sports, really) so i'd never leave my wife for it.

but i'd abandon her and my status as a straight male for johnny depp.

ok, i lied. i'm not married.

[Faygo Kid]

18. Hmmm. Your only lie?

OK with me, but the Johnny Depp thing is kind of, well, you know. Actually, I like college football the best.

[tigerbeat]

24. "kind of"??

no "kind of" about it! it's full-on-crazy-nail-down-the-
furniture "you know"!

i know nothing about college football. except when in choosing the champion there's math involved.

[FunBobbyMucha]

Huh?

Not sure what you mean, so I'll try to take this sentence by sentence.

I don't abandon my wife for anything, really, other than kayaking. I've never heard of a kayak widow.

I'm not deriding anyone who likes football, but the phrase "football widow" is in the lexicon for a reason, isn't it? So it's a safe statement to imply that lots of women are left to their own devices come Sunday at noon.

And yes, I'm aware that lots of women and gay men like football. Just none of the gay men I know, whereas nearly all the straight men I know live for the game. Hence the origin of my question. Everyone please unbunch thy knickers. It was a question, not a condemnation.

As for the "not alone" votes, whew. I feel less mutant now. Thanks.

[HuckleB]

29. Just because...

"Kayak widow" isn't a pop phrase, doesn't mean they don't exist. It doesn't matter what the activity in question happens to be, if the result is the same.

[Cat Atomic]

36. Like you, I was also born without the football gene AND I kayak.

Also mountian biking, rock climbing, and... I did powerlifting in college. I enjoy solo sports, or anything where you compete with yourself.

I can't stand teams. Someone recently gave me that old standard, "there is no 'I' in team", and I said, "no, but there's a 'U' in fuck off'.

Hehe.

[Richardo]

9. Hey, the Super Bowl is HERE and I don't give a crap...

...the last week of January is just going to be idiotic around here (Houston). x(

On edit: Maybe I should say even MORE idiotic.

[GOPisEvil]

16. I think Richardo should head to Austin area.

bearfan454 is throwing a Super Bowl party. Who cares if you don't like the game, come hang out with us.

ORRRRRR...TXLib and KCDem are throwing a party Jan. 30th. They're in NW Houston...

[Richardo]

22. Thanks for that invite - it'd be great to hang with all y'all...

...and I haven't forgotten about the KC/TX party; we'll just have to see how the work schedule(s) go... :shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

23. I hope you can make it!

:-)

[Draven]

10. You're alone on this one...

I love football. I love the rivalry between us Minnesota Vikings fans and the Green Bay Packers fans.

I also love hockey, basbeball(my number one sport, go Twins!), and the Olympics.

[Intelsucks]

12. I don't care either. When people yell at the TV, do they really think it's

going to change what happens?

[HuckleB]

14. Actually, my wife watches far more football than I do.

I often feel so very abandoned. I'm gonna talk to her about this.

Right now!

:evilgrin:

[Selwynn]

15. I don't care much about sports at all.

I like KART racing, or Indy car racing, but not NASCAR. That's about it. Oh, I like tennis a lot actually, but I hardly ever get to see any of it on TV - always at work.

[elperromagico]

19. I watch the last ten minutes to find out the score.

The rest is just a bunch of overpaid guys running after a goddamned ball.

[youngred]

21. Who says anything about abandoning your wife/girlfriend?

my gfs are usually as interested as I am. Football is my second favourite sport...except when, as usual, my Dolphins are out of it.

you're not alone, but you are in a tiny minority

[sendero]

25. I can enjoy...

... a good game on TV, but it is a very low priority for me. If I have *anything* else to do I won't see it.

I couldn't tell you who's winning the playoffs or anything like that tho. :)

[Goldmund]

26. I don't know the rules of football.

Now top that.

[KCDem]

27. Female here, but my husband fits your description

I know far more about sports than he does. Not that I know much.

I'm not a sports widow, I'm a computer widow. ;)

[jimbo fett]

30. My wife is the big football fanatic. I'm a casual fan.

My dad grew up without a father so he was never indoctrinated into sports, thusly, I wasn't either. What interest I do have I've picked up on my own.

I always had to pretend to be knowledgeable about sports in elementary school.

My wife was the only child so her dad indoctinated her into sports so I play second fiddle when it comes to being a fan of sports in our family.

[phillybri]

31. I love football....You're weird....

What color is the sky where you're from?

:evilgrin:

[wingnut]

32. Me

I do watch lumberjacking & volleyball, though.

[MrSlayer]

33. Yes, you are a freak. Football is life.

Actually I have a few friends not into sports and they are all computer nerd types. Great people but a little geeky. Why do you assume only straight guys watch football fanatically?

[FunBobbyMucha]

35. Anecdotal experience.

Lots of gay friends, not watch football. And football is the original Roman, red meat game. And the players naughty bits are less visible because of all the padding. My gay friends prefer baseball uniforms.

[plcdude]

37. me too

I used to watch some 15 years ago but it is pretty much redundant and meaningless since no real resolution is reached. We just keep repeating the same things over and over again. So I have lost interest.

[TrogL]

38. I'm bi and find the game incomprehensible

Basketball's even worse, hockey isn't much better.

Baseball's not too bad, but that's because of the tight uniforms.

Soccer/football/rugby rocks.