Does your spouse/SO like or enjoy sports, especially UConn?

[Mano]

Just curious. My wife couldn’t care less. Finds it all boooring.

 

[CL82]

Choices are tough. There's a huge gap between "all sports thoroughly" and "sometimes for big events." My wife likes some pro sports (baseball and football) hates others (hockey) likes UConn MBB and WBB but not football, hockey or baseball. She also will watch WNBA games, which I don't particularly care for, with exception of some of playoff series. (Last year's Pheonix/Seattle series was pretty entertaining with former teammates and close friends Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi each trying to will their teams to the win, making one great play after another.)

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Depends, thinks baseball is boring and slow as hell. Hates the amount of commercials there are for other sports. Cant say i blame her.

 

[VKong]

My wife will enjoy some live sporting events, especially Yankee games. Hates any sports on TV and gets pretty annoyed during the MBB season. Let's just say she spends a lot of time in the bedroom watching the housewives during the season lol.

 

[Rocktheworld]

She really only cares about the Pats and Sox, more so the former. Doesn’t seem to care for sports in general, despite having been an athlete all of high school and college.

“Cares” doesn’t go beyond knowing a half dozen players and tuning in once a week.

 

[NYC_HUSKY22]

I met my fiance (soon to be wife in a week and a half or so) some time after we won the championship in 2014. I tried to get her interested, but all she has known is the Ollie era and cannot stand my frustrations / refuses to be around whenever a game is on. It sucks and it really pains me that I cannot share one of the things i'm most passionate with her... all she knows is the past 5 years of what has happened with the program.

 

[Rocktheworld]

I met my fiance (soon to be wife in a week and a half or so) some time after we won the championship in 2014. I tried to get her interested, but all she has known is the Ollie era and cannot stand my frustrations / refuses to be around whenever a game is on. It sucks and it really pains me that I cannot share one of the things i'm most passionate with her... all she knows is the past 5 years of what has happened with the program.

Same. It’s tough if your SO isn’t an alum. I don’t think you’d expect her to expect you to become a fan of her college’s sports.

 

[CL82]

My wife ...Hates any sports on TV and gets pretty annoyed during the MBB season. Let's just say she spends a lot of time in the bedroom "watching the housewives" during the season lol.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

 

[Mano]

Choices are tough. There's a huge gap between "all sports thoroughly" and "sometimes for big events." My wife likes some pro sports (baseball and football) hates others (hockey) likes UConn MBB and WBB but not football, hockey or baseball. She also will watch WNBA games, which I don't particularly care for, with exception of some of playoff series. (Last year's Pheonix/Seattle series was pretty entertaining with former teammates and close friends Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi each trying to will their teams to the win, making one great play after another.)

I will admit, I did not put a great deal of thought into the choices. Usually the short answer portion of these things is more interesting anyway.

I think my wife would choose death when faced with watching soccer (that’s not even a choice in this scenario I tell her!). Baseball isn’t far behind in that respect. MBB she can put up with for a while, but their losing of late is a drag even on her. She can’t stand the NFL or make sense of NHL. Forget F1.

 

[huskeynut]

The wife is a big UConn basketball fan, both men and women, as I am. She was the one who got the tickets for this year's women's final four in Tampa.

As to other sports, she's a Red Sox fan and I'm a Yankees fan. No pro basketball, hockey or football for her.

 

[NYC_HUSKY22]

Same. It’s tough if your SO isn’t an alum. I don’t think you’d expect her to expect you to become a fan of her college’s sports.

Yep. Peruvian though, so I can get into the soccer bit.. basketball was a bit of an ask when the L's stack up, american football was actually a pretty easy transition - I was impressed how quickly she picked up all the rules.

 

[Austin316]

She hates golf, baseball & basketball (except UConn), ironically loves football. Can’t complain... if she has her phone she’s usually content until she looks up at the screen and I need to explain why the hell im watching a game she doesn’t know the teams. I can pray for healthy children all I want but the fingers will be crossed for athletic boys when the time comes.

 

[dbmill]

My wife is a big sports fan, especially when it comes to UConn sports. She loves UConn basketball, especially the women. To give you an idea about UConn baseball, Chris Jones is her favorite baseball announcer on any level.

 

[CL82]

Same. It’s tough if your SO isn’t an alum. I don’t think you’d expect her to expect you to become a fan of her college’s sports.

My wife isn't a UConn alum but she's adopted them and is relatively knowledgeable about them. Doesn't follow them off season but other than that she's an enthusiastic fan, especially for WBB. She a bit more bandwagony about the men's team.

 

[firstnline]

My wife refers to Uconns football uniforms, basketball uniforms, hockey uniforms and baseball uniforms as all costumes. I will leave it at that.

 

[Wordbomar]

My girlfriend will go with me to basketball games and football games (when it’s warm only), the constant checking of the boneyard drives her mad though

 

[Rico444]

If there's a playoff/NCAA tournament game on for one of my teams at my place (I usually either host people to my place or get together with friends for playoff games) she'll usually sit and watch with us. Otherwise she doesn't pay much attention, although she does ask questions and retain the rules and strategy of the games pretty well.

 

[Edward Sargent]

So when we lived in Jersey I always got one ticket for the BE Tourney. I had a neighbor from Pitt, Syracuse and 2 from Villanova. We would go to every game and move around as seats were vacated. Towards the end I would scalp tickets for my wife if UCONN moved on. The one time I didn't was one of the top 10 traumatic experiences in our 45 year marriage.

 

[Edward Sargent]

She hates golf, baseball & basketball (except UConn), ironically loves football. Can’t complain... if she has her phone she’s usually content until she looks up at the screen and I need to explain why the hell im watching a game she doesn’t know the teams. I can pray for healthy children all I want but the fingers will be crossed for athletic boys when the time comes.

How about athletic girls?

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

My wife loves tailgating/doing drinks and going to the XL but refuses to let me watch on TV most of the time. Luckily she works third shift a lot the rest of the time passes out at 8.

 

[FartMan69]

My wife left me

 

[whaler11]

Just curious. My wife couldn’t care less. Finds it all boooring.

My wife is between the first two. She’ll go see ECU but she aint watching them on tv.

 

[Mano]

My wife left me

Was it the farts? Man, sometimes it’s just best to hold it in, especially then.

 

[Horatio]

We’re a sports family. Travel/ AAU girls basketball between 3 kids, year round. It never ends. We go out to girls highschool games regularly. We watch UConn girls and boys games when there is time.

 

[CCSUblue]

Mine loves baseball (divided household) and basketball (especially playoffs March madness), tolerates football. Always prefers watching live sports.