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

[Duncan Idaho]

The first date with now wife of many years was to a baseball game. Her call. Turned out she was an Indians fan. She will go to an occasional UConn baseball and football games and we have gone to their NCAA tournament games. She went to as many of the kids' games as she possibly could.

 

[CL82]

We're total opposites and to think she fell in love with a jock in 1978.

Does she still bump into him from time to time?

 

[Mano]

When we met my wife

Does she still bump into him from time to time?

Sounds like it’s still a current thing.

 

[CL82]

Sounds like it’s still a current thing.

Kinda of sad that she settled.

 

[jayteeman]

When I met my wife it was a love fest with the Celtics during the Bird era and the memorable playoffs every year up at the cape. Since then she knows every NBA team very well and doesn't miss a Celtics game. Other than that she will not watch any other sport.
Amazing what that era did for the NBA.....and how beloved that Celtics team was.

 

[David 76]

My wife follows both UConn basketball teams and the Yankees from a distance. Funny thing is that when she does watch she screams at the TV worse than me.

 

[CL82]

When I met my wife it was a love fest with the Celtics during the Bird era and the memorable playoffs every year up at the cape. Since then she knows every NBA team very well and doesn't miss a Celtics game. Other than that she will not watch any other sport.
Amazing what that era did for the NBA.....and how beloved that Celtics team was.

My wife hated the Celts of that era and especially Larry Legend. It may be her biggest flaw.

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

Should of prefaced it by saying my gf is irish. The gaelic sports are fast as hell. Also comparing the amount of commercials during a soccer game with any American sport, can see why people from other countries have no patience.

 

[JB75]

My wife is not from a sports family at all and for me that was hard to fathom because growing up it was sports on TV and playing sports outside 24 -7 in my family. We will go to the UConn men’s games together and she’ll be into it And cheering. And of course on NFL Sundays she knows not to bother asking me to do anything between noon and midnight because the games are on but I do buy her some DraftKings lineups on Sunday so She’s “cool” with watching red zone fir some of her day while following her fantasy lineups. And I will say she does love March madness because I make sure she gets into about three or four different pools- LOL. That’s how u play it.

 

[Onions]

Our 4th date was to see the Staten Island Yankees. She is OK with minor league baseball for the atmosphere, but would not consider going to a Pro or College game, any sport. When we're together in the house I'm allowed to watch pretty much what I want, but only with the audio muted, which is no big sacrifice. We both knew what we were getting into and compromise is easy, but come game time I'm talking to my son on the phone, and my wife is working on her computer.

 

[UConnNick]

My wife left me for Chief. I understood

It is understandable. He's a provacateur.

 

[UConnNick]

I was thinking the same. My wife likes sports but not to the same extent I do. She watches and goes to games with me but her life doesn't revolve around games like mine does. We have 2 boys so there is ALWAYS sports on our TV.

I remember within a year after we got married there was a family wedding on her side and UConn was playing in an NCAA tournament game. I said we either had to figure out how to watch the game or we would be going late. She was not happy but I told her we knew each other for 4 years before we got married so she knew exactly what she was getting into.

So did my mother. My father took her to a NY Rangers game on their first date. Oh yeah, he was engaged to be married to another chick at the time. He broke up with his fiancee the next day. My mother was not much of a sports fan, but she loved Rutgers. When your first date is a NY Rangers game, you have no one but yourself to blame if you're not interested in sports.

 

[UConnNick]

My wife hated the Celts of that era and especially Larry Legend. It may be her biggest flaw.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with hating the Celtics.

 

[UconnU]

My girlfriend has no interest in sports but her husband is a huge Syracuse fan so things get interesting around the house when we play each other.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

My girlfriend has no interest in sports but her husband is a huge Syracuse fan so things get interesting around the house when we play each other.

If you’re gonna sleep with another man’s wife he may as well be a Cuse grad...

 

[Waquoit]

My SO and I have FB tickets. She doesn't watch sports on TV all that much but likes going to games. A few years back (2011) we were planning a trip to Florida having trouble finding a week that fit. When we finally settled on a week I mentioned that if UConn made the FF we would have to go and she agreed. Whaddaya know, Kemba went off so we rented a car and drove from WPB to Houston by way of New Orleans. Bit the bullet and bought the ground package from the school and had a tremendous time. We changed our return flight from WPB to HOU at no extra charge so props to Southwest.

 

[ConnEd]

Worman?

Hysterical. Or, as I prefer to say, “Hyrsterical.”

 

[amory]

I met my fiance well after UConn's glory days, so basically I think she just gets confused why I sit and watch crappy basketball games and crappier football games all winter.

I dragged her to 2 seasons of UConn football home games when I had season tickets, but this past year she finally put a stop to that and I'm appreciative of her for it.

 

[CL82]

I met my fiance well after UConn's glory days, so basically I think she just gets confused why I sit and watch crappy basketball games and crappier football games all winter.

I dragged her to 2 seasons of UConn football home games when I had season tickets, but this past year she finally put a stop to that and I'm appreciative of her for it.

Will you miss her?

 

[ConnEd]

My wife refers to sites like the BY and a couple of others where I follow and “talk” sports as “sporn(tm)” (sports ). “Ed spent an hour on sporn today.” I think she’d understand better if I spent the time on actual sites.

 

[Mano]

My wife refers to sites like the BY and a couple of others where I follow and “talk” sports as “sporn(tm)” (sports ). “Ed spent an hour on sporn today.” I think she’d understand better if I spent the time on actual sites.

My wife calls it Facebook for UConn nerds.

 

[huskypantz]

My wife hates sports. My saving grace is that my kiddos love anything UConn because of me so she has to temper her disgust. She did tolerate attending the UConn win over USF for the Big East championship down in Tampa as part of our honeymoon, so she’s somewhat salvageable.

 

[CL82]

My wife calls it Facebook for UConn nerds.

Lol, my kids call it "Dad's Facebook."

 

[Robertelamin]

My wife calls it Facebook for UConn nerds.

She’s right I suppose

 

[Lefty2one]

Since getting married, over the past four years I've made my wife watch hundreds of hours of Knicks basketball and UConn basketball. I'm amazed I'm not divorced. Thankfully she has her iPhone to play on during the games.