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

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Wordbomar said:
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 :p
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Just tell her you’re correcting the internet.
 
I have a pretty free pass to do anything Packers / UCONN related. She doesn't watch much sports, but I'm also pretty good about not letting it get in the way of our lives, unless it is important. So when I want to go to a game I generally don't get grief.
 
My wife will watch some big games, and even watches golf, although it’s really called sleeping.
 
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My wife enjoys going to sporting events. We live in Chicago so we go to a one or two Bears home games, now that our kids are older we go to one Bears away game a year. We go to some WSox and Cubs games. She understands my UConn obsession and will travel with me for most of those games. She drew the line at a Wednesday night mbb game at Notre Dame because it was a 4 hour round trip. UConn won and it was awesome, her loss. She watches the Bears on TV and March madness but not much else. She likes to take a nap when I'm watching golf. I bought her a Jim Nantz white noise machine for Christmas.
 
My wife is from Colombia so football (soccer) is the main sport for her. Basketball is catching on amongst some of the youth in Colombia, especially some of the wealthier kids and I think she COULD get into it but she does not like the constant commercial breaks, especially towards the end-game. The Ttech/Virginia game was fun for her to watch but she said the commercial breaks eventually killed the momentum for her. I see where she is coming from as she is used to 45 minutes of non stop play-20 minute half-45 minutes of non stop play. The 20 minutes is usually to cook something, order out or make a beer run. I agree with her and truly wish basketball would cut down on the breaks by at least half, that would make the games flow better and put more emphasis on rotation strategy and using the bench as well as conditioning and endurance which is what sports are about when you get right down to it. A lot of football matches have solved the lack of commercial time with having occasional adverts pop up at the proper moments (the proper moment being a time that does not interrupt something major going on). I can look for an example of anyone is interested.

So yah, she does not mind it. If there was a huge Uconn game I am sure she would like it. When she saw me watching the Uconn/Iowa game and the logos appeared, she asked if I was cheering for the "cute dogs". Yes. I am cheering for the Huskies. "Well, I hope the cute Huskies win"...haha.

But it is hard for me to get pumped for some ECU/Uconn game or something so there is no way I would expect her to care in that case.
 
My wife likes to make comfort food while I watch sports and drink beer.

She finds this especially appealing when UConn is on because she knows I’m interested. For some reason my wife is always concerned with whether or not I really care about the game I’m watching. She just doesn’t get how I can watch Wichita St. vs Chattanooga and be totally happy. I’m convinced that she thinks I’m lying when I say I enjoy all the games.
 
Mostly indifference. She grew up in a sports fan house so understands the passion (obsession) though.

Also, I'm a bit of an odd sports fan in that I pretty much don't watch any games that don't involve my teams (Giants, Yanks, UConn BB/FB) and I also like to DVR pretty much everything as well.
 
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When we met my wife (who doesn't really watch or like sports) and I were HBO boxing junkies. Hell that was our date night. I always was skeptical of her attraction to fighting and am relieved HBO boxing ended.

She doesn't care for sports but on game night the TV room is all mine, and she will never ask me to change the channel when a game is on. She also has lived with my numerous important event declinations on scheduled game nights. She's also heard every 'can] make' excuse on those nights but still understands and doesn't take it personal (any more). That's makes here a quasi sports fan in the same way I'm a quasi book club fan.

We're total opposites and to think she fell in love with a jock in 1978.
 
My wife is a big hockey fan so we went to a ton of canes (go whalers!) games when we lived there and now the avs. Shes a good sport about my basketball fandom and watches with me sometimes but just doesn't like when I'm in a bad mood the rest of the day after a UConn or UVA loss
 
Like Puppy Love, my husband and I both enjoy sports, but I am more fanatical than him. My passion is UConn sports, and we go to Football, WBB, and Hockey. I try to go to baseball games, but I usually have to go by myself, since he's still working. I grew up in Massachusetts, and have 4 brothers, so if I wanted to watch tv it was sports. I am a Boston sports fanatic, will work my schedule around Sox, Pats and Bruins, if possible. I tune in to see the Celtics scores, but I don't like the NBA and only watch the WNBA if UConn kids are playing. I even watch golf!
 
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.
 
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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 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.
 
jayteeman said:
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.
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My wife hated the Celts of that era and especially Larry Legend. It may be her biggest flaw.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
HooperScooper said:
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.
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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.
 
CL82 said:
My wife hated the Celts of that era and especially Larry Legend. It may be her biggest flaw.
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There's absolutely nothing wrong with hating the Celtics.
 
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.
 
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