View Full Version : Have you left behind a sports/soccer widow?
Motterman
08 Feb 2006, 07:11 PM
The funny thing here is I have more in common with her mom than her. When all three of us are in the same room, I have hour long discussion with her mom about everything from Hitchcock to AC/DC.
Bow chicka bow wow....
Teso Dos Bichos
08 Feb 2006, 07:29 PM
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SirManc, there's nothing wrong with an older woman...
SirManchester
08 Feb 2006, 07:45 PM
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SirManc, there's nothing wrong with an older woman...
Oh I know, I seem to be getting along with people older than me more than with my own peers.
Toon³
08 Feb 2006, 07:45 PM
Bow chicka bow wow....
Somebody order a really hairy plumber?
MtP07
08 Feb 2006, 08:26 PM
DS I feel your pain. I've been living with my gf for about 6 months now, and I've heard the comments too "Are you watching soccer AGAIN" "Baby, are you still on big soccer", etc. However, she understands that football, especially United, is a massive part of my life. As the others have said, there needs to be some sort of sacrifice/compromise. I'm like Motter, I used to watch lots of other games, but now I usually only watch our matches. As for BS, I'm on it mostly during the day and she's at school. It helps that she's in grad school and studies a lot, so I can get on BS at night too. She's a great girl though, and totally understanding. She'll even watch a match now and then, but I think its more to watch Ronaldo than anything else. ;) :D
Numquam Moribimur
08 Feb 2006, 10:00 PM
Pfft ...another ronaldo fan girl :D
MtP07
08 Feb 2006, 10:01 PM
Pfft ...another ronaldo fan girl :D
You should have told her that when you met her... :p
Dark Savante
08 Feb 2006, 10:03 PM
DS I feel your pain. I've been living with my gf for about 6 months now, and I've heard the comments too "Are you watching soccer AGAIN" "Baby, are you still on big soccer", etc. However, she understands that football, especially United, is a massive part of my life. As the others have said, there needs to be some sort of sacrifice/compromise. I'm like Motter, I used to watch lots of other games, but now I usually only watch our matches. As for BS, I'm on it mostly during the day and she's at school. It helps that she's in grad school and studies a lot, so I can get on BS at night too. She's a great girl though, and totally understanding. She'll even watch a match now and then, but I think its more to watch Ronaldo than anything else. ;) :D
lol, seems to be a common theme in this thread; compromise :D
Tbh, my GF detests this site more than she does me watching games.
MtP07
08 Feb 2006, 10:05 PM
Tbh, my GF detests this site more than she does me watching games.
Why?
Just tell her "baby, I could be looking at porn instead..." ;) :D
Dark Savante
08 Feb 2006, 10:07 PM
Why?
Just tell her "baby, I could be looking at porn instead..." ;) :D
The need to talk about the game for hours on end is more irritating then watching games (I think) she doesn't like BS one little bit, lol.
Vermont Red
08 Feb 2006, 10:47 PM
Am I the only one here besides Saph that thinks Achtung is cute?
Father Ted
08 Feb 2006, 11:00 PM
Been married 10 years, and sometimes my wife does come up with the "you're watching soccer, again?". But she understands my needs and my passion. She has come with me to the United tour games and to a few of the Metrostars games. She has even bought me a few jerseys as presents. The other thing is my kids, 2 two girls play rec soccer but my 4 year old son loves to watch United with me. He goes "Ruuuuuuuud" every time RVN scores.
Achtung
08 Feb 2006, 11:25 PM
Am I the only one here besides Saph that thinks Achtung is cute?
You wish you could quit me. Go on, try to. It really is that hard.
Vermont Red
08 Feb 2006, 11:28 PM
You wish you could quit me. Go on, try to. It really is that hard.
If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it.
Achtung
08 Feb 2006, 11:31 PM
If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it.
Ok admittedly, I haven't seen the movie so I won't get most of the quotes.
I'll Netflix it eventually.
GrodZilla
09 Feb 2006, 05:56 AM
My Football widow is school.. I study biotechnology full time.. but if there is football on... it just so easy to forget school for a while ;)
HardHatMike
16 Feb 2006, 07:22 PM
My wife actually turned down a 5 day trip to Trinidad when I went for the US qualifier last year because I told her that she couldn't come unless she went to the match. And she decided to stay home. :confused:
jayro75
16 Feb 2006, 08:15 PM
Tbh, my GF detests this site more than she does me watching games.
You and me both.. My Fiance gets pissed every time she sees me posting here... She'll say "You're talking to those soccer people again.. What do you guys have to talk about all the time..."
The games she understands until she realizes that it's a Spanish league cup match that I'm watching at 8:30 on a Sunday morning...;)
tscboys
16 Feb 2006, 08:47 PM
This problem was solved a long time ago for me, I got my girlfriend into soccer, and at first she supported Aston Villa (just because she liked their jerseys) but then she came over and watched United beat her Villains and saw how much i loved united, and she became a fan..she is now a big manchester united fan and she comes over every weekend to watch the matches with me (minus the 630 kick offs..) it's a glorious world :)
bigtoga
16 Feb 2006, 10:32 PM
I was a soccer fanatic when she met me 11 years ago - playing 3 nights a week, sometimes going away for the weekend playing tourneys (a much younger man, I was!) - so my wife sort of always knew me to be like that. She met me about 9 months after World Cup 94 but I would tell her the stories (I lived in Dallas and went to all five Dallas games) about how we dressed up, cheered for Sweden or whoever, and had a blast. She's a party girl so she would love to experience that.
Cue FC Dallas (Burn) 10 years later and her a Mom with a 2-year old.
Well, in a 10-year span, you go through sort of a bell curve. Eventually the girl gets tired of it (as evidenced by all the guy's posting, "Are you watching soccer *again*?"), she makes a fuss, and right there - you and she have to decide how your relationship will be for the rest of your life lol. Do you cave? Or does she "understand"? Mine, fortunately, understood that this is me - it's my passion along with the Cowboys - and she lets me watch and play 2-4 games a week. It also helps that TIVO TIVO TIVO came along - maybe I should be attributing more of my "success story" to Tivo :)
I've also made certain sacrifices in other areas to ensure there's an equal amount of give and take. If a game conflicts with something for the family, I'll tivo it and watch in the morning when I get up (before checking BS). I get up at anywhere from 3:30-5:30AM and she gets up anywhere from 6:30 on so I have my time to watch the games. I don't go away for the weekend to play the fun tourneys any more either but neither do most guys over the age of 25 so...