Virtual Femme

Football season has started, so this seemed like a good topic for a blog.  Okay, I really don’t have the perfect advice to make your wife love football because I honestly don’t know anything about you or your wife.  Maybe she knew someone who died in a football game, so she’ll always hate it.  I won’t be able to help you there.  In fact, I’m just going to tell you how I came to love football, much to my husband’s joy.

My husband is a huge college football fan, and we actually used to live in his favorite team’s hometown.  I think that if we hadn’t moved away, I’d probably never come to love his team.  It was just way too in-your-face anywhere we went, and honestly, I didn’t understand the game.  If I’d stayed where I was, I probably never would have wanted to learn the game.   Part of the problem with football, at least for me, was that there was simply so much dead-time, and none of the positions seemed to make sense.  It really looked like the ball got snapped, and everyone ran around until someone got knocked down.  To me, it was just a chaotic mess of men, a ball, and some grass.  How did it all change?

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