Mine tries to act like she likes it and let something slip like "dumb ol ball game". She will watch it with me and get into it. You see her watching intently but will never admit she is only watching for me. Love her though. How about yours?

My wife doesn't watch games (with the exception of really close and exciting games like the first couple Alabama/Clemson championship games and the Texas A&M/LSU 7OT game). She does, however, love having football on because it reminds her of Fall. She was born and raised in the South and her uncle coached at several schools (Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Texas Tech, Alabama, Kentucky) so she also says it part of her "culture."

Great indifference. She likes basketball, especially LeBron James and Steph Curry. She's from China and when they were good would follow the Chinese women's soccer team. Otherwise no interest at all. But that's cool, we both have things we do separate from each other, which gives us breathing space, and things we always do together. I have a son to talk trash about sports with.

Of forgot, when we used to go to baseball games she found it B-O-R-I-N-G, but like the socializing and food.

My wife played basketball so watches and complains about every dumb shot, lazy defense or odd substitution. Basically like sitting next to me at football if I talked more.

Likes watching hockey but doesn’t completely get it.

No interest in soccer.

Football, loves going if it’s not too hot, too cold, too windy, or raining. With loge box now she sometimes goes when weather is marginal and sits by the fireplace and watches on TV.

My wife doesn't care a lot about college sports, but she lets me watch them, and knows that it makes me happy. She's gone to games with me. The first question from her on Saturdays is "what time does OU play?" She knows that drives plans for Saturdays in the fall. After almost 26 years, she still can't understand whey I haven't embraced the Texas Aggies.

Sundays are a different story. She will plan her day around the Dallas Cowboys, and will make alternate arrangements (sports bar, friend's house w/Sunday Ticket) on the one or two weeks a year when the Cowboys aren't on TV in Houston. I love the Cowboys, too, but they haven't been worth dying hard for in 26 years and counting.

She'll DVR gymnastics and figure skating and watch them.

My former girlfriend (we remain on great terms) is from Illinois and is a big Chicago Cubs fan (my father has been a Cubs fan since 1945). So we enjoyed talking about the Cubbies. She also worked at Vanderbilt while we dated and she enjoys Commodore baseball (as do I). She does not care for any other sports.

Most women I know are not "all-around sports fans." They often like one sport and/or one team and that's it. We sports-obsessed males on this board could likely learn from the ladies. I try to keep my interesting in sports in proper perspective. Music and urban placemaking (architecture, mass transit, construction, demographics, etc.) have since childhood been my top two hobbies and interests. But I do strongly enjoy sports (and particularly college sports).

My wife is a 3rd generation Georgia Bulldog. Loves college football. Is ok with baseball and basketball. We, of course, went to the kids basketball/soccer/lacrosse games.

She also likes big events in other sports-Wimbledon, French Open, Master's, Olympics.

(05-27-2021 10:48 AM)jaybird44 Wrote:  Mine tries to act like she likes it and let something slip like "dumb ol ball game". She will watch it with me and get into it. You see her watching intently but will never admit she is only watching for me. Love her though. How about yours?

Mine loves the NFL from way back. Since we hooked up, she has become a huge NBA fan as well, and likes to watch tennis too. No interest in NHL or MLB, which suits me fine because I don't care about them either. She also loves to watch special events, like the big horse races and the Olympics, and again we are in accord on those.

Has little to no use for college sports, so that's our big bone of contention - she knows on Fall Saturdays I am camped in front of my TV (TVs, LOL) from 8 AM, when "Game Day" kicks off, until around midnight, when the last PAC or MW game on the west coast ends. Beer, pizza, and college football. Unless sex is also on the table, LOL. Also, she has no interest in March Madness, and I watch every game I can.

So she goes out shopping all day, LOL.

Mrs. Muskie hates football and is pretty indifferent towards basketball. She does enjoy women’s volleyball and men’s ice hockey though.

I don't think I would be able to do this job as long as I have if my wife cared about sports. I love watching games with her, because she notices stuff that I take for granted sometimes, and I love the reminder that at the end of the day, this just ain't that important.

My fiancé enjoys attending games but not watching them on television. We have season tickets for UofL football, Louisville City FC and Racing Louisville.

We tailgate before the games and have a great time.

When one of our teams is on the road, I will turn the game on and usually end up watching it while she reads. She says it just isn’t the same as being there.

What significant other

Loves sports. Big fan of IU football/basketball, also with Blackhawks hockey/Indians baseball/Browns football depending on the team. Only the Blackhawks fandom rivals mine with Blues hockey but it's still friendly. Just bought a ring and I'm proposing in two Saturdays, I'm a lucky man.

My wife will watch Bears football and Illini games (football and basketball). She likes attending Bulls, Cubs and White Sox games but doesn’t really watch them on TV unless it’s a big game or the playoffs. She’s not really into hockey outside of that run the Blackhawks had in the 2010s.

I think she’s good about it overall - she knows when it’s a big game or championship that I’ll want to watch. It’s more my ability to watch the sheer volume of sports overall that she’s not into - I really can put on any sporting event and be totally content.

I am a sports nut and my wife does not care at all about sports, which actually works well for us. We have been married for almost 31 years, and while we were dating, I had to let her know what she was getting into. So I took her to Raiders game. I had LA Raiders season tickets with my buddies at the time. The Raiders won a close game late, she got an up-close look at a Raiders game and somehow our relationship survived. We were good to go.

First years of marriage annoyed and not understanding. Now, she will watch the game occasionally and ask the same questions over and over.

My wife was more into basketball than football, even though her school (ECC then, now ECU) sucked at it. When our first child was born she went into labor at the start of the NCAA final between Marquette and UNC. She almost refused to go to the hospital (I think she had a thing for Al McGuire). Kept saying we should wait for the snowfall to stop. Turns out, she was right, as she was still in labor the following night after all the snow had melted.

(05-27-2021 06:42 PM)Bronco14 Wrote:  What significant other

Same

My wife barely tolerates baseball, forget anything else. I'm lucky if I can watch a half a game with her. Thankfully she sleeps a lot, I can watch more.