“Are they playing peek-a-boo?”

When I was a kid, I always wondered why fathers used to watch sports so much on the weekends, and now I know the answer.  It’s because they can’t go out and do anything else.   Well, now that I have two kids of my own, I have become one of those fathers myself.  I have lifted college football and betting on Asian Football from a small entertainment side dish to the main entrée of the weekend, and my wife, the lovely woman that she is, has decided to support me by becoming a football fan herself.  Here’s what she’s taken away from it so far:

  1. Mascots should be scheduled to have fights throughout the game.
  2. The Iowa Hawkeyes are great because they start the game walking out of the locker room holding hands.  She’s hoping to see the day when one of them trips and they all fell down.
  3. After weeks of consideration, she has decided that we can allow our son to play college football when he grows up, even though I’m 5’6” and she’s 4’9”.
  4. She loves Penn State because their coach is a super cranky-looking old guy.
  5. USC has two sets of cheerleaders: the scrappy, hyper ones who do flips, and the ones with big boobs who don’t do anything but sit there and shake their pom-poms.  Apparently, girls with big boobs don’t need to do flips.
  6. She likes Ohio State because their coach wears sweater vests and buttoned down shirts like my dad.
  7. At her high school, their mascot was a jackrabbit, and at pep rallies, they had boy jackrabbit mascot and a girl jackrabbit mascot.  Why do colleges only have boy mascots?  Wouldn’t the mascots be happier if they had some ladies in their lives?
  8. She will root for any team whose coach reminds her of our priest.

Some men might find comments like these distracting, but I think they’re wonderful.  First of all, she actually watches the game, while I just keep it blaring in the background and only run to the TV when the announcers start screaming over a big play.  So her thoughts are kind of like another random commentary over the action, catching all the bizarre notions I might have if I was actually paying attention to what was happening. 

But secondly, I like that she sees the whole thing from a different perspective.  Isn’t that why we get married and have kids anyway?  So that we can jumble our neat little worlds with the unexpected?  I suppose if I didn’t have a wife and kids, I could sit freely alone and watch football and do แทงบอลออนไลน์ with nothing but my own thoughts to keep me company, but I already tried that.  It was boring.