I know very little about football, what I do know, is from my wife’s love for the Colts. I always ask the same questions when she turns on a game. “What’s a down?” “How may downs are there?” “ How many points is a touch down?” I really know nothing! It is one of those things I have every little interest in. However I do like to watch a game with my wife, she gets so excited, she makes it a lot fun. Take Crista out of the equation, its flat.
Typically the man crowd always assumes that all guys watch football. Cause if you don’t your weird. Well ok, I like being weird! The worst part is when you meet new people and all they seem to want to talk about is football. If you can’t keep up with the conversation it is totally one sided. They talk sports, and I node my head. It is like a communication connection is broke and the person judges you on it. Just once I would like to meet someone new and dive into a time travel debate, or star wars conversation.
Case in point: I traveled to LA for a focus group meeting on a product that we designed at work. When it was all wrapped up, I gave the president of the company a lift back to the airport. I was looking forward to our car ride, so we could discuss future projects and how we could help them out. However, before that could happen, he says “Did you catch that game last night?” (Are you kidding?) I’m hopping to impress the guy and he pulls out kryptonite. I side stepped the direct answer, some how, and proceed on to more work related topics.
I guess I’ll always have to deal with this. It does not really bother me; I just hate to miss the opportunity to get to know people better. Unfortunately sports talk is a dead end for me. I’ll keep trying to pick it up and maybe someday it will all sink in. Then maybe I will not feel so much like an outsider, to the world of football.
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