Oh yeah!The local school, Bowling Green State University, is bowl eligible for the first time in years, and I hope the Falcons are able to get to one this year.
The other team I follow closely are the Michigan Wolverines, who’ve had some miserable seasons lately, and have had to suffer from a drought against the hated Buckeyes.

Not a football fan at all…………however, as I am pursuing a relationship with a football fan, I’m meeting up with he and some of his friends at a local joint to watch the Texas game this afternoon/evening (I was advised that despite my not being a fan of football, I MUST cheer for his team – okay whatever.) Although I know he won’t be thinking much about me during the game, I’m going in order to spend some much needed time together and to support him. After all, he supports many of the things that I enjoy (even those things he doesn’t like.)
So yes, I’m going to suck it up (absolutely NO pun intended, okay well, maybe just a little,) and go watch a sport I really don’t like. But you know, those uniforms? Really? You KNOW a gay man had to design those nice, tight, pants……grrrrrrrrr (mind out of gutter! got to get into sports frame of mind……ugh!)
Seriously? Is there not another sport that is totally full of homoeroticism (outside of wrestling?) You know, they are throwing and catching balls, wearing tight pants that show every inch (well, maybe not every inch, one guy reaches for the ball between another guys legs as he’s looking side to side to see if everyone else is in position. Okay, I really have to get my mind out of the gutter…….sports frame of mind………

Go Tide…Today at leastI would ordinarily not root for anything related to Alabama, but I have gotten to the point that I would root for almost anyone or anything or any team that goes up against He Who Has Been Declared to be the Saviour of Saviours Tim Tebow.  I don’t think I’ve ever been as sick of the religio-football hype surrounding someone as I am of that which surrounds Tebow.

Sports Crazy

When I returned to my apartment, it was right as the game ended with a win by Duke and almost in unison, screams erupted from all around me — almost everyone in the entire complex was watching the game

Sounds like Bedford when a national team wins the football (or soccer as you guys call it) and especially when it’s the Italians. Bedford’s a pretty diverse town, with over 100 languages, so there tends to be big celebrations irrespective of who’s won, but the main ethnic groups are English (about 50%) and Italians (29%) and the Italians really know how to celebrate a big win – and 30,000 people can make a heck of a racket!
I’ve never really understood the fanaticism around sport. I think I lack the right genes.

A little something for AFTER ‘Bama touchdowns:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
Actually, living in Tuscaloosa, it’s hard NOT to root for the home team.  My older sister, however, is a dyed-in-the-wool AUBURN fan; she’s only for the Tide if they’re NOT playing an SEC team.  Otherwise, she’s Auburn all the way — cussing and screaming at the tube and all!!  …And she lives in Mississippi!!  State & Ole Miss fans HATE her.
My younger sis, whom I live with and who is a 3rd shift LPN, HATES evening or even afternoon home games cuz the traffic here is a nightmare …even at 10 PM on a Saturday!

There’s one sport.

Is there not another sport that is totally full of homoeroticism (outside of wrestling?)

Rugby.
It’s the only team sport I follow much – all that grappling, all that heaving hunksome manflesh – rather obviously I don’t only follow it because I enjoy watching the games Also, rugby is generally much more gay-friendly than soccer – probably because, unlike soccer queens, rugger buggers don’t have a need to prove their masculinity. I know loads of gay rugby fans, but very few gay footie fans.
I recommend you google Sean Lamont (Scotland & Northampton Saints) Ben Cohen (England & Sale Sharks) and Nick Youngquest (Gateshead Thunder) and protect your keyboard from drool.

I understand“

Several years ago when Duke was in the final four, I decided to go shopping while the game was on — it was heaven — no cars on the road, no one in the stores.

In the early Bobby Bowden years at FSU, I was a graduate student and lived in an apartment near the stadium.  I quickly learned that the best time to go grocery shopping and to the laundromat was during the game.  Not a soul was out.

Am I a football fan?One of our first dates was to Giant Stadium (we lost 21-3 to the then LA Rams).
We got married on a Saturday, then because the Giants were playing the following day, postponed our honeymoon a day to sneak home and watch football all day.
Among my prized possessions are a Tiki Barber shirt and a NYG stadium coat, monogrammed with my name.
Yeah, I guess you could say I like football… a LITTLE…
Last few years, I’ve gotten in college ball a bit. No fave team, though.

My uncle by marriage is a football widower.He considers writing to one of the parenting magazines he reads accusing them of sexism because they run articles telling wives how to survive football season, but no articles on how husbands should survive football season.

Oh, I’m dying in here. My brother in law just lost it over how many glowing profiles of FL QB Tebow CBS is running despit the score being 32-13 in the third. The latest:

“They have been licking on Tebow all night.”

Laughter ensued.

Around hereit’s high school football. The running joke is that the perfect time to stage a robbery is during the football game since most of the stores are graveyard empty except for the clerks…most of whom will be gathered around the radio listening to the game, lol. School will let out early so people can go to away games, teachers will make strange bets with the football players if they win games (no joke, high school english teacher shaved her head after the team won state), rival teams play horrible jokes on one another (often resulting in property damage and minor injuries) etc etc etc.
Personally, I despise organized sports and the attitudes that go along with them, whether it’s at the local, college or professional level, but I’ve been informed that’s because I was a band fag and UIL nerd (instead of an athelete) in school and “simply don’t understand” these things.
wev, I’m pretty sure I’m still using those skills for my own pleasure, as opposed to many ex-athletes I know.  

If you think football is homoerotic, you should look at bodybuilding. A group of very muscular (wo)men standing around in g-strings flexing their muscles, including turning around and flexing their asses.

Roooooooooll Tide!After my beloved Michigan Wolverines of course, ‘Bama is my team. They pounded on Tebow and the Gators yesterday. Pam, Being that I am from Michigan, I understand exactly where your wife is coming from…especially the hatred for Auburn and Tennessee that they feel.

Huge fan hereI like sports in general and love football and basketball, but college football is my number one.  As a Texas alum, I pretty much stopped breathing last night when it looked like our guys had run out of time.  What a boneheaded move, not learning from LSU’s mistake a few weeks ago!  But thank God for that one extra second.  It would have been a real shame to see the season end like that.  (Not saying Nebraska didn’t deserve the win just as much.  Just glad we got it instead!)

SeriouslyHave to admit that I’m sooooo glad it’s Tebow’s last season.  When he’s just another marginal NFL player, we won’t have to hear about his holiness all the time.  Ugh!