Is sports obsession (specifically football) in men a turn off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This would bother me because there is always a football related something going on.

But if it's just a matter of following one team, then no.

[Anonymous]

Anyone who is so inflexible that our life together gets scheduled around a game vs some hobby getting scheduled into their life as they are available is a turn off unless it's a child, family member or pet where their needs are inflexible.

[Anonymous]

It would bother me.

[Anonymous]

Yes, a turnoff. I am not interested in talking sports at all (and find football especially gross), and it's also too much time and energy away from family on weekends. If he (and/or I) works all week, and he watches sports on the weekend, when are we operating as a couple or a family?

I can get behind it for a special bowl game in a social setting, but following regular season is a turnoff.

[Anonymous]

Yes... Waste of time. Also, players making astronomical salaries and there are hungry children begging for money/food. America's priorities are a tad screwed up...

[Anonymous]

It would be for me.

[Anonymous]

I like football so it's not a turnoff unless you are totally inflexible about the not missing a game thing. It's not a big deal to try to schedule things around your favorite team's game, as long as you don't whine if we have something else going on and you're have to watch it on DVR or miss it one week. I would not be willing to devote my entire weekend to college and pro football, but having a game on in the background while we go about chores, play with the kids etc is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any obsession is a turn off

I agree with this. Anyone who is unyielding in a passion/hobby is a complete turn off. They are demonstrating you will always take second place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any obsession is a turn off

I agree with this. Anyone who is unyielding in a passion/hobby is a complete turn off. They are demonstrating you will always take second place.

+1 to both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like football so it's not a turnoff unless you are totally inflexible about the not missing a game thing. It's not a big deal to try to schedule things around your favorite team's game, as long as you don't whine if we have something else going on and you're have to watch it on DVR or miss it one week. I would not be willing to devote my entire weekend to college and pro football, but having a game on in the background while we go about chores, play with the kids etc is fine.

Woman here. I agree with you. I actually want a guy that likes sports or at least one of the sports that I do

[Anonymous]

Obviously.
Especially American football.
The world's dumbest sport, watched by the world's fattest people.

[Anonymous]

Football is stupid. Football fans are stupid.

The only men I'd ever consider dating who had anything to do with it would be team personnel, like doctors, or a team owner. I'd never dream of dating a player. Not in a million years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Obviously.
Especially American football.
The world's dumbest sport, watched by the world's fattest people.

Compared to soccer, American football is literally rocket science. There are more rules for just the two point conversion play in football than in the entire game of soccer.


Soccer was a sport invented by Europeans to keep illiterate third world colonial peasants preoccupied and not planning revolutions. A simple game, with as few rules as possible, that can be understood, played and watched by people too uneducated to write their own name. And they still play it to this day. Unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Obsession with sports is a bore to me, so I wouldn't be interested in dating someone who gave it a lot of time and focus. To each his own.

[Anonymous]

Yes.