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

[Anonymous]

Huge turn off. Musicians are my turn on and they don't usually overlap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Give me a blue collar, beer drinking, works with his hands, football watching dude any day of the week. You all can have your pleated khaki pants wearing, can't fix a thing, pudgy man boob beta males.

Wow. I didn't realize it was an either or. Thanks for opening my eyes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who are all these men people are dating/married to that don't like football? I guess you scored all the really rich and successful alpha males that happen to not like the sport that dominates masculine culture in this country. Have a hard cider on me fellas, you continue to defy expectations.

The question was about liking it to the point of obsession. Plenty of guys like football, and would watch a game here and there, but mostly have more interesting things to do.

[Anonymous]

YES. Wait until you are married with children, and the fantasy stuff continues to be an obsession. So annoying.

[Anonymous]

Never would have married a woman not into sports. Life is much easier with someone who gets your passions and hobbies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who are all these men people are dating/married to that don't like football? I guess you scored all the really rich and successful alpha males that happen to not like the sport that dominates masculine culture in this country. Have a hard cider on me fellas, you continue to defy expectations.

The question was about liking it to the point of obsession. Plenty of guys like football, and would watch a game here and there, but mostly have more interesting things to do.

People have different views as to what qualifies as "obsession." I don't really think having one day per week that is pretty focused on football is an "obsession." Betting on lots of games, spending tons of money on football related things, canceling events on thursdays, sundays, Mondays, maybe. Getting so upset over a loss or a player's injury that it drastically alters your mood, maybe. One day a week of fun? Not obsession. It only seems like an obsession when it's not your thing.

A lot of women (or also men, I guess) devote the same amount of time (or more) to online shopping, training for triathlons or marathons, crossfit, binge watching TV series', etc. It's only seen as an obsession when it's different than what you like.

[Anonymous]

I had one boyfriend who was pretty football obsessed. I didn't mind him setting aside time on a Saturday to watch VTech football. I didn't mind him setting aside time on a Sunday to watch the Skins play. What I did mind was him needing the ENTIRE Saturday and Sunday to watch all the other games that affected his teams' standings. That irritated me. I wanted to do other stuff on a nice fall day, and being inside all day watching football was not what I had in mind. So I'd do my own thing, but eventually it ate at me that I never got to spend time with him on weekends. (and I do like football, just not watching a million games Thursday-Sunday.)

[Anonymous]

Yes. Total time waster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Total time waster.

As you sit here on DCUM

[Anonymous]

Any "obsession" is unhealthy whether it is football or anything else.

I grew up with NFL loving parents and 5 brothers. In the fall and early winter, football was the centerpiece of our family gatherings on Sunday after church. I am the NFL fan in our house. DH is not a huge NFL fan (his hometown team has been awful for decades) but he blended right in. However, DH went to college at a HUGE football school. While he will gladly miss watching a game for a family thing, I try not to schedule them when his school is playing if I can help it. I understand what it is like to be a passionate fan so I respect it in him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Normal football is bad, too. But American football is worse.

[Anonymous]

I think more people are questioning whether football - and especially college football, where players are younger and unpaid - is morally problematic given the evidence on brain damage that has emerged over the past several years.

If someone wasn't at least concerned about this issue, I'd be wary. Especially when it comes time for a potential future son to play or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Normal football is bad, too. But American football is worse.

What's amazing is Aussie Rules football. Hot men in short shorts racing around nonstop!

[Anonymous]

Yes. screams Neanderthal

[Anonymous]

You guys must be the most miserable set of wives to live with.

To each there own. I bite the bullet and watch Outlander every week, some guys like to watch a game. If you think that reflects on any quality of man you read Cosmo too much as a teen