How much does your spouse know about football?

Maybe just as important a question, if your wife is not into football, do you wish she was?

Not if it means I would have to take interest in all her realty tv and vampire shows. Part of me like the idea of football being a guy thing and having her spend her free time cleaning the house and running errands. Plus it can be annoying to hear her cheer against the skins and say "same ol' skins."

My wife is pretty damn into football. Not nearly like me of course but she knows the rules more than basically and has a pretty good handle on the Skins roster most of the time. She also bought me season tickets 5 years ago and went to plenty of games with me in the past. Outside of the rare super-football wife I doubt there are many that get into it like my girl.

Lucky guy.

My wife is pretty damn into football. Not nearly like me of course but she knows the rules more than basically and has a pretty good handle on the Skins roster most of the time. She also bought me season tickets 5 years ago and went to plenty of games with me in the past. Outside of the rare super-football wife I doubt there are many that get into it like my girl.

My wife, a professional choirester, screamed herself horse at a Dallas game we went to the Saturday night before a huge solo she had on Sunday evening.

When we started dating - she could not care less about sports of any type. Then she got into a football pool at her work and won a couple weeks in a row which perked her interest. Slowly, I dragged her into my addiction. Now, 15 years later, she knows the rules, knows the Redskins and has a pretty good idea of who's who of the more well known players. While not hard core, she knows enough to make watching football fun for both of us and to discuss a game intelligently.

By the way - after resting her throat as much as she could, drinking honey, etc., she proceeded to sing the crap out of her solo. Pretty f'ing impressive feat considering she was barely able to speak 12 hours earlier.

My wife knows enough to know she doesn't like it! lol

I think she appreciates an exciting playoff game now and then, but overall I'd say she could live without it just fine. But she married a football fanatic so she puts up with it. I was way worse when we first started dating, so I've kinda met her halfway on some things.

My wife is really into it. She even runs a fantasy football league for her family and friends. (I'm not into FF)

She didn't really know much about football when we got together, but she picked it up real quick and has come to love it. She is a diehard skins fan now, just like me.

She is super competitive and football really brings it out.

She also likes fast cars. She's a keeper.

My wife's family is from the Chicago area so they are all Bears fans.
But she didn't know squat about football until she met me.
She has a pretty good grip of the game and knows who most of the important players are.
I get tired of the Bears rah rah stuff though.
At Christmas time I always move her Bears ornament to the back of the tree.

God Bless my wife. She couldn't have cared less about football before we got together, but with me playing, coaching our son, and eventually coaching HS, she's been "all in". She was team Mom a couple years for my son's team and has been on the sideline helping in mid-30 degree driving rain.

She knows and understands most of the game and can hold a knowledgable conversation on it. She likes Brees (he's really accurate and does a good job) and Clay Matthews (he Fs people up), she's a Raiders fan but she knows "they won't be good with Al Davis or his son running it". During the season, football's on every night but Tues/Wed. Like I said in the other thread, suffering through Bachelor or DWTS is a worthwhile trade-off.

Not married but my gf doesn't really like it. I'm glad she doesn't like it too. Football Sundays are my day. Leave me alone.

My wife will watch the skins games but it is not as easy with a little one. She had her nap timed with the games but that didn't last too long. I'll have to say she ask every year about going to a game or two and its me who has not really cared if we did or didn't go.

My wife grew up in a household that watched a lot of football, hockey, baseball, boxing, so she has a genuine interest in watching those sports. And while she doesn't keep up with current rosters and such, she knows who the big name players are. We go to one Redskins game a year, and our 3 year old and 2 year old know that Sundays in the fall are for "touchdown redskins". I even get to watch it during dinner instead of Dora or Wonder Pets, or whatever cartoon the kids are into that very moment.