Do Your Hubby Ignore You During Football Season?

My husband does not watch any major league sports and never ignores me. It was one of the things I really liked about him.

We are a football family! We all love it! I couldn't be with a man who didn't love sports. I could give up the golf, but the rest of it I enjoy. Not 24-7, but I don't mind ESPN being on. Football though I LOVE!! I get so excited for the season and am sad when it's over!

I love a good steak and a good football game. My ex watched football, but so do I, so I didn't feel like I was being ignored.

We both ignore the children during football season :)

Sorry we are a football loving family! My daughter and I are very much into the game. I have loved the game since I was in high school. My husband was shocked when we first met and we started talking about the game! He made sure that our daughter could throw and football and she has the perfect spiral on it! Her boyfriend is thrilled!

Oh, I love the snacks and the tight pants!!! lol

One of my husband's "selling points" was that he wasn't into any sport in particular. We recently got a pretty big high def TV and I caught him watching some sport recently. He said he was just appreciating how clear the picture was. Um hm.

Seriously, I would be hopping mad about anything that occupied that much of my husband's time and caused him to ignore me for months on end. Sounds pretty selfish to me. Does he also ignore your children? That would be even worse for me. Not a great example to set. I'd talk to him.

No, my husband does not ignore me during football season...I ignore him. I'm a huge football fan. Friends call me the team mom for our local AFL team. (I've catered dinners for them. I've made birthday cakes and cupcakes for the guys...all sorts of things.)

I'm a Browns fan from way back in the day. Now I'm also cheering on the Colts because two of my boys are now in the NFL and play for the Colts. (Ty Nsehke and Jerry Brown)

So, I guess hubby is like you now...only I hope he's not using binoculars to look at the guys butts... ;)

Nope we don't ignore each other during football season because around here we all suit up for purple fridays and sunday games. We all have a few sets of Raven's Jerseys so we take turns deciding if we're all going to wear Flacco, Rice, Reed, Lewis or Suggs. (Santa brought us the really nice ones with everything sewn on 2 years ago. I hear Santa found them for 70% off retail on EBAY...brand new, still had tags. Santa sure is smart.) WE all must wear the matching jerserys so as not to jinx our guys...lol.

It's actually quite the family affair here. We all prep snacks together on game day. Our 6 y/o runs around yelling "What time is it....game time." And the 2 y/o does Ray Lewis bird dance...really funny to watch.

We love our team but we LOVE spending the time together as a family even more :) It's another hobby we enjoy doing together.

Peace and Blessings,
T. B

God, no. It's bad enough he's a Deadhead. I've already made concessions there ;)

Ha! My husband doesn't watch football at ALL. Yipee! But, he does watch "futbol". Sigh. That's on all year round. I am a big soccer fan too, but not as much as him.
Thankfully he can DVR the games and watch them later and it's not a big deal to him. He doesn't ignore me.
And if I danced buck nekkid in front of him it would be ON.
L.

No, he doesn't ignore me during football season (or during Yankee season). Just my opinion, but this behavior has always seemed childish to me and I grew up in football country! My family bleeds Orange and Blue (Gators) and while "the game" is always on... we don't watch it to the exclusion of other things or people.

If it's OK with you, great. It has never been OK with me and it never was OK with my mom!

Nope. My hubby doesn't watch football. I wouldn't have married a football fan. I hate it, and most sports. Hubby is like me, politics is our sport.

Yes, I am ignored during games, not the entire season. However, this works to both our advantage. I usually take DD and go shopping or to meet other "football widows."

That way everyone is in a good mood, especially if his team wins :-)

I am the football junkie in our house. After about 15 years of marriage and our son also becoming a huge fan, DH has learned to like watching the games. He isn't the junkie I am, but we do spend a lot more time together in the fall. Lol!

Nope...my hubs gets ignored on Sunday. But the same happens in college basketball season.

Here's a tip for asking questions. Don't ask them during the game. Ask during commercials, ask after the game is over. Do you have DVR? Have him pause it to ask.

Below is a post from last year that has some really great answers from us lady football lovers. It may help you...the problem is men cannot speak woman and they can't really explain it to us properly.

http://www.mamapedia.com/questions/818249278001512449

ETA...sorry that's the wrong one...but there is one out there that has some great explanations...search in the upper right corner...find last years dates around this time.

Ahhhhh...no. My husband is not rude and anti-social (seriously - taking a plate of dinner into "his room" is rude) about sports. We both love professional football and watch every Patriots game together but really, there are only 16 - 19 games a season. He is also a huge Bruins fan - that season is long and there are 82 regular-season games - but no, he's doesn't ignore me and the kids. He does watch just about every Bruins game but the TV is sort of on in the background and he can do other things (like have a conversation, do some work, put the kids to bed) while the game is on. He understands that not every game is a playoff game and therefore there is no need to watch every second.

How does your husband have that much football to watch? It's only on a few days a week anyway and each pro team only plays once a week? Is he watching re-runs? College games?

Really, bless you for putting up with his immature behavior. It's one thing to be a fan and another to be rude and self-absorbed. If I were you I would cancel whatever ridiculous cable package you have that provides all of this football and would ask him to pick a reasonable number of games to watch a week.

Yes he ignores me when football starts and he's not even as bad as some
hubbies I've seen.
He's better than he used to be.
I wouldn't mind if it wasn't soooo long.
Plus he would watch pre-season games.
I learned early on to develop something to do out of the house during those days.

The problem came when we had a child. Aww.
Oh well. Things could be worse.
At least he's home. He could be into worse things yada yada yada.

I've given up. I join him when I feel like it. I've had parties, gone to other people's homes, gone to dinner where I knew they'd have the game on etc.

It doesn't matter. I'm busy w/the little one, I have friends & I've just decided to my own "thang". :)

Ugg, I hate football season. I usually just read, but then my husband wants to start jabbering on to me during every commercial, very annoying. If whatever you had to say was that important you would say it during the game. I try to choose restaurants without tvs during this time of year. And I pick up extra hours on Sunday so Im not home as much. I dont understand it, even if there was something on tv that I really like, I cant stand to stare at that idiot box all day. Sometimes when dh is at work the dvr 'acts up' or 'doesnt work' and his game gets deleted, lol.

hee! i was afraid this was going to be a complaint, but i'm grooving on your sense of humor about it.
i know nothing and could care less about football. i have got over my indifference to baseball long enough to learn about it because my dh loves it so, and things that are that important to him should matter (somewhat) to me. well, and our boys were huge into little league. but that's as much as i can give.
i enjoy the football season just because the guys are into it so. the ol' man doesn't exactly ignore me during the season, but when he's into a game, i surely don't try to have a conversation with him. i just provide food. and i'm free to putter about and do whatever i feel like!
as for your buttnaked idea, i can tell you from personal experience that one of the nicest things you can do for a man you love is to show up buttnaked during a game and tell him 'keep watching! today you get to do both!'
er......i suggest trying this during a TELEVISED game.......
;) khairete
S.

Yes a football widow is common. I am also a football widow. I do not care for the game, but will join the outings and have fun with others wives. Men like football, I do not care if mine watches it here or with his buddies. I know better than to try to talk or get his attention during a good game. I feed him or them and step out of the way! I will also do my own thing while he is doing his. I get lots of free time during football and its ok with me. And I too like the watch the player in the tight pants!

Nope I watch it right along with him. I enjoy football. But it wasn't until I understood the game did I like it.
Get into it, ask him about how the game is played, get the rules in your head and you might be surprised you might enjoy it for the game.
Football season at our house is a family affair.
Football days we have out a whole spread the little smokeys in bbq sauce , chips , dip , pretzels , salsa, cheese and meat tray, fruit , it all rotates as to what we have any given saturday and sunday.
Turn the game on in the living room instead of " his room" and you'd at least have his company.

ETA liv what does being a vegetarian have to do with ignoring and football season?? , NOTHING.

I agree that you forgot the third thing they love: sex. My fiance runs a FF league (has for a long time), but that is the only one he is playing this year. My girlfriend and I decided to join it last year. I did pretty well actually. He's very serious and has a whole spreadsheet for the draft. I humor him with it. He knows I don't really care, but its fun to complete against him, his buddies and family. My famiy does a weekly pick of teams to win.
He has all his football stuff on his phone so if we miss a game because we're doing something else, he's fine with it. He just posted on FB this weekend that he had the coolest fiance because I love FF as much as he does...there should be a sarcasm font on FB.

Good luck! and let us know if the butt naked thing works for you

baseball season is the worst at our house - if he's not sitting in front of the tv (ignoring the chaos around the house), he's got two radios going or his headphones in listening to the radio station that broadcasting - this REALLY goes over well with me because he's already 'out of sync' with what's going on in the house........and then puts those damn things in his ears - really!!??

I WISH my hubby would ignore me during football season. Instead he begs me to watch the game with him, then tries to explain everything that is going on... I don't like football. I don't care about what the players are doing. I would rather be in another room until the game is over.

Luckily for me, apparently the Vikings have been kind of bad recently and now hubby only watches the games when it's convenient and he's bored. He used to almost schedule his day around the games.

^_^ My husband's a vegetarian.

And no, he doesn't ignore me.

Yes, I am a football and Xbox widow as well. The only thing that works for me is that from February to September, we cancel our cable and I do a happy dance because there is no football on the tv and we save a few bucks! Then football starts up and it takes over. I believe my husband is in 3 or 4 fantasy football leagues this year.I have told him before to limit it to 1 game per night and he has. The xbox is unfortunately on much more than that and has been a constant sore spot in our marriage. Neither football or xbox are things I have any interest in. And yes, it might not be the healthiest thing, but I DO ignore him if he has been staring at the tv for that long. He wears earphones for the xbox, too, so if I need to get his attention, I have to yell , standing in front of him, waving my arms, and it is just not worth it. It makes me so mad that I do generally just ignore him :(

Nope. My husband is not into sports. He's a gamer, but if I ask him to not play tonight, he won't, because our relationship is more important to him than his games. I had a boyfriend who was into games and I did once come out naked and he told me that he was busy and needed to level. I dumped him and never looked back.

o0h im so happy football seasons back ..football season is very interesting in my house, my dads a diehard jets fan, my fiances a giants fan and as for me its green bay all the way- so much so that i refuse to let my fiance take the big sign off the closet door that says packers locker room that my parents got me when i was in 4th grade- anyway the only talking that goes on when the game is on, is not talking, its screaming .. and when 2 of thos teams play eachother theres a who0le lot of sh*ttalking and ballbusting going on.. i dont wana sound like a b*t** but if youre really trying to figure it out do yourself a favor read about it or look at some videos online so that while the games going on you know whats happening.. if someone sat there asking me questions while green bay was playing and that question wasnt- "do we have anymore beer?" i wouldnt be a happy camper.. if youre not really interested you have 2 options.. 1-dont bother watching with him just do something else .. or 2-- watch and dont be annoying

..and this has nothing to do with the question but for anyone who has cablevision we just got the NFL channel !!!! (now i can watch all the green bay games, so happy i could cry!)

No, mine thinks sports are dumb. I would sit down and talk to your husband and let him know how you feel. Or heck, send him a copy of this page, or a link and ask him to read it. Hobbies need to be about compromise and you two aren't. Good luck!

Nope. Thanks goodness I have one of the rare men that isn't into traditional pro sports. He loves his MMA, but that only happens a couple times a month, and is always on at night. The plus is that I actually don't mind watching it.

Yes, my hubby does his best to ignor EVERYONE when the game is on! He has no patience with the kids either.

Like you, I've found my silver lining. I can go shopping and get whatever I want and come home and try to show him during the game. Of course, he's not really paying attention so I get away with some purchases he might otherwise scoff at!

I do know how the game is played and I will sit and watch a bit here and there with him, but I just can't stay intensely glued to the tv for 3 hours like he does.