Growing up I hated watching football, or any sport for that matter. It may have something to do with being shushed in unison by the three men (dad and 2 bros) surrounding me as we would sit together watching football. I felt left out and it seemed
appropriate that football should take the heat.
When I married my amazing husband one summer in July(truly not just saying that) I quickly realized I would be a very
LOOONNNEELLLY woman every
Monday night and sometime Thursday...and sometime
Sunday right after church from preseason in August to the
Superbowl in February.
Not only did Terry love football, he loved the packers, and not only did he love the packers...he loved Brett
Favre.
Favre meant something to him. A man who married his
high school sweet heart and still married to her! He battled addiction, had his ups and down, but NEVER missed a game. Terry identified with his work ethic and it seems to me, that he was encouraged by this.
So I had 2 choices. put Terry in the middle between his love for Football and me?? That would never work. He would secretly resent me. I decided one day, a truly calculated decision, I chose to join him in his love for Football.
It wasn't easy at first. So many questions, and Terry knows SO MUCH about the game, but I
could tell he was growing tired of my constant asking. The season I chose to fall in love, was not a good one for the Packers....so it was a bit of a struggle. But by Thanksgiving I was laying on the couch by myself as the rest of the family finished feasting watching not one game but two!
So there it began. I began to love the feeling of fall when the new season comes around. The air begins to cool, time to wear sweaters and comfy coats, the Holidays approaching...and time to watch football. The excitement of each game, the
subconscious nail biting because the intensity is so great. I didn't realize it at first, but on Monday nights when we have some friends over to watch the games, one night I realized I wasn't in the kitchen with the girls, I was in the living room with the boys. I had fallen in love with football.
Best of all, My husband and I were sharing
something together.
What prompts me to write this post is two things: 1. Yesterday was the first game of
Preseason2. Brett
Favre was just reinstated to the Packers. 3. Our home is
filled with excitement.
Excitement for the time we will spend with friends as we open our home to them, the games that will be so fun to watch and to me, the time spent with my husband doing something we love together.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/football/bears/cs-080803-brett-favre-reinstated-green-bay-pompei,0,3467647.column
Today we went to Irvine Park with the Quirks. Presley showed me a side to her that I didn't quite realize was there...while at the petting zoo, she took a while to warm up and was a bit timid of the animals.
