How To Get Your Wife to Like Football

A lot of wives out there assume our excitement means football is barbaric, simple, and boring. Many men, in turn, believe their wives can't get into it because of its violence, and its brutality... The reality of it is, when you look at the things women watch on television, especially crime dramas such as the CSI series, this popular notion is immediately dismissed.

It's all psychology, folks. The reason women like CSI and hate football is because they associate CSI with unwinding and relaxing in front of a television after the working hours. Football, on the other hand, is this devil's sport that's played during the day when the men should be doing something else. We are either too lazy, or we're too loud, while they are either cooking, cleaning, or doing something entirely different, because they can in no way relate to their husbands.

You can get a woman to like football by letting her relate it to something that does not make her pull her hair out. You can do this a number of ways. This is just one way.

1. Treat her well in the hours preceding the games. This doesn't mean being around her all of the time, but make sure she has not worked much on this morning, if at all, and help her out around the house without asking her. It may be true that you work hard 6 days per week, too, but even a small favor to her on the 7th will go a long way in opening up to being around while you're doing something she is not (at first) interested in.
2. Make sure she is relaxed. If she has financial problems on her mind, family problems, or other negative things, this won't help at all. Telling her to simply relax isn't going to relax her. She has a lot of complicated emotions. She will be more relaxed if you do some of the following:
• Step 1 certainly helps!
• Either cook, or suggest a meal which is low in sugars or carbs. Turkey and ham meals contain enzymes that slow the brain down.
• Do not run to do anything unless it's urgent. Keep to the house with the activities.
• Obviously, you want to avoid doing something loud. Playing loud music, mowing the lawn, working with drills in-house are enough to cause annoyance, which leads to anxiety. Help her overcome anxiety.
3. Make it a date. That thing you two probably used to do when you were younger? Just the two of you, at least for now. While watching with her, be sure to curb your enthusiasm and keep it bottled up as much as you can. When she roots for your team, though, be sure to root with her and discuss with her what she wants to discuss. You need to make her feel like she's a part of this football world. If she is going to enjoy the game of football, she first needs to do it her own way before she understands why you get as excited as you do which brings me to...
4. Allow her to enjoy it at her own pace. Trying to force her to watch with you, or trying to force her to enjoy the game when she's with you is only going to put into her mind that this is your activity, and she is only doing you a favor. She'll do it for you because she loves you, and because you were good to her for the day, but she won't enjoy it unless you allow her to come to YOU and spend time with you. At first, it'll only be about being with you, but later on she will become interested and slowly see the game without the instant barbarian bias football usually receives.
5. Patience is key. She may show little to no interest at first. She may politely decline you with an excuse if you ask her to spend time with you without your usual buddies around. Stay with it every Sunday. The absolute worst you can get out of a routine of lulling your wife is a wife who appreciates what you do at work, and then sees your devotion to the house as well as your desire to spend time with her. At most, you can get a wife who becomes eventually as passionate about the sport as you are.