My other other fandom

[dira]

FOOTBALLLLLLLLLL. (Which I hear, in my head, as the FOOTBALLLL! at the end of The System Is Down, explosion noises afterward optional).

Anyway: FOOTBALL! Give or take the annual Thanksgiving Day ritual of watching the Lions get beat real bad, and my vague antipathy toward the Packers because I live in OH GOD JUST SHUT UP ABOUT THE PACKERS country, I don't have a lot of feelings about pro football. But I went to the University of Michigan, and I was a student-section-season-tickets painting-my-face-on-Saturdays football fan, and my attachment to the Wolverines has held on through the, ye gods, ten seasons since I graduated, give or take the same creeping ethical dilemma I have with hockey over watching dudes get hurt, sometimes quite badly, for my entertainment. More so, since they're college kids. But leaving that aside for a moment: FOOTBALL!

After a few years there where they were really startlingly bad, the Wolverines are good again. Today's game was the traditional season-opening trouncing of an in-state school from a less-competitive conference, the kind of thing where, after the Wolverines were comfortably 50 points ahead, they started putting all kinds of freshmen out on the field to see how they'd do. Given the level of ambient stress in my life right now, it was really nice to sit back and watch a sporting event unfold into obvious and assured victory for My Guys.

Plus all my DVDs are packed, so I gotta take my entertainment as it comes.

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[mmegaera]

Hee. I'm a pro football fan, and I just enjoyed watching my team sweep all four of their pre-season games (too bad they don't count...).

I can just hear my late father ROFLing at me from wherever he is, because he was a huge football-of-all-types (pro, college, high school...) fan and I used to run screaming from the room when he turned on the TV on weekend afternoons when I was a teenager.

You will pry my beloved Seattle Seahawks from my cold, dead hands (that didn't come out right, did it? oh, well).

It's so nice to find someone else in this venue who understands [g].

[dira]

It's so funny being a sports fan in fandom--suddenly football is the weird thing no one is interested in talking about! *g*

[mmegaera]

It truly is. My first fandom, so to speak, was the actor Kenneth Branagh -- unless the actor/film person in question is primarily in SF shows/movies, that's another one everyone thinks is weird, too [g].

[kass]

Ahahaha, you do live in OH GOD JUST SHUT UP ABOUT THE PACKERS country, don't you?

Out here most people are Patriots fans, or perhaps Buffalo Bills. So the fact that I married a Packers fan (who I think became one because he loved the fact that the team is town-owned instead of corporation-owned, and that it's a successful franchise that's not in a major metropolitan area, IDEK) makes us a bit odd around these parts. I will try to spare you our Packers madness, though.

[dira]

It's mostly not so bad with the Packers--I should really just give in and buy an item of Packers apparel to wear on Wear Jeans and a Packers Shirt days at work--but I moved up here five years ago in August, right when the first round of the Brett Favre will-he-won't-he was going on, and NO ONE WOULD STOP TALKING ABOUT IT EVER. So I fully share the local resentment of Brett Favre, albeit for slightly different reasons. *g*

[riverlight]

I love that I've been friends with you how many years now and I didn't know you liked football!

[dira]

Ha, yes! I didn't watch as much football when I lived in Maryland because it was harder to get the games on TV (and some of that coincided with them being really shockingly terrible). But it's true, I love college football! :D

[riverlight]

Yay for fannishness of all kinds!

[fanofall]

OH MY GOD DIRA FOOTBALL.

I spent ALL DAY Saturday in a progressively-foggier seal-clappy daze watching FOOTBALL because there was FOOTBALL ON MY TELEVISION. And NFL STARTS THIS WEEK.

[dira]

Wheeee, football season! :D