Not tonight, I have a headache.

[mrissa]

Sometimes my mom was totally right about the things she told me as a kid. This time she was totally wrong. She told me I would "have to" learn to watch football socially, because I would be invited to football parties and would need to at least feign interest for awhile before I could get someone conversing over the bean dip and ignore the game for awhile.

Absolutely, totally, in every way wrong. I don't recall ever being invited to a SuperBowl party, much less any other kind of football party. Do I feel snubbed? I do not. If timprov was up and around and feeling good, it would have been a great time to go to a favorite restaurant (probably El Meson) when there wouldn't be People there. As it is, markgritter and I will have fajitas, and if the TV goes on, it will be because we wanted to watch something, not because we're feigning interest for someone else's sake. And if it doesn't go on, oh well.

We have friends who watch football of various types. They never invite us over to watch "the game" with them. Why? Because they know we don't care, so we go out for dinner or watch a movie or go for coffee or tea and talk or go look at flowers if we're feeling like it. They don't think that we're antisocial or that we dislike them. They just think we don't like football. Because we don't. I don't see a problem here.

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Good for you! Ugh to Superbowl parties with big screens and yelling people with beer.

We are having pizza tonight and watching the commercials.

[dendrophilous.livejournal.com]

I went to the grocery at 6 p.m. It was delightfully empty.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Angel and I have never been to a Superbowl party either, and don't really feel that we're missing anything. We do have to keep an eye on when Superbowl Sunday is going to be, though, just in case we want to do something for Dylan's birthday. One year his birthday happened to be on a Sunday, which happened to be Superbowl Sunday (unbeknownst to us), so when we threw him a b-day party at McD's, there were only two other kids there, one of whom was just a random kid whose grandmother had brought him to McDonald's that afternoon and we invited him over to have cake and play games.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Poor kid! How frustrating. (And sad: it's not like most kids care about the SuperBowl anyway!)

[sraun]

We're watching Puppy Bowl II on Animal Planet. It's a hoot!

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

I watched "Battlestar Galactica" this afternoon. Otherwise I'm working this evening, which is fine because it's a nice quiet night in the library with so many other people glued to their snuggletellies.

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

This is one lesson from your mother that I may actually have found useful. I think we've been invited to a superbowl party nearly every year.

The first year we lived in this house our next-door neighbors invited us (and other neighbors) to a superbowl gathering. Since we were new to the neighborhood and wanted to be nice to J & E's neighbors, we accepted the invitation.

For some reason, we were never invited back. I think it was obvious we didn't get the whole football thing.

This year we were invited to some friends', but declined. They understood, knowing us well enough not to have expected football to be our primary reason for coming, and that it wasn't personal or anything.

[windcedar.livejournal.com]

*blinks* The SuperBowl's tonight? So that's why this computer lab is entirely empty except for me, heh.

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

I used to be a Superbowl addict. Until I learned how very pleasant running errands on Superbowl Sunday could be.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

I'm also not inviting you over in two weeks to watch the Daytona 500. You're welcome to show up anyway, though. :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

But not to ask questions like, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if he turned the other direction?"

[songwind.livejournal.com]

No, silly questions are fine.

Actually, Daytona is a restrictor plate race, sometimes called a "200 MPH parking lot" because the cars' horsepower is crippled and they can't get away from each other.

I only watch it in particular because it's the first event of the season.

[brooksmoses]

Oh, the superbowl's today? I'd forgotten.

It's not that I don't watch football at all; it's just that the only football I keep up with is my undergrad college's football team, and that only very sporadically.

For the very few football parties I've been to, I've rarely had any trouble finding someone to converse with, well before the game actually started.

[thesaucernews.livejournal.com]

The superbowl's today?

[laurel]

Kevin and I joke that the only way we could get a bunch of our friends to a Twins game was to get married at one. 'Cuz we're sports fans and most folks we know aren't. And of course which sports people like varies.

I've never been invited to a Super Bowl Party that I can recall, which makes me a little sad somehow because it sounds like fun. Just seems like it'd be a good time . . . for those who are interested in the game and/or the stuff that goes with it or just into being social in that setting.

(I'm not very into football any more, was a Vikings fan for much of my childhood and into high school, but eventually I just got too annoyed with the media coverage, the fans, the players, the coaches, all sorts of stuff).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

If timprov gets feeling well enough to sit in a Metrodome seat, we will totally go to a Twins game with you.

[carbonel]

If the Vikings were in the Super Bowl, I would definitely be hosting or attending a Super Bowl party. Maybe even if the Bears were in it. But I'm not enough of a generic football fan to host one otherwise.

On the other hand, if someone I liked invited me to a SB party, I would probably go. Not because I think it's a social asset to be able to do so, but because I'd find the company plus the game fun.

[redbird]

More reasons I like my mother: she never told me to pretend to be interested in football--or any other random bit of entertainment that I didn't happen to like--in order to impress people.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It wasn't to impress people. It was something she considered minimally necessary to get by socially. She expected that it was a bit like bathing: no one would find it impressive if I did, but it would be a great handicap if I refused.

[redbird]

Also, I like the new journal title--but it's the subtitle that got me to laugh out loud.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

What's with the new title, anyway?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

There's a new entry about this now.

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

Yup. Saw it. 'K. Thanks!

[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

Only that there are often *really good* munchies at foo'ball parties. But that's the only reason I can see to go.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

I've tried watching football as a way of bonding with my Dad. It didn't work very well.

Yesterday I repotted my tree, grilled some pork steaks, watched movies, and did a bunch of laundry. I am most pleased with the way the tree turned out, (I transfered moss from the yard to cover up the bare dirt) hopefully once the weather warms up it will stop hybernating and grow some more leaves.

Also? I am lame; I bought the ingredients for salsa, in case anyone invited me over to watch the game. ::sigh:: Ah well, now at least I can enjoy salsa at my leisure.

[zalena.livejournal.com]

The man at the liquor store asked me who I was rooting for, I said, "I'm a bit of a mercenary about these things. I root for whichever side has the most attractive fans at the party."