I’ve been getting my start down here after dropping out of Engineering and taking some time off.

Figuratively of course.

Last year I took my Ex to the Blazers vs. Lakers game that we won towards the end of the year. She did nothing but moan and whine for 3 quarters.

It wasn’t until I left mid game, she couldn’t wait till quarter, to get her nachos that she stopped complaining about being there. And it wasn’t till the fourth quarter when the crowd realized we had a legitimate shot at closing the game out that she started cheering with me.

I feel that as a serious sports fan, taking a girl to a game is a good barometer for whether things will work out in the long run. That’s when you can really tell if she just pretends not to be bothered sports and secretly plots to one day ween you off them

I can picture the scene oh so clearly and all i can say is… LOL

That sounds like the kind of relationship sitcoms are made of.

going to catch fire.

by sharing your analyzation with a board full of males?

If so, thanks for taking one for the Blazer Fan Team. Dat cool.

I would never pretend to not like my team for some guy. I am too loyal, and would never lie and say “oohh, I love K*be, Paul Pierce is such a stud.”

If some guy was trying to date me and he was a L*ker fan (or Celtics too), all bets are off.

She owns a Sheed Jersey and at one point she was on the phone with one of her friend making her jealous that she was at the game and the friend wasn’t. Apparently they used to be “fanatics” and they’d wear jerseys and go to games together.

I think the problem is that she likes basketball for the game and the players, but she doesn’t get so deeply involved that she reads the press and therefore doesn’t know their history and back stories.

And with a dad that’s from LA I guess at some crucial juncture in your life you either jump on that bandwagon with him or firmly despise them and forever root against them. Unfortunately she chose the latter and I don’t think she fully understands the amount of hypocrisy that decision forced her into.

So I didn’t tell her she had to hate Kobe, I simply laid out the facts and let her make the judgment for herself. Fortunately, whether it was for me, or because she’s a good person and simply didn’t know how much of an arrogant bastard Kobe is, she has seen the light.

Now I just have to hope her dad doesn’t hate me for converting her. Or maybe it will become one of those secrets that the family can never know. Either way, it should make for a good story.

Also, you girls have to realize that a guy finding a girl that is a sports fan & roots for the same teams you do is a lot harder than the other way around. Cause most guys are sports fans, so if you disagree on teams you can just throw him out and go back to the large mass of sports fans to choose from.

Girls that are genuinely interested in sports are much harder to come by. A lot of girls say they’re interested in sports so they can get closer to you, but when it comes game time you can see the boredom and despair on their face. So when you find a girl that is entertained by a preseason game in which only 1 starter is suited up, you rope that girl in and and never let her go. It’s a slim market, so when you find your target, you gotta take the shot and never look back.

we should have also not waited untill game four to show up… :)

Sophia

That was like watching a highlight real of my dog getting run over. Only the dog had 10 minutes to step out of the way and instead of being quick and spry like a dog should be, it chased it’s tail for a few minutes then got the ultimate deer in the headlights look and just sat there and waited for the end.

What a choke job.