![]() Men obsess over stats, but women root for the guys under the helmets. One way, she says, is through the narrative of the players lives. ![]() They just may have a different way of connecting with the game.” “Men don’t get the idea that a woman would watch the game with them if they had a reason to tune in beyond the game itself,” she says. Jaci Rae, a psychologist and author of “Winning Points with the Woman in Your Life One Touchdown at a Time” says it’s because football falls on those “quality-time” days that some men start throwing “incomplete passes” in an effort to get her to understand his devotion to the game. “Especially when it falls on days you might usually spend with them.” “It’s rare to find someone who doesn’t get jealous of you enjoying something that doesn’t involve them,” he says. She’ll stock the fridge when she wants him to stay home, so at least he’s around, even though he’s distracted.Ĭanada says he considers himself one of the lucky guys. Sometimes he hits the Harlem Tavern to watch multiple games, so Sneed has learned to lure him home with beer. “But what I didn’t know is I would not see him most weekends, so that took some adjusting.”Ĭanada, the owner of three fantasy football teams, spends his entire Sunday watching games, and never misses his faves, the Seattle Seahawks. “I knew the type of fan he was,” says Sneed. But when the season finally began, she saw Canada couldn’t love football more if he actually wore a helmet and shoulder pads. She knew her boyfriend, Bob Canada, 31, was a die-hard fan because they had been friends for a year before dating. ![]() Brandi Sneed, 26, of Harlem learned as much last season. ![]() Ever since the Giants kicked off the NFL season with a loss to the Dallas Cowboys, men have retreated to a zone defense in their caves, and women have been trying to lure them out with wildcat plays.Ī full-contact affair is difficult, especially for rookies who are just now realizing their partner’s love for football is deeper than a Hail Mary pass. For the past 11 days, NYC relationships have been on the injured list. ![]()
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