06-14-2015, 03:09 AM
(06-11-2015, 07:50 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Neither my ex-wife, nor my daughters are football fans. But I did so much with them the rest of the week I was allowed to have a few hours on Saturday and Sunday to watch football.
It really helped that I always recorded the Bengal games and watched them later. I could watch the game in half the time, and if something did come up where I had to attend to a crying baby or something like that all I had to do was hit "pause". It would have been much worse if I had been forced to leave to leave the final minutes of a close game.
I know some guys who work 60 hours a week and then when they have some time off on the weekends they feel like they after entitled to nothing but "me time" and spend entire days golfing. They spent very little time with their kids and then wondered why the kids would always bug them during games.
If you want a few hours to watch football on the weekend you have to earn it by spending lots of your other free time with your family.
It helps massively when your wife is as big a football fan as you are. I take it for granted sometimes, but most guys don't get away that half the stuff I do during the season. It works because I don't abandon the family to watch the game, we watch together. She just happens to be more into the college game, where I'm into the NFL. My boy seems to like it, too although football season is probably the only time of year that kids programming isn't on our TV every minute that we're home.
