Generally speaking, guys know more about sports than girls do. It’s just the way our culture operates.
You can take me as an example. I understand how sports work — the rules, the game and the better-known players.
But talk to my brothers and they’ll rattle off stats and players to you like most guys can.
But then there are the girls who have no clue about anything sports related. Now, if she’s just the type of person who could not care less about sports then that’s fine. It’s when a girl who knows nothing pretends to have knowledge of all that is sports that we have an issue.
There are a few different categories of this syndrome. Last Sunday, at Super Bowl parties across the U.S. you could categorize some of the attendees.
There are the girls who sit in the kitchen and make it blatantly obvious they don’t care about sports, the girls who actually understand sports and avidly watch the game, and the girls who cuddle up next to guys on couches and pretend not only to be fascinated by the game, but also to actually know what is happening.
I like to call these last ones the “football flirts.”
Now this doesn’t only happen with football – it’s any big game really. From the NBA Finals to the World Series, there is a sudden epidemic of girls who care and know all about sports. Obviously, I’m not a guy so I can’t really say for sure if this sudden interest in athletics makes those girls any more attractive, but I would guess that it doesn’t.
There’s nothing wrong with not being interested in sports, just don’t act like it in an attempt for attention from males because most likely, their attention will be focused on the television despite anything you say or do during the game.
Another category of sports interest fakers are those who attend the school sporting events just to goggle over the athletes. This happens most often with baseball, and we like to call those girls the “cleat chasers.”
How can you tell a cleat chaser apart from other female attendees? Well when she calls a run a “point” and has more comments about the baseball pants than the baseball game, it’s usually a pretty good indicator. If part of the reason you enjoy a sport is for the attractiveness of the players, I can’t really say that’s a bad thing. But at least look up the rules on Wikipedia before you go to the game.
Then again, I wonder how many guys would show up to a girls’ volleyball game if they were wearing sweats and T-shirts.
