Keeping Score: What's a lesbian to do with the NFL?

I've been a fan of the WNBA since its inception, have an advanced degree, watch The L Word, and love Tina Fey. And I watch football -- which I usually watch with my wife and/or some other lesbian friends. Assuming that I have a rooting interest, I watch the Superbowl for the game, not the commercials.

This weekend, I'll be watching the AFC Championship game with a bunch of other Pittsburgh fans at the home of a friend who plans to make Pittsburgh food for the occasion. (For the record, I have no personal connection to Pittsburgh; I'm just a Steelers fan.)

If The Quarterback Princess ever comes out on dvd, I'll be first in line to buy it. (I was excited to watch it when it first aired on television.) However, although I often prefer women's sports to men's, I have no interest in women's professional football.

And that is the role of football in my life. :-)

I was a "sexually active band geek" in high school, so it wasn't uncommon for the marching band to have to endure fifteen game long season, after season...after season. (Small town + old guys living vicariously through young guys = one freakishly successful football team.) After six or so years of that, I couldn't care less if I never saw another halftime show or ate another bag of boiled peanuts again.

I think that's why when a football game is on, I change the channel quicker than you can say "touchdown". 

I do love that episode of Friends, though, <3.

 Inkblots

you *forgot* to watch the BCS Championship game?  How is it possible to forget about any of the 5 BCS games?  (Especially when OU gets beaten by a SEC team;) ) I'm with your grandfather on this one.

So, obviously, I love me some football, even though I endured cold football games as a band member as well.  And our high school team had some...less sucessful years.  I, however, only watch about 4 NFL games a a year.  I'll watch the superbowl, but I don't care much.  the NFL just is less exciting and the players/coaches/owners are often obnoxious.  But, give me some Auburn college football!  Even in tough times, it's great to be an Auburn Tiger.  

I'm super sad that the college season is over, but luckily baseball is just around the corner!  And, Friday Night Lights is coming back on Friday.  That'll help ease my football withdrawl.

FOOTBALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hm I consider myself a fan

I watch pretty much every NFL game

even if I'm amazingly hung over I will still go to the sports bar the next morning and root for my team

Go 49ers NEXT YEAR BABY!

(I'm pretty sure we wont be in the superbowl next year but I can dream)

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lol growing up in pittsburgh, it's pretty much religion to be a die hard steelers fan regardless of who you are.  So of course i'm no exception. My dad has season tickets so i've been fortunate enough to go to all the games since I was a kid. 
I'll be at the AFC Championship game this sunday against the ravens!!! its the greatest time of year to be a fan of the black and gold!!! it feels good to be a part of steeler nation!!!!!!

but i do love women's football as well. One of my best friends used to play for the Pittsburgh Passion-our women's football team. I helped keep stats for a season and it was awesome!

I love all sports, but football has always just been my favorite to watch!! GO STEELERS!! :)

Two large disappointments of my year:

I had to watch my beloved Mizzou Tigers crash and burn after being undefeated for half their season. 

And after freezing my ass off at LP Field this past weekend just to watch the Tennessee Titans lose in the last seconds of the game....I don't think I will be able to bring myself to enjoy football again anytime soon.  :-(

A little over a year ago I moved to Arizona from New England--where the Patriots Rule--and everyone is an obsessed fan. What a shock the Arizona Cardinals were--a less than half-ass team that split St. Louis in the middle of the night seeking a better stadium.

And cardinals,as pretty as they are, don't fit in all that well with tough desert critters like javalenias and snakes.

Not to mention what is a cardinal doing as a football mascot period--although I have heard the pretty bird is a mean little sucker--that will perch on your upper lip and peck out your eyeballs.

Well, maybe so--to my shock (and the shock of the world including the Cardinals) they are a game away from the Super Bowl.

So despite it all, I have to be excited about that.

I loved playing in the AfterEllen fantasy football league this season. Go Krushers! Came in 3rd which is the best season I've had in fantasy.

Every Christmas when I was little, I imagined decorating my bedroom in all the cool NY Giants football gear available in the various catalogs. And every Christmas I was disappointed. 

I say we ladies get to enjoy football without explanation. Besides, most TV programming defies explanation.

I'll of course watch the two remaining playoff games, but this year is really disappointing because I don't really care about any of the teams.  Donovan McNabb going to the Super Bowl would be nice to see, but he's always been such an inconsistant Quarterback that I worry it will be a blowout.

I hate the Ravens.  I don't really like the Steelers but I think Hines Ward is a class-act and like him.  The only thing I want for the remainer of the season is for the Ravens to lose. 

I suppose I'll go for the Arizona Cardinals because they haven't been to the Super Bowl.  I can also kind of make an argument for them as well since they were the Chicago Cardinals years and years ago.  :P

Their defense has been absolutely insane in the last two playoff games and Warner has got some kinda mid-life flame under his ass.  I think the Cardinals are going to go.  And again, hopefully the Ravens lose.

Same thing I say every year: Next year it's a Bears Super Bowl!  Maybe I'll also finally win a Super Bowl in the AE Fantasy league.  Three times in a row to the Super Bowl and I lose every time!!!

GO BEARS IN 2009!!

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I'm so excited to see an article on AfterEllen about football.  I probably do love soccer more, but living in America makes it hard to watch quality soccer games, where there is quality football all around me.  Before I came out, my friends would always joke that I would make some man very happy one day because of my love of sports, especially football....oh well ;)

I personally prefer college over the NFL, but I've been in a fantasy football league the last two years with some old friends from a campus ministry, so I've had to stay up-to-date with the NFL as well.  After faltering at the end of the regular season, I can't believe that the Cardinals have done so well in the playoffs.  I kinda see them as the 'feel good' team of the year (that's still in it).  I doubt that Kurt Warner is a 'fan of the gays' but he seems like a really good guy in a lot of ways, and I love seeing him succeeding after being cut by the Rams.  I'll be the first to admit that I totally thought he was washed up after leaving St. Louis. 

I was a bit bummed cos the Chargers lost, but didn't really expect them to win in the first place :P

Football rules. I can't wait for the super bowl!

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I'm obligated to comment and represent for the Ravens. I've never cared enough to follow players and team movement, but I watch the games

best flow chart ive seen in a very very long time. (since your last one, actually. nice work, stuntdouble!).

honestly, i dont get football at all. but little giants and the annexation of puerto rico? priceless.

there is something about football movies that makes me happy, though - maybe because you only see the exciting plays, or because there's always good pump up music (like My Hero in Varsity Blues), or some hot girl painting herself in whipped cream...

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Football is my reason to breathe in the fall. I can't stand NFL though. I watch the playoffs and the Superbowl and that's about it, but when it comes to NCAA. I'm all over it. Saturdays are my days off and I never go out with my friends. I just stay home and watch football with the family. It's the greatest bonding time ever.

Go dawgs! :)

Sólo Dios puede juzgar de mí.

Friends of mine have a virtual palace - decorated in OU Sooner decorum and rabid... I'm enthusiastic OU Sooner fans... the house was eerily silent in the 4th qtr of the National Championship.  I went to the other Oklahoma school...Oklahoma State University - where most fans are fans because they have a tie or actually went to school there.

But - that being said... I know very few lesbians in Oklahoma, Texas, etc. that aren't football fans.  Isn't Jill Bennett an insane Colts fan and from Indiana?

During football season - we watch a lot of football, participate in football pots, watch parties, sport our favorite players jersey, etc. In Oklahoma - very few people CAN'T tell you what OU quarterback Sam Bradford had for breakfast... lol.... and are anxiously awaiting to find out if he'll go to the NFL.

I know that my friends and I are also aware of what happens in the NFL draft, what goes on in college recruiting and with coaching changes.

Granted...I know a lot of straight women in Oklahoma that know at least college football. (LOL - almost a requirement to catch a man.)

The FEW lesbians I know that aren't into football - know very little about it - whereas the others...are calling plays and coverages. :)

Mine I think is Rudy - or embarrassingly...Varsity Blues.

Don't quite understand it, don't watch it.

Last season (or whenever the last big Superbowl game was on) my coworker asked me if I watched, and when I said no he looked at me like I had five heads.

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I'm from Melbourne, Australia, and I'm mad about Aussie Rules football. It's the biggest sport here, and I think it's the best game in the world. I've tried watching NFL and to be honest I just get bored. It's so stop and start, you've got to move on an entirely different team when the play changes. AFL is so fast and smooth.

And there's NO PADDING. These guys do some intence stuff, they're tackled to the ground, they're running, they're diving to take insanly difficult marks, and they're actually kicking the ball while running. You guys've gotta stop and stand still!

Plenty of women here LOVE AFL. My mum is mad about it. My girlfriend can't stand it, unfortunately, but oh well.

2 ex-AFL players are playing off for a spot in the Superbowl. Ben Graham, ex Geelong Captain, is kicker for the Arizona Cardinals, and Sav Rocca ex North Melbourne and Collingwood legend, is kicker for the Phillidelphia Eagles. Yay my Aussie boys!! :D

CARN THE PIES!! :D

Bruce Springsteen is performing at half time in the Super Bowl this year.  First time!

YAY!!! 

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As my pic can attest, I love football above everything else except my family.  Oh, and maybe archaeology but grad school can get can old sometimes.  My mom turned me into a rabid Michigan fan since birth (I was in the womb during football season).  I will watch any kind of football-college, AFL, CFL, NFL.  There is nothing like college though (especially because I have the misfortune of being a Lions fan).

I also play football for the Treetown Spitfire.  Girls do play football and I have the scars to prove it!

In the this shit is boring and for sissys category of sports. It's like the more gear you put on, the more sissy points you earn in my view. But hey, if that's what you enjoy, that's your perogative right? Alrighty...Carry On. Just for the hell of it though, my money's on the Steelers.