Ingrained
When Gina and family were visiting, Steven and I took Luca to the park. Luca saw some kids there wearing Cubs jerseys and said to me, “I’m not really a Cubs fan. I’m a Yankees fan.” It was so cute! He was so earnest and matter-of-fact when he said it!
So when I was looking through old photos a few days later, I saw the one below and sent it to Gina. She showed it to Luca, and he said he wondered why he was wearing that! (I think we got it for him, to be funny?)
Don’t worry, Luca. We know you’re a Yankees fan!
I didn’t grow up in a family that follows professional or college sports. So I don’t have a love for any sports team ingrained in me. When people ask me if I like the Cubs or the White Sox, I just tell them I think a baseball game is fun no matter who is playing (and if I can get a vegan hot dog).
However, answers like that don’t always fly. Recently, I was questioned by a little girl (maybe 8 years old?) while in line at Starbucks about my favorite football team.
It was the day of the Bears vs Packers game. I was waiting a long enough time in the Starbucks line that I chatted up the girl’s mom saying “I am surprised the store is this busy! Why aren’t people home watching the game?!” We were both laughing, and the daughter asked me “Are you a Bears or Packers fan?”
I joked around and told her I am a Chiefs fan (not true, I don’t know a thing about football, but Steven is from KC, so why not), and she wasn’t buying it. “But if you had to choose, would you choose Bears or Packers?!”
It completely cracked me up that this little girl wanted to know my answer (I answered her favorite team, phew, ha ha) and I thought it was cool she was in to football! It’s fun to see what kids pick up from their parents. I wonder what I got from mine…
And I have to note, even though I don’t really follow sports, a goal of mine for next baseball season is to learn all the Royals players/stats/other random info so I can completely blow my brother-in-law’s mind when I know it. Ha. (Yeah, it’s totally going to backfire, I know.)
Themocracy
Very cute! With four men in the house, we follow a lot of sports around here: soccer (we root for the Belgian national team), cycling (road and cross), tennis, track and field,…It’s fun to follow a team and be able to talk about it with others – more fun that talking about the weather all the time! Have a good weekend!
That IS fun. Way better than the weather, as long as it doesn’t get too heated 😉 That’s cool you guys follow cycling. I don’t know many who do, here! Have a great weekend, too!
It is fun to follow a team and get into a sport, especially football season. But I’m not really THAT into it. I only watch sports when they happen to be on. But “fanhood” gets a little tiresome. Some people just take it way too seriously.
I think your attitude is typical of us Iowans 🙂 Growing up in a state with no pro sports teams, I think it was just different for us. People just didn’t care as much and the whole town didn’t whip itself into a frenzy on game day. We do love our college football now, but I really don’t remember Hawkeye mania being a thing while I was growing up
I remember college football being a thing – my mom’s side of the family was in to it! My parents weren’t though, so we had no clue. And that was fine with me! Ha!
We had to pick a side in elementary school, it didn’t matter if you watched the sport or not. I’m not in to football anymore and I never got the point of baseball.
I usually try to know who’s playing and/or who won so I’m not totally clueless the next day in the office. But, I honestly don’t care! Even though all the men in my family growing up where HUGE into sports (mostly college sports, though) I never got into it. Doesn’t mean I won’t go to a game now and then, though. I like the atmosphere!