Anyone else in hot water with the Mrs?
I gambled by watching the game within earshot of the better half and lost. My F-laced outbursts both good (Poole) and bad (Mo chin foul, MAAR missed lay up) brought my lovely but non-sports understanding wife of 8 years to startled tears, soon followed by a blubbering "You have to hold yourself to a higher standard of comportment" lecture. She wasn't wrong. I was pretty bad. It felt so good. I'm still smiling. Jordan Poole. Texted a buddy and he informed me he too was in hot water with his wife! Good times.
Lesson: If you marry someone whose college sports passion is less than 10% of yours, watch the game in the same zip code at your own peril.
Anyone else earn spousal heat tonight over some short term turrets?
Lol! Yeah man. I even pulled out the win probability graphic off ESPN to show my wife how miraculous what I had just seen was to try and gain some understanding. It swung from like 95% Houston to 100% Michigan instantly. Didn't work. Tomorrow's gonna be chore and doghouse day and I'll be giddy and smiling all day long.
The best is CLord breaking it down to his wife using data to justify going nuts. Love it!! Babe, I'm not a psycho....I just LOVE MEEEECHIGAN!!!!!! Well done boys, let your nuts hang after that one. Go Blue!!!!!
My wife had already gone to bed, the dog helped me celebrate. He didn't know why I was jumping around the living room pumping my fists but he joined in and jumped around too!
March 18th, 2018 at 10:18 AM ^
After 40 years my sports allergic wife is way past getting mad. Now it's an eye roll and a "yeah, whatever." On the other hand, I can not for the life of me understand her fascination with NCIS.
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My wife stayed up with me, she LOVES to watch Michigan because I'm so passionate about them. She was screaming just as much as I was last night. It was awesome!!
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It's not a newlywed vs long term thing. I've been married for 3 years and she isn't a sports person at all, but she will sit in the room with me. She celebrated with me because she knows how much I care. It seems crazy to me that a spouse would be upset when you get excited about something you love that isnt terrible. It's not like you are doing blow off a strippers ass or anything and cheering about it.
lets me, nay, she basically insists that I watch at a bar so she doesn't have to put up with me.
And I know myself better than to watch an important game within earshot of the sleeping wife and kids. Especially on a Saturday night. I figure there was no reason to watch that game by myself at home.
But you have one heck of a wife my friend. Keep her around.
Remove all the dictionaries from the home, as you never want the word divorce to exist in your universe.
March 18th, 2018 at 12:08 PM ^
congrats to you! and 7 week old twins.. add 2 more congrats in there for that. Life is good, enjoy it.
logged in just to upvote this
March 18th, 2018 at 11:35 AM ^
I'm surprised you let them occupy the cave that long.
I wish I had a lady to yell at me... sad trombone.
March 18th, 2018 at 10:07 AM ^
Looks like there's a few here you can borrow.
March 18th, 2018 at 10:21 AM ^
Good to see Ricky Bobby is an MGoUser.
March 18th, 2018 at 10:07 AM ^
+1 Insightful.
March 18th, 2018 at 10:25 AM ^
I will upvote you for the first and likely only time, both because I'm feeling magnanimous after last night and also because it takes tremendous balls* for you to show your e-face around here after last night.
So +1 to you, sir!
* Or psychotic delusions, but like I said, I'm feeling magnanimous today.
If she ever finds out how much I had to pay for the game ticket, I might be in hot water. With the late start for the game and a 2 1/2 hour drive, she insisted I get a hotel room for the night. I assumed ticket prices would plummet as the first game started and the Kansas fans would give up trying to buy them. I forgot to factor in how basketball crazy Kansans are which kept the prices high. By the time I got to the hotel and got online just before the Kansas game started, there were only a handful of tickets left to be had, and I ended up paying over $300 for a ticket with a face value of $90. In my mind, it was money well spent (I would probably be singing a different tune, though, if we lost).
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Yeah, mine ended up being $315 + taxes and fee to pickup. It was in the lower bowl in the corner, just 10 rows up from the floor, so it was a pretty decent seat. I'm just a cheapskate. There were only 5 tickets left when I bought mine, two people selling two tickets, and one selling the one. If that one hadn't been available, I wouldn't have gone. No way would I have paid what would have been well over $700 for one ticket.
There was one saving grace, though. I hadn't used Stubhub in awhile, so I had to go through getting the email to reset my password. The email took about 5 minutes to come through, and I was sweating bullets thinking the ticket would be sold. I opened another window to make sure the ticket was still available, and the price had dropped some (can't remember how much), so I took it out of my cart and put it back in. By the time I made it to the pickup location, a bar near the arena, it was already nearly halftime of the Kansas game.
"A D in comportment?"
I kept it together through many phantom calls by the officials - which means i kept it bottled up and was just one more ridiculous call away from profanity. I'm not sure when it happened - likely in the last two minutes when things looked hopeless. I was given the lecture. Then when the final glorious dagger claiming victory from the jaws of defeat happened - I did what any reasonable fan would do. I erupted in sheer joy. Loudly. I heard a differently toned holler from the bedroom, went to explain how it could not be helped. Logic was lost on her.
Off topic - Is it wrong of me to be dissapointed that i didn't see any after images of man-bun's kid brother suffering after their loss? I so wanted to see his reaction.
How can anyone downvote this?
March 18th, 2018 at 11:31 AM ^
I was laying in bed with my wife zonked out next to me. I was so not expecting them to hit a 3 with only 3.6 left, so when it went down it took everything in me to keep it quiet. My fists were pumping like mad and my grin was ear to ear. I'm surprised she didn't wake up from the bed shaking so violently.
March 18th, 2018 at 10:06 AM ^