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?
March 18th, 2018 at 11:14 AM ^
March 18th, 2018 at 12:16 PM ^
I was also in bed with the wife asleep next to me. When Poole hit the 3, I started screaming like a banshee and she woke up saying "what!?, what!?", thinking that the house was on fire.
Epic comment. An all-timer right there.
March 18th, 2018 at 12:07 PM ^
Forza Michigan!
"You have to hold yourself to a higher standard of comportment" -
is your wife British or something?
Maybe teenage newlyweds!
March 18th, 2018 at 10:07 AM ^
March 18th, 2018 at 11:15 AM ^
If my wife uttered those words... I can't even come up with anything. She knows me, and she knows my standards of comportment can be lacking at times.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:17 AM ^
March 18th, 2018 at 10:10 AM ^
She woke up when I yelled with excitement and she was happy too and excited for Michigan.
Go blue; what a shot boys!
I sat there wondering last night if I like that shot more than Trey Brukes vs Kansas. I am still gonna go with Trey Burke but very close.
March 18th, 2018 at 10:12 AM ^
Wife (upstairs) was awakened by my yell, thought "something's wrong," and then thought "they must have won." Two sleeping cats downstairs barely twitched a whisker. They're used to me yelling at the TV by now.
I think I scared the crap out of our dogs when I started jumping up and down, but my wife woke up, smiled, and then just turned right back over fell asleep. I think I’m safe this morning.
I have never been told that I need to hold myself to higher standards when it came to sports fandom. My wife just stays away from that one, I think - she ran around the house for days when the Cubs won the World Series, so she can't say too much.
I have been told to hold myself to higher standards in other areas, like maybe not planting so much fucking garlic this year. That's one example anyway.
I don't know if it is the lack of sleep hangover but the Mrs sure is ready to talk about other activities while I would rather bask in the afterglow.
My father in law never had any sons and made sure his two daughters were sports crazy. It just so happens he's in Illinois but his older daughter happens to be a Sparty and I converted his younger daughter/my wife to be a Michigan fan once she got accepted to U of M for her residency program.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:10 AM ^
I got the "people don't act like that" lecture after I screamed my head out and smacked the wall a few joyous time while muttering "Fuck yes" over and over.
For 30 years of marriage, my wife has been afraid I'd have a heart attack during Michigan games. Last night, she was reading as I was getting more and more depressed. Then the shot went in and I started screaming, "We won!!!! We won!!!!" My MGoPoodle started screaming with me. (His moods during sports events always match mine.) And my wife ran over and told me to calm down, said my face was the deepest red she'd ever seen, and she didn't want me to have a stroke. Well, I couldn't stop screaming, and I didn't have a stroke, and now this morning I want to start screaming all over again.
My biggest fear is that my wife will ask my doctor to order me not to watch Michigan games. I'd hate to have to find a new doctor.
March 18th, 2018 at 11:24 AM ^
And a new wife.