Football!!

I was talking to a guy from Iowa and he said something about how Nebraska girls were all obsessed with football and how weird that was.

To quote another guy: "That just makes our women superior."

Agreed.

I don't think I'm obsessed with football (I say that as I just got home from watching the NFC championship game--Packers are going to the Superbowl!--and the AFC game is on in the background right now). I'll admit I'm a die hard Husker fan and I've liked the Broncos since I was five, but obsessed? Nah.

Ok I do watch football even when it's not a Husker game. I don't know how many bowl games I watched this year, but it was definitely more than just Nebraska's pathetic performance at the Holiday Bowl. And I'll watch Sunday Night Football (and Monday Night Football sometimes).

I know what the Wildcat formation is and I can tell you the difference between a tackle and a sack. I understand the concepts of downs, holding, rushing, kicking, punting, running routes, and safeties. Mention Johnny Rodgers, Tommy Frazier, Eric Crouch, or pretty much any good Husker player in recent years and I'll know exactly who you're talking about. I know who Aaron Rodgers and Jay Cutler and Drew Brees are. Danny Woodhead, anybody? I remember the glory days of John Elway and Brett Farve, who is finally retiring, thank God. It pains me that Tim Tebow is playing for my Broncos, because I hate the Florida Gators, but he's actually doing pretty well so I suppose I should be ok with it.

I can hold my own in a room full of guys when a game is on and I can have an intelligible conversation about Superbowl prospects (Packers and the Steelers, but I'd rather have it be the Jets. The Packers are gonna get creamed either way because the AFC is tough this year). I have guy friends who forget I'm a girl sometimes, but you know what? I'm ok with that.

So maybe I care a little more about football than your typical girl, but I did grow up with a bunch of boys. I have two brothers, no sisters, my dad, all my uncles, and most of my cousins are guys. When there was Husker football going on, we watched it. It's kind of a way of life here in the Cornhusker State (Yes, that is our state nickname). I wouldn't say it's an obsession.