Re: Football, it may well be an association thing. (Because if you're watching it for cute guys, you're watching for the wrong thing. :)
FNL was probably the closest thing to my own high school experience to any teen drama I've watched on TV. Small Southern town? Check. Only thing to do on Friday nights? Check. Football obsessed Southern culture? Yep. Every kid in school somehow involved in the activity? That too. Father obsessed with it even though it and goes to the games even though he has no son playing it, and his daughter is a cheerleader (other daughter a majorette). Yep.
It's my kidhood.
Hell, it's my state I live in the most football obsessed state in the country. We have the 2009 and the 2010 NCAA national champions, and the # 1 radio station in town is a sports talk radio station that's LOCAL sports all day and only flips to ESPN at night. And it talks college football the. entire. year.
y sister attended football games when she was nine months pregnant. My neice has then been attending games since... pretty close to conception. And she grew up with it too (it was funny when I realized when she was around ten, that she was learning the rules... from women. Because she was sitting between my mother, her mother, and myself. So we were explaining the game to her.)
It's basically an 'immersed in the culture' thing. I didn't stand a chance.
So, I think , what we associate it to has some to do with it.
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Date: 2011-08-19 05:34 am (UTC)FNL was probably the closest thing to my own high school experience to any teen drama I've watched on TV. Small Southern town? Check. Only thing to do on Friday nights? Check. Football obsessed Southern culture? Yep. Every kid in school somehow involved in the activity? That too. Father obsessed with it even though it and goes to the games even though he has no son playing it, and his daughter is a cheerleader (other daughter a majorette). Yep.
It's my kidhood.
Hell, it's my state I live in the most football obsessed state in the country. We have the 2009 and the 2010 NCAA national champions, and the # 1 radio station in town is a sports talk radio station that's LOCAL sports all day and only flips to ESPN at night. And it talks college football the. entire. year.
y sister attended football games when she was nine months pregnant. My neice has then been attending games since... pretty close to conception. And she grew up with it too (it was funny when I realized when she was around ten, that she was learning the rules... from women. Because she was sitting between my mother, her mother, and myself. So we were explaining the game to her.)
It's basically an 'immersed in the culture' thing. I didn't stand a chance.
So, I think , what we associate it to has some to do with it.