re: Passionate Football Wives - Spinoff Thread

My wife is awesome. She is a fiery Cajun with a outspoken passion for LSU football. Does she love it quite as much as me? No, but very few human beings do. However, she is extremely indulgent of my obsession. We live a thousand miles from campus, but I purchase season tickets every year. We fly to the major home games. She nevers bats an eye at the outlandish expenditures of money and time. The opening game invariably conflicts with her September 1 birthday, but she stoically endures half-baked celebrations in Baton Rouge restaurants, Dallas hotels, and bleaker locales like Blacksburg, Virginia. Our holiday plans almost always revolve around bowl games. No complaints. In fact, at Christmas in 2003, she surprised me with national championship tickets. I take road trips with my college buddies to away games in Athens and Tuscaloosa and Oxford, returning hung over with cryptic bruises and ailments once thought to be extinguished by modern medicine. She ministers to me. Sometimes, she still makes party cups and buttons for home games. When I watch games on TV, I have been known to mute the sound...or hurl myself on the floor...or destroy household sundries like remotes and pillows and coffee tables and doors. She only yells at me for a few minutes. When we lose, I fall into prolonged fits of listless stupor, cursing the unfairness of the fickle pigskin gods.. She cheers me up. After the 2011 NCG, she led me from the Superdome to the hotel by the hand like a blinkered horse so that I wouldn't drift into a melee with the marauding Bama fans. After Kentucky 2007, she barricaded us in the hotel room and plied me with alcohol, pizza, and, um, adult entertainment. My office is awash with the LSU memorabilia she has purchased for me. I feel like new LSU clothes magically appear in my closet every few months.

Really, I can't say enough about how great she is. I have no earthly idea how she endures my fanatacism.

And she does all of this on top of accompanying me to NFL games, NBA games, MLB games, and a thousand other lesser events.