skinsgal99

Good to hear that he has contacted you.  Always be true to yourself and be who you are.   Don't change for anyone!

You dont have a problem, your friend does! The great thing about being a sports fan is you cheer hard for your team and rag even harder on the other team knowing full well you respect their talents. So when theteam a friend cheers for looses it is your duty to ride them and ride them hard after all they are your friend so they should know its all in good fun.

My friends and I have been calling each other long distance, long before cell phones, just to rag on each others sorry teams. If we didnt then some body would think we were mad at them. Friends should know its LOVE!

Any woman that passionent about sports is all right in my book. I am a Bears fan and feel free to clown me anytime!

That is good news skinsgal, and don't feel like you raised a false distress flag.  It sure looked like he was cutting ties.  There are no friends like old friends.  It says a lot about your relationship that you were comfortable sending him this blog.  lol

Very sharp of you to do everything you can to preserve a relationship with the opposite sex.  Keeping touch with a boyfriend in your case (or girlfriend in mine) with potential benefits down the road is priceless.   

Just a quick update for those who were interested...he finally did email me back and said he wasn't mad anymore BUT thought really childish of me to leave the message.  Ok, what's done is done and we are back to what we were.

I sent him the link to this blog in my reply email so he could read it.

I think I have learned a good lesson here...sometimes I can put football on the front burner and others don't see it the same way.  I still can't bring myself to root for my boyfriends team (eagles) even though he will root for washington unless we play them. Baby steps, baby steps.

Thanks for all that wrote in! :-)

Skinsgal99

PS. Is it football season yet?????? lol

I would have to agree with a lot of the posters on this one, LET IT GO! If he can't get over it, then he wasn't that great of a friend. I lived up there for 1 year (I am in the Army) and the fans are beyond nuts when it comes to their teams.  To them Belichick is a saint! 

I think you are a pretty fun-loving person and I hope you don't change.  If a fan can't take the ribbing, then they are wrapped way-too-tight and way too serious!

Go NINERS!!!

I have a female friend who is from Boston.  When the Patriots got beat in the Super Bowl, my roomate (who is a Giants fan unfortunately) and I would rip on her relentlessly.  Everytime we saw her for a week or so we would fake choke, and one drunken night we made a cake and put 18-1 in m&m's on it and sent her a picture of it on the phone.  Sure she was annoyed, but she was a real good sport about it, and eventually the teasing stopped.  It's also not like she wasn't a little cocky about it either, during the whole season she would make snide remarks about how good the Patriots are and how they were perfect.  But it was all for the sake of fun and she remains one of my closest friends, and the thought that a trivial sporting event would change that never even entered my mind until I read your article.

I know people from New England are disgustingly obsessive about their sports teams, and I understand that having so much faith and so much interest invested in a team who ended up being the victims of one of the biggest upsets in sports history has to be traumatizing.  But still, life relationships are far more important then the results of a game played by 55 men who your friend will never meet.  I say let bygones be bygones (or whatever the saying is) if he contacts you and wants to mend ties.  Just make sure you keep knocking on him for it and let him know that it is just a game.

I agree with the majority of people that responded.....It's a game, he'll eventually get over it. Twenty years is too long to throw away over a game that means little in the grand scheme of things.

Good luck

his loss

that sounds funny