In My Little World

If you don’t know what you are talking about regarding a subject then don’t pretend you do. In my little world I don’t have many people who love football as much as I do. It’s hard for me to find people who I can talk football with. That is why I love the message boards and blogs; they give me a forum to talk with people about football. The reason I am bringing this up is because of the many times I have had conversations with people about football who amaze me with how little they know. For example, the other day a friend of mine came over with his new girlfriend. He said to me she is a huge football fan. So I am thinking cool, something to talk to her about to get to know her. So they both come over and he says to me "this is so and so (I will keep names out of this) she loves football". So I say "who is your favourite team?" She replies "I am a huge Chicago Bears fan" ( I am thinking ok so far, at least she knows a team ) Then she says "the bears won’t win anything until they replace Rex Grossman at QB" ( This conversation happened two days ago ). I am thinking WTF, you are a huge Bears fan and you don’t know that they have Jay Cutler! If it was an average player that they signed in the offseason then maybe she would not know about it. After all not many people are as up to date on off season moves as Fantasy Football players are. But they made a huge deal and signed Jay Cutler; if you are even a passive fan of the NFL you would know about this deal. But she claims to be a HUGE Bears fan. So I say to her "well you know they signed Jay Cutler". I don’t even think she knew who he was because her reply was; "Well all I am saying is that with Rex Grossman they won’t win anything". I said "well I am pretty sure that since Rex is in Houston now that she won’t have to worry about that". Then I changed the subject. I have many stories about people pretending to be huge fans of certain teams. Now I have a test for them, I say oh your favourite team is (Insert team name here) Name me five players on the team. If they can’t then I say well when you learn that information come back and talk to me. I don’t really do this, but I would like to. I usually ask a few basic questions if they don’t know the answer then I will change the subject, so I don’t get frustrated. Maybe some of you can’t relate because all your friends are diehard fans. In my little world the die hards are few and far between.