Let's be up-front about something. If you're a girl and you don't like sports, it's possible you have used this to your advantage in the past, as a flirtation technique.
Where this technique falls down is that it's a very short-term play. (Look at that! That's a sporting reference!)
Anyway, the first time I go to watch a football game with a boy and let on my complete lack of knowledge, it's ADORABLE. He gets to be manly and In Charge and mansplain things to me and I get to widen my eyes and focus on the color scheme.
**sidebar: all of the teams with bad colors (see: the state of Oregon) should probably remember that there are people for whom the only thing that team has going for it is the color scheme. That's why Northwestern is ALWAYS going to beat the University of Oregon. I'm not actually sure if they play each other, but a) the side of the stadium in purple looks WAY less crazy than the side in yellow and green and b) Wildcats vs. Ducks is a no-brainer. Ducks can't really beat anybody up, and that's what wildcats do, essentially, for a living.**
But the SECOND time I go to watch a football game with a boy, he is going to expect that I have retained some of that knowledge. Whether or not I could have, I chose not to, because I'd rather use that space in my brain for napping. Somewhere about Game 7 (this is not a World Series reference because I'm using football as my example: stay with me), this stops being cute and becomes infuriating for the boy.
If you're a serial dater, then, this method works wonders. If you, like me, prefer to lock into a long-term relationship, you're going to either need to find a boy who doesn't like sports (and take it from me, that is a win only if he hasn't replaced "sports" with "computer games" as an obsession) or else a boy who doesn't care that your mind is like Teflon when it comes to sports knowledge.
Luckily, I seem to have found one.
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