It has come to our attention that guys are also checking out our site. In honor of this, we welcome you to our first ever Dude Week. We have formed a panel of "experts" to give the male perspective on some of the questions women find most difficult to understand about men. Each day this week, our "experts" will answer your questions. Today our Sports "Expert" Michael from PA offers his perspective.
Michael- What is it about guys and sports? I get wanting to watch a game, but what is up with the fantasy teams, stats, video games and stuff like that?
The short answer: Guys play fantasy sports, obsess over complex stats, play video games and “stuff like that” because we spend most of our lives answering questions like this from wives, girlfriends, bosses, and other annoying people.
The long answer is that when it comes to sports, guys spend so much time playing, watching, thinking about (mostly on the John) and reading about sports (usually when we are supposed to be working) that we convince ourselves we know more than the next guy, whether the next guy is our best friend (my best friend is a Jets fan, that alone tells me I know more than him) or the coach of our favorite football team (mine is Andy Reid, I do not know more about football than him).
Nothing lets us display our delusions of grandeur like Fantasy Sports (or playing sports video games). Fantasy Sports or video games allow us to control everything. We can choose our team name, we can choose our players, we can call the plays, we can taunt our friends and we can make adult wagers to “make it interesting”.
My guess is that women similarly obsess over things just as foreign to guys – shoes, The View, that god awful show with McDreamy and the girl from Old School – for similar reasons. It’s an escape from the routine.
I’ll take Fantasy Sports, video games, stats and everything else over The View every day of the week and twice on Sundays!
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