Our teams:
NFL - Green Bay Packers
College - Carolina & Notre Dame
In America on Saturdays we would just have football on all day long. It was so much fun. I would make chili, and football would be on while we were doing things around the house, stopping to watch big plays or the games we really wanted to see. But now, those days are over. Football comes on in the middle of our Saturday night. So only when Carolina has a football game, and Notre Dame has one at a different time will be awake for more than one game....and I'm not sure that I'll even be able to stay awake for all that.
But beyond football, this summer we got into the other football...and no, I don't mean soccer. I mean rugby. The game that helped start our version of football. It's strange watching it, because I am so used to the rules of football, that it really throws me off when they don't do things they would do football.....like when they go down in rugby, the guy who hit the ground can push the ball back through his legs to one of his players, who then picks it up off the ground and just keeps playing. The first time I saw this, I was like what??! How can that be? He is DOWN. But now, I've gotten used to it, and it is pretty amusing to watch the guys with their faces smashed in the ground passing the ball back between their legs. (Forgive me if there are any rugby fans out there who are dismayed at my lack of rugby knowledge.)
We became All Blacks fans this summer (the New Zealand rugby team) watching the Tri-Nations cup with some Kiwi friends here in the city:
America actually is in the Rugby World Cup. Our first game is against Ireland.....so Aaron somehow feels conflicted about who to cheer for. If y'all know my husband, you know why that is confusing to me. He loves America. I know he loves his Irish heritage, but not pulling for America? It cannot be.
New Goal (to be achieved by the end of the World Cup): Learn the Haka:
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