Help!! need advice from married men with kids

#27
#27
Watching a recorded game can be pretty cool. Goodbye timeouts and commercials.
 
#29
#29
I'm married and I have a one year old.

My wife and I have an understanding before the season even starts. She gets to watch whatever she wants, whenever she wants any day of the year. But the understanding is Saturday's during football season the TV is mine, and if she doesn't want to watch the game with me, she takes the kid and does something else. Sometimes it even takes me promising to take her to dinner and a chick flick...but I see that as a small price to pay for a healthy marriage and getting to enjoy college football.
 
#31
#31
vader said:
Watching a recorded game can be pretty cool. Goodbye timeouts and commercials.
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plus mine has a 30sec skip ahead button that allows me to skip all the stuff between plays. I can see a game in 30-45min
 
#32
#32
I'd say you are going to have to miss this game. Try to DVR it.

As an aside, a good way to get your wife into football (so she will also plan her schedule around football in the future) is to get her into a fantasy football league. I've seen many wives turned into football fans because they feel compelled to blindly cheer for some yahoo they picked on their team.
 
#33
#33
GAVol said:
My Father in Law sells welding supplies in Covington. We could weld all the doors and windows shut on your house so you'd be stuck in there and have to watch the game.
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Ding Ding Ding!!! we have a winner. if that dont work, maybe yall can come over the night before the game and weld the doors shut on my car. cant go no where if we cant get into out car
 
#34
#34
TENN said:
Ding Ding Ding!!! we have a winner. if that dont work, maybe yall can come over the night before the game and weld the doors shut on my car. cant go no where if we cant get into out car
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I thought about suggesting that . . . but being that the Dukes of Hazard was filmed in Covington, it made me remember that car doors being welded shut is only a minor obstacle.
 
#35
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GAVol said:
:eek:lol:

Sesame Street was brought to you by the numbers 42 and 6 . . .
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I think you meant "46 and 2." A Tool reference to reaching "divine consciousness," which for UT fans, will be realizing just how bad this year will be. For Florida fans, that's the number of chromosomes Tebow possesses.
 
#37
#37
TENN said:
alrighty, i just started getting into college football last season (still a lot to learn) but anyway my wife has not picked up the concept im REALLY getting into it..

so a few minutes ago she comes to me and says,, i got free tickets to go see elmo live for the kids (we dont take our kids out much) so i was like ok thats cool when is it, she response back its Saturday at 2:30... i was like %#$^&@*#^% no, so now she is pulling the guilt trip

wtf do i do.. i cant miss this game after all the tension

unless your married with kids you may not understand..
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I got 2 kids under 3. Given that you don't have tickets for the game, just dvr it and watch it afterward.

They play this game every year. Your kids are only young once. Soon enough you won't be able to get them to spend any time with you at all.

However, if you don't dress your kids up head to toe in orange to watch the game, then you are a total vahj!

Please be advised that I am totally going to rag on you to my friends in attendance at the game.

Chances are that you will be far mor entertained than I by 4pm Saturday.

Say hey to Dorothy the goldfish for me.
 
#39
#39
TENN said:
alrighty, i just started getting into college football last season (still a lot to learn) but anyway my wife has not picked up the concept im REALLY getting into it..

so a few minutes ago she comes to me and says,, i got free tickets to go see elmo live for the kids (we dont take our kids out much) so i was like ok thats cool when is it, she response back its Saturday at 2:30... i was like %#$^&@*#^% no, so now she is pulling the guilt trip

wtf do i do.. i cant miss this game after all the tension

unless your married with kids you may not understand..
:banghead2:
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Well, your first mistake was getting married. Your second mistake was having kids. Your third mistake was not meeting a foreign woman.
 
#40
#40
i have two boys, 5 & 3. took both of em to the home opener, but i would def. record it, take the kids and stay away from all media til you watch it. turn your phone off. you'll remember the show and the time you had "when I recorded that UT-UF game". And if we win it will be that much sweeter.
I did take a "walkman" to a wedding once. It was UT-UGA, they understood. LOL. I was out in the hallway and parking lot the whole time during the reception, and my wife was IN the wedding. Still haven't lived it down, but we beat UGA's @$$ and ole John Ward called a helluva game. my cousin planned his wedding this fall around all the UT games. HAHAHAHAhA
 
#41
#41
indeedpwns said:
Don't feel bad, I have to attend a wedding..........................................
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We all know that is ENTIRELY untrue. You don't "have" to do anything.

Spending time with your kids is one thing. Showing up to a boring ceremony that someone mis-planned at an inconvenient time is another. Even if it's your own.
 
#42
#42
Sorry man that's gotta suck. Unfortunately i'm in a similar situation. But it's work keeping me away this sat. (again) only 7 more weekends left! (til i'm off weekends.
 
#46
#46
The irony in all this is that if you stay at home to watch the game you will quickly be wishing that you were watching Elmo.
 
#47
#47
kiddiedoc said:
We all know that is ENTIRELY untrue. You don't "have" to do anything.

Spending time with your kids is one thing. Showing up to a boring ceremony that someone mis-planned at an inconvenient time is another. Even if it's your own.
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Seriously . . . Nobody needs friends who plan weddings on Saturdays in the Fall.
 
#49
#49
Tell her you it would be great to give your ticket to a child that can't afford to go. Or tell her that she should ask one of her girl friends to go with her, that they would enjoy it more than you. Or ask her to ask one of the grandparents to go. They love being with the kids. Always deflect. Present it like you are the magnanimous one, and willing to sacrifice the enjoyment of going with your kids to the show so that someone else can.
 
#50
#50
TENN said:
alrighty, i just started getting into college football last season (still a lot to learn) but anyway my wife has not picked up the concept im REALLY getting into it..

so a few minutes ago she comes to me and says,, i got free tickets to go see elmo live for the kids (we dont take our kids out much) so i was like ok thats cool when is it, she response back its Saturday at 2:30... i was like %#$^&@*#^% no, so now she is pulling the guilt trip

wtf do i do.. i cant miss this game after all the tension

unless your married with kids you may not understand..
:banghead2:
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Your gonna wake up satuday morning sick and not be able to leave the house :lol:.....and be stuck at home watching the game.

Cant you call and ahead and exchange them for a different day and time? Maybe pay a little extra and go to the second showing or on Sunday? These things usually go for a couple of days.
 
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