# Female Sports Fans **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 5, 2001, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-sports-fans/91530 "2001-11-05T03:08:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![eyewearlime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c6cbf5/32.png) [@eyewearlime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eyewearlime)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-sports-fans/91530/21 "2001-11-06T14:10:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Vinnie Virginslayer \* > \*\*3. MOST female sports fans make really, really irrational opinions on their teams, and seem unable to back it up with any knowledge whatsoever. > Granted, a lot of male sports fans are dopey, but whenever I hear a female offer her opinion on a team, I’m so prejudiced because I’ve heard so many women say so many stupid things pertaining to sports. \*\* Irrational in your opinion, Vinnie. These points just emphasize psychological differences in men and women, IMHO. How many stupid things have you heard a man say about a team, an thlete, etc, but you still think they are OK? Personally, I don’t get hotted up over male athletes and I am 100% straight. You think I love the DBacks because I think Randy Johnson is hot–sheesh, give me some credit, willya? I think Derek Jeter is very hot, but I’ve never supported the Yankees, not this year, not last year, never. I love my teams, but I watch others when they are not on because I love the game. I know you exist on this board to stir up controversy, but you are going to have to do better than this to get me to rip you. BTW, Curt Schilling also came to Phoenix because he grew up here and was excited to play for his hometown. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-sports-fans/91530/22 "2001-11-06T15:19:41Z")
Vinnie–You need to start hanging out with a better class of women. eyewearlime–I think you’re onto something when you say that women may be less interested in individual statistics and more interested in “soft” factors. I don’t care that Bernie Williams has hit 16 post-season homers. I do care that he didn’t run hard out of the box in the world series. That was really lame. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-sports-fans/91530/23 "2001-11-06T15:40:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Sorry Pepperlandgirl, but I’m a Raider Fan. Actually I’m an eclectic fan (I think that’s the word). I am a fan of any AFC team over the NFC. I am a fan of any AFC West team over any other AFC team and a fan of the Raiders. But then I’m a guy. It’s a rough year to be a Broncos fan. =( I too like any AFC team over any NFC. But I have a hard time cheering for anybody in the AFC West because well, they are direct competition of the Broncos. Even if it’s in a Superbowl (Not that that’s come up recently, but you know…). > [@](#): > > 1. The only reason most women root for sports teams is because they think the players are hot. This is ESPECIALLY TRUE of hockey fans. They know zero about the other team, the history of the sport, etc etc, but boy do they get excited when their favorite player is one the ice. Uh, it’s kinda hard to drool over a _football_ player. And during the course of the game they’ll show head shots and I’ll say, “hmmmm, he’s cute”, but I don’t say, “hmmmm, he’s cute, I better root for his team!” > [@](#): > > 1. If not #1, then it’s because theur boyfreind roots for the team. The girlfriend roots along with him, wears the jersey, goes to games, but this eventually wears off as the relationship continues since she was only doing it to con the guy into thinking she was a “cool” chick. :rolleyes: Give me a break. The only reason _my_ husband roots for any team is because I do, and he wants to to con me into thinking he’s a “cool” guy. Actually, I made it clear to him, “On Sundays we watch football in my house. Get used to it.” > [@](#): > > 1. MOST female sports fans make really, really irrational opinions on their teams, and seem unable to back it up with any knowledge whatsoever. Some examples: I’m only going to grant you that _because_ most men do it too. Just because you have a penis doesn’t mean you automatically know all about the teams and sports, and never, ever have an irrational opinion. So, in other words, that’s accurate if you take out “female” completely. **Most sports fans…** ---
**Author:** ![eyewearlime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c6cbf5/32.png) [@eyewearlime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eyewearlime)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-sports-fans/91530/24 "2001-11-06T16:29:25Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \* \*\* > [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > 1. MOST female sports fans make really, really irrational opinions on their teams, and seem unable to back it up with any knowledge whatsoever. Some examples: > > I’m only going to grant you that _because_ most men do it too. Just because you have a penis doesn’t mean you automatically know all about the teams and sports, and never, ever have an irrational opinion. So, in other words, that’s accurate if you take out “female” completely. **Most sports fans…** \*\* Brava pepperlandgirl! Well put. And if the women Vinnie knows are the types who call into talk shows (sports or otherwise) then I don’t think we can take him too seriously. For that matter, he listens to talk shows. 'Nuff said. ---
**Author:** ![IzzyR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/2acd7d/32.png) [@IzzyR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IzzyR)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2001, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-sports-fans/91530/25 "2001-11-06T18:46:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \* > > > [@](#): > > > > 1. MOST female sports fans make really, really irrational opinions on their teams, and seem unable to back it up with any knowledge whatsoever. Some examples: > > I’m only going to grant you that _because_ most men do it too. Just because you have a penis doesn’t mean you automatically know all about the teams and sports, and never, ever have an irrational opinion. So, in other words, that’s accurate if you take out “female” completely. **Most sports fans…** Absolutely. In fact, I actually recall a guy claiming it was [Time to face facts: Cal Ripken is a fraud!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=76937) Could you believe that? 😉 But seriously, it is likely that the more emotional people are about sports the less rational they are about it. Pretty much like every other topic. (This explains a lot of callers to sports talk shows, as well as certain GD threads). So if it is indeed true that women tend to have more of an emotional relationship to their teams, it is not out of the realm of possiblity that they are _on average_ less rational about it. (Of course, exceptions will abound, as with all other such generalizations). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/female-sports-fans/91530.md?page=1)