[speaker001:] okay I'm not as ashamed to claim them this year as a has been so
[speaker002:] oh so well it let's put it this way we've got the New England Patriots up here so
[speaker001:] oh yeah right well
[speaker002:] they've had some serious problems in the past couple years
[speaker001:] really why
[speaker002:] yeah um well uh partly due to ownership you know uh Victor Kiam owned the uh the Patriots uh for a period of a number of years and
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] he always had this uh this wonderful quality of quality being able to put his foot in his mouth every time he went to say something and uh they've had some financial problems with the team and so forth and it recently was sold to uh some other people so hopefully this ownership can set up new direction and uh keep uh the Patriots in the New England arear anyways
[speaker001:] yeah well it'll be fun for you to watch up there anyway to see what happens now you
[speaker002:] oh yeah I've been to a couple of I've been to a few games before
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] now you you're you're from Texas so you've got two football teams down there
[speaker001:] right well it depends on where you're from in Texas I live right by Dallas so we have one football team as far as we're concerned that's how it's is it's divided yeah it really is so
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh I see there's that type of segregation huh wow
[speaker001:] we've got our Cowboys here and and uh I don't think anybody roots differently
[speaker002:] uh-huh do you
[speaker001:] but I have a boyfriend that lives in Fresno and he is for the L the uh Raiders LA Raiders so
[speaker002:] um-hum do you follow professional sports at all
[speaker001:] well I just started to this year because of these silly Raiders that didn't do very well but I've been trying more this year I think I know a little more than I used to I never knew very much at all so
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I'm trying
[speaker002:] well it's it's a good past time
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] you know particularly football they say uh it football attracts more men because of the you know you the you see the the physical aggression on the field and supposedly psychologists say that uh that um men take out their frustrations by watching football and you know they get together with a bunch of guys and they um uh and they have a good time and everything and that's suppose to be some of the uh male bonding and the and the uh the male instincts I guess or something about uh
[speaker001:] so I shouldn't even try to do it huh
[speaker002:] well no it's a it's good as in terms of in terms of uh of a contest I think that uh I personally like hockey better because it has contact it's a contact sport it has the speed
[speaker001:] yeah right
[speaker002:] and the hand eye coordination and it takes a certain skill to play hockey not everybody can play hockey
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so we and that's we're a big hockey area up here hotbed up here in New England as well as you know in in the Minnesota area but
[speaker001:] really I don't even think we have that in Texas but we might do we
[speaker002:] what hockey
[speaker001:] I mean no you probably know I don't know nobody talks about it so I don't think we do
[speaker002:] no there's no hockey there's no there's no professional hockey teams in in in in Texas it just it's
[speaker001:] no uh-huh and we have a soccer team that comes and goes we don't even have that very much so
[speaker002:] yeah I think though that professional football in particular is becoming so diluted now like they have this World Football League
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] you see we have the NFL that that Dallas and Houston are in and New England Patriots and LA Raiders and those teams there are those teams that play in professional the National Football League
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but uh now they have what's called the World Football League and they have all these teams from there's a team in London and there's a team there's a there's a uh teams in other European teams and there's teams in the United States
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and and and they're playing now during the summer months and it's really you know overkill you know there's only so much football you can watch
[speaker001:] oh yeah yeah well I like to do I don't like to watch I don't like to watch anything
[speaker002:] yeah that's good
[speaker001:] so it kind of annoys me when people just lay in front of a TV and watch all this stuff I think it's an excuse to do nothing and I I can see what you're saying about the male bonding and the guys get together and that's kind of cool that's fun you know
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum
[speaker001:] but it can get really overdone
[speaker002:] now have you ever been to a professional football game
[speaker001:] yeah I have yeah yeah I have
[speaker002:] have you did you do the whole big the the whole thing the tailgate party and the whole
[speaker001:] uh no actually no um
[speaker002:] well see now see now that's what you got to do see now we talked our wives
[speaker001:] I've done that for college football yeah
[speaker002:] yeah yeah you the same well the same thing we we talked our wives there's about six or eight guys that we used to go out for these games and uh we talked our wives into going with with us one time and they had a real good time and it was basically for the social atmosphere
[speaker001:] yeah right and that's the thing yeah
[speaker002:] you go you know three or four hours before the game you go set up we set a table up we do some cooking some barbecueing have a few drinks and then go in and see the game and see the Patriots lose and then go home and eat drink some more
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] but but that whole it it's not so much sure the contest itself and the game itself but it's the whole atmosphere of playing uh of going to a game
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] it that you miss sitting home in your parlor you know uh with a with a a six pack of beer and some uh potato chips you know you you miss that and and any professional sport I think you miss that
[speaker001:] that's right yeah that's right uh-huh
[speaker002:] the atmosphere of being there you know
[speaker001:] yeah well in high school I went to every football game and well I twirled you know and I you know I didn't I still don't know that much about football obviously but I still had a good time you know I
[speaker002:] yep well football