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So your favorite sport is on and something is going really right or really wrong, are you hooting and hollering at the TV or not?  How about your spouse or children?

 

I'm a total yeller when it is football season!  I was raised by yelling family members so I think this is normal.  DH thinks I'm weird. 

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I once broke the couch when yelling and jumping up and down.  Dh didn't get upset because I was cheering for the correct team.  Dh is pretty quiet except for a few choice swear words when his team makes a mistake. The more serious something is, the quieter he gets.  Football is very, very serious.

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We cheer and yell. College football and basketball and Peyton Manning. ;)

Dh watches golf too, but that gets more restrained sorts of audience participation.

 

When we had been married about two years, Dh observed that we were becoming more like each other. I yell at the TV watching sports now and he does it watching anything political.

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Depends. DH won't yell, but he will whoop and holler if someone makes a great golf shot, or a good play, or a goal, or a horse that he would have bet on wins. He's an equal opportunity sports fan. Put this with the fact that he watches ALL sports with the sound off, and it sure sounds funny if I'm in another room. 

I only get all worked up about hockey.

Yeah, I'm in the south and always have been. I know I'm weird.

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You know the saying, "There's no such thing as a stupid question"? That is wrong; this is a stupid question. OF COURSE one yells at the TV. How else will your guy know he is supposed to run if you don't tell him???

And it would never occur to the officials/refs/umps to get an eye exam unless I suggest one. Loudly, just in case they can't hear either.

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We watch a lot of sports - pretty much anything except NASCAR and football.

Football bores me, and on the few occasions I get outvoted (bowl games) I do yell.

But I yell at the universe how stupid football is, not at the players themselves.
What kind of sport/game stops and starts itself every third second? YAWN.

 

But no, I don't yell.  I talk under my breath a lot, usually non stop LOL.

When my pitcher winds up, I'm muttering "STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE STRIKE ..."

When his batter swings, I'm muttering "MISS MISS MISS MISS MISS ..."

When the batter makes contact, it's "FOUL FOUL FOUL" or "CATCH IT CATCH IT CATCH IT."

I think my family would prefer I scream. It'd probably be less annoying.

 

And I can't sit still, either. I pace a lot. I jump, I fall to my knees, I'm very ... physical.

I kick my imaginary soccer ball, tag out base runners, do lay ups in the doorway, and bounce waiting for a serve.

But quietly! No screaming, no yelling - only the occasional grunt escapes my lips.

But the same is true when I'm watching my kids, nieces and nephews play sports.

I get really invested :lol:.

 

My ex-husband only really watches football.

He finds it more enjoyable now that I'm not yelling how stupid it is in the background.

He isn't a yeller until about mid-way, which is when the alcohol starts kicking in LOL.

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