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It must be a guy thing

Every week Alec has to do a current event. This week he did it on Sydney Crosby winning the Art Ross Trophy. Alec has started collecting hockey cards and start spitting off stats about different players and who’s on what team, etc. I’m glad he has something to share with his friends, to talk about except… Alec doesn’t even play hockey. He rambles on about stats and it’s a bit of deja vu because Kevin is the same way (or at least used to be) so he gets it honestly. But I think it’s also gotta be something linked to that y chromosome;) As you know I play basketball, played all through school as a kid. I know some names of the players and tidbits (afterall who doesn’t know about Steve Nash) and I know a bit about the teams. I couldn’t tell you who got the most points, etc. I rarely watch the games except for maybe play offs sometimes. Now, having said all that, I know plenty of guys that could care less about sports stats. But for the many, many guys out there who do follow them and know the intimate details about the players, their trades, what manager said what, do you think it might be that following sports like this is a bit of a male version of a soap opera as a friend of mine recently referred to it?;) Any men want to comment on that?;)

Posted by By: lisa | 2007/04/12 | Life - Basketball - kids - sports | Trackback | Comments [RSS 2.0]

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  1. Jordan
    Comment by Jordan | 2007/04/12 at 15:41:14

    I think it ruins all of the fun of a guy ritual to equate it to soap operas. No fair!

  2. Caveman
    Comment by Caveman | 2007/04/13 at 12:42:15

    Ahh, Women can be so naive ;)

    Sports are actually the means for men to communicate with other men without the danger of getting personal (aka “Touchy Feely”).

    Here is a site that goes on to say that men say very few words as compared to women, actually going as far as to make an assertion on how much… (20,000 versus 7,000). http://health.yahoo.com/experts/menlovesex/14228/the-secret-language-of-men. I’ve also seen similar references but by googling this, haven’t been able to find the source.

    So I guess the argument is … men do not use many words, and avoid personal topics (generally) and “sports chat” is simply an evolved means of communication – admittedly though, at a level just slightly more sophisticated than Grunts, lol

    A little off topic, but funny… (from http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003420.html)
    ”
    A husband looking through the paper came upon a study that said women use more words than men.
    Excited to prove to his wife that he had been right all along when he accused her of talking too much, he showed her the study results. It read “Men use about 15,000 words per day, but women use 30,000″.
    The wife thought for a while, then finally she said to her husband “It’s because we have to repeat everything we say.”
    The husband said “What?”
    “

  3. lisa
    Comment by lisa | 2007/04/13 at 12:59:21

    LOL I love that last bit, soooo true;) I can just visualize the dead pan look in her face as she says to her husband, lol.

  4. Barbara J Gill
    Comment by Barbara J Gill | 2007/04/14 at 03:37:01

    This struck me funny. Barbara


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