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Football Analysis With My 3-Year-Old

This blew my mind. My wife told me this last night:

As I was riding the bus home from Qwest last night, my wife Kate and our 3-year-old daughter Lucie are watching the beginning of the Dallas-Green Bay game. The camera takes a shot of Packers QB Aaron Rodgers. Lucie sees it, and according to my wife, this is what she said:

Lucie: "Oooh, that's the new guy."

Kate: "What? Who?"

Lucie: "Him. That's the new guy. And everybody was nervous about him. But it's okay now."

I have not discussed the Rodgers-Favre brushup with Lucie at all because -- well, it just didn't come up, you know?

Oh God. A Packers fan. In my own home. I've tried as a father. I've really tried. I don't know what to do.

A place to bury strangers.

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It appears you have two options

1. Sell her to a country where she won’t have access to American football so she can’t devilishly worship her Packers

or

2. Plead with the government to make 30th trimester abortions legal under the grounds that some kids aren’t able to root for the correct football teams and it takes parents a long time to understand that part of their child’s personality. The government of course understands and makes it legal.

Was that too terribly offensive? Hopefully it’s just mildly offensive.

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by BrettJMiller on Sep 23, 2008 12:10 AM PDT reply actions   2 recs

Rec up for epicx

2/3 of the world is covered by water. The rest is covered by Marcus Trufant.

by Chickadee on Sep 23, 2008 12:26 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Brett wins the internets

And we’re terribly sorry about your daughter……and to think the Pack play in Seattle in about 3 weeks.

Josh Who?

by SSreporters on Sep 23, 2008 6:53 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

She's not a fan anymore.

Actually, she never was a Pack fan. Turns out she just really, really paid attention to the pre-game show.

Makes sense – Bob Costas was hosting, and she really pays attention to kids her size.

--Shrug
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by Shrug on Oct 2, 2008 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

tell her

for every new packers fan god kills a kitten

by vanrijn on Sep 23, 2008 7:44 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I'm sure she was just watching Blue's Clues or something

and there was a skit about Brett Favre and Aaron Rogers. “Can you find the new Packers’ quarterback, kids?! Look hard now! There he is! He’s behind the refrigerator!”

by Phildopip on Sep 23, 2008 7:55 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

ha ha ha.

Good God, that’s funny.

--Shrug
Field Gulls - The SBN Seattle Seahawks Blog

by Shrug on Oct 2, 2008 11:31 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

On an unrelated note

My three-year old thinks Manny Ramirez is a girl. He had a point and I didn’t bother to argue with him.

by PascoJoe on Sep 23, 2008 9:11 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

On a somewhat related but still pretty unrelated note:

I just found out that Manny Ramirezes two children are both named Manny Ramirez. Wtf??

by SeaTownBlueDevil on Sep 27, 2008 7:49 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

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