by Kadie Hamilton

Created on: January 24, 2009   Last Updated: January 28, 2009

Every man knows the anticipation of the Super Bowl Sunday phenom and the mouth-watering goodness of an old fashion hot dog at a baseball game. Well, almost all of them... My boyfriend is one of the few who doesn't.

When I first met him, you would have never found two people more different. He was an extrovert, I was an introvert. I loved music and football. He loved video games and just hanging out. We started out slow, you know, so I had no idea how different yet similar we actually were until four years later. And, four years later, he's the introvert and I'm the extrovert. I'm a hardcore rock fan and he's going into basic training for the army. And we're more in love than ever. Diversity truly is the spice of life.

But back to the beginning now! He liked to play video games, I liked to jeer at my least favorite football teams or stand up and scream in gibberish at a dumb goalie on a soccer game. I just never understood why he didn't enjoy watching sports just as much as I did. I even got together with a couple of my girl friends and watched the Packers play on their big screen. I thought he would join us, but then I realized that he just wasn't that into it. I'd seen him play tag football with his buddies. Did that count as a love of sports? I guessed it didn't. I never thought about trying an immersion course into sports, thought, until the last summer.

I have a somewhat patchy history of sports. I always played soccer with the local YMCA when I was a kid, while indulging in summer swimming and amateur archery and then I played flag football, volleyball, and baseball with all the vigor of a real athlete in my gym classes. I was one of the best flag catchers on my team. Someone who was not afraid to dive after the flag. Then in my high school years, I danced in the show choir and sang. My boyfriend, whose name I won't mention for reasons being that he might get way angry, was never into any of that. He was always the kind of guy who laid back and relaxed. I guess that's one of the reasons I was drawn to him so much. I know him forwards and back and he knows me the same. He's the yin to my yang and he's always been the one to calm me down after a long, frustrating day. He was always the one to suggest that we stay indoors for the evening. We have a lot in common, like foods, music, etcetera. But whatever he enjoys, I always found it kind of boring. I never brought this up with him during the first three years of dating, which always ended up as an on-off relationship.

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