Forty-one percent of 25- to 34-year olds reported that they'd "rejoice" to learn their partner wanted to spend an entire weekend watching football, since that's how they'd be spending it anyway.
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It's no surprise, then, that a survey of over 1,400 people by the professional matchmaking service It's Just Lunch earlier this year found that sports nuts pair best with fellow sports nuts. He also loves hockey, and if the Rangers make it to playoffs, our whole schedule revolves around their games." Meet the Vegas Jacks, and get to know them in the way that only their number-one obsessive fan can through the lense of a pocket spycam. "Baseball season he does fantasy as well and is on his phone 24/7. On Sundays I get abandoned," Shania*, a 30-year-old woman, told Mic of her sports-obsessed fiancé. "During football season, he does fantasy and is always checking scores. That love of sports can often edge an actual partner out. He looked right past her and kept screaming at the TV.) (This writer was once at a bachelor party during a football game where a stripper shoved her chest in the sports-loving groom's face. For plenty of those fans, the relationship is akin to a real relationship, one that can even trump sexual interest. The irony of the sports takeover: A 2005 Gallup poll reported that 3 in 4 men identify as sports fans. He watches college basketball, the NBA, early season baseball games that don't matter, soccer (what does FIFA even stand for?), hockey, golf. But while I'm in a monogamous sports-relationship with the New England Patriots, I soon learned that Graig is a polyamorous fan of literally every sport under the sun. I also found Graig's sports interest incredibly appealing. "It's very old world, very gender binary." "It represents the ultimate in manliness for a lot of gay men," Luke*, a 26-year-old gay man added, noting that for those in the gay community, the word "sports" alone is loaded with " masc/fem" baggage. What's not hot about raw male athleticism?" "I don't actually like sports," Laura*, a 27-year-old single woman told Mic. The undeniable sports appeal: Perhaps our attraction to sports fans is rooted in the teen movies of our youth, in which "jock" was synonymous with "hot." Or does it have something to do with glorifying masculine ideals, as several studies have suggested? Is it connected to the proven attraction to people who play sports?