Offseason "Shout Out" to WhoDat Ladies...

I'd never watched a football game before I came to Knoxville, TN to go to school. My main sport were swimming which I was doing at a fairly high level, so I was spending most of my spare time either in the gym or in the pool. My father was the only one interested in sports in my family and only soccer and biking.

Well - shortly after my arrivals some friends brought me to a Vols game and I was hooked - line and sinkers and all. I just loved this game. I started reading up on the rules and as I began to learn my fascination with the game deepened. Morten was drafted by the Saints a short while after I got back home - and I started following the black and gold. The Dome patrol turned me into a hard core WHO DAT!

Following the Saints was hard in those early years, but thanks to friends who would send me articles and video tapes, I held on. Finally around 2000 they started airing regular season games here - even though there was far between the Saints games.

It became kind of a curiosity in my family because most of them couldn't understand what I was talking about. Finally after years of trying I managed to convince my husband that we should go to a Saints game in Tampa while vacationing in Orlando - little knowing that in a span of one game he would go from indifferent to being a die hard fan OF THE WRONG TEAM :covri:

And yes - I get that blank surprised stare a lot when I start to talk football. Football fans here are mostly male and under 30. I definitely do not fit into their ideas of what a football fan should be LOL. I've been playing FF with the same group for 6 years and since my username (same as here) is gender neutral, it wasn't until about 2 years ago that they found out that I was a woman - to the big surprise of most of them - especially since I have won that league 3 times over that 6 years period :mwink: