Super Bowl Sunday – A Chance to Share!
Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday. People are busy preparing food and etc for the big game. This game is viewed live not only in the United State but all over the world.
For some women, this game is just “another” game that their husband or significant other will focus all their attention on another sporting event!
Last year I ran across a blog written by Teresa Neumann that made a quality decision concerning her attitude about watching the Super Bowl with her husband. Here is a portion of her blog.
A Wife’s Super Bowl Resolution: I WILL Bless My Husband
by Not Just Watching the game with Him, but Enjoying the Experience
by Teresa Neumann Op-Ed
It is possible to break the shackles of ingrained routines to bond with, and bless our husbands in such simple ways. Life is short, after all; seize the moment.
Super Bowl Sunday will find me, as always, racing home from church to perform the standard services for my football loving husband; hosting a party replete with pizza and/or barbecued chicken wings, sugar-laden drinks and snacks, and any number of other various artery clogging chips and dips.
There was a time, long ago, when watching football with my husband was actually fun. But, since the Bronco’s won their last Super Bowl game in 1999 I have had little interest in football. One must, I reason, either live in close proximity to a professional team or hail from a locale that supports one; the more rabidly loyal, the better. Like Green Bay, or Chicago, or Denver. I fail on both counts, having grown up in Iowa and then moved, after a three-year stint in Colorado, to the primeval backwoods of Oregon.
I think—I know—my husband misses my enthusiasm. I could say I’ve tried to at least appear interested in football, but I haven’t. Over the course of the last 20 years, I have found other distractions far preferable. I’m not a shopper, not one to spend a Sunday at the mall, but give me a book, a newspaper, a computer screen, anything but a chair in front of the television set where I have to sit watching two testosterone-driven teams throw a football back-and-forth for three hours.
Which brings me to Super Bowl Sunday this year, and the resolution I’ve made to take my own advice and actually sit down and watch the game. Not just watch it with my computer screen in front of me, glancing up whenever my husband hollers, or with my nose buried in a book. But actually try to engage in the game and share in my husband’s excitement.
I’m not expecting tit-for-tat mind you, but dare I hope my husband might bless me in return by spending a weekend watching chick-flicks with me? LOL.
I really enjoy watching sports. I could definitely identify with Teresa husband’s position. We as sports fans like to have someone share in our joy of the game and not just sit there completely bored! Here is the email that I wrote to Teresa in response to her blog!
Dear Teresa,
I loved your story in Breaking News. I am the exact opposite of you. I have been watching football all of my life. I am the youngest in my family. My siblings were teenagers when I was born. I asked my brother when I started watching football because I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t watching football! He told me “When you were in Mom’s womb.” It’s been a minute!
I am single. Not only am I believing for a husband that is totally committed to Jesus Christ and loves the Lord more than he loves me but he also has to love sports!
I understand fully how your husband feels. We sport fans want a person that can enjoy the game with us!
I know that your husband is going to enjoy your undivided attention while he is enjoying the Super Bowl. Then on the spiritual side, the Lord will honor you because of your “sacrfice” and just give you a huge blessing just because He can!
Well, the Lord didn’t disappoint Teresa. Here is her response to my email!
Dear Harriet:
Teresa Neumann here, the reporter who wrote the op/ed on my resolution to watch Super Bowl with my husband. Thank you SO much for your letter! You have no idea how much it blessed both myself and my husband.
A little addendum to the story: I did indeed watch the entire game with him and thoroughly enjoyed it. At half-time I quickly checked my e-mail and found I had received a very nasty, judgmental response to my article from a BCN reader. The gist of it was that watching television was idolatrous — watching sports even moreso, and that I was only encouraging my husband in idolatry by watching it with him. I ignored it, and watched the second half of the game with absolutely no guilt whatsoever 
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Meanwhile, my husband hadn’t read the article, but had heard about it in a round-about way from a friend. On Monday, at work, he read it and was really blessed by it. “Teresa,” he said, “you really DID what you said you were going to do!” He so appreciated it.
So for all you “not so crazy about sports” people, why don’t you try like Teresa and watch the Super Bowl with your own personal sports’ fan giving your undivided attention. I believe when you plant that seed, the Lord will provide a great harvest for you!
Enjoy the game!
