Please, please, please….
By 
dad2twins on Jan 14, 2008 in All is right with the world, Did I ask for your advice?, Warnings
I’m away on a business trip and my wife just called to let me know the girls discovered my soccer ball and want to go outside and play soccer. To this I responded…. F&*# Yea!
To my dear children, Please, Please, Please play soccer and not swimming or cheerleading or softball or any other sport that involves me watching a sport that:
1. I Hate
2. Makes me want to kill myself when watching it.
3. Is predominately played by big, scary girls that I might have to feed at my house.
4. Is not really a sport but a memorization task that involves a lot of expensive clothing.
I love you,
your Father.
P.S. Do not write to me and tell me how great swimming, cheerleading, softball or whatever sport I might have alluded to is. I don’t care.
Thank you.
P.S.S. It’s called the beautiful game for a reason.
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I don’t have a daughter, but if I did, I too wouldn’t want her doing the Cheerleader thing.
I grew up swimming, so I don’t mind that sport (it’s a sport).
memorization tasks, indeed.
We’ve got them all in spades. Kiddo didn’t like the high-collision-and-lack-of-sharing aspect of soccer, so we went with the expensive option.
Stepford town soccer dues: $75/ season
Tuition to our gymnastics school where she is on a competitive team: $198/ month.
Yay soccer!
As someone who grew up playing soccer, and from middle school on played on an average of 3 soccer teams at once, I have to agree that soccer is by far the best sport out there. I tried out for cheerleading in second grade, but I didn’t make it because I couldn’t do a proper cartwheel. Snotty feckers.
Peyton has been playing soccer since she could walk. I will try to get the twins into it, although I’m thinking more along the lines of “Rock Band.” I aspire to be what the Partridges could be like if they were around today… Wow I am wordy today.
Are you talking about Football? Dylan will be playing in a 5 Under league this spring.
‘Football’ is simply the best game in so many respects.
So YAY! You Go Girls (I can’t pull that off can I?)
My significant other is already planning sports for our as of yet, non-existent children. I give no feedback but secretly, quietly I pray that no child of mine ever wants to be a cheerleader
My husband doesn’t blog, but if he did, I think he would write this exact same post.
I played softball! Am I a big scary girl? No - wait. Don’t answer that.