Football and Flings !

At a mall the other day, I over-heard a conversation between 2 Indian women.

The first remarked, ”Oh John’s always with his b**** football nowadays“ to which the second retorted, “He’s having his time darling, he’ll be back after his fling”.

This got my mind rolling. Football, a fling?

It did seem like that though looking at almost every Indian man. Men asphyxiated by cricket (read: wives) 24-7 were suddenly paying more attention to Messi & co.

And so I started probing as to what was the actual definition of a fling. As per Oxford, a fling is very ‘subtly’ defined as, “a short period of enjoyment without thinking or wild behavior”.

I shall leave the actual comparison of every point below to the reader, but in around 15 minutes I actually did learn a lot on how football was indeed a fling. A fling every man ought to have!

Read on.

1. Men will be Men
Man is a creature governed and driven purely by excitement. Well people might then wonder why marriages exist but let’s keep that for another day. For now, 35 days of excitement all at once is too much of an opportunity to miss out on.

2. Once every 4 years
This one is a no-brainer, no really. If the Football World Cup happened – say every 6 months – a man would pay no more interest to the game as he did to his everyday .. lose interest. Unless of course, he wasn’t interested in his wife in the first place, oops ... I meant cricket of course!

3. Peer Pressure
For one whole month, no man can afford to be completely out of sync with his colleagues and friends. We had these times in college and after where almost all my buddies had these ‘time-pass’ (or fictional) girlfriends and I would be left out of conversations because I was ‘single’.
Ditto with football. Imagine not being able to talk about the Spanish passing, or the Dutch defense or perhaps an amazing goal England scored (ok, that’s one joke too far but still .. ) Bravado rules with men... and bragging rights come only with watching the match!

The World Cup is now over, and hopefully every Indian man is once again paying attention to his wife..


Unless of course the football turned serious.