Game Dilemma - LSU vs attending daughter's game - Page 5

J4Bama · November 5th, 2009, 12:49 PM

	Quote:	SavannahDare
	Your daughter will have other games.

Ditto.

J4Bama · November 5th, 2009, 12:51 PM

	Quote:	ReturnToGlory
	I tell my family over and over that I'll go to all the family reunions they want me to, just not during Alabama football. There are 52 weekends in the year, somehow my dad's side of the family has their reunion on the 3rd Saturday in October. My dad made me go when I was young, but allowed me to make my own choice when I got to be a teenager. I've only been to one reunion since. This year, while the family was at the reunion, I was sitting at Bryant-Denny Stadium.

Same thing happens to me each year and i'm sitting Bryant Denny on that same day!

SavannahDare · November 5th, 2009, 01:02 PM

	Quote:	TidefaninOS
	Now, see? This is what Staci was referring to - you let your daughter get the best of you! Why couldn't she wait until mid-December, or February, or any other time besides a football Saturday?

Hey, I'll be the first to admit that sometimes schedules just can't be worked out. I got married ten years ago on the opening Saturday of football season. Didn't want to do it then, but I stubbornly wanted to get married at a certain bed & breakfast, and that was the open date.

Of course, I had the television in the library turned on and tuned to the game. Fiddlesticks with that "don't see each other before you march down the aisle" thing. My husband and I were standing in the library with most of our male guests just moments before the ceremony watching the game and all of us were in and out all afternoon and evening during the reception. There was also a hurricane going through the area...it was a heck of a hurricane party!

I've never been much on ceremony, but I am DEVOTED to college football.

mikes12 · November 5th, 2009, 01:08 PM

Go to your daughters game. Keep up with the Bama game by text/phone/blackberry or have a little radio headset.

TidefaninOS · November 5th, 2009, 01:52 PM

	Quote:	SavannahDare
	Hey, I'll be the first to admit that sometimes schedules just can't be worked out. I got married ten years ago on the opening Saturday of football season. Didn't want to do it then, but I stubbornly wanted to get married at a certain bed & breakfast, and that was the open date. Of course, I had the television in the library turned on and tuned to the game. Fiddlesticks with that "don't see each other before you march down the aisle" thing. My husband and I were standing in the library with most of our male guests just moments before the ceremony watching the game and all of us were in and out all afternoon and evening during the reception. There was also a hurricane going through the area...it was a heck of a hurricane party! I've never been much on ceremony, but I am DEVOTED to college football.

Staci, you're my kind of gal - you've definitely got your priorities in order! ROLL TIDE TO EVERYONE from us in Ocean Springs!

biglsufan · November 5th, 2009, 03:04 PM

Girl's basketball is not a sport. Go to the Bama game to see Bama lose.

BigAl5833 · November 5th, 2009, 03:11 PM

Best option is try to bribe her with tickets to the Bama game. Get to watch the game in person, and not have to explain why you missed her game

JPT4Bama · November 5th, 2009, 03:16 PM

	Quote:	SavannahDare
	I think too many parents take that whole "being there" for every single event of their kids' lives too far. There's such a thing as moderation in life. Obviously, if your daughter's game were a championship game, or if she were involved in something she wouldn't be doing again in the foreseeable future (in other words, if it were "special"), then being there and foregoing your own interests would be of the utmost importance. BUT children also need to learn they are not the center of the universe, not everything they do is special, and sometimes other things take precedence in Mama and Daddy's lives. She would in no way be emotionally scarred from you missing part or all of one of her games. Besides, you better start training her early so when she grows up she doesn't go and schedule her wedding on game day!

Good grief you are the most incredible woman I've ever semi-met!

I totally agree with what you're saying and was totally shouted down (not literally) by my Wife when I tried applying this logic to our two boys.

Now that they're 18 and 20, she finally agrees with this strategy.. Oh well better late than never.

twofbyc · November 5th, 2009, 03:18 PM

Go to your daughter's game; the precious moments you could potentially miss by not being there are far more important than what you would miss by not seeing Bama stomp the who's; besides, we all know that will happen again and again, but you don't know if what your daughter does in her game will ever be repeated, and you do NOT want to ever say you weren't there, but you could have been. Trust me.

OreBama · November 5th, 2009, 03:23 PM

As much as I love Alabama football, I love my daughter more, so it would be an easy decision for me. I am a family first type of guy. However, since you are struggling with it, how important is it to your daughter that you are there? I think that is the real question. If it's important to her, it should be important for you.

GulfCoastTider · November 5th, 2009, 03:23 PM

	Quote:	biglsufan
	Girl's basketball is not a sport. Go to the Bama game to see Bama lose.

Off with his head.

How old is the daughter in question? If she hasn't yet attained the fourth grade, you can miss her game and she won't remember when she comes of age.

In 1986, My wife wanted a fall wedding. I told her that I would not be there before the end of football season. We almost broke up over it. In the end, she acquiesced and we had our wedding on December 6th, 1986.

Lo and behold, six years later the SEC decided that they'd have an SEC Championship Game on the first Saturday in December. She was so mad...

How dare the SEC postpone our anniversary celebrations like that?!?

twofbyc · November 5th, 2009, 03:25 PM

	Quote:	OreBama
	As much as I love Alabama football, I love my daughter more, so it would be an easy decision for me. I am a family first type of guy. However, since you are struggling with it, how important is it to your daughter that you are there? I think that is the real question. If it's important to her, it should be important for you.

This^^^

biglsufan · November 5th, 2009, 03:41 PM

Tell your daughter that if she makes it to the WNBA you will watch her miss layups and dribble off her foot then, but for now go watch Bama lose.