Survey: College football vs weddings

[sevenyearhawk]

Your forums were down for maintenance, so the other conference fans got a head start on this topic ...
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A friend asks you to be in their wedding the same day as a home football game ... do you:

* attend the ceremony, but record the game.
* show up, but wear a radio and an earbud.
* politely decline, but send a nice gift.
* ask your friend if they're insane!

(HornFans.com must not allow user polls, or I'm not smart enough to figure it out ...)
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[gardere_owns_OU]

no friend would ask that of you.

 

[watashi]

You forgot an option: attend the game, record the wedding and watch it later.

 

[Bernard]

There are many legit reasons to miss a wedding, including a scheduling conflict with football. Don't fall for the guilt trip your "friends" will try to put on you for choosing football over friendship. If they really wanted you there, they would have taken the football schedule into consideration when planning the wedding. They don't care about your priorities, why should you care about their priorities?

My good friend recently told his finace that the only way they could get married during the football season was if there was a weekend where UT was idle and the Texans played on the road. They will be wed on September 27th.

Bernard

 

[SDHornEsq]

College football to me is an all-day experience. It isn't just watching Horns games, it's watching as many games as I can on TV too.

Last year, my wife's friend got married when Texas played TCU. I told her I wouldn't be there and went to Vegas and spent all day in the sportsbook. My wife and her Texas alum friends were calling me every 10 minutes for game updates because there was no TV there.

This year another one of my wife's friends is getting married in Austin and we both told her not to get married on a fall Saturday, but try for a Sunday when the Horns were playing. Worked out well for everyone and she's getting married on Sunday of the Mizzou weekend.

 

[alxhorns]

OU weekend.....i lose a friend.....home game vs Rice, I record it

 

[Mageeman]

All my best friends go to Texas and would never dream of doing something like this. Maybe getting married at DKR, but not having a wedding the day of a game.

 

[kmac30]

friend got married first tOSU game. his wife's idea. many of my friends were in the wedding, i wasn't. living in NYC then, i watched the entire game. bride had all tv's off or removed during the reception. there's a pic of all the groomsmen and some of the girls around a table, staring intently at a cell phone. i was on the other end giving the play by play at the end of the game.

none of my friends would get married in the fall. my wife has said i don't have to attend any weddings in the fall for her friends.

 

[KC-97HORN]

my brother, a Tech grad, got married last July. His wife wanted a fall wedding in Dallas.

In May of '06 She originally tried to schedule the wedding for Oct 6th, 2007.

Bro called and said he knew it was a football weekend but asked me to go ahead and skip one game. I told him i would have to see which game and warned him that if it was OU, that I would be in Dallas, but not at the wedding....

I then went to the Mack Brown site to pull up the future schedule and sure enough.... OU Weekend......

He got a callback in 10 seconds letting him know he would be short a groomsman.

"OU?" He said..... Yes.

They got married in July '07

 

[AUinAustin]

I think I posted this before but in the late 80's I had some friends who got married and messed up a lot of good football in one day. He went to Auburn and she went to Alabama so they chose a Saturday in November around 5:00. Of course Alabama was playing Notre Dame with a late kickoff and Auburn had a night game with Georgia. And it was one of those big weddings with hundreds. I saw a lot of earphones attached to radios; At least there wasn't a section standing up and cheering when someone scored