Can I Be a Chick for a Minute?

I’m one of those sports chicks that cringes when I see the typical female sports fan. You know, the one that doesn’t have a clue about how the game’s played or about how to cheer. The female who complains about the sun on a beautiful day at the ballpark. Or the one who cheers for a team simply because of a team’s outfit colors. Those sort of female “fans” give us real sports chick a bad name.

But for one minute can I be that chick? Now calm down, I’m not giving up my intelligence. I still see the game through an informed fan’s eyes. All I ask is that I be allowed to drool over how cute a player is…just for a minute.

Enter Christian Ponder, quarterback for Florida State University. Granted, I am slightly biased because he does play for Florida State, my beloved team. But come on girls, who doesn’t think he’s everything a hunk of an athlete should be? Just look at that smile…

Yes, I have a secret crush on Christian. Yes, I pretend that one day we will be married and I will be the wife of a famous NFL star. Yes, my family know about this and have learned to roll their eyes at me. But you know what, I don’t care.

So pardon me if I stare at his photo, swoon at the sight of him on the field in warm-ups, and feel absolutely paranoid about the possibility of meeting him this fall (through a mutual friend). After all, I am still a female.

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