The Ladies' Guide To Football Promises To Tell You Dumb Broads What All The Man-Fuss is About
LatestWomen comprise nearly half of the NFL’s viewing audience nowadays, but this wasn’t always the case. Back in the 60’s, America’s wives were positively flummoxed by the confusing and male-dominated arena of football enjoying. It was enough to make a gal feel left out and abandoned! Tensions ran high! We were on the precipice of despair! Thankfully, by 1966, BirdsEye brand vegetables had enough and published a guide for women who just want to know what the H-E-double hockey sticks was going on with football, and how to be a proper ladyfan. And now we’re showing it to you.
Let’s start with a quick introduction to the pamphlet’s author, Pat Kiley. Kiley was a female Pittsburgh broadcasting pioneer; according to The Design Morgue blog, the first woman to appear on broadcast TV in the Steel City. She was married to a Pittsburgh Steelers executive and had written other articles about watching football as a family.
The first thing you need to do, lonely lady who wants to know about football, is understand that until you know your football basics, anything and everything you could possibly ask your husband until you know those basics will be a stupid annoyance to his valuable man-time. Says the pamphlet,
The catch is, HOW do you join? It is sheer madness to ask the man in your life to start at the beginning and explain the game to you. Things are tough enough without deliberately looking for trouble!
What you need are the answers to what males think are stupid questions about football. Once you master the basics, it will be safe to play The Togetherness Game and ask your hero intelligent football questions.He will welcome the opportunity to show off his superior knowledge, but more important, he will welcome you — at his side, either at the stadium or in front of the TV. And that’s what all women want, isn’t it? Not to be left out of things, or, Heaven forbid! ignored!
Hence, this booklet, The Ladies’ Guide to Football. It is your passport to the brave new world of the National Football League. This is where the action is. More important to women, it’s where the MEN are!
Mmmm. Men.