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The World Series just ended and the football is season is halfway in the books, bringing good and bad news for sports fans.
The good news is that baseball free agency starts to unfold, and the football playoff races are molding with each two-minute drill.
The bad news is that a lot of girlfriends don't care about key divisional match ups or who scored touchdowns for your fantasy team. For the most part, football is the female pesticide, one hint of it and women usually wither away in disgust.
Is there a more stressful period for a couple than Sundays from September to January? Feeding a sports addiction while spending sufficient quality time with your lady is a trick that would even puzzle Houdini.
Just don't follow in the footsteps of Dave Rath, 23, a waiter from Newburgh, N.Y., whose offenses include a two-hour trek to Albany to participate in a live fantasy football draft.
"My ex-girlfriend hated it when I would be playing Madden", says Rath, referencing the popular football video game that engulfs a large fraction of the male species. "I would be playing and she would be in the room talking to me, but I wouldn't be paying attention. I think it was a contributing factor to our breakup because she just didn't understand my sports addiction."
Video game philandering doesn't have to be the norm. All sport-loving men are capable of having an ESPN weekend without alienating their girlfriends. Conversations with droves of sports fans have revealed three rules call them Sports Couple Commandments that can assure an argument-free, action-packed weekend.
