How to Be a Supportive Girlfriend During College Playoffs

It isn't easy to be a girlfriend during NCAA's college playoffs season, particularly in March when the Division I men's basketball tournament begins. However, your boyfriend enjoys sports, so you should be supportive. After all, it's better that sports are taking his attention away from you rather than another woman.

Instructions

  1. Help Support Your Boyfriend During the NCAA Playoffs

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      Turn that frown upside-down if you're not a sports fan yourself. Look at the college playoffs as an opportunity to give sports another chance. Millions of people worldwide find sports inspiring, invigorating and exciting. Now is as good of a chance as any to find out why.

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      Be a supportive girlfriend by taking an interest in your boyfriend's team. Ask him to tell you more about the players, even if your primary interest in the strapping young shooting guard is that he looks good in his uniform.

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      Get your boyfriend to explain any rules of the sport you don't understand. While it's not necessary to understand every single in and out of basketball (or whatever other playoff sport you're being forced to watch), you shouldn't be constantly confused by what's happening, either.

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      Root your boyfriend's team on if you're watching the game with friends or at a sports bar. Don't just sulk, pig out on nachos and wish you were somewhere else--being a supportive girlfriend requires that you get behind the team and make an effort to help cheer for it.

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      Celebrate your boyfriend's team's victories along with him. If he wants to head out with friends for beer after the game, go along and have a good time! If he'd rather recap every play in the game with his friends, take the opportunity to bond with the other girls who have no clue what is happening.

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      Let your boyfriend be upset for a few days if his team loses. You might secretly be glad to have him all to yourself again, but the polite thing to do would be to pretend the team's loss hurt you, too.