Am I (21F) wrong about my boyfriends (22M) obsession with Football???

We have been together for a year now, when I met him I knew he liked football, he use to play it in high school and stopped after and he goes to his friends house every Sunday to watch it from like 1-8. He’s in two fantasy leagues right now and often he will look up his points constantly during games and if I’m hanging out with him (he puts his phone away at dates). It didn’t really bother me last year, but now I am away at college and we can’t see each other everyday like we use to. He visits me on the weekends and its a 2.5 hour drive. This past weekend he came and we had a lot of fun Friday and Saturday and he didn’t talk about football or he on his phone much at all. When Sunday came around I knew he was going to watch the Ravens game at 1, but what made me angry was that he set his laptop up at 11 am and started watching the pre-game interviews or whatever... TWO HOURS before it started. Then when the ravens game had a commercial, he would switch to the OTHER game and watch both at the same time. And my flat screen tv didn’t have the channel on HD so he borrowed his friends xfinity account to watch it on his laptop in HD... Then I found out he was not just going to be watching the 1 o’clock game, but also going to watch the game at 4pm AND 8pm which went on until 11:30 pm! He watched football from 11am-11:30 pm in my apartment and sat on the couch and only got up to go get food. Whenever I bring up how it bothers me he says “this is the one thing I like it’s my hobby”. His other argument was is that I had homework to do Sunday, which I did, but even if I didn’t have homework he would have watched it anyway. To me this is obsessive, am I overreacting? When we argued about it he said “I haven’t missed a game in 15 years” like congratulations??? Also, the weekend BEFORE this, I came home to visit him and on Sunday I was going to stay until 6pm to hang out with him but he said he was going to his friends to watch the game at 1pm. At first I was angry but I realized it’s what he likes to do so I didn’t bring it up again, but then LAST MINUTE he says “would you be mad if i left at 10am to go play football with my friends before the game?” Like yes I would be mad because I thought you would want to see me until the game at 1pm. Please help, guys who are into football and fantasy as well, is this behavior normal? He treats me really well and he’s my best friend when he’s not watching foot ball but this is the one thing that bothers me a lot.

TL;DR: My boyfriend watches football from 11am-11:30pm Sunday’s and watches Monday and Thursday night football as well. Am I over reacting? I can only see him weekends now.

Submitted September 16, 2019 at 11:57PM

We have been together for a year now, when I met him I knew he liked football, he use to play it in high school and stopped after and he goes to his friends house every Sunday to watch it from like 1-8. He’s in two fantasy leagues right now and often he will look up his points constantly during games and if I’m hanging out with him (he puts his phone away at dates). It didn’t really bother me last year, but now I am away at college and we can’t see each other everyday like we use to. He visits me on the weekends and its a 2.5 hour drive. This past weekend he came and we had a lot of fun Friday and Saturday and he didn’t talk about football or he on his phone much at all. When Sunday came around I knew he was going to watch the Ravens game at 1, but what made me angry was that he set his laptop up at 11 am and started watching the pre-game interviews or whatever... TWO HOURS before it started. Then when the ravens game had a commercial, he would switch to the OTHER game and watch both at the same time. And my flat screen tv didn’t have the channel on HD so he borrowed his friends xfinity account to watch it on his laptop in HD... Then I found out he was not just going to be watching the 1 o’clock game, but also going to watch the game at 4pm AND 8pm which went on until 11:30 pm! He watched football from 11am-11:30 pm in my apartment and sat on the couch and only got up to go get food. Whenever I bring up how it bothers me he says “this is the one thing I like it’s my hobby”. His other argument was is that I had homework to do Sunday, which I did, but even if I didn’t have homework he would have watched it anyway. To me this is obsessive, am I overreacting? When we argued about it he said “I haven’t missed a game in 15 years” like congratulations??? Also, the weekend BEFORE this, I came home to visit him and on Sunday I was going to stay until 6pm to hang out with him but he said he was going to his friends to watch the game at 1pm. At first I was angry but I realized it’s what he likes to do so I didn’t bring it up again, but then LAST MINUTE he says “would you be mad if i left at 10am to go play football with my friends before the game?” Like yes I would be mad because I thought you would want to see me until the game at 1pm. Please help, guys who are into football and fantasy as well, is this behavior normal? He treats me really well and he’s my best friend when he’s not watching foot ball but this is the one thing that bothers me a lot.TL;DR: My boyfriend watches football from 11am-11:30pm Sunday’s and watches Monday and Thursday night football as well. Am I over reacting? I can only see him weekends now.