The audience at the game was also not what I expected. I knew there would be some women there, girlfriends, friends, mom’s, maybe a grandmother or two, but I did not expect to see so many women there that seemed to be genuine fans of the sport. I was raised in a household that told me rougher sports like football were for men, so I may have had that assumption from the way I was raised, but I really thought the audience would have been at least 80% men. I was happy and confused to see that in fact it was about 80% women, many of whom left the game right when it was done meaning they probably had no personal relationship with one of the men on the team. While watching the game the women were cheering, and criticizing when something would happen,
