Go Ducks!

Hi, I’m Judith Ashley, author of The Sacred Women’s Circle series, soul nourishing romantic women’s fiction with light paranormal elements. My stories show you what life could be like if you had a place like The Circle where you are unconditionally accepted, supported and loved. And where, with this support, you make choices to overcome the darkest nights of your life to choose love and light.

Wow, in some ways it’s hard to believe that in about 13 hours, 2024 will be gone and we’ll have started 2025 so this is my Last Post of this year. I’m inviting you back to read my first post of 2025 this Friday.

What am I sharing with you today? College Football and Sports Romance.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips introduced me to Sports Romance. It wasn’t “a thing” when she wrote about members of a fictional pro-football team and their struggles to find true love.

However by the time Romancing The Genres launched, May 1, 2011, sports romance was becoming “a thing”. We had a month devoted to sports romance authors in 2011 or 2012.

Confession time: I’m not an avid reader of sports romance. I am an avid follower of college football or more accurately University ofOregon, Duck Football!

My parents met at the UofO.

I attended the UofO and never missed a home football game or track and field meet. I also went to many of the wrestling matches and some of the baseball games. This was between 1959 and 1963 so there weren’t women’s sports to even watch at that time. Well, perhaps golf and tennis? You may note I didn’t mention basketball. I went once a year on Father/Daughter night to watch basketball. No interest there.

But I digress.

Why write a blog post about college football? Because that’s what this post is really about.

After decades of cheering the Ducks, I’m thrilled to be able to watch them play (from the comfort of my living room) tomorrow in The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. They will be playing Ohio State again. They beat The Buckeyes earlier this month for the Big 10 Championship. They also beat them a few years ago.

Three times the charm!

I do come from a family of sports lovers. I grew up listening to major league baseball, the Kentucky Derby, boxing and other sports on the radio.

Am I an anomaly among romance writers? Do any of you follow sport teams and cheer them on, feeling exhilarated when they win and deflated when they lose?

If you want to be able to enjoy the game of football, whether high school, college or pro, I encourage you to check out Diane Weynand’s Lipstick Football. And to make that a bit easier for you, here’s the link to her RTG blog post. 

She certainly made my football game watching more enjoyable.

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