A joke was posted on Twitter by FunnyOneLiners on January 7, 2010:
“How come, when my wife says ‘we need to talk,’ it’s never about football?”
“Football” in this joke usually means what Americans call “soccer.” Other sports (such as “baseball") have been inserted in the joke, but much less frequently.
Twitter
FunnyOneLiners
@Funnyoneliners
How come, when my wife says “we need to talk,” it’s never about football?
9:15 PM - 7 Jan 2010
Twitter
amy4669
@amy4669
Because u r married to the wrong woman!!!! lolRT @funnyoneliners: How come, when my wife says “we need to talk,” it’s never about football?
9:17 PM - 7 Jan 2010
Twitter
HailMaryJane.com
@Hail_Mary_Jane
How come, when girlfriends say “we need to talk,” it’s never about football?
11:50 PM - 7 Jan 2010
Twitter
Young Stunna
@iAmYoungStunna
How come, when women say “we need to talk”, it’s never about football?
8:51 AM - 21 Nov 2010
Twitter
Protégé
@charlesprotege
How come, when my girl says “we need to talk,” it’s never about football?
1:58 PM - 11 Dec 2010
Google Books
The Mammoth Book of One-Liners
Edited by Geoff Tibballs
London, UK: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2012
Pg. ?:
When a woman says, “We need to talk”, why is it never about football?
23 May 2016, The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland), “Heading here” by Ken Smith, pg. ?:
RELATIONSHIPS continued. A reader hears a chap in a Glasgow pub at the weekend ask his pals: “Why is it, whenever she says, ‘We need to talk’ it’s never about football or what pub to go to?”
Twitter
Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
When a woman says, “we need to talk”,
Why is it never about football?
3:54 AM - 4 Sep 2016
Twitter
Shit Jokes
@ShitJokes
When a women says “We need to talk”
Why is it never about football?
12:02 PM - 16 Oct 2017
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