Obviously, I'm a guy with tremendous pride and I would like to be on the football field more, but I understood the situation.

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"I like to play a three-man midfield and play football through midfield, so to suddenly be down a number of players in midfield is a huge problem, " added Gannon.

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Before we went live on the air, and figuring that he looked like he might be a football fan, I asked Ohlsson which team he liked in this year's game.

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He had been a football player like me and she said I reminded her of him.

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So for an entire weekend I was that 46 year old bald guy obsessively pecking away at his new little toy, just like I was when I got that new Mattel electronic football game as a kid.

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"When I first came across the article, I just felt like -- because it was involving football players, and there is a culture there that football is very important -- that there was probably a little more to this story than what the local media was reporting, " she told CNN on Thursday.

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Trying to keep up, like I said yesterday, with everyone's Olympic emails is a task that simply prepares me for college and professional football season.

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