In middle school back in Indiana, I shared a locker next to Patrick Knight. He is Indiana University’s former basketball coach Bobby Knight’s son. Pat and I became friends, dissected frogs together in science class and played a game of spin the bottle or two together (read: 12 girls and one Pat Knight). Odds were good that Pat was getting lucky.

Indiana was all about basketball. But football? Not so much. I was a cheerleader in seventh grade (explains it all now, doesn’t it?), and I recall being on our local football field having absolutely no idea what the difference was between offense and defense. I just waved my pompoms when the captain of the squad did so. I didn’t get the game and honestly, didn’t really care. I just thought the skirts were cute.

Since then, I’ve dated men who have tried to get me into the football game. One even attempted to tap my intellectual side (he let the cheerleader fiasco slide) and compared football to a game of chess. That seemed interesting. For about five minutes.

Little did I know that all I needed was some good old fashioned New York City real estate to get me into the game. After my interview with Robert Tuchman, the president of TSE Sports & Entertainment, I actually agreed to go to a Superbowl party (this is a first for me).

It’s a really important moment for NYC’s sports teams and as you heard from Tuchman, we are in an incredible time in sports real estate here in the City.

So while I still plan on stashing a magazine or two in my bag for the big game, I gotta say, I’ve seen the light. I’m pretty damn excited about the sport of New York City’s real estate.