i meant the tv series, married with children
http://imdb.com/title/tt0092400/
there's an american mythology about football/basketball, you probably have it there with regards to "soccer", wherein 40 year olds that played a sport in high school but never made the professional leagues will eagerly follow a sport on tv/radio/in person because they believe in their heart that they are a "part" of the team (a backup player), and when their favorite team is takin a beating, that the coach would call em in to clean up the score, and their performance would transcend any known level of awesomeness, and they'd get a crossover nobel prize for their performance........
but their wife/SO got pregnant, and they had to give up their sports aspirations to do family type crap....
hence the mumbling and throwing of bowl
i was being facetious