[quote=harvey]I was playing a game of football with some of my friends the other day. It was tackle, but we weren’t really trying to hurt each other. It was a good game, both of the teams are playing hard. Even though it was a friendly game, everybody clearly wanted to win. There were the usual minor disputes about rules, out-of-bounds, etc. but it was mostly civil.
My team was playing well, we were moving the ball, scoring points.
While we played there was this guy standing on the sidelines. We invited him to join the game, but he wouldn’t play.
Any time a player on my team makes a minor mistake – a missed block, a dropped pass, this guy would laugh and taunt from the sidelines: “losers!” He would also randomly call bogus penalties, as if he were the referee, like “offsides” – but only against my team.
We ask him “you’re not playing and your aren’t the ref – WTF?” The guy crosses his arms and shrugs. He claims he just cares about the rules and he’s “agnostic” about who wins, even though its obvious to everyone he isn’t. Whatever, we’re not really even keeping score. We keep playing. He still shouts his occasional comments.
Another thing, he was oddly dressed.
Finally one of the players shouted to him: “you’re a grown man for crick-sakes, quit embarrassing yourself. If you refuse to go home and take off the cheerleader skirt, then at least get in the game.”[/quote]
Good one. But that’s a cruel crack about the skirt. I wasn’t wearing a skirt.
