Overheard after the game, “It’s all relative” edition
Slack (#46, TE): Oh! Hi, Tiny Coach!
Me: Hey, TC, say hi to Slack!
Slack (backing away): Oh, I’m, like, the most foul-smelling person in creation right now.
Conway (#74, OL): Dude, he poops in his own pants.
Slack: Valid point.
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Lost in no translation
Last Saturday, our next-door neighbors were having a birthday party/block party, and we stopped to chat for a few minutes on our way to the Indy game. BSC and I are not exactly subtle in our gameday gear, so one of the party guests asked where we were going. We told him excitedly that we were going to a women’s football game, and I was a little taken aback by his relatively reserved reaction. I mean, I know not everyone gets into this sport as much as us, but do you really have a problem with it, buddy? About 30 seconds into the conversation, though, we realized that he assumed we were actually talking about women’s soccer in an unbelievably pretentious pseudo-European manner. Oh, pip pip! We’re just off to a football match – a women’s football match! Cheerio, old chaps! Yeah, no. I showed him the 2011 Militia program and he thought it was the shit. Which it is, old chaps, which it is.
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This should have been with Chi-Town Round-Up but I forgot about it until today
Scene: Getting ready to board plane back from Chicago with Conway (#74, OL), who asked to gate-check her shoulder pads.
Airline attendant: Are you sure? They might get banged up a little bit.
Me: Um, have you ever seen a football game?
[pause]
Airline attendant: Oh. Right.
Conway: There it is.
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Yay for the Boston Herald running a decent story on the Militia and a related one on High School (#1, RB/K). And triple yay for this photo, which I just friggin’ adore. Anyone know if the Herald makes photos available for sale?
Oh Jr… And yes they sell them
Sooooo excited for you to come to TX, again. Think there will be another photo shoot? Maybe we can get TC in there this time!!!!