I was going to title this "What Would Jesus Do?", but then I realized that Jesus wouldn't get married....since that would introduce some sort of sin into his heart.....
anyway, let's say you are in this situation.....
- You are married
- Your wife (or husband) has a significant position at his/her job - so it's not like your spouse is the drive thru manager at McDonald's or something like that
- Your spouse's work has a function at a sporting event! They have tickets to a luxury box for the game.
- However, unfortuantely, the game is between the hometown team and the team you are a big fan of. It is assumed that 95% of the people in attenance from your spouse's company will be rooting for the home team and not your team.
So, for instance, Derek is married, and Derek's wife's company has invited the two of them to a sky box at Edison field for a crucial 3-game weekend series in September with the Angels vs. the A's.
So what do you do? Should you:
1) go as a neutral observer and not cheer?
2) go and root for your own team, possibly pissing your wife's co-workers/managers off?
3) change colors and for that day and root for the home team?
4) politely decline the invitation to go?
and does it matter if this is an NFL game vs. an MLB game?
8 comments:
You support your team. You just don't jump up and flip your wife's boss the finger when your team gets a tough 4 and 1 on the 1 touchdown.
At a company function in a box, you must do a lot of mingling before the game. If your company is anything like our company, the majority of the people in the box don't give 2 shits about the game and are only there to kiss ass. So you want to find the other diehard fans there that want to watch the game. The will normally be huddled out in the actual seats. Once you find these people, then tell them that you are a Browns fan. See how they react. If they are a true sportsfan, they will enjoy watching the game with someone rooting for the opposing team so when the Bengals start to kick ass they can give you a hard time.
But if the box is filled with assholes that aren't true fans, then they WILL take offense to you cheering for the Browns, so be careful. That is why you need to get there early and find out what the heck is going on.
I should write about all the dos and don'ts for people attending a game in the company box. I have seen careers end due to improper actions in a box, but none of them involve cheering for the opposing team.
FYI, this is not about me...
but Derek is right, this is about the Browns/Bengals game.
and an NFL game is NOT a time for diehard fans to mingle. period.
You misunderstood me Eric. I said mingle before the game not during.
And what is the big deal?? Do Browns fans really want to see Volek as their starting QB?
Mix the support of your team with a few anecdotes of amazing/miserable experiences you have encountered in years of cheering for the Browns (road trips, heartbreaks, amazing wins and following celbrations), so coworkers can begrudgingly identify with your zeal as a fan in general. Do it early and cut it off NLT the end of the first quarter.
This is really a variation on the company field day event in Mr. Mom where Michael Keaton tanks the sac race to Martin Mull to keep Teri Garr happy, who I'm sure has held up much better than beverly deangelo. Anyway, you root for your team, peppering in extra fist pumps basically daring them to fire your wife. If the game is not going your way you go nuts and maybe throw a few cocktail glasses and exclaim, "Who the fuck orders a tom collins at a football game anyway?" And then when your wife's ex-boss says I believe that was yours you smile sheepishly and say, "How the hell does an NFL kicker push an extra point left, I'm sick of this shit, leave me alone."
Don't start picking on Tom Collins drinkers....we are secure in our masculinity in being able to drink that concoction.
(Did I say, "we"? I meant "I know friends who hav 2 Tom Collins a day...)
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