Erlkönig: first-football-game.shtml

[collected 2004-01-08]

THE GAME

A guy took his girlfriend to her first football game.  They had great
seats right behind the bench.  After the game he asked her how she
liked the experience.  "Oh, I really liked it," she said, "especially
the tight pants and all of the big muscles, but I just couldn't
understand why they were killing each other for 25 cents."  Perplexed,
her date asked, "What on earth do you mean?"  "Well, I saw them flip a
coin and one team got it, and then for the rest of the game all they
kept screaming was, "Get the quarter back! Get the quarter back!'"