most bizarre post-game encounter?

[mike311gd]

Kip Wells spit tobacco at my feet once.

 

[Angola!]

I had a distance runner puke on my shoes once while interviewing her. Then she started apologizing profusely and made me take them off so she could wipe them off. It was very strange.

I've also had the high school male athlete hug me before, it is so weird.

Probably the strangest though was last year after a local small school won a state title in the 400-meter relay and I'm interviewing a couple of the runners. When I am wrapping my interview up with the last one, she says, "I just want you to know that you have really pretty eyes. That's all." I just stood there, like "OK. That was weird." And got the hell out of there.

 

[mike311gd]

I had a distance runner puke on my shoes once while interviewing her. Then she started apologizing profusely and made me take them off so she could wipe them off. It was very strange.

I've also had the high school male athlete hug me before, it is so weird.

Probably the strangest though was last year after a local small school won a state title in the 400-meter relay and I'm interviewing a couple of the runners. When I am wrapping my interview up with the last one, she says, "I just want you to know that you have really pretty eyes. That's all." I just stood there, like "OK. That was weird." And got the hell out of there.

And called her, right? ...

 

[Angola!]

I had a distance runner puke on my shoes once while interviewing her. Then she started apologizing profusely and made me take them off so she could wipe them off. It was very strange.

I've also had the high school male athlete hug me before, it is so weird.

Probably the strangest though was last year after a local small school won a state title in the 400-meter relay and I'm interviewing a couple of the runners. When I am wrapping my interview up with the last one, she says, "I just want you to know that you have really pretty eyes. That's all." I just stood there, like "OK. That was weird." And got the hell out of there.

And called her, right? ...

Despite the fact she was a high schooler, it was more uncomfortable because she was a sophomore.

 

[The Last Boy Scout]

Angola!: Setting a higher standard
;D

 

[mike311gd]

I had a distance runner puke on my shoes once while interviewing her. Then she started apologizing profusely and made me take them off so she could wipe them off. It was very strange.

I've also had the high school male athlete hug me before, it is so weird.

Probably the strangest though was last year after a local small school won a state title in the 400-meter relay and I'm interviewing a couple of the runners. When I am wrapping my interview up with the last one, she says, "I just want you to know that you have really pretty eyes. That's all." I just stood there, like "OK. That was weird." And got the hell out of there.

And called her, right? ...

Despite the fact she was a high schooler, it was more uncomfortable because she was a sophomore.

I once spoke with a sophomore point guard, who scored a career-high (at that point) 12 points. One of her quotes to me was, "I like to score. ..." Then she let out a little giggle and gave me the eyes. That was the end of the interview.

My cousin is the same age, and that's something she would say and not know what else it could imply. So I chalked it up general ignorance and naivety.

 

[Spartakate]

As I was walking across the field to talk to the winning coach, a group of parents surrounded me after a football game and demand that I write a story about how their kids were unfairly benched. Then they started yelling at the coach and told me to write stuff down. Not joking. I just shifted to the side and edged my way out.

 

[Knighthawk]

I covered a pro boxing card where two fighters - both fairly well-known - hugged me while I was interviewing them after their fights.

Shane Battier taking the podium after his last high-school game - a state-title win - and thanking the media for being so good to him was also bizarre, in a different way.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

Last year a football player whose team lost one game short of getting to the final, sincerely apologized to me about not making it there.

"I'm sorry because I know how much you wanted to cover us in the championship."

Uh...not really kid.

 

[Luke02]

After a pretty serious bender one night, me and a photog show up at a tennis meet. Prior to leaving I cash on body spray and and old spice. After the meet, girl comes up, says "I love your shirt and you smell delicious." Did the only thing a person could do. Went to the car, wrote my story and passed out.

Them were the days.

 

[Some Guy]

After a pretty serious bender one night, me and a photog show up at a tennis meet. Prior to leaving I cash on body spray and and old spice. After the meet, girl comes up, says "I love your shirt and you smell delicious." Did the only thing a person could do. Went to the car, wrote my story and passed out.

Them were the days.

That story could have ended better

 

[ostentatious]

home team drops a playoff football game something like 35-14. i'm walking over to the coach trying to figure out what to ask him ('soooooooooooooooooooo....what do you think?' is all that was coming to find) and all of a sudden this drunk players' mom starts screaming at the coach about how if his kid (the quarterback) was a girl, maybe then he would have had to earn his way onto the team. coach makes a beeline past me and gets up in her face and tells her to go home. the husband and the coach exchange some words and eventually it kind of breaks up as the husband ends up dragging the mom away from the coach who then comes back and looks at me like i am the asshole making fun of his kid.

 

[Barsuk]

After a pretty serious bender one night, me and a photog show up at a tennis meet. Prior to leaving I cash on body spray and and old spice. After the meet, girl comes up, says "I love your shirt and you smell delicious." Did the only thing a person could do. Went to the car, wrote my story and passed out.

Them were the days.

As SJ posting debuts go, this wasn't half bad.

 

[TwoGloves]

Rookie goalie who hadn't done much or played much all year was thrown into action at a road game when the No. 1 guy got called up. He plays out of his mind, team wins a big game and when I'm talking to him afterward he's really excited. Then, he asks me if I can put something in my story telling his mom she needs to do his laundry before he gets home. His ****ing laundry! I said I'd see what I could do.

 

[Some Guy]

Rookie goalie who hadn't done much or played much all year was thrown into action at a road game when the No. 1 guy got called up. He plays out of his mind, team wins a big game and when I'm talking to him afterward he's really excited. Then, he asks me if I can put something in my story telling his mom she needs to do his laundry before he gets home. His ****ing laundry! I said I'd see what I could do.

Man, that actually sounds like a lead to me. Guy has an awesome debut, and he's such a neophyte that all he can think of is that his mommy needs to do his laundry. What level of sports is this? I think that's awesome.

 

[playthrough]

Anyway, my most bizarro postgame situation was at my first job. Like a lot of small papers, we had a weekly pick 'em for prep football games. One of our schools had an unlikely run to the state semifinals, and I had picked against them (I wasn't one of the many morans who go homer with their picks) for most of their run. I was assigned to cover their semifinal game.

I knew I was in for a bizarro night during the game. It was a rare time I worked the sideline, and the local team was driving for a touchdown (or the other team was driving, I forget) and a JV-ish player taps my shoulder and asks me, "Why do you keep picking against us in the paper?" I chuckled and asked him why he was worried about that in the middle of a tight game. He just shrugged his shoulders.

Anyhow, my local team wins to earn a state championship game berth. There's about four reporters waiting around and the coach, who was straight out of erascible high school coach central casting, singles me out and has me go in the locker room alone. Once inside, his team gave me a standing ovation and starting patting me on the back. He said, "Thanks Bubbler. Your picks against us in the paper really motivated us. We know you didn't mean it, thanks a lot."

Yeah ... right. **** you, coach.

Just to **** them off, I picked them to win the state championship game. I think they got smoked 72-10 or something.

It's amazing how seriously people take that stuff. Later ... during their opening basketball game, their radio guy shoved a mike in my face without warning and asked if I was going to keep picking against them in basketball too. I had to fight every fiber of my being not to tell him to **** off on air.

My thoughts of newspapers becoming obsolete were always erased on Friday nights when I'd get an earful over picks. Yes, coach, it really became your team against the world because I picked the other side. You should hire me to heckle your kids before final exams.

 

[Rhouston]

... this drunk players' mom starts screaming at the coach about how if his kid (the quarterback) was a girl, maybe then he would have had to earn his way onto the team.

Well, maybe if her son wasn't drunk, he'd see more action....

 

[Angola!]

I had a distance runner puke on my shoes once while interviewing her. Then she started apologizing profusely and made me take them off so she could wipe them off. It was very strange.

I've also had the high school male athlete hug me before, it is so weird.

Probably the strangest though was last year after a local small school won a state title in the 400-meter relay and I'm interviewing a couple of the runners. When I am wrapping my interview up with the last one, she says, "I just want you to know that you have really pretty eyes. That's all." I just stood there, like "OK. That was weird." And got the hell out of there.

And called her, right? ...

Despite the fact she was a high schooler, it was more uncomfortable because she was a sophomore.

I once spoke with a sophomore point guard, who scored a career-high (at that point) 12 points. One of her quotes to me was, "I like to score. ..." Then she let out a little giggle and gave me the eyes. That was the end of the interview.

My cousin is the same age, and that's something she would say and not know what else it could imply. So I chalked it up general ignorance and naivety.

I had another one at a track meet where a girl liked to touch my arm while I was interviewing her. I would try to kind of sidle away from her to make it so I was at least 4 feet from her, but she would get closer. She said to me more than once, "I can't believe you are 27. You look so much younger."
I was happy when track season ended. The whole exchange made me feel dirty.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

Dear Penthouse Forum:

My first assignment at the University weekly was a women's volleyball game...

The coach invited me into her office and she said she wanted more coverage...

To which I replied, "More cleavage, more coverage."

At which point she began to unbutton her blouse.

 

[Clever username]

Dear Penthouse Forum:

My first assignment at the University weekly was a women's volleyball game...

Mine actually was. What good times that was.