A Wench's Guide to Football by Scifinerdgrl Listen up, ladies! I grew up with brothers, male cousins, male second-cousins and male children-of-family friends... and NO FREAKING GIRLS!!! So y'all are my only sisters! *throws smooches* And in the spirit of sisterly guidance, I will share with you what I have learned about football, having been forced to watch it and play it with all those boys... First, there are two teams. And each of those teams has three teams. They each have offensive, defensive, and special teams. You can figure out which are which by looking closely at their butts. Things start off with the offensive team and defensive team lining up opposite each other, each in two parallel lines. They bend over, with their hands on the ground, so you can get a good view of their butts. This is how they make sure you know which team is which. First, there is the offensive team. I don't know why they're called offensive. They don't spit or scratch their asses any more than the other teams... but that's sports for you. These are the guys to watch. They have the best butts. First, there's the quarterback. He's the most important player because his butt is to die for. There are four quarters, and each team's quarterback gets to play in each quarter. This makes no sense at all, but nobody who loves a good butt will ever complain. This guy gets to play with the football first because everybody on the team recognizes the greatness of his butt. Sometimes he runs with it, but usually he throws it to the guy with the second-best butt. The guy with the second-best butt is the running back. He doesn't have boils or open sores on his back, but he's called a running back because the other guys are jealous of his butt, I guess. I mean, he always runs forward, never back. Anyway, after he gets the ball, he runs as far away from the other guys as he can. If he gets as far as the clothespole at the end of the field, the other guys from his team are obligated to pat his butt in acknowledgment of his glutteal superiority. The opposing team is called the defensive team. These guys are big, and they have big butts too, but they're also buff. If they knew how much we women appreciate their butts they wouldn't be so defensive, but that's sports for ya! They also seem to be jealous of the quarterback & the running back. Their main job it to knock the pretty boys on their asses. They also try to steal the football from them, I guess because the pretty boys don't want to ruin their pants-lines with pockets for lunch money. If one of the big guys gets hold of the football he will try to run toward *his* team's clothespole to show *his* team's offensive team that *he* has a first-class butt! Even if he doesn't make it all the way to the clothespole, the offensive team from his side will come out onto the field and pat his butt. When this happens it's called a conversion, I think, although there isn't any praying, hymn-singing or dunking. At this point, the offensive team gets defensive, so to speak, and they shoo the defensive team off the field because they need to prove that *they* have the best butts. When the other side's defensive team sees this they cop an attitude and shoo *their* offensive team off the field so they can kick some pretty boy ass. And so it goes, back and forth, each side trying to prove they have the best butts. Now, there are also special teams. I don't know why they're called special, because none of these guys is crippled or retarded. Well, sometimes the kicker can't speak English but I don't think that's why they're called "special." There are a bunch of guys on these teams, but the only one who matters is the kicker. His butt rocks! But if you look really closely, you can tell that one asscheek is bigger than the other. That's because his job is to kick the football over the clothespole, and he always uses the same foot. Sometimes when he kicks the ball over the clothespole it's worth one point, and sometimes it's worth three points. Either way, the other guys on his side are obligated to acknowledge the fineness of his butt, even the quarterback. If he doesn't kick the ball far enough, sometimes the bullies on the other side will grab it and run towards him. Then the kicker runs away like a wussy while the bullies on his side try to grab the ball away from the bullies on the other side. No matter which group of bullies gets the ball, though, the offensive team from their side will take over... unless the bullies run all the way to the clothespole, in which case the other team's pretty boys take over. It seems ass-backward but that's sport for ya. The game ends about twenty minutes after the two-minute warning. They know that women are watching their butts so they give us a warning to tell us we need to get out of the ladies' room if we want a last look. Of course, there's always a long line in the ladies' room, so they give us those other eighteen minutes just in case. Sometimes there's a tie at the end of the fourth quarter, so they go into overtime. Even though there's more butt-watching ahead, ladies, just take my advice and leave. The guys in the stands get WAY too excited over this best- butt competition during overtime, and frankly, it's embarrassing. Tell your man you're having a female crisis then go. If he hears you at all he won't mind. By this time his self-image of his own butt is tied up with his team's quarterback's butt, and he is completely irrational. If he is at home he will even take the potato chip bowl off his belly because he has started to believe he has washboard abs too. After the game is over, the guy with the best butt gets hoisted onto the shoulders of the guys with pretty-good butts, and they will pour champagne over his head. The other team's guys will go to their locker room to get their butts chewed out by their coach. I don't know what this means. I'm afraid to ask.