The Sports Bar
This is a tough social network to crack. For example, even if you know what you are talking about most men will choose not to hear you. There is only one way to break into this network. In order to be taken seriously, you must trump the male’s knowledge of the game. Sounds hard but it is quite simple.
Take football for example. First, you must learn the offense from the defense. The offense has the ball; the defense wants it. After the next play, lean coyly over to your male co-worker and say, do you think the Raiders (or whoever) should have run a dime defense? (Pray they didn’t or you will have to give up cracking this network and slither home in shame.) When the male laughs in your face and asks what you know about the dime defense say, “A dime defense is where two nickel backs, the 5th and 6th defensive backs, replace linebackers.”
Next, bat your eyes and say, “Come on guy, you know my cousin won the Butkus award in 1987.” Then before the male can respond say, “You think you know sports? Let’s see. Who is the only player to win the Butkus award two years in a row?” The answer is Brian Bosworth. The normal sports fanatic will be stumped by these obscure questions and you will never need to know another thing about sports as you will now be seen as an authority. To keep the ruse running, before each sports club outing, go on the net and find a useless piece of sports trivia, commit it to memory and watch your legend grow as the only cool girl invited to the sports club.
Note: By the way, if someone asks you who your cousin was that won the Butkus award, give them a piercing look, roll your eyes and say, “Come on dude, don’t you now anything about sports? Go online and look it up!”
By Ellen M. Rodriguez, Capella Interactive
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