Real men don't watch sports

Actual conversation I had with my father Tuesday night trying to get a score update on the Hawks-Cavs game on the way back from the grocery store that should give you the general impression that I'm the only sports fan in my family:

Jonathan: Can I get a score update on the game?

Dad: Sure, hang on a minute

Me: Ok

(several minutes pass)

Me: Dad?

Dad: Hang on...

Me:...

Dad: Ok, I've almost got it here - ok, Hawks 4, Cavaliers 1.

Me: (Thinking about it a minute and realizing that he's reading the playoff seeds for each team) - I don't think that's it.

Dad: uuh... ok, 23-17 Boston

Me: um, do you mean Cleveland?

Dad: Yeah, there's just a bunch of people talking - they're showing a bunch of scores - 30-39?

Me: That sounds pretty low... is Charles Barkley one of the guys talking?

Dad: Yeah

Me: Then it's halftime

Dad: Ok, now it's on commercial

I got home before he could find the score. It was 49-43 at the half. I love my dad.

It's official...

...I'm the #1 Jonathan Carl on the internet. Allow me to express my condolences to:

Jonathan Karl - Senior Congressional Corespondent, ABC News

Jonathan Carl - Interim Minister to Students at Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown, KY

Jonathan Carl Wong - Looks like he might be a professor, public speaker or singer in Singapore

Jonathan Carl Nelson - Friend of the very attractive Lana Janczyszyn

Jonathan Carl Flemister - Really, really big fan of pants

Who the Hell IS this guy?

Spotted at Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference quarterfinals in Atlanta. Not hard to imagine how.

I asked around, assuming he was at least semi-famous. The answers I got ranged from a personal friend of Pat Riley, to a super-wealthy eccentric who lived in Los Angeles and was inexplicably a Heat fan and flew out to all the games, to some weird guy who forced his way through security saying "don't you know who I am?" which they didn't, but were too afraid he might be a wealthy eccentric or a personal friend of Pat Riley.

He at least acted like he knew all the players and celebrities, and they responded to him, though it's not clear whether it was by recognition or some learned response that people who dress like this and sit courtside at games are usually important. 

He ended up having a conversation with Stephen A. Smith, which makes him about as cool as anyone who has ever been within 50 feet of Stephen A. Smith (he likes to talk).

Oh, and there was a game too, or something.

Worst job interview ever

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