[pests]

"The vest is a remnant of 19th-century football rules, in which this role would have been held by a beekeeper, who tended the hive of angry bees used to mark first down."

Is this true? I can't tell if he's being legit here or just running with a joke.

[leephillips]

I often warn people that, no matter how off-the-scale obviously ridiculous you think your absurd, satirical jest may be, there will, not maybe, not probably, but will definitely be, somewhere, someone who takes you literally.

[chrisrogers]

It's a joke about the uniform