Denied!
Proposing to a girl on the big screen during a sports game has got to be pretty much the dumbest thing men ever came up with in the long history of dumb things men come up with. Believe me when I say that I've disappointed enough women in my lifetime to sort of understand them, and if they have a list of top five places they want to be popped the question at, I'm willing to bet that "at the ballpark in the seventh inning" isn't on that list. Hell, I'm pretty sure it isn't on the list of top 50 places. Unless maybe your significant other is as big a sports nut as you are, but even then I wouldn't chance it.
Too bad some unlucky guy did chance it at an Astros game last Monday, and got denied in a major way. I'm talking the girl dumping popcorn on his head kind of "no." The kind of "no" that comes in the form of 30,000 people watching him get shot down on the Jumbotron. Proof positive of why the cliched gimmick of proposing at a game needs to stop. No one at the game cares how much in love (or not, in this case) strange couples are, so it needs to stop. All anyone cares about when they go the game is drinking, eating overpriced food, keeping box scores and screaming obscenities at their least favorite player in a drunken haze. Hardly the kind of atmosphere you want to start the rest of your romantic life at, or end with a scarring public rejection for that matter.
mlb, Houston, Astros, proposal
