1st Encounter Project "Joke"

Let me tell you a little background about where I heard this Joke from. On my Mom side of the family, my grandma created a family website. The entire family gets on the website several times a day. They post on the site pictures of the grandchildren and themselves. They also post comments about new thing in their family’s life, or just plain non-sense. Another thing is 95% of my family lives in Michigan and that is where I am from also. Well if you’re up to date on college football then you know that Michigan took a loss, which is considered the worst loss in college football history. The majority of my family is not considered Michigan fan, but fans of other Michigan team, or other States teams. Moving on, I have one uncle is a tremendous U of M fan (die hard), so on my family’s site everyone has been making fun of University of Michigan, by telling several jokes. My favorite joke of them all was the last one that my Uncle said that went like this, “How many batteries does it take to shock a Wolverine? 1-AA.” The meaning of the joke means it only took one double “A” football team to beat and shock the University of Michigan Wolverines. As far as I know this is a brand new joke. This is the first time I have ever heard this joke. But the heckling of a sports team is far from a new accurance. Heckling of ones favorite sports team is a tradition that has been practiced since the beginning of sports. Sports are meant to be very competitive, it’s the nature of the subject, so making fun of your rival team is typical and natural. Also competition in my family runs crazy. Every one of my mom’s sisters and brothers played high school sports and some of them played sports in college. My moms brothers still play on sports league, and now the siblings are always competing against each other, which is why this joke is so funny to me. On my family’s site my family just keeps going back and forth getting their digs on each other. "This blog entry is my response to the 1^st encounter project about a joke that is circulating in my life currently.