Ok since we r telling “Wife” stories this one is really tough to beat! I’ll make a long story short but all 3 of my kids play b ball and over the years what started out as a running joke grew larger. It started with Alyssa where anytime Mom would attend the game there seemed like there was a lid on the basket. Now Alyssa wasn’t a huge scorer, rather a true old fashion pt guard. Very nice handle, assist, great on ball D and help D. Team player but when Ava & Anthony (also pt guards cuz of lack of height with the parents 😂) who scored at a higher clip missed more when Mom was there the legend grew!
It got to the point where my wife would leave after the third with us losing and then the baskets start going in!
I was the assistant for 5 years on Avas team and I think we lost 3 games total. But there were games where the head coach would look at me with that look (cuz he and some other parents were in on “the joke”.) I would then give the signal across the court and off she’d go! 8 point comeback and another win! Lol
We’ll fast forward to the RU - NW game like 3 years ago when we were something like 15 pt favorites. My wife is not a huge sports fan and thinks we are all crazy (she’s right!) . But she joins us once a year for football and b ball. Football it’s always the Norfolk or Howard game so she can’t “jinx” them!!! B ball usually the same.
That year with the kids schedules it worked out we would go to the NW game. Ava had a game so we arrived late and upon entering saw NW was up 9-2 (in the back of all of our minds we all thought the jinx couldn’t mess this game up but doubt started to creep in once we entered the RAC and saw the score. )
As u all remember NW waxes is in the first half and we are down something like 18 at the half. We are all stunned but no one wants to discuss “it”. Second half starts and it gets worse. If I remember we were down maybe 22 at one point and my wife says “I have to go to the bathroom” so she leaves…
You guessed it, boom the great run began !!!!
Don’t know exact numbers but want to say we cut it to around 9 by the time she comes walking back up the stairs!
Now we are all looking at each other saying “who’s gunna tell her?”
Alyssa stands up as she’s approaching us and says “mom I love you but we need this game and went on a run when u left. Can u go back down in the hallway”.
Mom says “really” and all 4 of us say “yes!”
I gave her the shrug like what can I say? 🤷♂️
(For the record we did feel bad)…
Anyway you all know the rest, Geo ties it at the end and we win in OT.
Mom stayed in the hallway and we all hugged her at the end proclaiming she was the MVP.
Many people thought Geo won us that game but now Rutgers Nation knows it was Mrs Paone! 😂😂
