Pretending to be an OT - convincingly, emphasis on the con.
A Joker's and Degrader's Guide
If you want to have some fun with total strangers at an airport bar while killing time between flights you can do this:
Realizing that the digital signal on the TV showing the Sunday football game on the TV is a full 5 seconds behind real time, have a small radio hidden away from sight with a single ear phone up to the ear on the other side from the guy sitting next to you with the cord tucked into your hair.
So what happens is you'll hear the details of the play at its conclusion on the radio 5 seconds before the ball even gets snapped on the "live" game on the TV.
Start out on a gradient so as to make it more buy-able to anyone withing earshot by calling out what will be the result of the play before the snap like "Adrienne Peterson 8 yard screen play to the Chicago 12 yard line", then by god that's exactly what they see happen on the screen.
Then wait a bit and do it again, "Oh shit, it's gonna be a quarterback fumble on their own 27 yard line".
Boom, that's what happens.
Then step it up until it couldn't just be lucky guesses anymore and people start stealing glances at you and cease whatever conversations they were in so as to not miss what your "OT" clairvoyance will pick up on next.
Now start making over the top conductor styled hand and swirling arm gestures so you appear to be like some legendary psychic wizard and the guys around you start saying "Man, you haven't been wrong once" with quavering voices!
Now get wild maniacal looks in your eyes and start commanding certain results from the teams and of course they dutifully obey.
But the few times I did it purely for my own amusement I found that people didn't share in my amusement when I fessed up as to how I did it all after a while, and all due to a 5 second delay that they never even suspected was the case.
You might have to run at that point!
I never took it to the level of betting people cash money on what was going to happen on the very next play but I easily could have but my own sense of decency wouldn't even consider that.
But it sure was fun, even changing my voice like I was in touch with the psychic world of wizards and demi-gods.
But I'll never forget the stunned looks on their faces.
I also resisted the temptation at the point, when I had people so sold on my "OTness", to turn to the guy next to me who I had in one case heard him on his cell phone talking about his flight details to say "my son, DO NOT and I emphasize DO NOT get on flight 371 to Atlanta! Whatever you do DO NOT GET ON THAT FLIGHT! The poor guy might have stroked out every time the plane hit any turbulence on the way to Atlanta and that would have been way too cruel.
Humor can go overboard I've learned.
So I just had to quit doing it because I really do understand that people were not put on earth for my amusement!
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