The Messy Turtle

Let's see, I'm going to go with both Nick & Kelly are there for the beer, but Nick at least knows the game, even if he doesn't really care about it. Kelly knows the very basics of the game, like, you can't touch the ball with your hands, and you kick it in the goal to score one point, but that's about it. He did love playing it with the local kids, but he leaned into the "bumbling American who doesn't know anything about football" because he's just not into organized sports. They do go to a game (Babe, its the world cup and it's in Boston, we have to go) and Kelly is very enthusiastically cheering for whoever the Scots are cheering for because they're his kind of people.

See - I think that LIAM is the true believer. (Wildcard has entered the chat). They bump into him in the crowds. He's still on a high after the Arsenal win and it Team England all the way. Everyone else picks other teams just on principal. Digger pretends to be Senegalese and butchers the french language on purpose. Owen picks whoever is statistically better than England. Kelly and Nick heckle him about Wrexham getting better and will challenge Arsenal soon in the premier league. Grady just refuses to speak him at all. Or if he does, it's with a New Zealand accent. Zane just looks at The Tartan Army and mourns what he missed out on (

On one hand, its sidewinder-type shenanigans by a group of people he won't feel responsible for, on the other hand, what if sidewinder joins in.

Here's my au current headcanon for baseball -

Let's see, I'm going to go with both Nick & Kelly are there for the beer, but Nick at least knows the game, even if he doesn't really care about it. Kelly knows the very basics of the game, like, you can't touch the ball with your hands, and you kick it in the goal to score one point, but that's about it. He did love playing it with the local kids, but he leaned into the "bumbling American who doesn't know anything about football" because he's just not into organized sports. They do go to a game (Babe, its the world cup and it's in Boston, we have to go) and Kelly is very enthusiastically cheering for whoever the Scots are cheering for because they're his kind of people.

See - I think that LIAM is the true believer. (Wildcard has entered the chat). They bump into him in the crowds. He's still on a high after the Arsenal win and it Team England all the way. Everyone else picks other teams just on principal. Digger pretends to be Senegalese and butchers the french language on purpose. Owen picks whoever is statistically better than England. Kelly and Nick heckle him about Wrexham getting better and will challenge Arsenal soon in the premier league. Grady just refuses to speak him at all. Or if he does, it's with a New Zealand accent. Zane just looks at The Tartan Army and mourns what he missed out on (