Our guy, whom we ll call Curtis, was being a little chippy talking a lot, making too many calls. Curtis is white, with a ponytail and a mouthpiece. He s intense. The other guy, whom we ll call Randy, is black. He s less intense, but he plays hard.
Racism is just a malignant form of competiveness, on a grand scale.
I think it was mostly just two guys knocking heads. In any case, we got to witness the rare sight of a man being slung around by his ponytail. Both of these guys are very aggressive with the ball, and they were guarding each other, and that s where the trouble started. A couple of questionable calls, a couple of hard fouls. Then I inadvertently fueled the feud when I threw an underhand rainbow pass downcourt to Curtis.