Getting blown out is one of the worst feelings in sports. Feeling helpless as the score gets out of reach is an athlete’s worst nightmare. Any athlete can retell a time when they got blown out because they take note of that feeling and never want to feel it again.
Well, ex-NFL QB Ryan Fitzpatrick’s son, Tate, got a taste of a huge defeat in rec league basketball. Fitzpatrick gave a great retelling of how one recreational league team beat the brakes off of his son’s team.
Ryan Fitzpatrick’s Hilarious Story of His Son Losing by 103 Points
In basketball, losing by 20 points is not a good feeling and is a good measure of which team had the better of the other on that night. This is still relatively common among all levels of basketball. However, losing by 103 points is almost unheard of. Fitzpatrick told the story of the game on his podcast with former NFL player Andrew Whitworth, “Fitz & Whit.”
“Tate, I would say, is an average to maybe a little above average rec league player in high school. [He] really enjoys playing. He’s a sophomore. So Tate comes home, he says, good news, bad news. Good news is, ‘Dad, I had 14 points, we scored 35. That part of it was good. I didn’t know I’d score that many. It was fun. Bad news, Dad, the other team had 138 points,'” Fitzpatrick said about Tate’s disastrous defeat.
Whitworth was astonished when he heard how many points the other team scored. Fitzpatrick went on to further explain the situation and then provide context on why the score was as lopsided as it was.
This information could have been useful before he hilariously described his son’s team getting dismantled by 103 points. Tate is 16 years old and still in high school, on a team with his friends participating in an adult league.
“They lost 138-35. They joined an adult men’s league, and there wasn’t any room in the lower level, so they’re now on the highest level in the adult men’s league. These guys are guys that played in college or played semi-pro in Europe. There’s a 6’8″ guy they were calling Kareem [Abdul-Jabbar] because he made a skyhook every time he touched the ball,” said Fitzpatrick.
It is no surprise that Tate and his buddies took a beating as they were severely outmatched from the jump. It’s all in good fun, though, as Tate and his friends aren’t in the rec league to make it to the next level.
Fitzpatrick has always been a character and did a hilarious job retelling this story as he started with the absurdity of losing by 103 and only after that shifting to explain why Tate and his friends couldn’t hang with the other team. He made sure to explain the intensity with the other team was playing.
“They treated every possession like it was Game 7 of the NBA Finals. They were up 100 points, and they were still pressing, Andrew,” Fitzpatrick said to Whitworth.
There was no mercy shown by the opposing team while the severely overmatched high schoolers, who wanted to play some basketball for fun, were facing the rec league equivalent of the Monstars from “Space Jam.” At first listen, fans might think Fitzpatrick was joking and think that it’s impossible to lose by that much, but after telling the story, the average player would probably lose by just as much.