Taking one for the team can mean a myriad of things. Most times in my circle it is referred to in the dating (I use that term loosely) scene. Where your wingman (or friend you dragged to the bar) gets stuck dancing/talking/buying drink/fucking the ugly and/or fat chick so that you can hit on her attractive, hot friend. Sometimes it means sacrificing your body for the good of the game. In baseball it's usually getting hit with the ball to take a base. In hockey it's taking a puck that usually ends up hitting your body where there is no padding(I don't know how the puck knows there is not padding there...but it knows). In the fine cinematic masterpiece Armageddon, Bruce Willis takes one for the team, which in that case was our country, by going down into the asteroid and blowing it up with a nuclear bomb. Monday night I went to take one for the team but got away with it so it wasn't really a sacrifice. But it still counts in my opinion darn it all. :) See we were playing … [Read more...]