I s'pose you hadda be there....

So we just got done watching America's Funniest Videos (shut up, The Daughter loves it, and the current Tom Bergeron-hosted incarnation is far more amusing than the version with Daisy Fuentes or the godawful Bob Saget), and one video in particular struck me as funny on a number of levels.

It took place during a youth soccer game, what looked like kids around nine or ten years of age. All of the action was taking place at one end of the field, and that was the direction in which our home-video Federico Fellini was aiming his camera. Ho hum: a soccer game. Lots of players standing in their coach-assigned spots, with a couple of them kicking the ball around in a micro-parcel of the actual playing field space. Yawn.

And then the little old lady with a cane wandered out onto the field.

And by "wander", I mean, she wandered. Had her gait not been fairly steady, I would have suspected her of being drunk. In fact, maybe she was. Anyway, this old lady wandered right across the field. She didn't just amble out onto a little bit of the field and then wander back off: she ambled straight across the field, right through the players, and right out the other side of the field of play. This went on for about thirty seconds or so -- quite a long time for such a thing, if you sit and time it -- and then they cut to a bit later to show the woman exiting the field on the other side.

The humor here, over and above some old lady wandering out into the middle of a soccer game, was twofold: first, nobody came forward to try and stop this lady or redirect her elsewhere, which I thought was pretty funny. But second, and even funnier, is the fact that in the bit of the clip that AFV showed, the game itself never stopped. It can't mean anything good for soccer if an old lady wandering right into the middle of the game field can't even disrupt the play!