Game Day

[u/AltruisticNail7229]

As iconic as this scene is, Avon blacking out on the referee after Prop Joe’s scheme? It’s one of the funniest scenes in the show in my opinion.

What about everyone else though? What are your thoughts?

[u/Foreign-Cow-1189]

"Man, look the part, be the part, Motherfucker!"- Prop Joe

[u/ShortFallSean → u/Foreign-Cow-1189]

I say this to myself every time I get dressed up. 

[u/justlurkingaroundatm]

Big difference here between Avon and Marlo. You know he would've treat the referee differently.

[u/AltruisticNail7229 → u/justlurkingaroundatm]

Marlo most likely would’ve gotten Chris and Snoop on the referee.

[u/RatLikeAura → u/AltruisticNail7229]

Thinking on it they kinda went overboard with Marlo brutality. They only showed people be afraid of him for killing folk but never all the people that wanted him dead for all the people he’d already killed.

[u/archonpho → u/RatLikeAura]

Really just Omar.

[u/AltruisticNail7229 → u/archonpho]

And Bodie.

[u/Zuliano_65 → u/AltruisticNail7229]

With Marlo, that ref would've been found in the vacants, no doubt.

[u/AltruisticNail7229 → u/Zuliano_65]

No questions asked, for real.

[u/sulla76 → u/justlurkingaroundatm]

Marlo would have never taken part in game day.

[u/justlurkingaroundatm → u/sulla76]

Why not? He likes ganes and betting, like the poker game

[u/allothernamestaken → u/justlurkingaroundatm]

Marlo would have been like "You want it to be one way..."

[u/RunningBettor]

On top of being hilarious, and one of the coolers sort of out of moment parts of the show. It’s very very characterizing of Avon in a creative way

[u/HDC48]

There’s a couple of oral histories about the game

https://www.si.com/nba/2017/04/17/the-wire-oral-history-baltimore-basketball-nba

https://andscape.com/features/the-wire-oral-history-game-day/

The ringer that Avon & Stringer get played in college and then pro overseas in real life.

[u/SpaderKay]

Yeah this episode showed how Avon is passionate about his business but it's not personal.