**AITA for Telling My Son That Michael Jordan’s ‘Flu Game’ Was Actually Just a Sympathy Card He Played Because He Was Hungover From Gambling All Night?**

AITA for telling my son that Michael Jordan’s ‘flu game’ was actually just a sympathy card he played because he was hungover from gambling all night?

So the other day I’m at Buffalo Wild Wings with my kid (he’s 12, already an insufferable LeBron stan — annoying, but I respect the hustle). We’re watching a highlight reel of MJ’s 1997 Finals performance, and this kid literally says, “Wow, Dad, what an icon. He played through a 103-degree fever. Legend.”

I scoffed. Loudly.

I said, “Son, let me teach you something about PR. That man didn’t have the flu. He had a mixer of Hennessy and regret because he was up until 4 AM at a blackjack table in Salt Lake City. David Stern picked up the phone and said, ‘Say it was food poisoning, but make it sound heroic.’ And the media ran with it like a dog chasing a mail truck.”

Kid looked at me like I’d just told him Santa was a pyramid scheme. My wife kicked me under the table and muttered “read the room.”

But here’s the kicker: the table next to us clapped. A 50-year-old dude in a Bulls hat shook my hand and said “finally, someone with eyes.” Another guy yelled “#2Peat” like a lunatic.

But my son is now sulking and saying I “ruined his childhood.” AITA for exposing the truth about the greatest marketing scam in sports history?

TL;DR:

• MJ “flu game” was allegedly a hangover/come-down.
• I told my 12-year-old.
• He cried.
• Strangers loved it.
• Wife is mad.
• The Celtics diaspora is howling on Twitter right now.

Drop your takes below. 🔥