[fic] root, root, root for the home team, bbtfic, s/p, 1500 words

[allthingsholy]

Title: Root, Root, Root for the Home Team
Author: allthingsholy
For: juniperlane at the sheldon_penny Saturnalia 2011.
Prompt: A SportsNight AU where Sheldon & Penny are Jeremy & Natalie. Basically, they work on a cable sports show. She’s the producer’s assistant and he’s a stats-obsessed production guy. And if you haven’t watched SportsNight, well. I guess that’s enough to be getting

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[notalwaysweak]

You know, I always found football-knowing!Sheldon strangely appealing, and this just makes me go yes, this is definitely someone he could've been.

[muir_wolf]

Ughhhhhh ILU. I really, truly do. This is lovely and you are lovely and DANA and PENNY and this right here:

Everything about him is at opposite ends of the spectrum, which is pretty much Penny’s exact reaction to him: he’s kind of super awkward, all elbows and knees and vaguely unflattering haircut, but at the same time Penny kind of can’t stop staring at his hands and his jawline and this little patch of freckles behind his ear.

basically encapsulates all of my Sheldon-related feelings. I could read a bazillion words about this world. ♥