Fratstars vs. Flatbills: It’s A War. Sterling Cooper Reports

Brothers,

Unbeknownst to many of you, I have been spending my recent months in a war-zone. When I am not working as a congressional lobbyist for whiskey distillers or in my position as the United States’ ambassador to the Republic of Texas, I am operating as a field correspondent in one of the most dangerous battlefields in the country…the party scene. I have been observing a war that many of you have been participating in. One that affects us all. But before I delve into this dark, twisted reality, allow me to set the scene for those of you who are lucky to not be involved.

GDIs have many flaws – chief of which is that they are GDIs – but in reality most of them are harmless. In fact, many of them are helpful. GDIs are the ones in our study groups who do all of the work while we skip group meetings to watch the sporting events we bet on. GDIs are the ones who practice for weeks for intramurals, only to lose to a team of mostly drunk, carefree fraternity men, even when we play two men short because one guy went to Vegas for no reason and another guy is passed out on our bench. Most importantly, GDIs are the ones who will end up working for us, doing all of the tasks that are below our caliber and pay grade. However, there is a group of GDIs who are much more than nerds and hipsters. These guys, my friends, are known as the Flatbills.

Flatbills are a very particular, very dangerous breed of GDI. They tend to fit a certain mold. Most of them played baseball in high school. A few of them were good enough to walk onto your university’s team, but definitely not good enough to earn a scholarship. They are, by no stretch of the imagination, athletes. Despite this, they act as if they are the coolest men the world has seen since the cast of Walker, Texas Ranger (which is cooler than an Eskimo’s dick in mid-February). They wear too-tight shirts with athletic shorts, drink shitty liquor mixed with energy drinks, and almost definitely have the most disturbing tribal/oriental tattoos you’ve ever seen. And yes, despite the huge amount of douchebaggery they exude, we are in a war with them.

This is not a war that we chose. If we had our way, the Flatbills would stay in their own hangouts and chase women with lower back tattoos exclusively. But this is not the case. Instead, they are invading. This is not Jets vs. Sharks, because musicals blow giraffe cock. This is Red Dawn, but instead of Russians, we’ve been invaded by UFC-watching, Affliction-wearing, steroided, Fred Durst wannabes. They’ve started coming to our bars, dominating our television, and (worst of all) chasing our women. This would be a minor annoyance if it weren’t for the fact that they’ve had some success. Countless sorority girls have fallen prey to the muscles and sugary “shots,” and I can no longer order a drink without seeing a backwards Yankee hat. I know what some of you are saying, “My bar doesn’t allow people like that in, so it’s not my problem.” Well here’s where you’re wrong. Sure, some bars ban Affliction and ball caps, but a lot of bars won’t. Why? Because a lot of these guys have…money. And bars don’t care about new money or old money; they just want to make a profit, which is great, because capitalism is my middle name. At the end of the day it’s not the job of the bars or the girls to prevent douche-tragedy. It’s ours.

So what do we do? Here’s my plan. Enough of us are in the financial sector that we can easily execute a hostile takeover of every brand that they love. After acquiring these brands (Affliction, Ed Hardy, 59/50, Red Bull, etc.), we set a meeting with the Flatbill Council in either a parking garage or an abandoned warehouse. We then inform them that unless they quit poaching on our land, we will sell all of these brands, at cost to us, to Walmart, to be marketed to the one group that they hate more than fratstars: poorer GDIs. It’s a risky move, but one that must be taken. Men, if we are to protect the sanctity of our bars and our ladies, we have to take a stand. Channel your inner Wolverine and do this with me (and if you don’t get the movie reference, then go back to Pakistan, because you are a fucking terrorist).

  1. Broblesse Oblige

    If you’re worried about having your shit taken by flat-bill wearing Guidos, then you suck. You probably shouldn’t be throwing your sexual insecurities out like that. Let them come to bars and try their best. Survival of the fittest and all of that.

    13 years ago at 1:08 pm
  2. GoBlue83

    I must admit I enjoyed this thoroughly. I also must admit I definitely was a “Flatbill” as I was a preferred walk-on quarterback. I was loud obnoxious and very fratty in many ways however, I was a GDI. I offer a view of this from the other side, I totally respect angered Fratbro’s as myself and fellow teammates strait up dominated the chick scene in Ann Arbor. We would often go out and look exclusively for girls with boyfriends and would almost always score. Pissing of dozens of the fratbro’s. However, you guys shouldn’t fear us or hate us. First off, Fratboys represent no real threat to us and often Fratboys to the leg work to get girls to the bar. We just had to ride the wake. Furthermore as athletes we were always invited to Frat parties because I am sorry but it’s so true any Frat bro who had like 10 drinks would confess his love of Michigan Football to me and tell me how he had a sac in High School on a QB who plays D3 now. Truthfully that was entertaining. If you guys want to win, obviously it’s not going to be fighting because we were forced to workout five days a week, on average we are 6’2 or bigger and most of us weigh a minimum of 215lbs. With the amount of “shmen” in frats (5’9 and under) you stand no chance. Furthermore some of my teammates rocked affliction ( I was not a fan, and that was an outstanding burn) but that does not stop the girls from coming through the doors. Your guys biggest problem is the amount of Frat bro’s that strait up follow us around and want to more than anything hang out with athletes. By doing so they introduce us to their “brothers” and thus creating a civil understanding with the others. From that point on we have confidence, size, in shape, and looks, we offers the girls what the want raw fun and shots. We always win, I talk about it to this day about College, I spent four years at football practice and banging frat guys girlfriends. They simply did nothing. This was an entertaining article, I enjoyed it. Instead of hating on the GDI “flatbills” as seniors, you shouldn’t have tried so hard to get them to rush your frats when they were freshmen. From a guy who loved all things fratty and would have joined a frat if Lloyd Carr would have let him, I will lastly say Frat bro’s didn’t realize it but they led us right to pussy they weren’t man enough to crush themselves. Thanks, and Good day bro’s!

    13 years ago at 2:18 pm
    1. fratyliteonthefratio

      Get out geed, your fratbros may be bitches, but come down South and we’ll haze you just the same.

      13 years ago at 3:36 pm
    2. Reagan22

      Good job walk-on hope that helps you GA and not get paid shit, have fun. You being a walk-on, playing scout-team probably took a few hits as your grammar and spelling are shitty. Frat-bro’s?? I don’t know about that. Shoulda, coulda, woulda joined a fraternity, so you were jealous and wanted to be a part one? Contradictory statement there.

      13 years ago at 6:10 pm
    3. ColonelFratlete

      “From a guy who loved all things fratty and would have joined a frat if Lloyd Carr would have let him, I will lastly say Frat bro’s didn’t realize it but they led us right to pussy they weren’t man enough to crush themselves.” Well said.

      13 years ago at 1:58 pm
    1. Damn Right

      He’s wearing a “flat-billed” hat and is not the traditional golfer by any means, but still has the frattiest job ever…no idea

      13 years ago at 6:04 pm
  3. Vandal

    “It’s a risky move, but one that must be taken.”
    a few good golf course buisness deals could insure that even though we sell the companies at cost or less we can still make money. how you may ask? simple. have brooks brothers, polo, VV southern tide etc provide financial incintives for our buissness ventures.

    13 years ago at 6:06 pm
  4. Lambda Bro Alpha

    this is the most fucking stupid column ever. your other work has been decent, but you really dropped the ball on this one sterling cooper.

    i realize that it’s written as a parody, but i found this column to be dry and lacking humor.

    13 years ago at 9:06 pm
  5. Reaganomics

    Or…buy the companies and donate the clothes to the homeless and then shut down production.

    13 years ago at 7:47 am