Originally Posted by RubeRad

I guess you're right, it looks like I misinterpreted the idiom. It means paying somebody else, rather than whoever you got the benefit from.

I thought the sense of "forward" was about giving first, seeding some good will into the universe and hoping for karma to get you back somehow later. i.e. forward instead of backwards in time. Which is what this thread is really about, it's guys giving away jerseys not because somebody gave them jerseys, but so that recipients will also give once they've lost weight.

Maybe semantics, or maybe richness of the English language, I choose B!