The super bowl according to Irene

Irene, a resident at the retirement home, taught me all about football today. Here is a taste of our conversation.

"The other day I was leaving my apartment and I went down and saw all these guys watching football. And they're yelling and hollering and carrying on so I think this might be something worth watching. So I sit down and the next thing I know I'm yelling and hollering. I don't even know what I'm yelling about. But I watched it so now I know everything there is to know about football just from watching it. You see there are these two sides. One was New York I think.."

"The New York Giants against the New England Patriots," Irving interjects.

"I don't know anything about New England," she continues. "All I know is they kept screaming about the Giants. So we're screaming, even though I don't know why I'm screaming. The one guy has the ball and he's holding on to it for dear life and the other guy was bound and determined to get the ball away from him and was doing everything he could to do it, but the guy held on really tight and he kept the ball. This all made me mad. On the one hand I don't know why I'm mad, but on the other hand you should have seen the things the guy was doing to get the ball away. But now I watched the whole thing so I know all about it now. The two sides line up and they're all standing there looking at each other's rears. Then the whistle blows and they all go after each other and before you know it's over. There's no love in football I tell you."