On the Lighter Side

Mr. Pop and I experienced football hell on Sunday.

Mr. Pop has been a big Buccaneers fan as long as Tampa Bay has had a football team. As of yesterday morning the Bucs had not won a football game this season.

Yesterday was also one of the rare times the Bucs’ game would be televised in our area. Our day was planned around watching the game. We were ready for some football.

The first half of the game was about like watching grass grow, not much action. The second half of the game was much better. Just before the final two minute warning the Bucs had the ball down in the red zone and were in a position to tie, if not win, the game. Things were exciting and tense.

Then the most frustrating thing that can happen during a football game happened. A voice came over the TV and said that due to their contractual commitments, their coverage of this game would now end and they would move to coverage of the Dolphins game. Two minutes left in the game, the Bucs are on the move and they are going to do what? Sure enough, within seconds we were seeing the beginning of the Dolphins game and the outcome of the Bucs game was left unknown.

As it turns out the Bucs did win the game, their first win of the season, but we didn’t see it. No damage was done here as a result of Mr. Pop’s frustration, but I did hear some unique and rather curious stringing together of curse words.