Our friends Linda and Wally invited Mark, who works at the the University of Denver's Anderson Academic Commons (the library), and I over to their home yesterday afternoon to watch the NFL Conference Championship game between the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers. Wally grew up in Michigan, and Mark has family ties to that state, too, and when you consider it has been 70 years since the Lions last won the NFL Conference, and have never won the Super Bowl, it is no wonder they were both very gung-ho for the Lions. On the other hand, both of Linda and Wally's children live in the Bay Area, and so Linda was all in for the 49ers. I had to leave right before half-time, when Detroit was ahead 21-7, but Wally and Mark were still worried about their team's chances. And so when I saw later that evening that San Francisco dominated the game during the 2nd half, and won by a score of 34-31, I realized that they did indeed have something to be worried about. As a lifelong White Sox fan, I feel their pain. And on the bright side, they will not have to go through all the stress and agony of watching Detroit play the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl. I took the photograph above, by the way, of Wally, on the left, and Mark, on the right, before I left, when it still looked like Detroit might win it all. As we say on the South Side of Chicago, wait until next year, guys!
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