I finishing reading a good book called “Billy Lynn’s Long
Halftime Walk”. It was a black comedy
about a troop of Iraq War heroes. The
author did a really good job of getting inside the head of a soldier and how
crazy the ultra-patriotic Americans are.
It also had a lot to say about how crazy football fans and football
games are in the United
States.
The book had a funny ending where the troop was about to get
screwed out of a movie deal by the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. They had turned down his offer. So he went over their heads to their General
to get the General to order them to take the bad deal. The Dallas Cowboys owner handed the phone
with the General on the line to the sergeant.
It turned out that the General grew up near Pittsburgh and was a Steelers fan. So he told the sergeant that the Dallas
Cowboys owner could go screw himself.
I was telling Barb this story and I couldn’t hold back my
tears of happiness for the fictional soldiers.
Barb thought that I cry over the strangest things.
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