While Evelyn and I were watching the Wheel of Fortune on television one evening last week, I mentioned to her that I thought the football Super Bowl was on Jan. 31, so please get pizza and we can watch it together.
She told me the game is actually on February 7. I told her I guess I’m off a little on the date. I swear she mumbled something to the effect, “You’re off on more than a little, and on more than this.”
“What?” I asked.
She replied, “I didn’t say anything.”
I remembered that COVID came to America last year in February the same month as the Super Bowl.
I thought it started with COVID-vs-humanity!
The first quarter the unseen offense wearing number 19 started bringing down the defense by the hundreds. Team H defended by masking up and social distancing. By the second quarter COVID was dominating with disabling numbers and team H responded with stay-at-home orders: no indoor dining and continued with restrictions on outings and limiting people’s gatherings.
The offense continued to decimate team H and by the third quarter last autumn, team H – still on defense – had a new game plan. And by the fourth quarter introduced at “warp-speed” heavy duty line-backers Pfizer, backed up by team H member Moderna.
I thought that would be a game-changer.
But by the beginning of the 2021 overtime, offense COVID snuck in a U.K. mutant along with a South African mutant. Team H was confident that Pfizer and Moderna could handle the challenge… and on the side-line, ready to enter and reinforce the defense are the two Johnsons: yes, Johnson and Johnson.
At the promise of new and additional vaccines are put into play, I am confident team H will prevail. As we watched the morning news this past Sunday and discussed this, we watched an aerial view of “Lady Liberty” on Ellis Island with torch upraised and symbolizing all the greatness of America.
I told Evelyn, “Look there’s a sign — we will win this…
…Super Bowl size challenge!”