Sunday morning there was some boring football highlight TV show on when I got up and poured myself a Dr Pepper. Before I could find the remote I heard familiar names: Joe Namath, Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw and Troy Aikman.

As I watched two hours of the “Greatest Plays of the NFL” I remembered what a friend said about sports and TV: “It’s the purest form of entertainment because it’s got excitement, drama, and you never know what’s going to happen until the very end.”

He’s right, and I’ve marveled, and sometimes joked, that print and TV sports reporters have lists of adjectives to describe the game, but didn’t know that some of those terms were made up by coaches and athletes.

Even this old Friday Nights’ photographer had heard of Flea Flicker and Hail Mary plays, but Pooch Punt, and Wildcat, or Nickel and Dime Formations were new to me.

I’d also never heard about catches referred to as Immaculate Receptions, or Toe Top Catches, until I watched that NFL show.

Then again, my husband always said I spent too much time being a sideline cheerleader instead of shooting our high school football games.

That may have led one of our young high school players to tell me during a game: “Hey Barb! I’m going to get the ball. Get the picture!”

That takes me back in time when my junior high son came running into our newspaper office after going to LaPorte Pharmacy and asked: “What size jock’s strap do I wear?”

During his high school freshman games I heard “Suck it up out there, Walter!” shouted over and over by a crazy woman wearing my clothes. That same woman was mortified when he needed knee surgery, and never played ball, or water skied, again.

At the end of the Sunday show a former NFL player said, “Losing or winning games, or fighting through injuries, is what life is all about. We push through it”

That’s exactly what we need to do during this pandemic: Push through it!

Stay safe, and as my baseball-loving Daddy used to say: “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.”