I think they’re going to lose, Dad

Second grade boys are like first grade boys and kindergarteners. They go with the winners. They don’t waste effort being loyal when a team is losing. Thus Mr. B. decided at the end of the third quarter of the Texas-Oklahoma State game that he’d had enough. Texas was losing 35 to 14 and he had better things to do, like play his Harry Potter computer game. I was still hoping for the comeback, but admitted I was getting less confident by the minute. You’ll miss the end of the game, I said. Dad, he said, I think they’re going to lose. When they won he made me describe how they did it, and I tried, but better descriptions are here and here.