Note to wife:
I know you’re not a sports fan, but our professional football team, the Arizona Cardinals, were one win away from going to the Super Bowl. (You’ve heard of the Super Bowl, right?) But in yesterday’s game, the team lost spectacularly.
Meanwhile, last year’s Super Bowl produced a controversy with the discovery that the winning team had been surreptitiously deflating the football a little, ostensibly to make it easier to handle. This brouhaha became known as “inflate-gate.”
Yesterday’s loss by the Cardinals deflated fans’ Super Bowl hopes.