You don’t need to know anything about a game to realize that when there’s two minutes left and the score is really close, and the ball is right on the edge of where the team that is behind needs to put it to get ahead, it’s exciting.
The Super Bowl XLIII on TV, as told by a pilot girl who had never watched a football game; read the full note and laugh here:
http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2009/02/last-reason-for-roman-numerals.html
By the way, Aviatrix is a very smart woman who regularly writes about her experience flying private airplanes. You can read her thoughts about the landing of the US Airways A320 in the Hudson River here:
http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2009/01/safety-is-not-miracle.html