The coach had put together the perfect team for the Chicago Bears. The only thing missing was a great quarterback. He had scouted all the colleges — even the Canadian and European Leagues, but he couldn’t anyone with an arm who could guarantee a Super Bowl win.
One night while watching FOX News, he saw a war-zone scene in the West Bank . In a corner of the background, he spotted a young Israeli soldier with a truly incredible arm. He threw a hand-grenade straight into a 15th story window 100 yards away.
KABOOM!
He threw another hand-grenade 75 yards, right into a chimney.
KA-BLOOEY!
Then he threw another at a passing car going 90 mph.
BULLS-EYE!
“I’ve got to get this guy!” Coach said to himself. “He has the perfect arm!”
He goes to Israel and after much searching and negotiating, brings the Israeli to the USA where he trains him in the great game of football. And the Chicago Bears go on to win the Super Bowl!!! The young man is hailed as the greatest hero of football. It’s a miracle! When the coach asks him what he wants, all the young man wants is to call his mother.
“Mom,” he says into the phone, “We won the Super Bowl. I’m a hero!!”
“I don’t want to talk to you,” the woman says.”You are not my son!”
“You don’t understand, Mom,” the young man pleads. “I’ve led the team to victory in the greatest sporting event in the world. I’m here among thousands of adoring fans.”
“No! Let me tell you!” his mother shouts into the phone. “At this very moment, there are gunshots all around us. The neighborhood is a pile of rubble. Your two brothers were beaten within an inch of their lives last week and I have to keep your sister in the house so she doesn’t get raped!” The old lady pauses, and says, tears choking her voice …
“I will never forgive you for making us move to Chicago!”
That’s great! Just the thing to start the day with, as I sit here on a dismal morning, people starting to straggle into the office…
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The punch line caught me off guard too 🙂 Chicago, what a town!
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Very nice. Kept me in there until the last surprising sentence. Did not see that coming. You are a story teller.
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This one is from my husband who got it from a colleague and who knows where it originated? But it made me laugh too and I didn’t see that punch line coming either 🙂
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