Squeaky Seats

I stopped at McDonald's for a cup of coffee. I sat on the end of the long bench seat, a continuous bench that runs along a wall with several individual tables in front of it.

A man standing in line waiting for his meal wore a T-shirt bearing the famous green and blue Seattle Seahawks logo. But his bird wore a sombrero, and the caption read "Si-Hawks."

Finding it quite humorous, I commented on the shirt. I told him I was a die-hard Broncos fan, then asked, "Why is it that when the Seahawks were in our division, you couldn't beat us, but you switched to the NFC, and in the Super Bowl, you gave u...