Burt’s Eye View: Four Old Men

Gentleman #3: He’s definitely worth more than a billion.

Gentleman #4: I hear Brianna is pregnant.

This past Saturday before Super Bowl Sunday, I was driving to breakfast with three friends when the subject of the big game came up. The conversation went something like this:

Gentleman #1: Anybody intend to watch the game?

Gentleman #2: Yeah, I want to see Beyonce perform.

Gentleman #3: I hear she is worth over a billion dollars.

Gentleman #4: I don’t think Beyonce is performing. I think Brianna is.

Gentleman #3: I think she’s also worth more than a billion.

Gentleman #2: I think one of them is married to Lay-Z.

Gentleman #3: I think she just had a kid. That kid is going to be worth at least a billion.

Gentleman #1: Is anybody going to watch the football game? I don’t care about the halftime. It’s all too much noise and hoopla like the Grannys.

Collective Silence.

Fact Check: Beyonce is married not to Lay-Z but to Jay-Z, who has never been married to Rihanna. I haven’t a clue who Brianna is. Rihanna performed at halftime. She had a child in May and is pregnant again. None of the above is on welfare except for possibly Brianna, whoever she is. The award show is the Grammys, not the Grannys.