Well, I didn’t expect a Super Bowl blowout. But that’s part of the fun of football. Football comes up in my work from time to time, going all the way back to Hard Rain, and it’s central to the plot of Reality Check (my YA novel that won an Edgar.) But there’s some in the Chet and Bernie series as well. This is from Heart of Barkness. (For newcomers the narrator of the series, Chet, is a dog but NOT a talking one.)

We kept running. And what a nice sight – Bernie was running as fast as I’d ever seen him. Which isn’t at all fast, not even for a human, probably on account of his leg wound in the war, but it made me so happy to see him back to running not fast. As for me and my running, let’s put it this way: I was delighted that the dart player turned out to be one of those humans who could really motor, especially after his flip flops flew off. Why hadn’t he gone into football or track instead of robbery? I wondered about that as I loped along behind him, trying not to catch up too soon and spoil the fun.