Football Confession

Years ago, the chaplain of the Notre Dame football team was a beloved old Irish priest.

At confession one day, a football player told the priest that he had acted in an unsportsmanship manner at a recent football game. "I lost my temper and said some bad words to one of my opponents."

"Ahhh, that’s a terrible thing for a Notre Dame lad to be doin’," the priest said.

"That’s not all, Father. I got mad and punched one of my opponents."

"Saints preserve us!" the priest said.

"There’s more. As I got out of a pileup, I kicked two of the other team’s players in a sensitive area."

The priest moaned, "Oh, goodness me! Who in the world were we playin’ when you did these awful things?"

The football player answered, "Southern Methodist."

"Ah, well," said the priest, "boys will be boys."