If Only Dennis Green Was Right

Former Arizona Cardinals' head coach Dennis Green famously screamed, "They are who we thought they were!" after his team had given up a large lead late in a game against the Chicago Bears.

If only Dennis Green was right about everybody. But life has proven otherwise. Maybe there's someone that you really like because you think they're just so genuine and it turns out that they were actually withholding a humongous lie from you. Maybe a person told you they were a woman, but, as it turns out, they were actually a man. Maybe somebody had a boyfriend for, oh let's say, a year and a half, and you actually met the guy, but she never told you that she had a boyfriend, instead referring to him as a friend. Perhaps your grandfather, who you thought was Jewish and who gave a beautiful speech at your Bar Mitzvah, was actually put up for adoption by an Austrian family named the Hitlers.

Maybe you see yourself as a war hero, who has never lost touch with the common man, but in reality, you have no idea how many houses you own and you believe that the middle class cut off point is $5 million. Maybe you attempted to invade a country with nuclear weapons that your hero sold to them and, by some stroke of magic, they didn't have them any more.

"They are who we thought they were." If only Dennis Green was right.