Two 90-year-old men, Mike and Joe, have been friends all of their lives.
When it’s clear that Joe is dy_ing, Mike visits him every day.
One day Mike says,
“Joe, we both loved football all our lives, and we played football on Saturdays together for so many years. Please do me one favour, when you get to Heaven, somehow you must let me know if there’s football there.”
Joe looks up at Mike from his dea_th bed and says:
“Mike, you’ve been my best friend for many years. If it’s at all possible, I’ll do this favour for you.”
Shortly after that, Joe passes on.
At midnight a couple of nights later, Mike is awakened from a sound sleep by a blinding flash of white light and a voice calling out to him, “Mike… Mike…”
“Who is it?” Asks Mike sitting up suddenly. “Who is it?”
“Mike. It’s me, Joe…”
“You’re not Joe. Joe just d_ied.”
“I’m telling you, it’s me, Joe.” insists the voice.
“Joe! Where are you?”
“In heaven”, replies Joe. “I have some really good news and a little bad news.”
“‘Tell me the good news first,” says Mike.
“The good news,” Joe says,
“is that there’s football in heaven. Better yet, all of our old friends who d_ied before us are here, too. Better than that, we’re all young again. And best of all, we can play football all we want, and we never get tired.”
“‘That’s fantastic,” says Mike.
“It’s beyond my wildest dreams! So, what could possibly be the bad news? “
“You’re in the team for Saturday.”
