We’re watching NBC and Maria says “how did the Bills beat the Chiefs?” and I said “well, Maria, when the gun sounded, the Bills had 30 and the Chiefs had 21”. The hubby, who is a football fan but not a FAN, was like why did you say there is a gun?
I told him that the officials used to shoot a starter pistol at the end of every quarter. He had never heard of that, so of course I fell into the rabbit hole of finding out when that ended (1994) and reading interesting stories about the practice (such as one team of officials didn’t have a pistol, and a cop helpfully offered up his .357 Magnum “but make sure you shoot it up in the air”. The officials politely declined).