--- title: Kid Writes Funny Account of Emotional Dad During Super Bowl description: A precocious young sports writer gave a by-the-minute account of her father's emotional reactions during Super Bowl LI. canonical: https://time.com/4662549/dad-superbowl-recap/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-07T17:08:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T12:14:37.000Z og:title: This Kid Took Hilarious Notes on Her Father's Super Bowl Emotions og:description: A young sportswriter in the making og:url: https://time.com/4662549/dad-superbowl-recap/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Kid Took Hilarious Notes on Her Father's Super Bowl Emotions twitter:description: A young sportswriter in the making twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Hilarious Kid Documented Her Dad's Emotional Super Bowl Journey  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:14 PM UTCPublished: Feb 7, 2017 5:08 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:14 PM UTCPublished: Feb 7, 2017 5:08 PM UTC A precocious young girl is wasting no time in cutting her teeth as a sportswriter, starting with some by-the-minute reporting in her own home for [the 2017 Super Bowl](http://time.com/4660867/celebs-super-bowl-2017/). An image shared on Imgur shows the detailed notes that 8-year-old Skylee Poirrier from Acworth, GA took while watching the Super Bowl, showing her eye for detail and an appreciation for the range of human emotions. This intrepid young writer meticulously documented the roller coaster of emotions that her father, a Falcons fan, experienced during the course of [Super Bowl LI](http://time.com/4661033/lady-gaga-super-bowl-memes-2017/) and [the Patriots’ triumphant comeback](http://time.com/4660730/super-bowl-2017-patriots-win/). With notes that read: “Dad screams,” “Dad is the happiest person,” and “Dad cries,” it’s clear that this is the kind of dedicated sports news reporting that we not only need, but that we deserve. Here’s to Skylee, one of the future voices of sports journalism. See her full rundown below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4662549/dad-superbowl-recap/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4662549/dad-superbowl-recap/"},"headline":"This Hilarious Kid Documented Her Dad's Emotional Super Bowl Journey","datePublished":"2017-02-07T17:08:07.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T12:14:37.000Z","description":"A young sportswriter in the making","url":"https://time.com/4662549/dad-superbowl-recap/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Internet","Super Bowl topic","kids","Funny","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4662549/dad-superbowl-recap/","name":"This Hilarious Kid Documented Her Dad's Emotional Super Bowl Journey"}}]}] ```