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My 13 New Year’s resolutions for the NFL

By Matthew Dicks | January 2, 2016 | Comments Off on My 13 New Year’s resolutions for the NFL

On the heels of my own list of New Year’s resolutions comes my proposed resolutions for the National Football League. There are many serious issues that the NFL needs to address. This list does not touch upon the more complex and serious issues facing the NFL but seeks only to increase a fan’s enjoyment of the…

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The best moment that I have ever spent at a football game. Maybe one of the best moments of my life. And it happened during a timeout.

By Matthew Dicks | January 19, 2015 | Comments Off on The best moment that I have ever spent at a football game. Maybe one of the best moments of my life. And it happened during a timeout.

My love of the New England Patriots doesn’t make a lot of sense. A collection of men who I have never met take the field to play a game that I have never played professionally, and even though I have no tangible connection to a single person associated with the Patriots organization, my heart hangs…

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Your future self wants you to be daring and adventurous. Don’t let the current version of yourself screw things up because it’s cold.

By Matthew Dicks | January 12, 2015 | Comments Off on Your future self wants you to be daring and adventurous. Don’t let the current version of yourself screw things up because it’s cold.

I went to the Patriots-Ravens playoff game on Saturday. Though I love attending Patriots games at Gillette Stadium, it’s not always easy. I left my house at 10:45 AM and returned home around 10:45 PM. It’s a long day.  Prior to leaving the house, while I was dressed in my long underwear, my cat vomited…

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New word: Truché

By Matthew Dicks | November 15, 2014 | Comments Off on New word: Truché

New word: truché Pronounced troo·ché I can’t recall if I or my friend, Shep, first coined this word, but we use it with each other often, so I’ll give us both credit. The definition: exclamation1. used as an acknowledgment during a discussion of a good or clever factual correction made at one’s expense by another…

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I began the day as a depressed and angry idiot. I ended the day with laughter and rainbows and sunshine. Literally. The lesson: Don’t give up hope.

By Matthew Dicks | October 27, 2014 | Comments Off on I began the day as a depressed and angry idiot. I ended the day with laughter and rainbows and sunshine. Literally. The lesson: Don’t give up hope.

Bad start to the day. Arrived at my friend’s house, 40 minutes from my home, having forgotten without my ticket to the Patriots’ game. It requires an incredible amount of stupidity to do such a thing, and I felt like an idiot. This meant that I would need to drive back home, pick up my…

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