Posts Tagged ‘new england patriots’
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…
Read MoreWhy it’s glorious to be a Patriots fan
Since 1993, the New England Patriots have had two starting quarterbacks: Perennial Pro Bowler Drew Bledsoe and future Hall of Famer Tom Brady. There was a season when backup quarterback Matt Cassel was forced to play when Tom Brady was injured, but there was no question that Brady would be the starting quarterback once he…
Read MoreOne more thing to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving Day
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…
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreIs it wrong for me to find this Wallkill Mighty Mites clip nearly as entertaining as the Patriots victory over the Bengals?
The New England Patriots 43-17 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday night was the highlight of my weekend, and it gave my students reason to celebrate. I’m never in a good mood on Monday if the Patriots have lost. But a close send in terms of football highlights from the weekend was the Wallkill…
Read MoreI admire this violent, malicious man.
On a good day, former New England Patriots and current Washington Redskins safety Brandon Meriweather is a hard-nosed, hard hitting football player. Those days seem few and far between. More often, Meriweather is a dirty player with a disregard for the safety of his opponents. During his tenure in New England, I watched him make…
Read MoreI experienced genuine euphoria yesterday. Unabashed joy. Pure, unbridled happiness. When was the last time you felt that way?
The New England Patriots won an incredible game yesterday. It was one of the most amazing comeback victories that I have ever seen, but what will be lost to the casual observer was how the comeback began when the Patriots lost the ball on a controversial fourth down play with 2 minutes and 50 seconds…
Read MoreThe Patriots are proof-positive that perspective is hard, if not impossible
A friend and fellow Patriots season ticket holder sent this to me yesterday in one of the weekly email exchanges that we have prior to every game. I thought it summed things up perfectly: Tom Brady’s career record as a starting QB now stands at 139-39, making him the first quarterback in NFL history to…
Read MoreWe won that game three separate times, and then we lost.
Excluding Super Bowl losses and a playoff loss to the New York Jets a couple years ago, yesterday’s Patriots loss to the Arizona Cardinals might have been the most difficult loss to bear in my entire life, for the following reasons: 1. It broke a home opener winning streak which began ten years ago with…
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