I am not a good sports fan — I don’t like “exciting” games. “Exciting” means the game is close, which means there’s a chance the team I’m rooting for might lose. I love games like today: 45-0 going into the second half, 59-0 final score. In the snow! It felt like Christmas came early, I […]
::surfaces for air and a lickety split sprint through the internets:: Wo-ah. It’s like NaNoWriMo is my evil nemesis, and we do battle every day. And every day I think, “Why did I decide to do this *again*?” Wordcout = 15,000, so at least I’m back on track. The magical weekends of November are rapidly […]
1. Last Sunday, I was watching the Patriots first regular season game, against the Chiefs. When Tom Brady was hit in the knee and went down, halfway down the field Randy Moss (who’d just caught the football), fell down without being touched by any opposing team member, and then *dropped the ball.* I thought — […]
…and owner of the Mustard Museum in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. After the game on Sunday, I cried. Then I remembered this article, from the March/April 2008 AARP magazine. “On October 27, 1986, Levenson, a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, watched his beloved Red Sox lose the World Series to the New York Mets in a spectacularly […]
starandrea has written a truly amazing Real Person story. If you live in New England, you know that the Patriots are awesome. You possibly believe they are the most awesome, ever. And if you follow football at all, you know that they’ve been in the news this week for more than just their amazing season […]
First, I think the Patriots 16-0 season is awesome, even if they never win another game. Anyone who says it’s meaningless if they don’t win the Superbowl, I say, “pfft.” “There are no meaningless games if you’re playing in them.” (-Bill Parcells?) In honor of the Patriots, here’s an SGA story that has football in […]