A little bit of catchup -- caution, football talk
Well I know things have been slow on the weblog as of late and the band, while having some big news, has not been doing a whole lot lately. These things will be changing shortly. The new lineup will be convening for the first time this wednesday night. I'm really looking forward to it. It'll be a fair amount of work for sure to relearn all our previous songs; and write new ones too. It's going to be great to just start playing music again with the band.
I've had my 2 darling children to myself since Wednesday, my wife attending a conference on in Colorado. While hard work and tiring, definitely worth it in all ways. Something about having the kids just by myself and being the one they have to turn to when they bump their heads or get hungry or need a hug, it gets us a little closer. Kids are the best thing in the world. Well, kids and love. There are a whole lot of great things actually.
One great thing would be those Eagles winning this Sunday. I'm not really nervous for some reason. I just have hope. But no fear. That's a nice change for once. I think they could win. OK, I know that people are saying that the Patriots are on the verge of a dynasty and that they shut down the best offense and ran up the score on the best defense. TRUE.
But am I the only that notices that it seems like a blind one legged cat could shut down Payton Manning on a cold wind-swept snowy field? Get that guy outside of a dome, and he turns into the second coming of Koy Detmer. So was it the Pats amazing defense, or Payton's inability to play when the temperature deviates from a comfortable 72 degrees? Probably a little of the both.
And anyone who watched the NJ Jets / Steelers game saw that Pittsburgh was quickly losing steam, clearly peaking too early in the season. Most noticeable was a rookie QB who no longer looked a thing like the Big Ben that was wowing people mid-season. So yeah, a rookie QB who had hit a wall threw some very bad inopportune INT's (one to start the game, the other returned for a TD when Pitt was nearly going to score), forcing his team to play from behind and abandon the run (thus no longer sustaining long drives that keep their own defense off the field). It's kind of hype to say they ran up the score on the best defense in the league in my opinion.
So yeah, the Pats are a great team, and deserve to be favored, but I think the Eagles could win this game. McNabb is an incredible QB and a special player, and special players often save their most special performances for the biggest stages. Who knows? But I'm looking forward to it.
I am considering going to Jacksonville and trying to get a ticket somehow. I'm torn. I also want to watch the game with my friends here. And I don't really want to spend a bundle when there is a chance they could lose. We'll see.
4 Comments:
I think you guys were just too fired up about U2 to even comment on the eagles game.. you must have been pretty mad at them since it took you a week to say anything about one of the greatest sports moments in Philly to happen in the past 20 years
You're right Jayson. I was fired up. I have not been that ticked in a long time.
I am so excited about the Eagles. I have been an avid Eagles fan for as long as I can remember. Never in my entire lifetime have they made it to the big game. Every year I watch all the games. I hope and pray. I cheer. I root... and every year I end the season with the same dejected words, "there is always next year."
After 22 years of my hopes being dashed, "next year" has finally arrived. I can't even tell you what it was like to watch them win last week. I actually had tears in my eyes. I know that it is a little dumb to cry about a game, but I was filled with such joy... I couldn't help it.
The Journey is not over. We still have one more game.
Phily.com posted a moderatly amusing story today..
My favorite reason is #6
10 reasons Patriots should lose
By Don Russell
russeld@phillynews.com
IF YOU listen to Bostonians, Super Bowl XXXIX is already in the bag.
Their coach is a genius and the quarterback is the second-coming of Joe Montana. They had the longest winning streak in NFL history and they won two of the last three championships.
So what?
The Super Bowl is bigger than mere individuals. It's bigger than statistics and strategy. The Super Bowl is about the verities of life, the balance of all that is right and good in the universe.
Thanks to a modest measure of omniscience, Blitz Package offers these 10 reasons the New England Patriots don't deserve to win the Super Bowl.
• 1. The Pats, surely the most boring team in professional sports, have drained the fun out of the game and replaced it with machine-like proficiency. It's like rooting for a robot.
• 2. The town's most popular politician lost the White House to the most unpopular president in the history of American politics, and now it wants us to trust it with the Lombardi Trophy? I don't think so.
• 3. New England is a region, not a city. Get yourself a city, then come back and play.
• 4. This is a perfect opportunity to end all this nonsense about a "dynasty."
• 5. Pretty boy Tom Brady, who said he wants to be a U.S. senator someday, allowed himself to be used as a tool of the Republican Party by sitting next to Laura Bush at last year's State of the Union address. At the time, he had never bothered to vote in an election. Super Bowl trophies are not for opportunistic hypocrites.
• 6. Their cheerleaders lack sufficient boobage.
• 7. New England, Old England, whatever - Philadelphia fought two wars to rid itself of the crown, and now we're going to let those Tory bastards walk off with the Super Bowl?
• 8. Their fans are smug dilettantes who never supported the team until it was a winner.
• 9. With a win, Bill Belichick will surpass St. Vince Lombardi's post-season coaching record. If this happens, life as we know it will cease to exist.
• 10. Boston already used up its share of sports miracles.
I have relatives somewhere near there
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