Tonight is Christmas, Fourth of July, and Octoberfest rolled into one for Bellichick fans
A few weeks ago I had a few beers into me, and in the presense of my wife told an ill-thought out story about November 28, 1995 was the best day of my life. For those who don’t remember that day with the crystal clear (if Guinness tainted) memory that I have, from the Boston Globe:
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – From now on, don’t believe a thing John Calipari says. The man cannot be taken at his word. Throughout the preseason, the University of Massachusetts coach said his program was perched on the panic button. He said his team could not defend, could not hit the open man and didn’t play with passion and emotion.
Nonsense.
The same players that cried after a subpar effort in an exhibition game against a Russian team scored one of the biggest wins in school history last night, a 92-82 dismissal of top-ranked Kentucky in the second annual Great Eight tournament at the Palace of Auburn Hills.
Clearly the wife felt that I should have either clarified “Greatest day in my sports watching life” or moved it to second after my wedding day. Fair enough. Now, on my wedding day, I did not cry, although the chin did quiver a bit. I was saved from any crying by my amusement of watching my best man “Brown Neck Gaitor” drop the wedding ring, and having it come perilously close to rolling under the gazebo.
Well, tonight, I guarantee I cry, when I watch Darth Maul Bill Bellichick on the NFL Network in ‘A Football Life: Bill Belichick’. Since we found out the Maggie was the one that shot Mr. Burns, has there ever been a bigger TV show?
Note: I missed the entire comeback against the Yankees in 2004, as well as the Super Bowl (check that, I meant the World Series, picture of me during that SB is below), since I was doing Army stuff. I do however cry every time I see “4 Days in October.”
Anyway, who is with me? I know Tim is. Anyone else?
(Me on far right in Pats headgear, watching the Pats win the Superbowl from Afghanistam)
Category: Politics
I’m excited for the in depth expose on his cheating tactics and specifically how he used those maneuvers to win big games.
Senator Specter is that you?
How many times have I told you lay off the pipe?
(Also, as you no doubt remember VT, that was the year that the Ravens absolutely demolished us in the playoffs. We could have had the playbook and an extra 25 seconds before each play and it wouldn’t have done any good.)
18-1. Just sayin.
Oh for the love of good god, Spygate is over. Who do you root for. Now as for the piece. I’m excited as a Pats fanatic but at the same time. I kinda like the mystique. I kinda like the fact that they’re a faceless automaton from BB on down. A guy will plainly get injured and all we get from the Pats is he’s day to day. Meanwhile they’re digging a hole for the player in North Attleboro. After listening to Teddy B all morning on ESPN, the organization is run like the Soviet Propaganda machine. Everybody towing the party line.
Who is this Bill Bell chick? Strange name for a girl anyway, kinda of like Chaz Bono.
TSO: Teddy went off on OC because of fairly minor tweet (social media is the devil) ESPN has now beaten the horse to death over this. I liked the move to bring him here but this is the crap you get for it and has overshadowed the ridiculous offensive explosion we saw Monday night.
One of my troops is a Cowboys fan and I berated him mercilessly during PT Monday morning to the point that one of his buddies was asking him why I was chewing his ass. He replied that I blammed him for Romo’s stellar incompetance. As you can see I take my troop leading responsibilities seriously and have my priorities in order.
Yeah, well ESPN on Tuesday had a graphic that asked “Are the Patriots now Super Bowl favorites”….really guys? 1 game in and we’re already starting with this?
I’ve always liked Romo as a person more than a QB. I still remember this:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3582641
IRVING, Texas — Tony Romo: Pro Bowler, playboy quarterback and, apparently, a Good Samaritan handy with an air compressor.
A couple says Romo helped them patch a flat tire on the side of a busy street last weekend after the Dallas Cowboys star returned home from a season-opening win at Cleveland.
Bill and Sharon White told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that at least 100 drivers ignored their broken-down Mercury before someone stopped late Sunday. Sharon White said a well-dressed man “with something strange on his chin” walked up and offered a hand.
That’s great….but he lost to Fat Rex. They had them beat.
I kinda liked it when we flew under the radar, Rodney Harrison took ever slight personally and we won back to back superbowls.
I am looking forward to this with some anticipation.
As to the morons who still believe that their was any cheating involved, get yer heads outta yer assholes and, you know, maybe read the reports from the NFL.
The NFL never alleged any cheating, and no one from even the Rat-Bastard Mangina claimed there was cheating. The Patriots never violated any of the game rules. They violated a sub-rule in the NFL Operations Manual that dictates where cameras may be placed. That is all. period. End of story.
There is no rule against taping the opposing team’s play calling, or signals. Every team does it. In fact, the JETS were told to move their OWN cameras, very nicely, the previous year from Gillette stadium. Ah well, haters hate and always need some excuse for why their own teams suck donkey balls.
This should be a great program tonight. NFL Films produces work that rivals, and often beats, anything out of Holyweird.
GO PATS!
TSO: Did you catch the SB at the clamshell in Bagram, or elsewhere that year? I bounced between the clamshell and another building to watch it
QRF shack down on steel beach at BAF.
I was on RTO duty for the QRF that night.
1995 – I was an undergrad at UMass Amherst. I didn’t make it to one basketball game.
Bobo, oh Bobo.
How could you not check out those games, that team was a classic. I was at Umass Amherst in 1991 when we sucked, and I made the long drive in from Sunderland (about 4 miles tops) to catch a few!
TSO, I forgot we shared the same real estate for a bit…. I was out of Motel 8 near CJTF-76 HQ, the clamshell and the Egyptian Hospital
Indeed, remember the area well, had a little Afghani buddy named Mokhtar out there between the cement factory and the Egyptian Hospital.
Yeah I remember him, he would always show at the gate there…. I was the Ginger E-4 with the CAPOC patch
LOL. I was Ying Yang patch sergeant, most often found at the Kyrgyzstani massage parlor.
Were you at the main gate, or the one next to the Egytian Hospital?
Lol ok cool, I spent quality time there myself, I was both at the main gate and Motel 8, I was the guy typically in charge of our flag detail…. But I would grab workers for our HA yard at that back gate
I was down at the other end of Disney near the second PX towards the fire pit, on Camp Cherry Beasley (named after the two guys from my unit killed.)
Yeah, I went there a lot, better PX if you ask me, less crowded. Did you know that there were washers and dryers hidden at the Aviation camp near the PX? I think that was like my favorite surprise of the tour, no locals doing my laundry 🙂
TSO – my major was electrical engineering, and I’m not that smart, so game nights were spent in the library and not the stadium. I still kick myself.
TSO – We must know each other from somewhere. Between UMass and the 29th ID, we have probably crossed paths at a DC or a chow hall. I also just read the write-up about SSG Cherry. Interestingly, again, he was from the same small town in Maine that my family had been in for a few hundred years.
Then it only gets weirder, because I am also from Maine. Dad lives in Bangor, and my Dad’s GF knows Cherrys Dad or Mom.
We were at NTC for that Super Bowl. Everybody was crowded into the snack bar behind where you set up the shelter halves trying to watch the game. We had gotten back from Iraq seven months before. They were playing the Panthers, right?
TSO – my family was one of the first in Windham, so I can’t swing a cat without hitting a relative in Windham or Gorham. Dad was born in Portland and moved to Springfield, MA as a kid. I’m sure you can get my e-mail. Shoot me something there and we can swap names of folks from the 29th (I think I know your BN CDR from Afghanistan) and UMass.