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Post by inger on Feb 9, 2018 13:56:13 GMT -5
By the way, excellent analysis of the really ballsy decision by Pederson to run the play on 4th down passing up 3 points to run a trick play passing to the QB. Absolutely love this, even being on the wrong side of the play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7CmZIJV17IRight you are. If anyone would have written the script for this game they would have been panned for writing something that had no basis in realism... |
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Post by inger on Feb 9, 2018 22:02:59 GMT -5
Can't do it, man. Can't root for Brady, and can't root for the Patriots. By and large they have the same bean-eating, rancid-fart-making fans that the Red Sox have... I can hear them all cheering now, like a bunch of Ted Kennedy's sitting there... "Er-ah, go Red Sachs"..."Er-ah, let's have some sucksesful er-ah base er-ah bawl today, eh"??? Whea's the be-ah man? Hey, Jimmy! Why don't you go down thea and see if you can get an ahwto-graff"? "Oh, wait. Dis is footbawl. F**K! I taught day was er-ah playin base bawl down dere"... "If we win, let's go ovah to the Hahvad Bah and have a wicked pissah of a pahtty. We'll get so drunk we'll fahget where we pahked the cah." We're witness to our generation's DiMaggio of the NFL and instead of appreciating what he's done, people can't get out of their own way to shit on him. It is a fascinating American behavior. Root for the underdog, but only if he gets just a little success. Too much success and we root to see him knocked down again. If Brady had won just that one Super Bowl after being drafted 7th round as a backup, everyone could get behind that story. As a Pats fan for over 20 years, I have nothing but respect for what Philly did. Tremendous game between two pretty evenly matched teams and the better team won. But it is fascinating to see the hater mentality from both the NY and Boston perspective. It is exactly the same thing and has nothing to do with the sport in my opinion. Fatness, I had to come back to this one more time. I wanted to emphasize that what I wrote was 95% humor and completely free of any true "hatred". It's sort of like I always tell the people that get nasty about the Yankees. I love Yankee haters. Without haters there would be no basis to the competition. Everyone would be neutral in the stands so the cheers would be like golf claps...polite and quiet. The haters come out in droves to watch their local heroes vanquish the hated enemy. It's why the Yankees are always at the top end of the spectrum in road attendance, which adds even MORE revenue to the burgeoning pot. That hatred is often borne of a secret admiration that says "Damn, I wish MY team could do that"...The truth is that my team, the Colts, totally shit the bed this year, and I lost interest in the NFL season very quickly. I didn't watch a non-post-season game for about 8 weeks in a row, then turned all pink hat for the playoffs. The ONLY reason I watched the Super Bowl was to cheer for the under dog Eagles to beat the Pats, and I did that with much trepidation that it most likely wasn't going to happen. The show was a remarkable one, and that is not only because the Eagles played such a daring game, but also because that was what it took to beat the Patriots. By the way...Do you tawk like that? I know you're from New England. Most people up there always told me I had a southern twang, that I naturally can't hear. It's one of the amazing qualities of the USA that the country is large enough to have so many subsets of language and customs. It's an easy target for humor, and I don't mind when it washes back on me... |
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Post by greatfatness on Feb 11, 2018 8:26:44 GMT -5
By the way...Do you tawk like that? I know you're from New England. Most people up there always told me I had a southern twang, that I naturally can't hear. It's one of the amazing qualities of the USA that the country is large enough to have so many subsets of language and customs. It's an easy target for humor, and I don't mind when it washes back on me... I'm born and raised in NY, so no. And my wife was born and raised in Boston but she talks like a normal human for some reason. Her parents have serious Boston accents though which my kids find amusing. Wicked funny, as they'd say. |
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Post by greatfatness on Feb 11, 2018 8:27:50 GMT -5
By the way, excellent analysis of the really ballsy decision by Pederson to run the play on 4th down passing up 3 points to run a trick play passing to the QB. Absolutely love this, even being on the wrong side of the play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7CmZIJV17IRight you are. If anyone would have written the script for this game they would have been panned for writing something that had no basis in realism... Turns out a good friend of ours knows the coach mentioned in that video and several others who were involved behind the scenes. Had a good time talking with him about it this weekend. |
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