Seventeen

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Thu :: 17 :: Jan :: 2008 :: 11.26 pm

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Seventeen

I posted some photos [slideshow] from Saturday’s playoff win against the Jacksonville Jaguars. I took it easy on you and only posted 33, or the just over 400 frames I fired off. That’s a ~55 percent drop off from my last set, so you should have no problem zipping thru them. Right?

Anyway, seventeen and Oh baby! and… yes… I went to the game… I know people.

Not really… but, it is funny how many people wonder just that when you tells them you went to the game.

Well, guess what… I am going again this week and… knock on a lot of wood — how about an everwood tree — and wish me good luck… the Super Bowl. Of course, our source has to win the ticket lottery and oh… the Pats need to get past the Bolts too. He’s been 0-3 so far, so maybe we’ll luck out this time. Or not.

I am not looking forward to this Sunday’s game with temperatures in the teens. Last week was just the right amount of cold, but this week is gonna suck. Much.

Not bringing my camera because of the cold and also because I already took pixels at a Chargers’ game this year. Yeah, you know, the one where I got yelled at. Well, I had no issues this time. I stayed further away from field during warm-ups to make sure.

Funny enough, I did get questioned by a fellow fan as I was leaving that area for my seat. He told me he got busted for having his SLR — not even with a white lens — earlier in the year and had to walk it back to his car before entering the stadium. He wondered how I got mine in and I suggested it might be because I had it slung over my shoulder and behind my arm… no bag. Maybe they didn’t notice or the kid trying his best to avoid my junk during the pat-down didn’t give a shiznit, but… either some policy is in flux or I am just lucky. Who knows.

For the record, I’m more than happy they aren’t facing the Colts. Yes, it would be better to go thru them, but since we aren’t going to face the Cowboys in a Super Bowl, it is already a diminished accomplishment, so it doesn’t matter. Plus, we already beat Dallas and Indy this year, so I say bring on Farr-va-ruh and the Pack.

Let’s get us some revenge for Super Bowl XXXI, yeah?

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Ed

Fri :: 18 :: Jan :: 2008 :: 07.48 am

A diminshed accomplishment? Dude, if they go 19-0 then there is nothing diminshing about that accomplishment. That’s History Man. Look at the teams the Dolphins played in their histroic year and then come back and tell me if our accomplishment is diminished.

Sean

Fri :: 18 :: Jan :: 2008 :: 10.37 am

Thank you! That’s what I wanted someone to say and I inserted that malarkey intentionally. I’m sick of hearing people — Carrot Top for one — say that by not playing the Colts it won’t matter as much. Puh-leaze! Last I checked, these are all NFL playoff teams that earned their way in.

Juice

Sat :: 19 :: Jan :: 2008 :: 11.00 am

If any team at anytime goes 19-0 to win the super bowl, nothing about that in this salary cap era of supposed parity would be a diminished accomplishment. That being said I harken back to 2004 when the Sox disposed of the Yankees to win their first World Series in 86 years. Beating the Yanks on the way made winning that much more sweet, avenging not only 2003 and 1978, but no more utterings of “The Curse”.

For the Pats to avenge on the Colts after blowing a 21-3 first half lead in the AFC Championship game last year would be sweet redemption. The circumstances of last year’s AFC Championship has inspired the Pats to have a 16-0 record, led to every Pats press conference talking about “playing 60 minutes” and the indoctrenation by the press of “The Eff You TD”. To have the possibility of going back to the Super Bowl, not having lost a game all year and do it over the team that kept you out the previous year and inspired you to acquire Messrs. Moss, Welker, Thomas and Stallworth would be a pure statement of excellence.

There is something about beating the best to be a champion. When the Celtics played the Rockets instead of the Lakers in the 86 Finals, you wanted to prove how dominant Boston was against the best, and reigning Champs.

Going 19-0 would be historic, beating the Colts on the way would be making out with your arch enemies hot ex-girlfriend right in front of him just to upset him.