The New England Patriots - our Boston team - just won the Superbowl on a 48 yard field goal kick by Vinatiari in the last 10 seconds of the game to win over the favored Rams 17 to 20 !
Now *that's* how a Superbowl ought to be won!
Yeeeeeee-HAAAAAaaaaaaaa !
Tom Brady, Patriot quarterback, voted MVP (Most Valuable Player)
Great game. Truly a Superb Bowl!
And to make this somewhat word related, isn't it intriguing that the winner is the Patriots and September 11th is now Patriots Day and everyone across America is acting so patriotic.
Makes you think . . . government conspiracy? . . . perhaps . . .
CONGRATULATIONS
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Great game! Knew the Patriots could do it!
And lemme tell ya, folks in these parts are VERY glad you beat the team that beat the Eagles!
I'm glad for all the Patriot's fans, and for all the folks in New England! PARTY HEARTY!!!
And lemme tell ya, folks in these parts are VERY glad you beat the team that beat the Eagles!
Yeahbut, just think, the Patriots lost to the Bengals this year.
Also, I thought the Pats were in Hartford.
>Yeahbut, just think, the Patriots lost to the Bengals this year.
...and the Bengals lost to Tennessee, who lost to the Vikings, who lost to the Lions, who won exactly one game all year -- the Lions rule!!
Oh, this WAS Superbowl day, then. Um, congratulations, Patriots? Lemme see: you said they played the Rams, right? Did they go to Los Angeles to play? Or maybe the Rams came to...er, New England. Bengals, that's easy: Cincinnati. Tennessee...oh, they're the Volunteers. Lions: Detroit. Eagles...is that a team? Oh, wait--Philadelphia? Oh---no, they're the 76'ers. [shrug]
And you people go on about us liking cricket ...
Makes you think . . . government conspiracy? . . . perhaps . . .My dad started muttering about government payoffs after Kurt Warner fumbled the ball and the Pats almost got a third touchdown.
Great game, but in my opinion the best part of the evening was the U2 concert during the halftime show. [swoon!]
And doubtless the Successories people are all over the "who choose to be introduced as a team" aspect...
WOW, you may be interested to learn that football fans in Baltimore were pulling for the Patriots, in spite of the fact that it was they who knocked off the Ravens (that "alleged" football team) in the playoffs. But then, all the world loves to see an underdog prevail; it adds immeasurably to the fun. Good on yer, as they say in Oz.
Good on yer, as they say in Oz.
Oops ... that would be "Good on ya". Everyone knows we don't use the "r" sound Just thought I would get in befoRe someone else does...
Hev
"friend you haven't met yet..."
Hey Hev - I've been training these guys - and I think Bob's Strine accent is coming along nicely!!
Goodonyer bobmeoldmate. Whydoncha sliparound after n we'll slip into a few VB's together.
stales
NOTE: Now I'm really having an identity crisis. You say the Patriots are from Boston? Guess I should be supporting them then hey? What happened to the Red Sox - or the Celts for that matter? I'd root for them but I'm not the one who decides when I'm rooting
You say the Patriots are from Boston? Guess I should be supporting them then hey? What happened to the Red Sox - or the Celts for that matter?
Patriots - football
Red Sox - baseball
Celtics - basketball
Bruins - hockey
Eagles - Boston College
Terriers - Boston University
Hope you're in Beantown today, wow, enjoying the parade and festivities!
Hope you're in Beantown today, wow, enjoying the parade and festivities!
Nope ... toooo cold for this old lady! Instead had best seat in the house - in front of my TV where Channel 5 showed the entire celebration - two and a half hours of it! The parade from Boston Common to Government Plaza where (it was estimated) half the population of New England gathered to cheer for the New England Patriots. And not a single incident of rowdyism.
What a day!
from Wow--. And not a single incident of rowdyism
Yes, every sportscaster i heard commented about it.. Jay Leno had the explaination..
its been so long since a Bean town team actually won a championship of any kind-- the sport fans don't know how to celebrate..They have never seen such celebrations up close. they are at a lose.. they milled about in the Commons.. happy.. but clueless as how to behave.
its been so long since a Bean town team actually won a championship of any kind
Droughts: Last pro-team championships, Boston vs. Chicago
football: 2002 Boston: New England Patriots
football: 1986 Chicago Bears
basketball: 1998 Chicago Bulls
basketball: 1986 Boston Celtics
hockey: 1972 Boston Bruins
hockey: 1961 Chicago Blackhawks
baseball: 1918 Boston Red Sox
baseball: 1917 Chicago White Sox
baseball: 1908 Chicago Cubs -- going for the Century Mark!
Everyone knows we don't use the "r" sound
Doesn't stop you from writing it.
Well, wow, since all the celebratin' is windin' down, I thought you'd might like to know that today is
Babe Ruth's Birthday! An' we thank ya kindly!
By the way, The Babe was born in Baltimore, and his father's saloon sued to stand in what is now the outfield in Camden Yards.
WON, you will be amused to hear that there is a life-size bronze statue of the Babe near the entrance to Camden Yards, very handsome, but in the statue the Babe has his glove on the wrong hand! This lapse wasn't noticed until the statue was finished, and then, since it had been cast in bronze ...
And this from Letterman tonight!-- "The Patriots had their victory parade and celebration yesterday, and all the Boston Red Sox showed up just to see what it was like!"
(If you see this now, wow...Adam Vinatiari will be Letterman's guest momentarily)
Thanks for that, Boby! In fact, I went to a Yankees/Orioles game at Camden Yards a couple years back with my brother (Cal Ripken, Jr. single-handedly beat the Yanks that day going 4-4 and almost hit for the cycle!),and we went to the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum, and took a lot of pictures around Camden Yards, including with that statue. But it never occurred to me that the glove was on the
wrong hand! Wait'll I tell my brother!
The parade from Boston Common to Government Plaza where (it was estimated) half the population of New England gathered to cheer for the New England Patriots. And not a single incident of rowdyism.Methinks you speak too soon, wow. Have a look at the following journal from
The Irish Times covering the pre-game and the aprés-match. Fantastic stuff! And y'all probably didn't think we followed foreign sports, eh?
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/sport/2002/0207/3704301514SP3GEORGE.html
And not a single incident of rowdyism.
Methinks you speak too soon, wow
Au contraire, dear Rubrick! That sillyness documented in the Irish Times happened in New Orleans ... NOT in Boston! And the 11 p.m. TV newscasts showed Government Square all cleaned up and nearly empty.
As to the New Orleans goings-on ... well ... don't the Japanese have a saying to the effect that when one travels on vacation manners may be left at home?
Anyway, I'm proud of our Pats! Mr. Kraft, the owner, recognizing the team as the New England Patriots, is planning similar celebrations in each of the New England states. I hope he chooses Portsmouth in NH, as it's just up the road a piece ... but fear the choice will be Manchester. Sigh.
I hope he chooses Portsmouth in NH, as it's just up the road a piece ... but fear the choice will be Manchester.If the same places were chosen in
England your fears would be equally justified!
Ooops! I meant that Portsmouth is just 20 minutes from me, and I know my way around in it ... whereas Manchester is a good hour's drive and a difficult city for me to get around in ... not commenting on the cities themselves but rather on my laziness when it comes to spending hours on the road!
Not that I want to screw up a perfectly good sports post
Hi, AnnaS with a discussion of "contradiction in terms", but...
Tom Brady, Patriot quarterback, voted MVP (Most Valuable Player) Excellent game! As a
team they did very well, but using the *term MVP to describe this QB's steady but lackluster performance is an insult to the *member who quite clearly made the
Most Valuable Play...
Anyone who starts quoting game statistics or 'his' age has "quite clearly" missed the *uprights.
Anyone who starts quoting game statistics or 'his' age has "quite clearly" missed the *uprights.mmm, that brings up a Ferriner's reflections on most American sports - what's with this apparent national obsession with
statistics? and to give a *vaguely language related nudge, why are there always two commentators jabbering away to each other ~ is it a by-product of all the statistics they have to marshal, or do all the statistics flow from having to fill vacant airtime with something other than reflective silence?
...why are there always two commentators jabbering away to each other ~ is it a by-product of all the statistics they have to marshal, or do all the statistics flow from having to fill vacant airtime with something other than reflective silence?It's an *allusion to
somehow make all the violence an intellectual endeavor... and the "vacant airtime" thing. One can belabour the obvious for only *so long.
Reflective silence... {insert sound of Homer drooling here}
Y'all've got me wondering: how, then, do announcers of cricket games fill the presumably long stretches of otherwise vacant airtime?
It's an *allusion to somehow make all the violence an intellectual endeavor.Somehow being the key word here with John Madden yapping...he who gave the English language that "brilliant" phrase
go-to guy!
whereas fruit cakes sent in by listeners used to be a favoured topic on rainy days in the English commentary box... let it never be said *we let sport get in the way of important stuff
let it never be said *we let sport get in the way of important stuffYes, well... I once heard "Boom-Boom" Madden wax eloquent on the subject of ham hocks for several minutes.
In the 1930's, radio station far from the bid cities would have "live" real-time broadcasts of baseball games. The station's local announcer would take reports off the wire service and, creating as he went, broadcast out as if he were actually seeing the game before his eyes.
Once the wire-service bore down at a crucial juncture of a Cubs/Cardinals game. The broadcaster, stalling for time, improvised wildly --
"He fouls off another pitch!" "The manager is strolling out to talk to the pitcher. He looks worried, folks." -- and seamlessly filled a half-hour of dead-air time. The young broadcaster's name? Ronald Reagan.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/prz_qrr.shtml
several minutes.minutes?! MINUTES?!!!
MINUTES????!!!!!!!Test Matches go on for five bloody
days.....
Test Matches go on for five bloody days..... Geez. I think I'd need something stronger than fruitcake to get me through
that!
five bloody days
Arright!!! John Madden talking about blood pudding for five days!
Y'all've got me wondering: how, then, do announcers of cricket games fill the presumably long stretches of otherwise vacant airtime?If you come over here this (or next) Summer you will see how exciting cricket can actually be. Blink and you could miss some spectacular play!! There are very few stretches between play, btw. Usually fifteen minutes tea in the evening and half an hour lunch during the day.
Afterwards, you, me and Faldage can retire to Mulligan's for scoops, as promised.
Be fair, Rubrick. (a) Take them to a one-day game. They are not culturally attuned to five-dayers. And (b) take them to a one-day game in Zild or Oz. You may as well show them quality, as well.
Note that a rather weak provincial side in Zild, Northern Districts, walloped the English team this week ... [Shame, shame -e]
Note that a rather weak provincial side in Zild, Northern Districts, walloped the English team this week ...Well, that's not difficult!!!
As for one-dayers. We usually play evening Taverners (20 overs - no lbw, first ball free, retirement at 20 runs, two-overs bowling per player) games after work and the occasional 40-over (proper rules/laws) at the weekend against a GOOD side. The evening games usually last about three hours and can be watched from the pavilion bar - probably the best cricket grandstand in the world! Such is our standard that we usually win the cricket match but come second in the drinking competition afterwards!
We don't have the time for five-day tests, although it would be great to play in the odd one.!!
And you people go on about us liking cricket ... Anybody notice that this thread now has almost as many cricket posts as football posts?
almost as many cricket posts as football posts
Ah, let us rejoice in our diversity.
Ah, let us rejoice in our diversity.
And a couple of baseball posts!
almost as many cricket posts as football postsAh, let us rejoice in our diversity.Anyway, they're
stumps, not posts!
And a couple of baseball posts!
"Are you posting? Yes, you are posting. There's no posts in baseball"
-Tom Hanks, A League of our Own.
common ground?Perhaps we can all meet on common ground, sometime, for a go at that cricket-to-baseball transitional hybrid,
towne ball.
But, then, how do we sneak the footballers into this contest?
Isn't there an Irish game (called "hurley", I think) which has elements of almost all other ball sports, plus total war, in it? Rubrick?
>which has elements of almost all other ball sports, plus total war
you've got to be thinking of 43-man squamish...
http://www.collectmad.com/madcoversite/quiz_olympics.html
war?"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for
red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and
mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a
struggle for supremacy, survival of the
fittest."
--Ty Cobb"Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes.
I prefer those who come to kill."
--Leo DurocherFrom a site called
Old School Baseball http://www.bcn.net/~erbiii/, a tantalizing, must-see surf for any baseball enthusiast!
or baseball NUT like me Cobb also once said: "Baseball is war."
a couple of baseball posts
And they haven't been posts since the good old days of town ball.
Anybody notice that this thread now has almost as many cricket posts as football posts?
Is that football or football???
Isn't there an Irish game (called "hurley", I think) which has elements of almost all other ball sports, plus total war, in it? Rubrick?Yep. It's called Hurling and the stick that it's played with is called a hurley so you were almost right. Hurling goes back millenia and was played by the high kings' clans as a martial art which evolved into a sport. The most famous tale told about the sport is the story of cúchulain who, as the young Setanta, slew two wild hounds with his hurley.
Modern day hurling is played between two teams of fifteen and it is reputed to be the world's fastest team sport. To tie in with yesterday's word of the day the best hurling team in Ireland is Kilkenny (it's played between counties) otherwise known as the Kilkenny cats.
I wouldn't know about it having elements of all sports, CapK. It uses a ball roughly the size of a baseball but the stick (hurley) is a unique shape. It is in no way like hockey as the ball is played in the air and NOT on the ground. The field is the same size as a soccer (football) pitch and you can score a goal just like in soccer but you can also score a point just like in rugby/American football by firing over the crossbar. The layout of the field is also unique and, apart from penalties and frees, there are no other similarities with other sports. I've seen a few games and the energy of the sport makes it a frenetic watch but I'd hardly be called an addict. Give me cricket and six nations rugby any day. We seem to be doing quite well in that at the moment, thanks to Wales being completely crap (Sorry, Mav).
Bring on the All-Blacks!!!!!
>what are the flippers for?
more germane to the issue at hand, which one's the Dummy?
Number of posts, in the last week, using the name of various sports:
25 cricket13 football (following the season's ultimate game)
10 baseball
3 hockey
2 basketball
(which, it should be noted, involves "post play") 1 hurling
1 rugby
Gentle sympathies today to poor Sparteye, who had an extemely conflicted day as her beloved MSU Spartans squared off agaisnt her beloved OSU Buckeyes in basketball.
Isn't there an Irish game (called "hurley", I think) which has elements of almost all other ball sports, plus total war, in it? Rubrick?
Yep. It's called Hurling
The first description I heard of Hurling was "two groups of mad Irishmen, armed with clubs playing a game with few rules."
Sounds like a fun afternoon to me! (said woman of Irish descent - with a big grin!)
no championship for a New England football team for 42 years!
That's just the period the New England Patriots (current champs) have been in existence.
Last prior pro-football championship for a New England team: Providence Steamrollers, 1928.