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02/04/2002 2:18 AM
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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)
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#55108
02/04/2002 2:26 AM
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Great game. Truly a Superb Bowl!
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#55109
02/04/2002 2:28 AM
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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 . . .
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#55110
02/04/2002 3:13 AM
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CONGRATULATIONS P- A- T- S!!! You beat me to it Ann, I was just going to PM ya!  W- O- W!!! 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!!! 
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#55111
02/04/2002 3:17 AM
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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.
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#55112
02/04/2002 3:33 AM
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>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!!
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#55113
02/04/2002 5:27 AM
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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]
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02/04/2002 6:41 AM
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And you people go on about us liking cricket ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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02/04/2002 7:42 AM
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02/04/2002 1:51 PM
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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!]
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02/04/2002 2:42 PM
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02/04/2002 7:36 PM
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And doubtless the Successories people are all over the "who choose to be introduced as a team" aspect...
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02/05/2002 3:49 AM
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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.
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02/05/2002 4:29 AM
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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
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#55121
02/05/2002 7:28 AM
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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
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#55122
02/05/2002 6:35 PM
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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
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#55123
02/05/2002 7:12 PM
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Hope you're in Beantown today, wow, enjoying the parade and festivities!
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02/06/2002 1:37 PM
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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!
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02/06/2002 1:55 PM
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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.
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#55126
02/06/2002 9:11 PM
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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!
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#55127
02/06/2002 9:17 PM
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Everyone knows we don't use the "r" sound
Doesn't stop you from writing it.
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02/06/2002 9:29 PM
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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.
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02/07/2002 2:43 AM
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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 ...
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02/07/2002 3:42 AM
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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)
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02/07/2002 5:37 AM
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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!
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02/07/2002 2:27 PM
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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
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02/07/2002 3:02 PM
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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.
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02/07/2002 3:11 PM
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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! 
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02/07/2002 3:49 PM
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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!
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02/08/2002 4:15 PM
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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.
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02/08/2002 4:25 PM
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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?
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...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}
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Y'all've got me wondering: how, then, do announcers of cricket games fill the presumably long stretches of otherwise vacant airtime?
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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! 
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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
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02/08/2002 7:25 PM
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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.
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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
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several minutes.minutes?! MINUTES?!!! MINUTES????!!!!!!!Test Matches go on for five bloody days.....
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02/08/2002 7:54 PM
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Test Matches go on for five bloody days..... Geez. I think I'd need something stronger than fruitcake to get me through that!
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