Saturday Night Patriots Game

12/29/2008
Giants march down the field 7-0
Pats first set of downs moving the ball effectively. Great catch by Moss, down low fingertips Run screen pass on 3rd and long Go for it on 4th and 2
4 yards to Randy Moss
Pump fake 6:42 in 1st period beauty for first down Working Maroney Ben Watson drop 3rd and 8 pass out the back of the end zone Kick field goal
7-3

Good defense 4:12. 3 and 11 dropped ball Giants punt Pats ball on the 50yard line Maroney stuffed
3 and 14
Sack!
Flag giants 1 st down PATS

Heat to Stallworth
Pats marching
Moss could be hurt 0:17 1st
He is OK
End of 1st quarter Pats marching
Start of 2nd 2nd down on Giants 4 yard line Play action TD Moss Fake to Maroney fade pass to Moss Nice little dance
10-7 Pats
Bad penalty. Excessive celebration?
Giants run kick off back 14-10 before you know Bad Penalty the refs f#ed us!
LAWRENCE for 13 yards
Welker screen, fights for 12 yards

3 and 14. Kevin Faulk for 6
Pats get three
14-13 Bad Guys

Manning wide open big white guy 89
Nice play Bruschi
3 and 7 shutdown pass Rodney Harrison
Punt

Maroney 10 yards
Moss 8
Maroney 3, 4
Welker 5
3rd and 1
Evans runs for 1st down
3:55 2nd Q play action looks deep, checks down to Ben Watson 21 yards Good game Pats are loosing but I feel like they are in control of game

3rd and 4
Shotgun to the end zone, Moss is defended Field goal is good
16-14

1:53 in half
DEFENSE!
Manning scrambles and scrambles
Complete 1st down
Giant hurt, O'Haran knee, center

Great catch Armani Tumor
Underneath to Jacobs beats blitz for at least 15
31 seconds left fight
Penalty against Pats. Wilfork tried to stick his finger in Jacobs eye

Giants on pats 14 yrd line
Manning dives for first down
21 seconds left
1st and goal
DEFENSE!
Pats 2.5 yrd
2nd down
18 seconds left
TD Giants
21-16, Bad Guys, pass to big white guy 89

That sucks!

Half Time

Giants think they won the game. This game is not over yet.

Selling the NFL Network

Patriots receive kickoff
Start at 20
Under center Ben Watson hit hard for 3yds 3rd and 7, shotgun, blitz, whips it, Moss drops it Punt Giants ball on 40 Jacobs running to Pats 40 Harrison misses tackle Pats 20yrd line Run stuffed DEFENSE!
3rd and 9
Touchdown
Plexico Burress
28-16 down two scores
Is doubt creeping in? If I am asking it must be.
Go Pats! Eli does not have the chops to keep this up. I believe he wll fluster.
The Giants are pumped!
1st down Pats Ben Watson to Pats 45
Welker Giants 29
5 more Welker
Welker makes a move Giants 14
Run for nothing
Brady dodges sack
Pass interference against Moss
Giants 1
Thru Vrabel's hands
Flag
Illegal formation Pats
Giants six yrd 1st goal
Maroney breaks tackle Touchdown Patriots!
28-23 Giants

Missed tackle on kickoff
Giants ball own 40
Drop of screen pass
3 and 3
Defe F:Jck
DEFENSE!
SACK!!! Loss of 20 nice
3 and 22 4th down
Punt 37 seconds left in 3rd
Pats get ball on own 17
Faulk for 5
4th Quarter

Maroney for a loss of a bunch
3 and9
Faulk screen for 1st down
Brady skips one to Moss
Brady under pressure
Pass to Watson no yards
3rd and 11
Timeout before delay of game
Big play
4th down high out pass thru Moss's hands Punt

3rd 11 for Giants
DEFENSE!
Timeout Giants
Big play coming up
4th down
Out pass for 3yrds
Punt 11:41 in 4th

Pats ball own 35
Tipped on line
Play action,Deep and Moss dropped it
Hit him in his hands. Ouch, 3rd and 10, Try it again Moss deep, in stride TOUCHDOWN!!

Go for 2pt conversion
Maroney powers it in

GO PATS! WOO HOO fist pump
Record setting FIFTY TOUCHDOWN PASSES
23 TD caches for Moss

SO NICE!!!
31-28 Pats
10:57 in 4th

Giants good on kick return
Late hit flag against Pats
15yrds courtesy of Meriwether
Refs are confused reverse call
Giants start on their 25
Holding Giants things are going bad for the Giants Timeout Pats INTERCEPTION!!!
Ellis Hobbs

Pats ball own 48. Out pattern to Stallworth 1st and 10. Giants 36 Brady sacked 2nd and 20 Giants 46 Welker makes a move for 9 3rd and 11 Faulk underneath, runs for 12 1st DOWN. NICE!

Maroney for 5 Giants 20 yard line
2nd and 7
Maroney dumped in the backfield
Micheal Strahan
3rd and 9
1st down Wes Welker inside the 10
Moss inside the 5
5 minutes to play
Maroney powers in for the TOUCHDOWN!!!
Carries two guys in
38-28 Patriots Baby!!!!!

Do net let up boys, do not let up!

Flag against Rodney 15 yrds
Dummy
3rd and 1 Pass for 6
Pats 35yrdline
Giants are not managing the clock
Time is ticking away

2:00 minute warning
Pats have 10 point lead
Giants threatening to score inside Pats 20yrd line Giants fumble ball out of bounds at 4 yrd line Pass back of end zone 2nd down Pats call timeout Ball at 4yrd line Pass back to almost line of scrimmage Giants timeout Ball on 6yrd line 3rd down DEFENSE!!!
Flag defense
3rd down
Touchdown Giants
One hander Plexico Burress
38-35 Patriots 1:04 left in game

On Side Kick
Vrabel takes it clean
Patriots ball
Taking the knee

A perfect regular season,
WOW
16-0
38-35 PATRIOTS!

What a Great game. Did I doubt for a second I did ask the question but in my heart I knew they were going to win.
That was a terrific football game
The best of the year

Ouch!

That hurts, 38-34 the Colts win. I did not believe it was possible until the Pats gave the ball back with 3 plus minutes left in the game.

That is when my heart sank.

See you next year.

Cool in the Clutch

I have a man crush. This feeling has been with with me for years and I have been denying it. I have suppressed these feelings for long enough. Every year around this time I am reminded that a man can have feelings for another man.

The characteristics I admire about this man are his ability to listen to his superiors, his unwavering faith in those around him, his ability to shake off the negative, his ability to look towards the future, his ability to to seize an opportunity when it presents itself. When "it" is on the line there is not another man in his position I would look to, to get "it" done.

My man crush is on Tom Brady. There is not another quarterback in the NFL with his poise and leadership. When the game is on the line he rallies his team and together they make the plays that matter.

The San Diego Chargers were supposed to win that game last night. The problem was they allowed Tom Brady and his New England Patriots to hang around. If it is close at the end you can bet the ranch that they will get it done. They have proven it time and time again.

Look out Peyton, Tom and his men are coming after you next.

Go Patriots!

The Tube

Heidi is off with the girls, the children are asleep, it is just me and a cold bottle of inexpensive(cheap) Chardonnay. The best part of this story is that I located the remote control a couple of days ago and I am free to surf the channels.

What channel did I find? What channel have I not been able to get away from all night? A channel I never heard of before. This channel is called The Tube. In the next room Marvin Gaye is "Getting it on" and I am mesmerized. Every time I go to surf away from this channel another song from the past or a great song from the present presents itself.

I feel like I am watching MTV back in 1982 or whatever year it debuted. The difference you may ask. No commercials, unbelievable. Some of the videos I watched tonight in no particular order include: Tom Petty, Bob Seger, Billy Idol, Tina Turner with Ike, The Black Crows, Sheryl Crow, R.E.M., The Cure, Duran Duran, Bruce Hornsby, Steve Winwood, George Harrison, Pink Floyd and on and on. There are newer artists as well, I just can not remember the names of the whipper snappers.

Go congratulate the Dubya's on their newest edition and have a nice, safe weekend.

Lost

Before children, when Heidi had a well paying, full time job, I enjoyed the luxury of a high end audio/visual system. This was five or six years ago mind you. The TV was and still is a 36 inch Panasonic hooked up to a Bose Lifestyle surround system. There is a Sony DVD player and JBL VCR.

Now, six years later, the sub woofer for the Bose system is blown and needs to be replaced. The DVD player is hooked up to the Bose so there is no sound when you want to watch a movie. The VCR is obsolete and does not work, unless you want or need to destroy a tape.

What brings this sob session to the surface is Thomas, my youngest son. The only thing I had left was the remote for the digital cable. I was able to listen to music with a click of the remote. There are plenty of music channels on cable. I could watch any movie I wanted with a click of the remote. On Demand people. I was living with out the luxuries and doing just fine.

Thomas has placed the remote in a safe place. A very safe place, that I have not been able to determine. I can no longer sit in my chair and operate the television, the movies and music are gone. I have to get up off my ass and physically change the channel.

Where am I? It is either 1980 or hell. I feel sorry for myself, I once was proud and now I feel nothing but shame. No stereo, no DVD player, no remote. I am a slave to my children, I have given them everything and what do I receive in return for my sacrifice?

Hugs, giggles, smiles and love. Not a bad trade now that I think of it.

Saturday Morning

Saturday Morning. Just got done typing a nice long message and David crawled under the desk and unplugged the computer. So here we go again.

Spent a lot of time last night thinking about the direction to take this thing and I came up with, well, I am not sure what I came up with. Each day during the week, I will pick a part of being a Dad that I find challenging, rewarding, insufferable or down right fun and just take it from there.

Mom is taking a morning for herself today. This has not happened in a while. Merry is working on a Birthday Card for her friend John, whose party we will attend this afternoon. David is out from under the desk, doing what exactly, I don't know and Thomas is in his exersaucer watching me type.

I guess Merry is done with her card because the cries for TV have commenced. TV is a good subject for this. To much TV will turn your brain into mush. That is what I was taught. I did watch a lot of TV. The shows that I remember are "Sesame Street", the"Electric Company", "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood", "Zoom" and "Day's of Our Lives".

When I was 10 my Parents would let me stay up on Friday nights to watch "The Dukes of Hazard". My younger brothers and sister would have to go to bed and I would stay up. It made me feel special. Not Mushy.

The main problem with TV is the commercials. They are like poison. Their job is to convince a five year old that they need some piece of garbage. Sell it to the Kid and let the Kid sell it to the Parents. It is gross. We get around this at my house with digital cable. You have the ability avoid the commercials and deliver only content. This is how I justify letting the Kids sit in front of the TV for an hour or two everyday. It is easy now, when they get older we shall see. What do you think about television?

I think tomorrow or Monday I am going to write about a very big part of my life as a Dad. Boogers