April 22, 2009
My 2009 Crystal Ball NY Giants Draft Picks
With Plaxico cut, Giant fans everywhere were speculating about a first
round pick to replace him. Previous GM’s might have reached for someone
like that, in what is known as the Brian Alford Memorial Pick.
Not for want of trying, though. As you all know by now, JR offered
Cleveland a second and fifth for Braylon Edwards, but no players. Instead,
brilliantly thinking out of the box, Reese offered Cleveland BBI (BigBlueInteractive) web posters Jlukes, Margi,
AmishPatel and Big Blue ’56. Cleveland rejected the offer and demanded
Eric, J_Rud, Sal in Yonkers and an Asshat to be named later. The deal fell
through and Edwards remains a Brown. What can Browns do for you? The
answer: Nothing.
Comments(3)February 1, 2009
The Pain Of Being A Giants Fan On This Super Bowl Sunday
What can I say!? The Giants broke our hearts again. This was the single sentence sent me by fellow Giants fan and wonderful comedy writer, John DeBellis, when we lost against the Titans a few years ago despite being ahead twenty-one zip at the half and cruising along to a win. But we lost. And John’s E-mail just said:
They broke our hearts again.
That’s what they do, what they seem to have done many times in the past. They don’t just lose — they break your heart.
August 11, 2008
FAVRE TRADE AN ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER
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Spokespeople from several environmental organizations have condemned the Bret Favre trade to the New York Jets as being ecologically callous and a slap in the face to anyone who cares about the planet.
February 25, 2008
The NFL Scouting Combine and Life
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I’m trying to step off the emotional cloud of my Giants’ indescribably glorious Super Bowl win and get back to reality. Euphoria is a great place to live, but life is an insistent creature that wants to move on and has a way of kicking you in the jujubes if you don’t. Wearing a cup won’t help, so I’ll start making the transition.
February 23, 2008
Morning Prayer
RJM Kelly, a friend and classmate from years ago at St. Joseph’s College (now University) in Philadelphia sent me this. It is a morning prayer given at Fordham Prep, Monday morning, February 4, 2008, the day after the Giants win in the Super Bowl.
I’m biased, of course, but I think the Giants run in the playoffs and then the win in the Super Bowl was more than a victory, it was a mythic event that seemed to resonate with sports fans across the country. It was “Little Giants,” “Rudy,” “Miracle On Ice,” win-it-for-the-Gipper and all those miraculous stories we hold dear to our hearts.
February 8, 2008
BOB IN ANNAPOLIS
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In Superbowl XI, 1986, Phil Simms, Lawrence Taylor, Harry Carson, Mark Bavaro and other Giant greats led our team out of the darkness of twenty five years of “lousy football” to its first Super Bowl win. At the end of the game I saw in the stands across the Pasadena field a young man holding up a sign that said, “Dad, this one’s for you.”
February 5, 2008
SUPERBOWL XLII – GIANTS ARE CHAMPIONS
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I’ve had to wait a few days to think about about what I could say about this great Super Bowl victory that wouldn’t be a repetition of what others may have written. But that would be impossible. Everything that could be said is being said. From every angle imaginable.
It was an elemental game. A game that justified counting these yearly contests with Roman numerals. It suggested gladiatorial combat, chariot races, warriors versus lions and tigers in an arena with spectators cheering participants who were fighting for life or death.
February 1, 2008
Nostradamus Predicts Giants Win In Super Bowl 42
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We all know that Nostradamus predicted the Kennedy assassinations and the destruction of the twin towers, along with World Wars I and II and the dropping of the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Beside great world events, Nostradamus had a great interest in sports of the time — mace fests, lance toss, sword derbies and such, and made many sports related prophesies. Everyone knows he predicted the NFL’s “Punt-Pass-and-Kick” competition and, of course, his well known prophesy of half time entertainment at Super Bowls.
January 20, 2008
The Giants Go To The Super Bowl
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The Giants final game Revealed their warrior spirit. Super Bowl reward. Giants written off By everyone; but not them. The big prize is theirs. The Manning, Eli, America's kid brother. Lives everyone's dream. Pundits picked Giants last, Below Dallas, Eagles, Skins. Please eat shit, pundits. The seeds of heroes Planted in the Meadowlands Blossom on the road.