In My Opinion, That Sucked

Ahhh how I love your quotes Jim Mora.



But I'm of course not talking about the Saints, but rather the JETS.

Yesterday afternoon Stevers & I took the Babyman & Bnard to the Jets-Chiefs game as a Christmas gift. After snapping at our car driver (who was new, retarded, and not listening to me) we marched to the top of the stadium to our seats.

The Jets scored early in the first quarter and despite a field goal from each team in the first half, it was a horrendously boring game. The icing on the cake was the ice that pelted us from the sky at a rapid rate (also known as hail)... which turned worse when the melted ice soaked everything during the second half.

Cold, wet, and neither team going no where.... the only saving grace for the game was the company.

And in the last 5 minutes the stupid Chiefs score a TD and TIED the game... The stadiums by that point were empty and neither team seemed to want to win. As Bnard said, Herme Edwards, wasn't it you who said YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME. Apparently this rule doesn't apply to the Chiefs.



Finally after three possessions in overtime, the Jets kick a field goal... they start running off the field, we celebrate, we cheer! Horray! Let's go home... and the official announces HOLDING on the offense, 10 yard penalty... Mike-I-Miss-Point-Afters-Nugent must kick an even harder field goal.

I was convinced we'd become ice statues stuck to the seats... fortunately even Nugent wanted to go home and kicked the game winning field goal.

The Gift of Experiences

As a Christmas gift to our parents, sibling, and each other, Sah and Stevers purchased tickets to the Giants-Patriots game a few months ago. As the promise of a historical game became more and more likely, the Kresses made the 5 hour trip to the Big Apple NYC. We took a limo out to the Jers and arrived an hour and a half early... yet ALL THE BROCHURES WERE GONE! Of course they are now on Ebay... anyway...

Decked out in Patriots gear I was sure that we were going to get endlessly heckled. Despite a few "Brady sucks" calls, there were a ton of other Patriots fans and we were equally praised for our gear.

The game itself was... well it was electric and legendary. It felt like a playoff game, and it was the best and most incredible game to attend. I couldn't imagine a better experience.

With NFL records broken, we witnessed 4 historical moments:

• most points in a regular season (589)
• most td passes in a regular season (50)
• most td receptions in a regular season (23)
• undefeated 16-0 regular season

The Giants played their heart out and I consider them to have won. Maybe not the game, but certainly the love and respect of the nation for going out there when they had nothing to gain. What an experience.

New York Jets (2/32)

December 2007

Matchup: New York Jets (w) - Kansas City Chiefs 

Setting: 

• Week 17
• Day after Giants-Patriots Game
• Blizzard with ice-rain
• Chris and Bernard

Game Highlights:

• Nugent missed a point after
• Low scoring game
• Overtime
• Jets win (hurting their draft pick)

Award : worst game 

Giants - Patriots (1/32)

Saturday, December 2007

It's week 17 and the Patriots have gone the entire season undefeated!  When Steve and I bought the tickets as a Christmas gift for our families, we had no idea it would be such an important and exciting game!  Unfortunately for the New Yorkers, the Patriots won, but it was not without its excitement!

Records:

• Brady record for most TDs/season 
• Moss record for most TDs / season 
• Patriots end the regular season 16-0 

Highlights:

• Giants score a TD on a kick return  
• [Added later]  We had no idea that what we were watching would turn out to be a preview of the Superbowl matchup 

Trip memories:

• Nothing like the limo driver bumping another car on the way home... 

Setting:

• worst seats possible: Last Row of the 300's on an end zone (meadowlands stadium)
• none the less, it was an intense, exciting game with everyone standing the entire time
• weather was biting and cold but tolerable

Mission: first game of our goal to see all 32 teams! 
Game Award : highest level of play 

Referee Ethics

I recently heard that Joe Gibbs' excuse for the consecutive time-outs in the game against Buffalo: he asked the ref first. This brings to mind a few questions:

1. What does that ref have to say for himself?

2. Did the ref purposefully mislead Joe Gibbs?

3. Should / Are the ref's allowed to tell the coaches the rules? Are they not allowed to tell them the rules? Should the coaches be expected to know the rules as well as the ref's do? Is it an unfair advantage to ask the ref a question and him tell one coach but not another?

I guess ref's should just keep their mouths shut until they are calling a penalty or telling a coach they can't challenge that play. Any thoughts?

It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's... Bill to the rescue

When there's something strange in the locker room, who you gonna call? Bill Parcels! He's starting to remind me of George Clooney's character in the movie Michael Clayton... he's becoming a cleaner... the guy you go to when you need things fixed.

Well Miami definitely needs things fixed.

No task too hard, no mountain too high - Bill Parcels will take care of your problems.

Brett Breaks B'record

The old man beat Marino's career-passing yards. Wow. Congrats. I tip my hat to you sir.

Sah & Stever's Christmas Tree of Football

Recently, Sah & Stevers purchased their charlie-brown christmas tree for their cozy, manhattan studio apartment. Sah is somewhat against chopping down, buying, and destroying real trees for the sake of 'tradition' and one month of (heck one day) of partying so we've struck a deal of alternating years of cut-down and potted trees.

The plan for our tree and future trees (fake and real) is to have all NFL team ornaments... maybe an angel with her hands in the air (signally a TD)... however right now we have none. But it sets us up for some great stocking-stuffer traditions! Yay! Pictures to come.

No Country For Old Men - Or People Who Don't Understand the Title

Well... i'm not really sure what to say about this movie. It was fun, "very violent", and bad-ass-esque... however, I still don't get the title or the point of the movie.

I felt the more prominent theme had to do with 'luck' however the title indicates we should have been looking at the old-man being out-mastered theme. Maybe if I read the book i'd understand better - but who has time to read? :)

Shaun Hill: The Next Tony Romo?

Although it disgusts me that I refer to a player on the Cowboys as a model of impressive football playing, I can't deny Romo's talent.

With that said, the 35,000 of us who had access to the NFL Network's viewing of the Cinncy-49ers game walked away with a new respect for Mr. Hill who sat on the bench for the last 6 years.

Hill completed 21-of-28 passes for 197 yards and a touchdown. But more impressive is what you can't see in stats and numbers - his scrambling skills... his split-decisions... his speed... watch out for this guy!

Grrrr, Ravens Ruin Record!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Not that I have anything against Miami, but I really feel like it'd be awesome if the Patriots went undefeated in the same year the Dolphins went totally defeated. C'mon admit it. There would be something magical about having a league - heck a DIVISION - with a team 19-0 and a team 0-16.

Oh Baltimore... what did you do? I hope this is not prophetic for the Patriots... who play Miami next week! eeek!

Joe Gibbs, You Idiot!

So this was two weeks ago - Buffalo-Washington. The Skins players had just suffered and felt the grevious loss of Sean Taylor. But they had fought through the game, the challenges... and were on the verge of a win.

All they had to do was ice the Buffalo kicker from scoring a field-goal.

I'm sitting on the couch at my Aunt's house watching the game with my entire familyl. Joe Gibss calls the first time. La da dee da... now it's time to leave all the pressure on the kicker's shoulders.

I ask "can you call two-time outs in a row?"

Nick replies, "No, you can't. You need a play in between."

But then what does Joe-I-Am-So-Old-I-Wrote-The-Book-Gibbs do? He calls a time out? What are you thinking?

If someone saw the press conference afterwards, feel free to send it to me and I'll post it. It's time to retire.

Do Jet Fans Even Care?

Last Sunday, I attended the Jets-Browns game at the Meadowlands. As a Christmas gift, I brought my girlfriends who are less-knowledgable about football and had never been to a professional game.

While the game wasn't exactly 'exciting' - at least not as exciting as today's Pats-Jets game - the crowds were even more apathetic, instead:

• making paper airplanes and competing to fly them onto the field


• singing some bizarre cheer that said something about OJ killing his wife


• shouting J-E-T-S jets, jets, jets


• watching the cheerleaders


• had more excitement at the half-time 5-year mini football game


• moving seats to trade-up to better ones

Oh yea... and the Jets sucked so bad. I mean they were practically given touchdowns and they gave them away. It disgusted me. We left when it started hailing. No offense to you jet-fans.

New Classic Referee Quote

Every once in a while the refs say something completely and totally unexpected. A few years back it was the "Flag-Fell-Out of Pants" penalty... and today during the Patriots-Jets game it was:

Delay of Game due to snowballs being thrown on the field

My new favorite type of delay. Snowball fight.