The Huddle: Rodney Harrison

On our first day in Indiana, we drove from our hotel in Lafayette into the city (haha "the city!"). While I was very nervous about being able to find parking or ending up in endless traffic, I clearly brought my NewYork-Connecticut-Mass experience to the midwest and was completely wrong.

Not only was there hardly any cars on the road, parking was a cinch to find, even in a city we knew nothing about.

We wandered and explored and ended up at The Huddle... with Rodney Harrison! That's right! We ended up getting to meet Rodney.

Rodney: oooh Welker [jersey]
Steve: It's not too late for you to suit up tomorrow
Rodney: No... I'm done (chuckling)

During my meeting with Rodney, I was determined to get him to customize my photo of him with "Sah and Stevers" (anyone can get an autograph, how many people can get it personalized!)

Sah: Do you mind adding my name
Rodney: Sure...
Sah: It's S-A-H
Rodney: It's S... what?
Sah: S-A-H
Rodney: S-A-H?
Sah: Yes, S-A-H.
Rodney: Ok... S-A-H.
Sah: Great and do you mind adding "and Steve"
Rodney: and Steve
Sah: It was a pleasure meeting you (hand shake)

Ok so after the struggles with the name "SAH" I thought "Stevers" was going to be too ambitious... so it says "Sah and Steve" ... close enough!!!

We're Going to...

Disneyland! ... for the NFL that is!

Attending a few days of Superbowl Week (ie NFL Experience and Superbowl Village)... and attending the Superbowl game on Sunday, February 5th.

We are so excited with mild reservations about Steve (a patriots' fan) surreptitiously attending with the Big Blue Travel (@bigbluetravel) - ie 100% hardcore Giants Fans.

We're so excited! Can't wait to go!

My New Life Motto
Living with a Patriot fan and having my wedding at Gillette has corrupted my brain. I'm going to start taking on the Bill Belichick motto...

It is what it is.

Better than trying to chant "serenity now", don'tchya think?

Where Have You Been Sahkira?

It's been quite a while since my last blog post. Almost exactly a year. Today I feel oddly inspired. Here's the quick recap of what has happened in the last year:

1) Got married at a football stadium w/ a football themed wedding (any surprise there?)

2) Signed/Autographed Wes Welker ball was my gift to my husband

3) Accidentally was on TV giving Steve a high-five at the Patriots-Bills game after the Randy Moss TD. (back when he was on the team).

4) Saw San Diego Chargers shut-out the chiefs (thx to my cousin barbara)

5) Was a silent part of a crowd of angry 49er fans who harassed the players from their seats a few feet behind the home-team bench. Yowers.

6) Saw Giants get mortified by Vick and DeJean Jackson. Don't talk to me about it.

7) Saw Cutler get sacked over 10 times by the Gmen.

That about sums it up. More deets and photo recaps to come! :)

New England Patriots (6/32)

September 26, 2010

Matchup: New England Patriots (w) - Buffalo Bills

Game Highlights:

• On the field before the game while the players warmed up
• Sideline seats lower level 
• Wedding gift from Young, Dan and Feds
• Day after our wedding!
• Congrats message to us on the billboard/scoreboard!
• We were seen on TV celebrating when Randy Moss scored a TD
• Danny Woodhead had 2 TD's

Award: Best Integration into a Game
(scoreboard msg, sidelines visit, on TV)

Houston Texans (5/32)

January 3rd 2010

Matchup: Houston Texans (w) vs. New England Patriots

Setting: 

• Endzone seats

Game Highlights: 

• Wes welker tore ACL
• Patriots blew lead in the fourth quarter
• We stayed at tiny hotel near by.
• Ran into a player in the lobby of our hotel
• Matt Schuab and Tom Brady
• Met up with Justin (friend)

Trip Memories: 

• Rented car to visit NASA
• City was empty! 
• Late night trip to downtown to go to aquarium restaurant

Award: Worst Injury We've Witnessed

Texans vs. Patriots!!!

In accordance with our life goal to see all 32 NFL teams play in their home city, Stevers and I took a trip to Houston, Texas! It was New Years weekend and pretty deserted (no cars or people around... very creepy) but we enjoyed the trip regardless. Great time at NASA... but most important a fantastic experience at the Reliant K Stadium.

Unfort for Stevers, the Patriots didn't have such a good day (Wes Welker's knee injury in particular).

Here's some photo highlights:

YAY

Yay for...

• Giants win! 4-0
• Titans win! 5-0
• Pats win!
• Stevers still in the suicide pool
• Mom still in the suicide pool
• Chance at winning 2/3 fantasy games this week
• Jags lost
  

SO SORRY

For 10 days, instead of blogging about the NFL, I had to blog about Fashion Week for work. Therefore I have missed a whole SCHLEW of topics I wanted to talk about. Here's the quick and dirty:

1. Philly eagles: Oh, Eagles, I wish you had beat the Cowboys. But how can you when the refs no longer call facemask penalties?

2. Tom Brady: Do I need to comment? It seems like everyone else in the world already has so I'll refrain.

3. Jets: I think the past few games have proven the Jets are better with Farve, but they still suck overall.

4. Giants: Well firstly, they should have never come that close to Cinncy... and the reason they did was because they did not use Plaxico... AT ALL. WTF??!?!

5. RedSkins game: Another reason I was unavailable to blog in the last two weeks is because I was actually traveling attending a game! The Redskins - Saints game. What a fantastic game. I'll do another post with pictures. It's worth expanding on.

6. QBs of the NFL: No one is safe.

7. My Fantasy Teams: OMG, this year i have three teams... so hard to keep track of. But in one league i'm kicking ass, in another i'm sucking ass, and another is the middle of the road.

8. Suicide Pool: I'm already out. Damn you Seattle.

AFC East Beefs Up QB

With the additions of BF and CP, both additions which can only improve these weak teams' performance, the league just got a little bit stronger. Are the Pats shaking in their pants? Not yet. Not yet.

Where Did My Incendiary Posts Go?

No worries, here's one for you Patriots Fans! Recently Davey submitted a question:

Although you are a Giants fan, I have to feel like you are as sick of this SpyGate thing as I am. [Are you?]

The truth is, I've entirely avoided commenting on SpyGate for 'household political' reasons, but I will answer your question: Yes. I am entirely sick of SpyGate.

I do feel that anytime Congressmen or other elected officials interfere with sports, sport rules, or where Week 17 game will be aired... they are clearly too bored with what they're doing and there is a major problem with our country.

I agree that people like Arlen Spector should be focusing on any one of the more important issues that exist today. But then again, 100% of us said we'd watch the opening day game over the Republican Convention.... So maybe this is just a reflection of our country's priorities... what do you think?

Sexy, Rex-y Move-Over

First let me say, I don't know who first created the nickname "Sexy Rexy" because I don't think it applies. Second, according to the Boston Globe (who heard it from a In Touch Weekly)... the word on the street is that the one, the only Tom Brady has been offerd $1 million dollars to pose in his underwear for Calvin Klein.

So instead of offering an opinion that could very well get me in trouble, I rather pose a few questions...

Do you admire him more or less now? More attractive or gay? Is it cool that he's gotten the offer over Peyton, or is this the first step in becoming more like Peyton with all the endorsements and commercials? But most of all...

Will you buy Calvin Klein underwear now?

Patriots Fans Breathe Easier Tonight

You were getting nervous this weekend, weren't you? I'm not just talking about all you Patriot's fans who feared losing Randy... but the rest of the country outside of Texas should have been shivering in your booties as rumors spread about Moss joining the... UGH... Cowboys!

That would have been... unbeatable. Thank Gosh that didn't happen!

PS> Romo, please leave the Cowboys so I can like you.

Giants Won The Superbowl...??

Say what?? I was just happy they beat the cowboys... seriously, who'd thunk'it? I mean, what can I say? It was heart breaking for Patriots fans... I'm not even sure there are words to describe what an incredible Superbowl that was for history. I'm sorry to all you Pat's fans (ie, 90% of my friends) but I had to attend the Giants' Day Parade. Gooooo Giants!

PS. That will not happen again for years.

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.

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 

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.

Too Close for Comfort

Whoa Patriots... Hott darn AJ Feeley... 23 point spread? Not so much.