Hugo is working on his “Touchdown!” pose for today’s NFL openers.
Go Patriots! (And, for the sake of a happy marriage, I guess, Steelers)!
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Listen carefully, that silence you hear is the sound of nobody missing the Pro Bowl.
DARK NIGHT RETURNS The lights go out a second time during a National League Football match between the San Francisco 49ers and the Pittsburgh Steelers at Candlestick Park on Monday, Dec. 19. Video prior to the game showed what appeared to be a transformer explosion outside the stadium just before the first power outage. (Photo: Ezra Shaw / Getty Images via the San Francisco Chronicle)
It actually looks beautiful like this. Almost like a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Is it a coincidence that this happened on the same day as the trailer for the new Batman movie was released? (Which also involves a disaster at a football game — with a faux-Pittsburgh team)?
A shot from yesterday’s Patriots-Redskins game at FedEx Field. Thanks again, Kristen, for arranging the tickets.
(And yes, the mustache is sticking around for a few bonus days, but it will probably be gone by the end of the week)!
To the ever-growing list of life’s certainties—death, taxes, fourth-quarter comebacks by Tim Tebow—we can now add annual complaints about college football’s Bowl Championship Series. Last night, a panel of human voters, prone, as a species, to mistakes, and computers, prone, as devices, to a lack of emotion, selected Louisiana State and Alabama as title-game opponents. This means we will get to watch the Game of the Century again, two months after the last one, even if the first one, in which no one scored a touchdown, barely registered as the Game of the Evening.
- Reeves Wiedeman takes on the B.C.S.: http://nyr.kr/sQjIZB. If you’re on Twitter, click here to follow our newly launched @SportingScene account.
Bring on NCAA Football Playoffs!
Congrats to the Georgetown Hoyas football team, who went to 8-2 with a 30-13 win over Fordham on a chilly day in DC, and will play for the Patriot League and a berth in the NCAA-FCS playoffs next week at Lehigh. It’s been great to follow the turnaround for the team and the program over the last few years!
(Photo via Georgetown Hoyas Football: HoyaSaxa.com)
Wow, that Patriots game was pretty ugly.
Tough to win when you have pretty much no offense.
At least Liz will enjoy having the Steelers mini-helmet on top of the Christmas tree for just the second time in our six years of marriage.
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iPhone mania.
One of the best tweets around all this iPhone mayhem.
And yes kids, even I get (completely) the Romo reference.
and it’s calls are intercepted by other devices.
(Source: mascarah, via caterpillarcowboy)
Patriots stats of the day, courtesy of Matt Salah:
Stats of the day…. the last time the Pats lost to the Bills (week 1, ‘03), they went on to win the Superbowl. In each of their three Superbowl winning seasons (‘01, ‘03, ‘04), Brady had one game where he threw four picks (including the aforementioned Bills game in ‘03). Looks like things are looking up for the Pats!
I definitely admire that optimism!
(Photo by Barry Chin/Boston.com)
I loved seeing Vince Wilfork rumble with the ball yesterday, even more than I enjoyed seeing B.J. Raji get down in the endzone last season.
(Of course, team affiliation might have something to do with that..)
Teddy’s Take: Fork lift
- New England Patriots tackle Vince Wilfork puts his 325 pounds into overdrive after his first career interception against the San Diego Chargers on Sunday. The Pats won 35-21 to re main undefeated.
517 passing yards later, Tom Brady says “happy football season”!
(Photo via nationalpostsports)
(Source: natpo.st)
