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More Playoff Blather
Jan. 10th, 2010 07:06 pmFeel free to skip if you're not inclined to NFL talk, but I was emailing my brother who is on his mission in Argentina. Every week, after I give him the spiritual thought of the day, I also update him on sports action, with a little color commentary of my own. And this week's was exceptionally good, I thought (it's the playoffs - you have to bring your best game). In that spirit, I share this with my readership:
(Background: Mom emailed him during the Packers-Cardinals game when it looked like the Packers had thrown in the towel and said as such. After that barn-burner, which was a lot more entertaining than the rest of this weekend's Wild Card games put together, I felt that he should be treated to a better play-by-play. Oh, and Johnny is my obnoxious 11-year-old cousin that everyone loves, but he annoys the crap out of me. I guess he mellowed out while I was gone, which is great for everyone else, but it sucks for me because we took up where we left off - except I have no backup from anyone else because everyone else loves him now. In the words of my dearly departed grandmother, Johnny is a little S-H-I-T. And he loves the Patriots:)
(Start Email) - Anyway, I know Mom emailed you earlier and said the Packers were basically done. Well, they came back and made it interesting. Green Bay scored, then they did an onside kick and recovered and got another touchdown on about 4th and 1. Then the Cardinals scored and it just went back and forth. Neither defense could play their way out of a wet paper bag. It was tied 45-45 and the Cardinals went for a field goal at about the 30, but the kicker shanked it, so it went to overtime. The Packers got the ball first, but the Cardinals defense finally showed up and forced a fumble and recovered and went into the endzone, thus saving the poor kicker's life.
Oh, and the Patriots lost to the Ravens (Happy Day!!!) But it sucks because I'm not allowed to tease Johnny about it. When did he become the golden boy? He gives me constant grief over the Colts losing to the Jets when the Colts sat their starters, but I can't say one word to the twerp. Any time I say something, Mom goes on about how her team is crap but they got the first draft pick and Dad tells me not beat up on his little buddy and how he remembers forty years ago that the Lions still sucked (sorry I wasn't born forty years ago to witness Fran Tarkington and the Vikings beating up on the Rams. Who the crap is Fran Tarkington anyway? That was a rhetorical question. I can't live with Mom and not know who Fran is. But just to spite her, I am cheering for the Vikings because I like Brett Favre and I wasn't around for whatever drama there was with him. So there). The Eagles-Cowboys game was so stinking boring. The Cowboys were all over the place. McNabb thought he was playing women's rugby or something. Even Chicken-Neck was eager for it to be over. And the Bengals-Jets... good grief, for all their ghetto-talk, you'd have thought the Bengals would have thought to show up for the actual game. (End Email)
Have a great week, everybody!
(Background: Mom emailed him during the Packers-Cardinals game when it looked like the Packers had thrown in the towel and said as such. After that barn-burner, which was a lot more entertaining than the rest of this weekend's Wild Card games put together, I felt that he should be treated to a better play-by-play. Oh, and Johnny is my obnoxious 11-year-old cousin that everyone loves, but he annoys the crap out of me. I guess he mellowed out while I was gone, which is great for everyone else, but it sucks for me because we took up where we left off - except I have no backup from anyone else because everyone else loves him now. In the words of my dearly departed grandmother, Johnny is a little S-H-I-T. And he loves the Patriots:)
(Start Email) - Anyway, I know Mom emailed you earlier and said the Packers were basically done. Well, they came back and made it interesting. Green Bay scored, then they did an onside kick and recovered and got another touchdown on about 4th and 1. Then the Cardinals scored and it just went back and forth. Neither defense could play their way out of a wet paper bag. It was tied 45-45 and the Cardinals went for a field goal at about the 30, but the kicker shanked it, so it went to overtime. The Packers got the ball first, but the Cardinals defense finally showed up and forced a fumble and recovered and went into the endzone, thus saving the poor kicker's life.
Oh, and the Patriots lost to the Ravens (Happy Day!!!) But it sucks because I'm not allowed to tease Johnny about it. When did he become the golden boy? He gives me constant grief over the Colts losing to the Jets when the Colts sat their starters, but I can't say one word to the twerp. Any time I say something, Mom goes on about how her team is crap but they got the first draft pick and Dad tells me not beat up on his little buddy and how he remembers forty years ago that the Lions still sucked (sorry I wasn't born forty years ago to witness Fran Tarkington and the Vikings beating up on the Rams. Who the crap is Fran Tarkington anyway? That was a rhetorical question. I can't live with Mom and not know who Fran is. But just to spite her, I am cheering for the Vikings because I like Brett Favre and I wasn't around for whatever drama there was with him. So there). The Eagles-Cowboys game was so stinking boring. The Cowboys were all over the place. McNabb thought he was playing women's rugby or something. Even Chicken-Neck was eager for it to be over. And the Bengals-Jets... good grief, for all their ghetto-talk, you'd have thought the Bengals would have thought to show up for the actual game. (End Email)
Have a great week, everybody!
