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Lefty 6 days, 23 hours ago.
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EGA is a pompous old ass, but one of the positive things he did, during his Sports Huddle days, is crap all over the New York Football Giants and especially their Boston-area fan base, which was significant here in the days before the AFL merger and before the home-game blackout rule changed. I’ve posted here that I have a friend who grew up in Bridgewater and has lived here all his life, and his eyes still get misty when he talks about Y.A. and GiffTh and Sam Huff and Spider Lockhart. He’s a good guy but talking football is off limits.
I’d have to say the Jints getting to the title game 5 times in 6 years and losing all 5 is right up there with the Bills futility of the 90s.
Once that run ended they fell off a cliff. Incredibly inept front office moves/drafts; they went a good 15 years not making the playoffs…which made (yes, I admit to being one) fans of theirs from around there very easy to switch allegiances.
Don’t forget they had both Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry as assistant coaches, made a coaching change; and managed to hire neither one of them.
True. Lombardi and Landry were assistants under someone named Jim Lee Howell.
That’s a name you never hear anywhere anymore. Lombardi left in 1959 and Landry in 1960. Howell finally quit after the 1960 season, and they had to hire Allie Sherman. The sad thing about Bob (my Giant loving friend) is that he still swooned over Eli and Tyree and Manningham fifty f—ing years on. He was shitting on Belichick one day about five years ago and I said, “You have a short memory. No Belichick and your Giants have one less Super Bowl win and maybe two.”Went to lunch today at a place with a TV on mute. Watched as Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe debated meaningfully as a clip of Baker Mayfield shaking hands with Richard Sherman played on a loop for 10 minutes straight.
As a society, WTF are we doing?
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This has got to be the end of Roberts as manager of the Dodgers, right?
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So Kelly gets to kill the Dodgers season two years in a row?
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Thanks Rajon.
“After having already suffered a facial fracture in an offseason pickup game that cost him the start of training camp and the preseason-opening win, Irving’s Nets debut didn’t last long. Just 1 minute and 6 seconds, to be exact, after the injury was aggravated by getting hit in the face by Lakers point guard Rajon Rondo.”
At least Bobby Cox managed to win 1 World Series after seemingly finishing in 1st place for pretty much the entire 90’s.
That Braves-Cards game gave me flashbacks to game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals
At least Bobby Cox managed to win 1 World Series after seemingly finishing in 1st place for pretty much the entire 90’s.
That Braves-Cards game gave me flashbacks to game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals
14 straight division titles for the Braves. 1 tital. Sounds unpossible.
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Thanks Rajon.
“After having already suffered a facial fracture in an offseason pickup game that cost him the start of training camp and the preseason-opening win, Irving’s Nets debut didn’t last long. Just 1 minute and 6 seconds, to be exact, after the injury was aggravated by getting hit in the face by Lakers point guard Rajon Rondo.”
If that little tap was enough to bother him, wtf was he doing playing?
With the playoffs seeming to set everything up perfectly for the Yankees, especially if they face Tampa Bay in the ALCS, I’m left with the hope that John Sterling chokes in the middle of one of his patented “THHHHHHHUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YANKEES WI–(gasp)” calls, while Suzyn Waldman simultaneously spontaneously combusts.
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