Football Over
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Always a sad time of the year.
Usually a sad time of year but this may have been the worst Jets season yet so I am glad it is over as in this case it is "you gotta get out to get in".
It started with a rare expectation that there would be competitive games worth spending your time to watch. Good possibilities of post season games, potential upcoming all pro players, a hopeful draft and some even expected Becton to finally step up. Crowd screaming to open the season, energy and interest level the highest in quite sometime. Like, you know, actual fun to help get one through the cold winters of one's twilight.
yeah right, WTF was I thinking
Mets on TV one week from Saturday
It started with a rare expectation that there would be competitive games worth spending your time to watch. Good possibilities of post season games, potential upcoming all pro players, a hopeful draft and some even expected Becton to finally step up. Crowd screaming to open the season, energy and interest level the highest in quite sometime. Like, you know, actual fun to help get one through the cold winters of one's twilight.
yeah right, WTF was I thinking
Mets on TV one week from Saturday
I was such a rabid baseball (Yankee) fan. I no longer like how the game is played. Other than a few minutes here and there, I have not watched a baseball game in years. Other than a few stars, I could not even tell you the Yankee lineup.
If someone told us on September 1, Mecole Hardman would catch the Super Bowl winning catch, would we be ecstatic?
When the Dodgers left Brooklyn, I considered that my life's first heartbreak. For six decades I blamed Walter O'Malley until recently I now blame Robert Moses. He offered a postage stamp piece of land along the Belt Parkway when O'Malley wanted a spot on Atlantic Avenue. Marilyn Monroe? Nope. My world was Duke Snider.
As little kids in the early 60s, baseball was the first sport we learned and loved. Played on sandlots (yes, sandlots) as soon as the weather cooperated. A time when there were enough kids to field a 9 on 9 game with extras on the sideline. I could field really well and always had a strong arm. Got me to play in games with much older kids.
As that little kid in the early sixties, two baseball greats were always brought up when you heard men talking baseball: DiMaggio and Snider. Sadly, I never got to see either play. And check out Snider's forearms in that SI cover. Wow.
For Jet fans, football has been over since 1969
Just watching the KC Chiefs parade. My prayers were answered when the name of owner Clark Hunt was announced. Not as impacting as the announcer bellowing "Mike Hunt". But still rewarding and hilarious.
BTW, where is the Jets parade? I never see that. Must keep missing the TV coverage.
BTW, where is the Jets parade? I never see that. Must keep missing the TV coverage.
I saw, and enjoyed watching, both.
I remember the joke:
"You're walking down a dark alley and you have a gun with two bullets.
Coming toward you are Hitler, Mussolini and Walter O'Malley.
Who do you shoot?
The answer was, "You shoot O'Malley twice, just to be sure".
Later
I haven't watched a baseball game since the Dodgers moved to the west coast and I couldn't name a single player. Additionally I couldn't name more than 3 or 4 teams.
Traded for Dick Hurtz.
What four plays into the season