“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”
Looking to start the day on the bright side, I’ll note that even though it is only 34° and will go down to the teens and maybe even the single digits tonight, the wind has stopped.
My deck was a mess this morning from all that wind yesterday. The umbrella had fallen, the cover was off the barbecue and another cover was off the table and chairs. I righted everything but complained the whole time though no one listened. Gracie stayed in the house. Nothing dumb about that animal. The dumb one was outside in the cold.
The Patriots play the Broncos tonight. At kickoff it should be around 23° and by the time the game ends, around 19°. Add the wind chill factor and it should feel like 7°. I will cheer my team from the comfort of a warm house, a bathroom close by and snacks at hand. Tom Brady will be wearing his muff. I had one when I was a little girl and I loved my muff. Tom’s, though, has no fake fur the way mine did. I figure utilitarian always beats decorative in football.
I think the best logo belongs to the Baltimore Orioles. The birds on their hats are beautiful. I used to like the old Boston Patriot logo but I’m lukewarm about the new one. The Ducks’ facemask is right out of Friday the 13th and Jason Voorhees. The Cardinal bird is pretty. I think red catched the eye. I love the Raiders’ patch. It shows imagination. I think football has the most boring team logos. Baseball has the most colorful. In basketball I think the Raptors are the most imaginative, right out of Jurassic Park.
I’ve been a longtime Red Sox and Celtics fan, started going to their games when I was in grammar school. In those days you didn’t have to re-mortgage your house for a ticket. Bleacher seats were under a $1.00, and I could go by bus and subway to Fenway. I went less to the old Boston Garden where we sat far away, in the cheapest seats. I don’t remember how much they cost back then, but I paid $100.00 2 years ago when last I went.
I try to make at least one game at Fenway each year. Nothing beats sitting in that wonderful ballpark on a nice summer night. As for football, nothing beats sitting and watching in a cozy and warm living room. That’s where you’ll find me tonight.
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January 14, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Well, dear Kat, the Orioles have changed their hat logo for 2012, and have gone back to the 1966-1988 cartoon bird. The ornothologically-correct Oriole is now on the scrapheap of history, but we have our memories, don’t we?
Gonna be a heck of a ballgame tonight at Foxboro – we’ll be snug at home watching right along with you!
January 14, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Oh, Mark!
I find this painful. How can they let go of that beautiful bird? I looked up the old logo. Is that oddity of a bird going to be standing on the baseball again?
It will be a heck of a game, but you know how I feel-I hope Tim Teebow will be saying his last on field prayer fot the season
January 14, 2012 at 1:15 pm
It has been a bit chilly over here too, but not as cold as You have it. Sunshine all day 🙂 Now I can see the stars in the sky pretending I’m on my way to one of them 🙂
Team logos here are rather boring compared to the ones one can find in the US. Normally its a shield with the teams names on it. But my ice hockey team is called Frölunda Indians (Yes there has been some complaining from native americans) has a Indian head with feathers decorating him.
No kind of football is played during winter here. It’s ice hockey or bandy that are big here during this season and handball of course.
Have a great day!
Christer.
January 14, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Christer,
We have sunshine but it is useless, light only.
The teams like the Cleveland Indians have had some flack about the way they depict Indians. Some have changed their logos but not Cleveland.
Hockey here is also big in the winter. The Boston Bruins are our local pro team.
What’s bandy?
January 14, 2012 at 4:55 pm
Bandy is the predecessor to hockey. The rink is big as a soccer field and the goals are slightly smaller than those they have in soccer. Instead of a puck they have a orange ball, slightly smaller than a baseball and the clubs looks a bit different to those they use in hockey. Here’s a link to google to show some pictures of both the field and players:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Bandy&rlz=1I7ADFA_svSE397&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=q_gRT4ybA8bR4QTen9jUAw&biw=1366&bih=643&sei=w_gRT-PcGIjk4QTP5qHrAw
It’s usually Sweden or Russia that wins the world cup, but once in a while Finland surprises us all 🙂
The Us does have a national team 🙂
January 14, 2012 at 5:20 pm
Thanks Christer,
It reminds me of street hockey except for the size of the field, and that they use roller skates, but a ball is used instead of a puck.
Strange that bandy originated in England considering they don’t play hockey.
January 14, 2012 at 2:07 pm
And the clouds opened and a ray of light shone down on to the Gillette and the booming voice of God was heard…TEBOW
Get ready…..
January 14, 2012 at 4:55 pm
My Dear Hedley,
I have been lsistening all day for that booming voice!
January 14, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Take Gracie outside around 8.00 pm and listen carefully…..the big guy has a plan !
January 14, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Football, American style, is a game best enjoyed on your sofa watched on a big screen TV or from the cozy confines of a sky box.The new Cowboys Stadium has the larges HD TV in the world hanging over the middle of the field. Baseball on the other hand is best enjoyed in person in either of the only two real ballparks, Fenway or Wrigley. Although everyone else considers soccer (Football) a beautiful game, to me it’s boring in person and even worse on TV. Let’s watch two teams play for 90 minutes to a score of nil to nil and decide the game on a shoot out. Hockey has also adopted the shootout and I think it’s a terrible mistake. I would have them add more sudden death periods until someone scores or someone drops dead from exhaustion. Unfortunately, extra periods don’t fit well into the TV schedule. That’s why regular season national broadcast of baseball games are only televised on Saturday afternoon.
George Carlin described the differences best:
Baseball is a 19th century pastoral game.
Football is a 20th century new world order paramilitary power struggle.
Baseball is played in a park…the baseball park.
Football is played in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.
The baseball field is…a diamond.
The football field is a gridiron.
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying.
In football, you wear a helmet.
In baseball, you wear a cap!
Football is concerned with downs. What down is it? Oh, it’s the last down.
Baseball is concerned with ups. Who’s up? Are you up? He’s up! I’m up!!
In football, you get a penalty.
In baseball, you make an error…oops!
In football, the specialist comes on to kick something.
In baseball, the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.
Football has tackling, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting, sacking, and unnecessary roughness.
Baseball has . . . the sacrifice.
Football is played in any kind of weather–rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog, major catastrophe, can’t see, don’t know if there’s a game going on, mud on the field, can’t read the uniforms, can’t read the yard markers–doesn’t matter, the struggle will continue.
In baseball, if it rains, we don’t go out to play. I can’t go out, it’s raining out!!
Baseball has the s e v e n t h i n n i n g s t r e t c h .
Football has the two minute warning.
And, of course, the objectives of the games are also completely different.
In football, the object is for the quarterback, sometimes called the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack which may consist of power plays designed to punch holes in the forward wall of the enemy’s defensive line.
In baseball, the object is to get home . . . safe.
January 14, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Errrrrrrr, Bob, penalty kicks are only used in very specific situations.
A major difference between football and north American sports is that the crowd response is spontaneous. no stupid “let’s make some noise” up on the screen at Cowboy stadium….
January 14, 2012 at 6:31 pm
At least in North America we don’t have to build a moat and a barbed wire fence around the field to keep the drunken, murderous fans contained to killing each other and from not killing the players. It may be expensive to attend an NFL game but at least its safe.
January 14, 2012 at 4:59 pm
Bob,
I love George Carlin’s interpretation of the two games, and I think he’s right on. I never realized how much football is tied to warfare. I love the description of the quarterback. I’m still chuckling over the whole thing.
January 14, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Thanks Bob for the George Carlin quote. Don’t you know Brady is going up against God tonight? You best take communion if you want to help out as a fan. But let’s face it. The Denver defense has to be hotter than hot to even have a chance tonight. I’ll be watching too.
January 14, 2012 at 11:57 pm
Z&Me,
I justgot home from the game-Tom Brady was extraordinary!
Tim who?
January 14, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Zoey and me
Tim Tebow is America’s Quarterback AND….You know who’s !!!!
January 14, 2012 at 11:57 pm
My Dear Hedley,
I think that Tim was not the chosen one this evening!
January 15, 2012 at 11:49 am
I wonder what God is thinking this morning…did the beam of light hit the other guy
January 15, 2012 at 11:49 am
Bob, there is a very serious answer to your comment and that is the Hillsborough disaster of 1989. The loss of life and the following Taylor Report completely changed the face of football. The English stadia has to be all seated, there are no fences and violence is a memory of the 70s when large groups of fans could run on the terraces.
Nearly 23 years have passed but it changed the game for ever.
Oh, and the tickets are really expensive
January 15, 2012 at 7:25 pm
I’ve always disliked football. I put in in the same category of boxing, and a few other horrid sports. George Carlin, has always been a favorite or mine.
As a child I was taken to some sort of sports game by a friend and her father. I am not fond of heights, so climbing the bleachers, was scary.
Be not afraid.
Waving,
Lori
January 15, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Lori,
I don’t know all the fine points of the game, but I like watching it. Baseball is my favorite.
I’ll watch basketball but never golf or tennis or bowling.