This week!

Well hello again everyone! First of all, i'd like to give you the link to a wonderful article that our fellow pats fan, Ari "someone stole my Maroney Jersey" Goldmann! The article is awesome, and hilarious! My favorite paragraph was: "It was 2004, when a merry band of self-proclaimed "Idiots" forever changed the face of the franchise by winning its first World Series since 1918 and proving that the "curse" was nothing more than a five-letter punch line. No more "1918" chants in the Bronx. No more fans mythically lining up like lemmings on the Tobin Bridge."

 

If you can't laugh at that, you're not right in the head! I'm still chuckling about it! (of course, nobody has ever accused me of being all that right in the head either i suppose...) Humor aside (which there is a GREAT deal of) this article should make any loyal, PRE-'04, sox fan well-up, because it is only they who would understand some of the references... The article, found on boston.com, proclaims this year's comeback, as something that is no longer "unfathomable, instead [something which] unfolded like a logical sequel to 2004's 'Faith Rewarded.'" I'm the first to admit, I'm not a general baseball fan...but ofc I love the sox, and hate the Yankees...they breed us that way in Ma! I know how to spell Yastrzemski (well, at least i can SAY it anyway...) and Bucker's name makes me wince... So even though you ALL know I'm football first, and everything else second, I'm still so excited and nervous I could die! As long as there are no conflicts with the Pats, I'll be watching every one of the series games lol!

 

So that said, tonight, Game one of the World Series! Can you stand it? I personally can't... and I'm not sure my liver can either! This has been the most stressful couple of sports weeks of my life! I don't handle the pressure well... oh, and my boss is starting to get a tad suspicious of the "flu" i keep getting following all weeknight Sox/Pats games... In any case, same bat-time, same bat-channel. Head to the union pub and harass Lance the bartender... And let us not forget games 2 and 3 coming up Thursday and again Saturday. And then coming up this Sunday, Pats V DeadSkins! Games at 4:15, but get there early and don't forget, be LOUD! I can bet that a bunch of jackass Redskins fans will be at the Times on Sunday...

 

Now, on to the useless stats and info: It's funny because the 'Skins fans have been running off at the mouth an AWEFUL lot... up until the begining of this week, and now I'm hearing: "Well, the Sox will always suck, and they are going down... and as long as the Skins keep the Pats under 30 points, thats enough of a moral victory to us!" (ok, there's not a skins fan alive that would write that well... so that's a bit of a paraphrase... moral, and victory in one Redskin fan's vocabulary? Not likely... they are both multi-syllabic!"

 

So really quickly, Brady has been nominated for the second week in a row for the FedEx Player of the week. I'd love to see that announced on Friday... right before we go play the Skins, who hail from FedEx Field! lol.

 

 Ok, at the risk of sounding cocky... there's not a whole lot i have to say about this game. I can tell you that we have met the Skins during our regular season, just 8 times. The Redskins HAVE had a tendency to beat us, however I honestly believe that it's due to the fact that the Pats (and pat's fans) like to sleep on the teams that do poorly, and then show thier ass when they actually have to play them. We DID however beat the skins 40-zip in the preseason this year... Now normally i would say 40 is a little lower than we could do (here comes that cocky again!) but I'll take another 40 on a shutout! Now, keep in mind that we haven't beaten the skins in the regular season since 1972... But I think this is a great year to update our stats! We've been breaking records and beating personal bests, and updating stats all season, why stop now?

 

Since our match up with the Bears, November 10th, 2002, we have been on a 20-2 winning streak against NFC teams. Just last season alone, we were 4-0 against NFC teams... The total combined scores from those four games were 111-41! It's funny, because that's exactly the score I'm hoping to get this week!

 

Another interesting fact is that this is the only NFL team that Brady doesn't have a regular season win against, as a starting QB!! Lets just see if we can't get his little sissy pants a win shall we? Then he will have beaten every single NFL team during his career! Interestingly, Jason Cambell has never even played the Pats so lets NOT allow him to win his first match up against us!

 

 

A stat in our favor: the Skins have never played us, in the regular season, at "Gillette"(blech, hate that name) stadium.. and we just so happen to be 17-1 in our last 18 games against teams making their first apperence in our new stadium... We hold the all time record of 21-4 against Gillette virgins in fact! Follwing the game on Sunday, there will be only five teams left that haven't played us at home in the new stadium: Arizona, Atlanta, Carolina, Philadelphia and St. Louis... not that ANY of them would have a chance in or OUT of our stadium!

 

 

I think that's all for now... I'm sure as I read on, I will find other crap to bother you with! in fact, I'll be sending an email out regarding our bus trip to Bmore next!

 

As always: GO PATS!!! (Oh, and Sox too! )

 

Heather Barclay