Yep, I'm nervous...

Like I said, when I'm nervous, I send even MORE excessive emails than normal... I got home early from work yesterday (around 3pm) and from that point forward I did NOTHING except watch the NFLNetwork until about 3AM...yep, 12 hours my little mathminds! I got up only to let the dog in or out, answer the door for my landlord coming to pick up rent, and get another Miller Light Heavy... ah, the Heavy can... shades of Umass all over again! Anyway: Here are some more useless tidbits.. but first, check out this article that Mike sent... It's hilarious!

Ok, for those of you who read articles, but don't read all the crap along the sides, let me point out what I noticed while reading that article. Since September of 2001, we have played the colts 9 times, including the AFC... ::retch:: game. They didn't beat us until four years and one month later... and for the record, they beat us BAD! 40-21. For those of you who don't remember, that was the game that they played that MISERABLE Manning commercial in the fourth quarter: Tickets to the game $blah blah blah, Beer at the game $blah blah blah... Breaking the curse, beating the pats, and doing it at Gillette, Priceless... May I add, I almost cried... i was PISSED! And it was hard losing games, because we had just done SO well over the past couple years, so to lose, and to lose to a team that we ALWAYS beat... then have them shit in our cornflakes by playing that commercial before the game was actually done was nearly more than I could stand!

IN ANY case... Since the first time we lost to the colts, till now, our margin of loss has dropped drastically. First was 19 points, then in November of '06 it was by 7 points (27-20) and finally, as I'm sure we all remember, it was a loss of 4 points (38-34, thank you VERY much Tom Brady). Ugh, bad memories! In any case, as much as we are "running up the score" these days, and as much as Sir Thomas would like to see "a total blowout," I'd be happy with a check mark in the "W" column... I don't know if I would care that we wouldn't win by 17+... (of course, it wouldn't hurt...) Point being, the colts came up big in 2005, but I think this is the year when they go back to being unable to beat the Pats... I'd love to see it, and I'd LOVE to see it happen in that miserable RCA dome... In fact, they were saying on NFLNetwork today, that this may well be the last time we ever step foot into that dome, as the new stadium will be built and running for next season. Good riddance.

Another cute article is called "Halfway home in the NFL," and has a couple good references to the Patriots. The first category is: HALF THE CREDIT THEY DESERVE: Randy Moss, Green Bay's Aaron Kampman, Keith Bulluck (an annual selection in this category), the Steelers' offensive line (ditto) and Dick Jauron. Then (this is a good one): HALFWAY TO MVP: Randy Moss, Adrian Peterson, Osi Umenyiora, Bob Sanders, Peyton Manning ... Oh, who are we kidding? The ballot's closed. It's Tom Brady. Then there is no Patriots reference here, but it made me snort: HALF: The amount of Gatorade I spit out of my mouth this summer at the Manning Passing Academy after watching Eli Manning demonstrate his brother Peyton's dork-o-ramma running style. (LOL), Then, this one was wonderful...: HALF THE LEAGUE: In all of 2006, half the teams scored fewer points than the Patriots already have racked up in 2007 (331). The Pats are either really great, or the NFL really stinks. Hmm... I don't think that the ENTIRE NFL can stink, so i'm going to have to go ahead and say, we really just are that good! Now THIS one echoes my opinion nicely: HALF CRAZY: Any player who whines about the Patriots running up the score. My god. Is there no shame or pride left in the world? If you don't like it, do something about it. If not, cash your check and be quiet. And so on... there are others that are pretty funny, but non-patriots in nature, thus not worthy of my cut/paste skills!

If you get the chance, pick up USA TODAY, today! The cover article is the same picture used in that blasphemous epsn.com article with Bill looking mean and focused, and Dungy looking autistic... Er, I mean sweet! The Title is "A Clash Of Styles" with a subtitle of NFL Week 9, It's Dungy's cool confidence vs. Belichic's war games as Colts face Patriots. The opening goes this way: "One is warm and approachable; the other cool and distant. One is sunshine on his worst days; the other is icy on his best. Tony Dungy. BIll Belichick. One with a winning grin, the other grim in winning.." and so on... LOL It's almost like being at home in a way. I'm so used to turning on the tv, opening a newspaper, listening to the radio, etc and hearing Redskins this, Joe Gibbs that... but for once, every sports channel is NESN, Sports Talk 980 is now WEEI, every paper is the Globe or Herald, the FM band is all WAAF or JAMN 94.5! New England is here! Sure, is it mostly because of the caliber of this match up on Sunday, yes, I admit that... but I'll take it!

Talk to you all soon, and see you on Sunday!! As always: GO PATS!!!

Heather Barclay
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