Watching the Pack

Since I joined Facebook a couple of weeks ago, I’ve reconnected with a lot of my friends from high school and college.  Since I used to live in the Midwest, I was a total Green Bay Packers fan.  (I think I posted sometime last year that my dad would be in heaven if the Packers and the New England Patriots would play each other in the Superbowl.)  Well, I was checking my facebook account this afternoon and I saw that many of my friends were watching the Packers game this afternoon.  Since the Patriots weren’t scheduled to play until later, I decided that I too wanted to watch or listen to the Packer game.  Unfortunately, unless I buy a special football package either on cable tv or on the internet, this would be impossible.  But I went to the NFL website and they have something absolutely cool.  It’s a live action animated play by play of every game as it happens.  So I got to watch the Packer game animated live with the commentary written under the little moving lines.  If you want to catch the games online go to nfl.com and click on the game centers button and then click on the game that you want to watch.  Really cool.

Now it’s time for the Patriots game (on live tv!)

P.S. The Patriots and their new Quarterback Matt Cassel beat Brett Favre and the NY Jets.  Yeah!!!

Celtics visit Fenway

I’ve already posted that I’m not a huge basketball fan.  I love the other professional sports: baseball, football, soccer, ice hockey, just not basketball.  Oh and golf.  I hate golf.  Watching professional golf on tv is worse than waiting for a cake to bake, and let’s get real, we all know how much I hate to cook!  But technically I should love basketball, because I played it for like, four years in junior high and high school.  Wait maybe that’s why I hated it.  Once I found that throwing myself into band and drama was really my passion, I was a lot happier.  Yep, that’s it.  I hated, absolutely hated, playing basketball.  Ok Ms Hedlund let’s get back on track.  Back to the Celtics.

Well, the Boston Celtics won the basketball championships in 6 games against the LA Lakers.  I couldn’t stay up that late to watch the final game (although if it were hockey or baseball, I’d be up watching!)  So they had the rolling rally in Boston, like they have every time one of the teams wins a championship.  Only I’m used to seeing the rallies in the midst of winter (the Red Sox ones have been in November and the Patriots in January.)  So to see the duck boats (a boat with wheels that can drive on land and then go into the water and float like a boat-pretty cool!)  with the Celtics on them.  It was also a little weird seeing all the green-the Celtics color, when we’re used to the red, white and blue of the Sox and the Patriots.

So tonight, through the rain, the Celtics are being honored before the Red Sox-St. Louis Cardinals baseball game.  They came out in the duck boats and drove around the outfield of Fenway Park, before Paul Pierce will throw the starting pitch before the game.  If only the rain will stop.  I think I’m more bummed that the Sox game is being postponed, than I am that we won’t get to see the Celtics on the infield (because it’s wet!)  Oh well.  At least the Sox are wearing their green jerseys today.  It’s the second time in two years that they’ve worn them.  Red Sox wearing green.  Pretty interesting.

 

Boston Bruins Hockey… and more!

Well, the hockey season is over officially tonight in Boston.  The Bruins made it to the quarter finals.  They made a good run winning the last two games, but just couldn’t pull it off in game seven against Montreal.  But this was a great year to be living in the Northeast for sports.  All FIVE of our professional sports teams of the 2007-2008 seasons made it to the playoffs.  Last summer the New England Revolution placed second.  The Red Sox won the baseball World Series.  The New England Patriots well, what can I say… they did make it to the Superbowl, but just didn’t win.   The Boston Bruins hockey team made it to the quarterfinals (as I said.) …… AND the Boston Celtics basketball team are in the playoff hunt too (they beat the Atlanta Hawks last night 104-81 )  So it’s been really exciting here lately!

The Red Sox and the Revolution have begun their seasons already so for the past week or so it’s been great having a choice of 4 different sports to watch on tv as I still recover from the pneumonia that first knocked me out in January and then put me in the hospital in March.  I’m still pretty much staying at home nursing my right lung back to health.

Hope you all are doing well!

Congratulations to the New York Giants

It was an absolutely wonderful Superbowl, because the team who played the best actually won, the New York Giants.  I am not a poor loser.  I give kudos where kudos are due.  The Giants outplayed my Patriots tonight and I’m sad that history wasn’t made with the Patriots going 19-0, but it truly was a great game to watch.  So congrats to the Giants and all their fans!  (But I would like to say that the Patriots defense showed some class at the end of the game with one second left a play had to be made by Eli Manning- (a total hottie!!) and while several of the Patriots had already gone into the locker room the Patriots defense took the field, knowing that they had lost and made the final play and then took the loss as a team like real gentlemen, which is what they are!)

My POOR POOR Green Bay Packers

Well, dad won’t get a chance to glimpse heaven for a while (that’s okay, we’ll keep him here with us for a while:) )  The Packers lost to the NY Giants in Overtime 23-20.  Since the Patriots beat the Giants earlier in the season, it won’t be as dramatic, except that the Patriots will be going for the perfect 19-0 record.

to my friends in the Midwest I will think of you often, but no too much in the next two weeks, because I’ll be too busy getting ready to be the ultimate sofa Superbowl fan!

(And schucks Loki, I guess some of those pictures will just have to go back into the vault. )

On to the SUPERBOWL !!!

PATRIOTS WIN!!!   PATRIOTS WIN!!!   PATRIOTS WIN!!!

For the past three hours I don’t think I took a normal breath.  The Patriots- Chargers football game was such a nail biter, but the Pats ended up with the win that will take them to the Superbowl in Arizona!  The score is deceiving 21-12, it was actually a much closer game.  The Patriots scored touchdowns and the San Diego Chargers scored field goals.  This all brings the Pats to an amazing 18-0 season.

My dad has said that if the Packers can also win tonight a Patriots- Packers Superbowl would make him be in heaven.  (This comes from someone who lived in Wisconsin for several decades and got to see Coach Lombardi up close.  Dad won’t say who he’ll root for.  But hey, if Dad can be happy for a couple of hours, that’s great!  But I’m not so sure that heaven is a green field with white lines down it and two yellow funny looking things at each end standing up. )  So go Packers!

Yeah Patriots (football that is!!!)

The New England Patriots just beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 31-20 to go to the AFC championships next week.  (Which will also be held here in Foxboro, Massachusetts- which M estimated is anywhere between 13 and 20 miles away depending on if I were to take the highway or Back roads .)  Way cool!  And…….

For my friends in the lands of lakes, snow and cheese, I give many kudos also to the Green Bay Packers (who I rooted for for many seasons while growing up in Ma’waukee)I will also give the score of the Packer game- 42-20 Packers win over Seattle (and it couldn’t come against a better team, given that the coach of the Seattle Sea Hawks is a former Packer coach!)

So the football season continues…..

New England Pats WIN final game of season!!!

The New England Patriots, who play at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, MA (which is about 15 minutes from where I live) won their final game of the season giving them a perfect 16-0 record.  Boy, was tonight’s game a close one against the NY Giants, but the Pats pulled it off, just like they’ve done all season.  I’m not as big a football fan as I am a baseball one (just to remind everyone that my beloved Red Sox won the World Series this year!)  But it’s been cool living here near where the Pats play, especially tonight, because other football records were broken too.  The Pats broke the record for most points scored in a regular season (589) Tom Brady broke the NFL record for most Touchdown passes in a regular season (50) and Randy Moss broke the record for most TD passes received/caught during the regular season (23).  This is so awesome!!!  (And many apologies to my Cheddar Head friends in the Dairy State that I switched my football allegiance from the Packers to the Patriots, um, about 13 years ago.  It’s been much more interesting )

Ok I missed the game (victory) last night- Game 3

Well the Red Sox went to Colorado and beat the Rockies 10-5.  That’s like a football score (Touchdown and field goal against field goal and two point conversion, if that’s possible) 

I’m trying a new tactic here.  Now you have to understand something.  I’m sick right now.  Not the, I’m coughing a little, or I have a tummy ache because I ate too much kind of sick.  I have the full body aches, a fever, dizziness, I’m sleeping in 13 hour spurts, not really hungry, sore throat and hurt ear kind of sick.  There is a name for this, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue.  I’ve been battling these diseases for about 15 years.  When they hit, they take control of my life.

So the ickiness has set in and I knew I had to sleep last night.  So I video taped the game and watched it this morning.  I have to say that part of the game of baseball is anticipation.  It’s the time in between pitches that gets our hearts pumped and our minds invested in the game.  It totally loses something fastfordwarding through commercials and boring commentators.  Although this game was the longest game in World Series History at 4 hours and 19 minutes, so I guess it was probably the best one to watch on tape.

Another piece of history was made.  It was the first time that 2 Rookies- Jacobi Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia (who just happen to play for the Sox) had a combined 7 hits and 4 RBI’s in one game.  Just an interesting statistic.

GO SOX 

(Oh, PS the Patriots won again today.  They are undefeated)

Wager accepted…

If you read the comments on the previous post, K has accepted my challenge that when the Red Sox beat the Rockies, she’ll post on her blog that the Red Sox rule.  Only she has no interest in baseball, so I’ll have to keep her updated on this site.  Game one starts tomorrow! Yeah!

(Oh, did anyone catch the Patriots game on Sunday.  They’ve won the first 7 games of the season.)

Ben has been deployed for 36 days.