I'll have a serving of CROW!

[Packo]

Well, the road to the super bowl did go through Pittsburgh. The problem was the New England Patriots. Rothlisberger is a rookie and those of you who knew he'd play like one were right....I'll eat my crow with a nice glass of wine.

Although the Eagles did good tonight......the Pats got it....Pats in the Bowl for another win.

Well, next year....Pats and Carolina.....if we can keep 14 players healthy. Gotta hand it to a rookie QB for Pitt....but the Pats certainly showed they are the team. As they said when the Pirates won the series and the Steelers won the bowl....ya gotta have balls to play in Pittsburgh. Well the Sox won the series....ya gotta have balls to play in New England. I owe some kid at Enterprise rentacar a drink. Congrats to the Pats.

Packo

[Andy]

It is bizarre living in New England. The Pat?s are one game away from winning 3 out of the last 4 Super Bowls - a dynasty if you will. Yet a lot of my friends start sports questions with, ?Do yah think Curt Shilling will be healthy enough to pitch against the Yankees on opening day?? There are a lot of us who really like football but we live in Red Sox Nation.

I thought the Colts would be playing the Eagles but it really doesn?t matter. AFC beats the NFC by 7.

Panthers next year? OK, if the Pirates win the Series I?ll believe the Panthers will win the Super Bowl.

Stay healthy,
Andy
PS: Vick sucked.

[revwardoc]

Not only did the Pats beat the Steelers, they totally dominated them. That last TD Pittsburgh scored was a "gimme". The Pats only rushed 2 downlinemen during that drive.

Back in 2001, when the Pats went to Pittsburgh for the AFC Championship, one of our End Zone Militia men was there (in uniform) and he told us that the Steelers had about 20,000 T-shirts printed up with "Super Bowl XXXV - Steelers vs Rams" for sale inside and outside the stadium, selling for $18/ea. When the game ended, they were selling for $5. My friend bought 4 of them and, when the vendor asked him why, he said, "I'm going to use them to wipe the powder residue off my musket when I fire it at the Pats games!"

This year the Steelers management petitioned the NFL for 1200 extra tickets to the Super Bowl. Pride indeed goeth before a fall.

We were supposed to be at a special gathering at Gillette Stadium yesterday but it was cancelled due to the storm.

Ya know, giving the Patriots' coaching staff 2 weeks to prepare for the Eagles is almost criminal. Pats by 14.

[Packo]

Andy,

The Pats pulled the last super bowl out of their butts against Carolina. The Pirates will be in the world series when pigs fly or they move out of Pgh, like to Charlotte where they almost did move. The market there has really never supported the pirates even when they were good. Charlotte will sell out for them but it ain't gonna happen.

Beware of Super Bowls that are supposed to be laugher's. Ya'll almost laughed yourselves out of it last year. I would take the Eagles seriously even though your the favorites.

Pack

[revwardoc]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/goss...p-234775c.html

Dogg's fantasy football

Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Bill Cowher might want to look over his shoulder - Snoop Dogg is after his job.

"My dream is to coach in the NFL, probably for the Steelers," the cornrowed rapper and actor revealed to Lowdown. "Put that out there for me." The 33-year-old ex-Crip gangsta - born Calvin Broadus - doesn't completely lack for on-field experience: He coaches his 10-year-old son, Spanky's, football team and has recently teamed with Juba Entertainment to organize the Snooper Bowl, a charity concert and football game in Jacksonville on Feb. 5 between Spanky's team and an all-star Florida team. "Football has a lot to do with life," Snoop explained. "You got to learn how to take your losses. You gotta look out for the team like they look out for you." Snoop denied that his tactics - he reportedly deploys members of his posse to videotape rivals' games for analysis - are too competitive for such young players. "It's completely legal," he said with characteristic smoothness. "We definitely scout to know what we're up against." Of course, if for some reason the Steelers gig falls through, he does have a backup plan: "If I wanted to, if I trained, I could be an NFL wide receiver. 'Cause I have the ability to get open." As for Snoop's Super Bowl prediction, he revealed: "Pittsburgh and Atlanta. Pittsburgh will take it, 20-14."

[revwardoc]

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/spor...09/detail.html

Militiamen Won't Be At Super Bowl

Volunteer Group Will Watch Game On TV

BOSTON -- You won't see the Patriots' end zone Militiamen dressed in their uniforms or firing their muskets in Jacksonville on Super Bowl Sunday.



The End Zone Militia have not attended any of the Patriots' recent Super Bowls and haven't been invited to this one either, although they would very much like to go.



The group of 20 or more militiamen who wear colonial garb and fire their muskets at the start of every Patriots home game, and each time the Patriots score, are strictly "volunteers," according to the group's commanding captain, Geoffrey Campbell. They are not officially part of the Patriots organization and so they will not be accompanying the team's mascot and cheerleaders to Florida.







The group of reenactors do not get paid for their work at the team's home games, at which they stand in the end zones for the entire game, but they are given free parking and admission.



"It's a little extra excitement" for the games, Campbell said. "We've made many friends among the season ticket fan base. The fans love it -- gets them all pumped up. We've become part of the Gillette Stadium experience."



Campbell said the group has been attending the Patriots home games full-time since 1998, but has never attended any of the away games. He said the team has indicated it would like the Militiamen to be there, but other teams do not have similar organizations and the Super Bowl is a tough ticket to get under any circumstances. The NFL tightly controls who gets in to a Super Bowl game.



"We'd love to go. Be there in our uniforms in the stands," Campbell said.



Instead, the group will probably end up watching the game together from the comfort of their Boston-area homes.



"We'll gather together," Campbell said. "When the Pats score, there will be a couple of muskets going off in the backyard. The musket smoke will rise no matter whether we're actually there or not."

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You can click on the End Zone Militia link and check out our website...such as it is!

[chucktoo1926]

Now with all that chatter on what's hapnin on the field, hows about what the natives are doin in the stans.
jist happend to overhear this conversation tween two fellas. take
a listen;



The Superbowl

Since it's almost time for the Superbowl, here's a story for you.

A man had 50 yard line tickets for the Super Bowl. As he sits down, a man comes down and asks if anyone is sitting in the seat next to him.


"No," he says, "The seat is empty."

"This is incredible," said the man. "Who in their right mind would have a seat like this for the Super Bowl, the biggest sporting event in the world, and not use it?"


He says, "Well, actually, the seat belongs to me. I was supposed to come with my wife, but she passed away. This is the first Super bowl we haven't been to together since we got married in 1967."


"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. That's terrible. But couldn't you find someone else -- a friend or relative, or even a neighbor to take the seat?"

The man shakes his head. "No, they're all at the funeral."

[revwardoc]

Ed finally decides to take a vacation. He books himself on a Caribbean cruise and proceeds to have the time of his life - until the boat sank.

He found himself swept up on the shore of an island with no other people, no supplies... Nothing. Only bananas and coconuts.

After about four months, he is lying on the beach one day when the most gorgeous woman he has ever seen rows up to him. In disbelief, he asks her, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?"

I rowed over from the other side of the island," she says. "I landed here when my cruise ship sank."

Amazing," he says. "You were really lucky to have a rowboat wash up with you."

Oh, this?" replies the woman. "I made the rowboat out of raw material found on the island. I whittled the oars from gum tree branches; I wove the bottom from palm branches; and the sides and stern came from a Eucalyptus tree."

But ... but ... that's impossible," stutters Ed. "You had no tools or hardware. How did you manage?"

Oh, no problem," replies the woman. "On the South side of the island, there is a very unusual strata of alluvial rock exposed. I found if I fired it to a certain temperature in my kiln, it melted into forgeable ductile iron. I used that for tools and used the tools to make the hardware." Ed is stunned.

"Let's row over to my place," she says.

After a few minutes of rowing, she docks the boat at a small wharf. As Ed looks onto shore, he nearly falls out of the boat. Before him is a stone walk leading to an exquisite bungalow painted in blue and white. While the woman ties up the rowboat with an expertly woven hemp rope, he can only stare ahead, dumbstruck.

As they walk into the house, she says casually, "It's not much, but I call it home. Sit down, please. Would you like to have a drink?"

No, no thank you," he says, still dazed. "Can't take any more coconut juice."

It's not coconut juice," the woman replies. "I built a still. How about a Pina Colada?"

Trying to hide his continued amazement, he accepts, and they sit down on her hand-woven couch to talk. After they have exchanged their stories, the woman announces, "I'm going to slip into something more comfortable. Would you like to take a shower and shave? There is a razor upstairs in the cabinet in the bathroom."

No longer questioning anything, Ed goes into the bathroom. There, in the cabinet, is a razor made from a bone handle. Two shells honed to a hollow-ground edge are fastened on to its end inside of a swivel mechanism. "WOW! This woman is amazing," he muses, "what next?"

When he returns, she greets him wearing 'nothing but vines' strategically positioned, and smelling faintly of gardenias. She beckons for him to sit down next to her. "Tell me," she begins suggestively, slithering closer to him, "We've been out here for a really long time. I know you've been lonely. There's something I'm sure you really feel like doing right now, something you've been longing for all these months. You know..."

She stares into his eyes. He can't believe what he's hearing!

You mean ..." he swallows excitedly, "..we can watch the Patriots game from here?"