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Miguel e Smith
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Posted 2 Feb 2008 4:14 pm |
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Played a gig last night at a BBQ hosted by coach Tom Coughlin for NY Giants players, families and friends. This football is chocolate and thankfully it was an exceptionally chilly night here in AZ so there was no melting.
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Mike S.
"Mike & T's House Of Steel" (band)
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 2 Feb 2008 4:37 pm
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And then you ate it. Great. The game ball.
That's it, folks. Game's canceled. Everybody go home. |
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Bob Grado
From:
Holmdel, New Jersey
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 5:55 am superbowl
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Wow.. Talk about my dream gig!
Go Giants!!
Giants 31 New England 28 |
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Derrell Stephens
From:
Shreveport, La. USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 7:06 am
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Mike: Too kewl! How's the housing market out there now ... you can probably get one more reasonable these days.
Come see us!
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Tamara James
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 10:18 am
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looks like half a chocolate football..Ladies first.  |
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Miguel e Smith
From:
Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 2:02 pm
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Well yeah...the bass player had already eaten the end off where my left hand is. And I actually had hopes of bringing this thing home intact...there was less than a Hershey's kiss worth of chocolate by that time...bummer.
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Mike S.
"Mike & T's House Of Steel" (band)
www.houseofsteelband.com |
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Kevin Mincke
From:
Farmington, MN (Twin Cities-South Metro) USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 2:24 pm
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Hmmm.......I wonder who you'll be rootin'for Mig  What a great gig!! |
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
From:
Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 5:18 pm
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I don't get it. When does something happen? Eight and a half minutes took half an hour! Thought I'd check it out again as a Greenock-born boy(Tynes), was playing. It's obviously a huge sport Stateside and they are trying again to promote interest over here, but it's just way too slow for me. And what's with all the padding and helmets? Shower of nancy boys. 
Try rugby for roughness and football(Association) for skill and acting ability.
Gotta' go. Tom Petty has just come on.
Awwrabest,
Arch.
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 7:45 pm
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Hear, hear, Archie!!!
I was just forced to sit through it. My wife unwittingly accepted an invitation to a party tonight without having the faintest idea of what the date signified.
I hope someone is happy tonight, because I was nodding off half way through the 'game' - who won, anyway?
"...shower of nancy boys..."
I love it, Archie - JUST what I was thinking. Clearly Greenock, Scotland and Muswell Hill, North London share some of the same vernacular....
That'll be the last game of football I ever sit through!
RR
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 8:54 pm
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Oh, yeah, soccer is so much more thrilling, where a score of 2 to 1 is considered high...yawn. And rugby, what a joke. Bunch of guys huddled together showing their butts to the fans and grunting around in the same spot of ground for hours over a watermelon sized ball...snore. The Americans took rugby and played it so ferociously they had to introduce padding to keep people from getting killed, literally. Then they shrunk the ball to throwable size, and with the forward pass opened up the whole field for fireworks.
Sorry you guys didn't know enough about the game to appreciate it. This was one of the best Super Bowls in history. The New England Patriots were trying to be the first pro team ever to have a perfect season with no losses. But the New York Giants, who were heavy underdogs, played beyond themselves and came from behind to beat the Patriots in the last seconds of the game. A game that close is very rare in the Super Bowl. Plus, the Pats quarterback is apparently a cruel heartthrob who dumped his girlfriend when she was 5 months pregnant to take up with a top Victoria's Secret model who graces bathroom magazine racks all over the world. I didn't know all that myself, but my fiancee was jumping for joy everytime he got slammed to the ground. You guys just didn't know where to look for the dramma.  |
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Miguel e Smith
From:
Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 9:59 pm
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T's son is a drama director at a local church and we simply could not miss his performance so I recorded the 2nd half of the game while we were gone. Just finished watching the playback...gotta admit that I was surprised. I've not really been into football in the last few years (I'm diggin' b'ball right now...GO SUNS!), but I think it's cool the underdog came out on top. No matter what, it was a good and close game as opposed to many of the Super Bowl blowouts and it just felt like good entertainment.
Congrats NY (Patriot's...still an amazing season)
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Mike S.
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Mike Shefrin
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 10:04 pm
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It was an amazing game, and I'm not even a big football fan, but I am from New York so GO GIANTS!  |
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Miguel e Smith
From:
Phoenix, AZ
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Posted 3 Feb 2008 10:50 pm
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Did anyone else catch the Terry Bradshaw blooper at the end of the pre-game show? : ) (when Howie Long was putting on his Red Sox hat)
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Mike S.
"Mike & T's House Of Steel" (band)
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 6:09 am
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Actually, David, I feel the same way about soccer, but that's beside the point. If that was one of the best games in the history of the Super Bowl, then I'm relieved that I missed all the others!
I'm kidding!!!! I'm passionate about some pretty strange things myself, so I'm more than capable of allowing that I could be missing something.
And - I now know that Mike uses four picks!!!(Or is that only for holding chocolate footballs, Mike?)
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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P Gleespen
From:
Toledo, OH USA
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P Gleespen
From:
Toledo, OH USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 8:19 am
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| David Doggett wrote: |
| The New England Patriots were trying to be the first pro team ever to have a perfect season with no losses. |
This is truly the only football stat I know, as I haven't followed sports at all since I was a kid, but the Miami Dolphin team had a perfect season in '72. The Pats would've been the second.
Now, back to the shirling!
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Ron Page
From:
Penn Yan, NY USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 9:28 am
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Now Patrick, why did you have to go and mention that? I'm a Redskins (and Bengals) fan and probably one of the few around here who know who lost that SB to the Dolphins. 
NE would have been the first to go 19-0, as the season was only 17 games back in 1972.
Let's not overlook the fact that the Giants head coach has the good sense to book a band with a great pedal steel player. Bravo!
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Joe Naylor
From:
Avondale, Arizona, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 9:35 am
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Archie and Roger live where they get excited about Cricket and that is like watching paint dry.
What a world we have ------- isn't life funny.
What fun we can have making fun (ALL IN FUN)
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Joe Naylor, Avondale, AZ (Phoenix) Announcer/Emcee owner www.steelseat.com *** OFFERING SEATS AND Effects cases with or without legs and other stuff ****** -Desert Rose Guitar S-10, Life Member of the Arizona Carport Pickers Assoc., Southwest Steel Guitar Assoc., Texas Steel Guitar Assoc., GA Steel Guitar Assoc., KS Steel Guitar Assoc. (Asleep at the Steel) tag line willed to me by a close late friend RIP |
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
From:
Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 9:48 am
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Cricket! Now there's a boring sport. Can last five days and still finish in a draw. Neither of us live in a land where they get excited about cricket. Roger used to. If you like your sport to be exciting, check this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWgg20IqibM
And sometimes something happens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4KvX5jR_1w&feature=related
Arch.
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 9:57 am
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Oh yeah, I forgot about the Dolphins in '72. I was a hippie back then, and wasn't paying much attention to sports, and don't remember some things from those years. See the currently running hippie thread for why.  |
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Theresa Galbraith
From:
Goodlettsville,Tn. USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 2:13 pm
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Good for you Mike!
Go Giants! |
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Craig Stock
From:
Westfield, NJ USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2008 4:07 pm
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I am not a big football fan, like drag racing much more, but living in New Jersey, the NEW JERSEY GIANTS were fun to watch last night what an amzing finish and for all the crap that Coach Coughlin and Eli Manning got all season, they really deserve the trophy.
There was a great human interest story playing out toward the end of the season where one of the coaches brought an old team mate of his to give a speech to the giants. He was a career army man that had both his legs amputated this year after his Humvee was blown up in Iraq.
He didn't know what to say but relayed how his buds had taken care of him and saved his life, and told the team that they should do the same for each other. After his speech the season really turned around and the rest is real magic
A few weeks ago he showed up at the hotel walking with the help of some crutches. After the win over the Packers they gave him the game winning ball which may be Farve's last pass.
It's nice to see Coughlin have steel at the party, hope you had a good time
Miguel, Eli is a real country boy, hope he enjoyed your playing. A real honor.
By the way, my daughter is classmates with the Giants former QB Dave Brown's daughter and is also a childhood buddy and highschool teammate with my little brother.
Go Giants 18-1
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Regards, Craig
I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.
Today is tomorrow's Good ol' days |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 5 Feb 2008 1:17 am
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David D, i've always dug yer posts, but this time you done gone too far !
havin' been brought up in the good Ol', i dug American football, but i must admit havin' discovered Rugby here in Europa, i find that it's quite a game
so please David, take back what ya' said, & i'll be yer buddy again |
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Scott Shipley
From:
The Ozark Mountains
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Posted 5 Feb 2008 1:25 am
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I'm not into sports (other than wrasslin'), but I remember the '72 Dolphins.........Larry Czonka. Had his nose broke 7 times.
I remember watching a special on "mothing" on BBC1 a couple of years back.....thrilling night in Ashford.
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 5 Feb 2008 8:26 am
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Well, okay, Crowbear, I was just funnin' to get back at the Europhiles for knockin' Amurcun football. I really know almost nothing about rugby, except that football derived from it long ago. And watching my kids learn soccer, I have come to appreciate that it places more value on skill and finesse, and less on brute force.
I have a soft spot for the Mannings, because Archie is from Drew, Mississippi, where I started elementary school and first started playing sandlot football. Watching a Manning play Favre in the Colts-Packers game was like watching a North Mississippi versus South Mississippi game. |
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