Here's one I can relate to...i hear it gets worse as you get older...
Several days ago as I left a meeting at our church, I desperately gave myself a personal TSA pat down. I was looking for my keys. They were not in my pockets. A quick search in the meeting room revealed nothing.
Suddenly I realized, I must have left them in the car. Frantically, I headed for the parking lot. My wife, Diane, has scolded me many times for leaving the keys in the ignition. My theory is the ignition is the best place not to lose them. Her theory is that the car will be stolen. As I burst through the doors of the church, I came to a terrifying conclusion. Her theory was right. The parking lot was empty.
I immediately call the police. I gave them my location, confessed that I had left my keys in the car, and that it had been stolen. Then I made the most difficult call of all, "Honey," I stammered. I always call her "honey" in times like these. "I left my keys in the car, and it has been stolen."
There was a period of silence. I thought the call had been dropped, but then I heard Diane's voice. "Ken" she barked, "I dropped you off!"
Now it was my time to be silent. Embarrassed, I said, "Well, come and get me."
Diane retorted, "I will, as soon as I can convince this policeman that I did not steal your car!!!"
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Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Kentucky Wildcats 2012 SEC Champs!!!
Herald Leader
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Kentucky Wildcats forward Anthony Davis (23) dunked for two of his 28 as #1 Kentucky defeated Vanderbilt 83-74 on Saturday February 25, 2012 in Lexington, Ky. Photo by Mark Cornelison | Staff MARK CORNELISON — Herald-Leader |
Requests to landlords from tenants
1. The toilet is blocked and we cannot bathe the children until it is cleared.
2. This is to let you know that there is a smell coming from the man next door.
3. The toilet seat is cracked: where do I stand?
4. I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is running away from the wall.
5. I request your permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen.
6. Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.
7. Will you please send someone to mend our cracked sidewalk. Yesterday my wife tripped on it and is now pregnant.
8. Our kitchen floor is very damp, we have two children and would like a third, so will you please send someone to do something about it.
9. Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny color and not fit to drink.
10. Could you please send someone to fix our bath tap? My wife got her toe stuck in it and it is very uncomfortable for us.
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On the other hand, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
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2. This is to let you know that there is a smell coming from the man next door.
3. The toilet seat is cracked: where do I stand?
4. I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is running away from the wall.
5. I request your permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen.
6. Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.
7. Will you please send someone to mend our cracked sidewalk. Yesterday my wife tripped on it and is now pregnant.
8. Our kitchen floor is very damp, we have two children and would like a third, so will you please send someone to do something about it.
9. Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny color and not fit to drink.
10. Could you please send someone to fix our bath tap? My wife got her toe stuck in it and it is very uncomfortable for us.
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On the other hand, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
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An Irish Lent Tale
An Irishman moves into a tiny hamlet in County Kerry , walks into the pub and promptly orders three beers. The bartender raises his eyebrows, but serves the man three beers, which he drinks quietly at a table, alone.
An hour later, the man has finished the three beers and orders three more. This happens yet again. The next evening the man again orders and drinks three beers at a time, several times. Soon the entire town is whispering about the Man Who Orders Three Beers.
Finally, a week later, the bartender broaches the subject on behalf of the town. "I don't mean to pry, but folks around here are wondering why you always order three beers?"
"Tis odd, isn't it?" the man replies. "You see, I have two brothers, and one went to America , and the other to Australia .. We promised each other that we would always order an extra two beers whenever we drank as a way of keeping up the family bond."
The bartender and the whole town were pleased with this answer, and soon the Man Who Orders Three Beers became a local celebrity and sou rce of pride to the hamlet, even to the extent that out-of-towners would come to watch him drink.
Then, one day, the man comes in and orders only two beers. The bartender pours them with a heavy heart. This continues for the rest of the evening. He orders only two beers. The word flies around town. Prayers are offered for the soul of one of the brothers.
The next day, the bartender says to the man, "Folks around here, me first of all, want to offer condolences to you for the death of your brother. You know-the two beers and all"
The man ponders this for a moment, then replies, "You'll be happy to hear that my two brothers are alive and well. It's just that I, meself, have decided to give up drinking for Lent."
An hour later, the man has finished the three beers and orders three more. This happens yet again. The next evening the man again orders and drinks three beers at a time, several times. Soon the entire town is whispering about the Man Who Orders Three Beers.
Finally, a week later, the bartender broaches the subject on behalf of the town. "I don't mean to pry, but folks around here are wondering why you always order three beers?"
"Tis odd, isn't it?" the man replies. "You see, I have two brothers, and one went to America , and the other to Australia .. We promised each other that we would always order an extra two beers whenever we drank as a way of keeping up the family bond."
The bartender and the whole town were pleased with this answer, and soon the Man Who Orders Three Beers became a local celebrity and sou rce of pride to the hamlet, even to the extent that out-of-towners would come to watch him drink.
Then, one day, the man comes in and orders only two beers. The bartender pours them with a heavy heart. This continues for the rest of the evening. He orders only two beers. The word flies around town. Prayers are offered for the soul of one of the brothers.
The next day, the bartender says to the man, "Folks around here, me first of all, want to offer condolences to you for the death of your brother. You know-the two beers and all"
The man ponders this for a moment, then replies, "You'll be happy to hear that my two brothers are alive and well. It's just that I, meself, have decided to give up drinking for Lent."
To Err is Human; To Forgive, Divine.
To err is human; to purr, feline.
To err is human; two curs, canine.
To err is human; to do nothing, benign.
To err is human; to quit, resign.
To err is human; to howl, lupine.
To err is human; to solve, design.
To err is human; to fart, asinine.
To err is human; to moo, bovine.
To err is human; to soothe, calomine.
To err is human; to pretend, pantomime.
To err is human; to bloom, columbine.
To err is human; to prance, equine.
To err is human; to add, combine.
To err is human; to befriend, pal o' mine.
To err is human; to woo, Valentine.
To err is human; to horrify, Frankenstein.
To err is human; to straighten, align.
To err is human; to drown, Clementine.
To err is human; to twist, serpentine.
To err is human; to love, sublime.
To err is human; to cut in, go back in line!
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Old is what my classmates look like.
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To err is human; two curs, canine.
To err is human; to do nothing, benign.
To err is human; to quit, resign.
To err is human; to howl, lupine.
To err is human; to solve, design.
To err is human; to fart, asinine.
To err is human; to moo, bovine.
To err is human; to soothe, calomine.
To err is human; to pretend, pantomime.
To err is human; to bloom, columbine.
To err is human; to prance, equine.
To err is human; to add, combine.
To err is human; to befriend, pal o' mine.
To err is human; to woo, Valentine.
To err is human; to horrify, Frankenstein.
To err is human; to straighten, align.
To err is human; to drown, Clementine.
To err is human; to twist, serpentine.
To err is human; to love, sublime.
To err is human; to cut in, go back in line!
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Old is what my classmates look like.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
Gary Carter: More to life than baseball
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Sure, he was one of the team leaders on the field and his addition to the club in December 1984, was one of the final pieces to the Mets puzzle.
The "Kid,” as he was affectionately known for his contagious smile and childlike passion for the game on the field, fit nicely into the cleanup spot, between star first baseman, Keith Hernandez, and NL Rookie of the Year, Darryl Strawberry.
He also provided great defense, relentless competitiveness and a keen ability to handle the young pitching staff, led by 19-year-old phenom, Dwight “Doc” Gooden, Ron Darling, Sid Fernandez and veteran Bobby Ojeda.
As a long-suffering Mets fan, I remember telling my brother in jest one day before the trade, “Could you imagine if the Mets got Gary Carter?”
Never in my wildest dream could I have imagined that my half-joking comment would come to fruition when General Manager Frank Cashen traded popular infielder Hubie Brooks and several spare parts for Carter, who at the time, was arguably the best overall catcher in the majors since Johnny Bench.
My father, brother and I, who have been following the team since the early 70’s, and had spent a decade in baseball purgatory, following a team that finished in the cellar or near the cellar every year, were obviously ecstatic.
The Mets won 98 games in 1995, including a game-winning extra-inning home run in his first game with the team, which not only ingratiated him to Shea Stadium faithful, but was indicative of things to come, and then went on to win 108 games in the 1986 World Series Championship season, where they led the division from opening day and never looked back.
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He refused to go out carousing with the boys or, as some of his teammates called it, “raiding and pillaging” visiting towns. He preferred to hang out with his family then with groupies. And, even had the audacity, during the team's '86 post-season run, to ask management to allow the wives to travel with the players!
Because of his wholesome lifestyle, and the fact that the media loved him because he was always willing to give interviews, he rubbed some, who were suspicious of his intentions, the wrong way.
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Pearlman writes:
Baseball clubhouses are much like junior-high lunchrooms, in that the cool kids divide themselves from the un-cool; the studs distance themselves from the geeks.Carter was a devout Christian. He was raised Presbyterian but is said to have grown stronger in his faith with the guidance of former Montreal Expos teammate John Boccabella, who was Catholic, and helped Carter come to terms with the death of his mother, who died when Kid was 12-years-old.
In the oft-ignorant, oft-shallow world of baseball, Carter was deemed a geek from the very beginning. He didn't drink and didn't smoke. He didn't curse and he didn't talk smack. He showed up to work early, played hard, embraced home-plate collisions and—by all accounts—worked his tail off. He was loyal to his wife, Sandy, and an involved and dedicated father to their three children.
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| Carter hit 324 career homers |
And, as passionately as he played on the field, he was as ardent in giving of himself to others.
He was involved in many charitable endeavors, including his foundation, theGary Carter Foundation, which helps kids break out of poverty by, as they state in the organization's web site, "better the physical, mental and spiritual well being of children" and also founding Celebrities Fore Kids, which ironically helped children with cancer and their families.
After retiring from the game and a stint as an analyst with the Florida Marlins, and several minor league managing jobs, Carter became the head baseball coach at a Christian university, Palm Beach Atlantic, near his home, where his daughter Kimmy is the school’s softball coach.
He always stressed to his players that there was more to life than baseball, “My primary goal is to help these young athletes become better Christians and prepare them for life, not just baseball.”
Former Celtic, Chris Herren: Hope after 14 years of rock bottom...
Boston (CNN) -- In the 14 years he lived as a drug addict, former NBA player Chris Herren had no shortage of moments that could have been his "rock bottom."
The earliest may have come when he was only 18, shortly after Sports Illustrated hyped the local star's matriculation to Boston College. Herren -- then one of the most highly anticipated freshmen basketball players in the country -- left BC after only one game after a positive test for cocaine.
Maybe it could have come a few years later, after he had transferred to Fresno State. Just days after one of the most brilliant games of his college career, he announced to a national audience at a news conference that he had once again failed a drug test.
Or maybe rock bottom came in 2001, when Herren's family and friends joined the packed crowd at Boston's Fleet Center to witness Herren fulfill his childhood dream of playing for the Boston Celtics. Even though he was in the starting lineup, Herren was nowhere to be found among the players warming up on the fabled parquet floor.
Instead, he stood in full uniform outside the Fleet Center in the pouring rain, waiting on a dealer just moments before the game.
Herren shot heroin into his veins before his mother's funeral, bailed on his wife and newborn son in the hospital to get drunk, and even had to be brought back to life once after an overdose.
But it wasn't any one of these moments that finally motivated him to get the treatment he needed to overcome his addiction. Herren did not have one singular moment of rock bottom.
"Addiction is rock bottom" he said in a recent interview. "I had 14 years of rock bottom."
Now three-and-a-half years sober, Herren looks back at those dark moments of his life with glib honesty and an almost macabre sense of gratefulness.
Making that buy on a street corner in his Celtics uniform? "Just another normal day in the life of an addict," he said.
Using heroin before a game? "I couldn't play without it in my system."
The overdose that almost killed him? "It was a blessing."
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The earliest may have come when he was only 18, shortly after Sports Illustrated hyped the local star's matriculation to Boston College. Herren -- then one of the most highly anticipated freshmen basketball players in the country -- left BC after only one game after a positive test for cocaine.
Maybe it could have come a few years later, after he had transferred to Fresno State. Just days after one of the most brilliant games of his college career, he announced to a national audience at a news conference that he had once again failed a drug test.
Or maybe rock bottom came in 2001, when Herren's family and friends joined the packed crowd at Boston's Fleet Center to witness Herren fulfill his childhood dream of playing for the Boston Celtics. Even though he was in the starting lineup, Herren was nowhere to be found among the players warming up on the fabled parquet floor.
Instead, he stood in full uniform outside the Fleet Center in the pouring rain, waiting on a dealer just moments before the game.
Herren shot heroin into his veins before his mother's funeral, bailed on his wife and newborn son in the hospital to get drunk, and even had to be brought back to life once after an overdose.
But it wasn't any one of these moments that finally motivated him to get the treatment he needed to overcome his addiction. Herren did not have one singular moment of rock bottom.
"Addiction is rock bottom" he said in a recent interview. "I had 14 years of rock bottom."
Now three-and-a-half years sober, Herren looks back at those dark moments of his life with glib honesty and an almost macabre sense of gratefulness.
Making that buy on a street corner in his Celtics uniform? "Just another normal day in the life of an addict," he said.
Using heroin before a game? "I couldn't play without it in my system."
The overdose that almost killed him? "It was a blessing."
Read more...
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
A dating funny
A young lady signed up on an Internet dating service. She got to the section of the application that asked "What exactly are you looking for?"
This was her description: "He needs to be good-looking, polite, humorous, sporty, knowledgeable, good at singing and dancing. Willing to accompany me the whole day at home if I don't go out. Be able to tell me interesting stories when I need a companion for conversation and be silent when I want to rest."
In a matter of moments, the results were returned to the woman: "Buy a television."
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Old is always fifteen years older than I am.
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This was her description: "He needs to be good-looking, polite, humorous, sporty, knowledgeable, good at singing and dancing. Willing to accompany me the whole day at home if I don't go out. Be able to tell me interesting stories when I need a companion for conversation and be silent when I want to rest."
In a matter of moments, the results were returned to the woman: "Buy a television."
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Old is always fifteen years older than I am.
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Texting codes for Seniors
Young people have theirs, now Seniors have their own texting codes:
* ATD - At the Doctor's
* BFF - Best Friends Funeral
* BTW - Bring the Wheelchair
* BYOT - Bring Your Own Teeth
* CBM - Covered by Medicare
* CUATSC - See You at the Senior Center
* DWI - Driving While Incontinent
* FWBB - Friend with Beta Blockers
* FWIW - Forgot Where I Was
* FYI - Found Your Insulin
* GGPBL - Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low
* GHA - Got Heartburn Again
* HGBM - Had Good Bowel Movement
* IMHO - Is My Hearing-Aid On?
* LMDO - Laughing My Dentures Out
* LOL - Living on Lipitor
* LWO - Lawrence Welk's On
* OMMR - On My Massage Recliner
* OMSG - Oh My! Sorry, Gas
* ROFL...CGU - Rolling on the Floor Laughing...Can't get Up!
* TOT - Texting on Toilet
* TTYL - Talk to You Louder
* WAITT - Who Am I Talking To?
* WTFA - Wet the Furniture Again
* WTP - Where're the Prunes
* WWNO - Walker Wheels Need Oil
Hope these help. GGLKI (Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking in!)
* ATD - At the Doctor's
* BFF - Best Friends Funeral
* BTW - Bring the Wheelchair
* BYOT - Bring Your Own Teeth
* CBM - Covered by Medicare
* CUATSC - See You at the Senior Center
* DWI - Driving While Incontinent
* FWBB - Friend with Beta Blockers
* FWIW - Forgot Where I Was
* FYI - Found Your Insulin
* GGPBL - Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low
* GHA - Got Heartburn Again
* HGBM - Had Good Bowel Movement
* IMHO - Is My Hearing-Aid On?
* LMDO - Laughing My Dentures Out
* LOL - Living on Lipitor
* LWO - Lawrence Welk's On
* OMMR - On My Massage Recliner
* OMSG - Oh My! Sorry, Gas
* ROFL...CGU - Rolling on the Floor Laughing...Can't get Up!
* TOT - Texting on Toilet
* TTYL - Talk to You Louder
* WAITT - Who Am I Talking To?
* WTFA - Wet the Furniture Again
* WTP - Where're the Prunes
* WWNO - Walker Wheels Need Oil
Hope these help. GGLKI (Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking in!)
Thursday, February 16, 2012
OCCUPY GOLF 99% MOVEMENT....WE NEED TO BE HEARD!!!
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Children Funny
Ruth and Esther meet for the first time in fifty years since high school.
Ruth begins to tell Esther about her children. "My son is a doctor and he's got four kids. My daughter is a lawyer and she has three great kids. So tell me Esther, how about your kids?"
Esther replies, "Unfortunately, Morty and I don't have any children and so we have no grandchildren either."
Ruth says, "No children? ... and no grandkids? So tell me, Esther, what do you do for aggravation?"
[forwarded by Steve Sanderson]
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A husband said to his wife, "No, I don't hate your relatives. In fact, I like your mother-in-law better than I like mine."
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Ruth begins to tell Esther about her children. "My son is a doctor and he's got four kids. My daughter is a lawyer and she has three great kids. So tell me Esther, how about your kids?"
Esther replies, "Unfortunately, Morty and I don't have any children and so we have no grandchildren either."
Ruth says, "No children? ... and no grandkids? So tell me, Esther, what do you do for aggravation?"
[forwarded by Steve Sanderson]
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A husband said to his wife, "No, I don't hate your relatives. In fact, I like your mother-in-law better than I like mine."
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Feherty's quotes
Feherty is a Golf Channel announcer who finds very unique, colorful and uninhibited ways of explaining or describing whatever is on his mind...... Probably always on time delay these days.
“Fortunately, he (Rory) is 22 years old so his right wrist should be the strongest muscle in his body.”
“That ball is so far left, Lassie couldn’t find it if it was wrapped in bacon.”
“I am sorry Nick Faldo couldn’t be here this week. He is attending the birth of his next wife.”
“They don’t do comedy at the Masters. The Masters, for me, is like holding onto a really big collection of gas for a week. It’s like having my buttocks surgically clenched at Augusta General Hospital on Wednesday, and surgically unclenched on Monday on the way to Hilton Head.”
Jim Furyk’s swing - “It looks like an octopus falling out of a tree.”
“He’s (Luke Donald) a bloody walking ATM. I slid my AmEx between the cheeks of his ass and out popped $500.”
Describing VJ's prodigious practice regime - "VJ hits more balls than Elton John's chin."
"That's a great shot with that swing."
"It's OK - the bunker stopped it."
At Augusta 2011 - "It's just a glorious day. The only way to ruin a day like this would be to play golf on it."
"That was a great shot - if they'd put the pin there today."
"Everything moves except his bowels."
"Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff."
"That green appears smaller than a Pygmie's nipple".
Forward this to any golfers with a sense of humor...
“Fortunately, he (Rory) is 22 years old so his right wrist should be the strongest muscle in his body.”
“That ball is so far left, Lassie couldn’t find it if it was wrapped in bacon.”
“I am sorry Nick Faldo couldn’t be here this week. He is attending the birth of his next wife.”
“They don’t do comedy at the Masters. The Masters, for me, is like holding onto a really big collection of gas for a week. It’s like having my buttocks surgically clenched at Augusta General Hospital on Wednesday, and surgically unclenched on Monday on the way to Hilton Head.”
Jim Furyk’s swing - “It looks like an octopus falling out of a tree.”
“He’s (Luke Donald) a bloody walking ATM. I slid my AmEx between the cheeks of his ass and out popped $500.”
Describing VJ's prodigious practice regime - "VJ hits more balls than Elton John's chin."
"That's a great shot with that swing."
"It's OK - the bunker stopped it."
At Augusta 2011 - "It's just a glorious day. The only way to ruin a day like this would be to play golf on it."
"That was a great shot - if they'd put the pin there today."
"Everything moves except his bowels."
"Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff."
"That green appears smaller than a Pygmie's nipple".
Forward this to any golfers with a sense of humor...
Yahoo Sports
Jeremy Lin's sudden rise with the New York Knicks brought new attention to the Harvard hoops program.The hottest brand in basketball right now? Try Harvard.
Yes, the school known for ivy-covered halls and sky-high SATs is the home of one of the nation’s Top 25 college teams and is the alma mater ofNew York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin.Forget Kobe, LeBron, Dwight and any other NBA star known by one name: Lin is hotter than all of them right now. He had a monster outing Friday night to help lead the Knicks past the Los Angeles Lakers 92-85 in a game nationally televised by ESPN. He scored 38 points and added seven assists, four rebounds and two steals.
It was his fourth consecutive 20-point game and the Knicks have won all four; he had scored 32 points all season before this recent outburst.
Lin spent last season with Golden State after not getting picked in the 2010 draft. He is the first American-born NBA player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent, and Friday night’s game was televised in China because of Lin’s emergence.
Meanwhile, Harvard, which is ranked 21st in this week’s coaches’ poll, improved to 21-2 with a 56-50 victory Friday night at Penn in what was the Crimson’s toughest remaining road game. It’s the best start by an Ivy League team since Princeton was 21-1 in 1997-98.
There’s definitely a basketball buzz on Harvard’s campus.
” ‘Jeremy Lin’ is on everyone’s lips. And everyone is talking about the ‘next’ basketball game,” said Nathan Georgette, a junior from Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., who is an applied math major. “The football rivalry with Yale– that’s usually the biggest sports thing on campus. This has surpassed that by a mile.”
Harvard has had six home sellouts this season, and the four remaining home games already are sold out. The Crimson will sell out 10 of 12 home games this season, a program record.
Georgette said the interest in this season’s team started building last season, when the Crimson tied Princeton for the regular-season title but lost in a one-game playoff for the Ivy League’s automatic NCAA bid. Typically, once a season is over, students forget about the sport, Georgette said, but that wasn’t the case with the basketball team.
All five starters returned, and Harvard was expected to win the league this season. The Crimson is living up to billing. They are 7-0 in league play and own a two-game lead over Penn and Yale – a team they beat by 35 in New Haven, Conn. The Crimson plays again Saturday night against Princeton (7 p.m., ESPNU), which is in fifth place in the league.
That Harvard plays two games in two days is an example of the unbelievability of this story. Because the Ivy League doesn’t want players missing that much class – man, what a quaint notion! – all Ivy League road trips are back-to-backs, with a game Friday night and the another Saturday.
These are heady times for Harvard, which doesn’t exactly have a proud hoops history. The school has made one NCAA appearance – as part of an eight-team field in 1946, when the Crimson was a basketball independent. Harvard lost both its games in that tourney (there was a third-place game in each four-team regional), to Ohio State and New York University.
The Crimson didn’t finish above .500 in Ivy League play from 1998 to 2009, and last season marked the first time Harvard had captured even a share of the Ivy’s season title.
Tommy Amaker's arrival turned the Crimson's fortunes around and they appear headed back to the NCAA tournament. Amaker, 46, was hired at Harvard less than a month after being fired at Michigan. Amaker was 108-84 in six seasons with the Wolverines, but never took them to the NCAA tourney. Before being hired at Michigan, Amaker spent four seasons as coach at Seton Hall, where he went 68-55 with one NCAA appearance.The basketball rebirth began with the hiring of Tommy Amaker as coach in April 2007.Harvard won a combined 22 games in Amaker’s first two seasons, then went 21-7 in 2009-10, which was Lin’s senior season. That team received a CIT bid, Harvard’s first postseason appearance since 1946, but engineering major Dario Sava said not that many students were paying attention.
“I didn’t even know of [Lin] as a freshman,” said Sava, a junior from Malden, Mass.
Now, Sava said Lin is a point of pride for Harvard students.
“He was smart enough to get into Harvard, which means he took a bunch of great classes,” Sava said. “And he obviously spent a lot of time working on his game.”
The Crimson finished 23-7 last season, which ended with an NIT bid.
The Crimson’s success and Amaker’s recruiting raised questions in 2008, with a New York Times story alleging improper contact with a recruit. But the Ivy League cleared Amaker that fall, saying no violations had occurred and that the school’s “admission of recruited men’s basketball players complied with all relevant Ivy League obligations.”
Jeremy Lin, NY Knicks: NBA's Tim Tebow?
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And so they chanted his name into the emptying Verizon Center, all the newly sold, drawn to an instant sensation that can be made only in this electronic world. Feet pounded. Hands clapped. A roar spilled over the court as the man, unknown until five days ago, ducked his head, 23 points behind him, and ran from the din.
And so they chanted his name into the emptying Verizon Center, all the newly sold, drawn to an instant sensation that can be made only in this electronic world. Feet pounded. Hands clapped. A roar spilled over the court as the man, unknown until five days ago, ducked his head, 23 points behind him, and ran from the din.
"Jeremy Lin!"
"Jeremy Lin!"
"Jeremy Lin!"
How fast does a phenomenon grow in these days of hashtags and trending topics? Five days ago, Jeremy Lin was a forgotten backup point guard mired to the bench of the New York Knicks, famous only because he is the first player of Taiwanese descent in the NBA and because he played at Harvard. On a Knicks team that is both parts underachieving and dysfunctional, his presence barely drew a ripple.
He got a start, basically because the Knicks were so desperate at the point guard position. Then came the injury to Carmelo Anthony and the death of Amar'e Stoudemire's brother that has taken the center from the team, and the Knicks neededsomething. All they had was Lin.
He got a start, basically because the Knicks were so desperate at the point guard position. Then came the injury to Carmelo Anthony and the death of Amar'e Stoudemire's brother that has taken the center from the team, and the Knicks neededsomething. All they had was Lin.
So out on the floor he went last Saturday night, driving and shooting for 25 points, then throwing up 28 more two nights later as the fans in Madison Square Garden cried to the world that he was now MVP.
This is all it takes to make a sensation these days, 53 points in a place they call The World's Most Famous Arena.
And this is what it takes to feed a sensation these days. Alex Wu, a Taiwanese man recently graduated from the University of Virginia, woke up Sunday to a Facebook page exploding with news of a man much like himself who tore apart the New Jersey Nets the night before. And he wondered: Just who was this Jeremy Lin?
Which is how he and his UVA friends Shane Gao and Peter Chen found themselves as part of a group of five walking into the Verizon Center on Wednesday night wearing Knicks blue T-shirts with pieces of Lin's last name and his No. 17 spelled on the shirts in orange tape.
"I'm actually Chinese," Gao said. "But he's like a brother so it's all good."
Like Wu, Gao had heard of Lin only this past weekend as had Sean Tong from Springfield, Va., who draped himself in the Taiwan flag on Wednesday. Like Wu, his friends had mocked him on Facebook and Twitter. What do you mean you don't know about Jeremy Lin? And so he came to find out for himself.
"That's my boy!" Tong shouted.
And just how long has he been your boy?
"Well, not long."
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But how could he know? How could any of them know, those extra thousands who came Wednesday night hauling signs like "#Lining," or "J Lin 4-da win"? How could the Knicks know? Three weeks ago they sent Lin down to their D-League team in Erie, Pa. Had he not played well on Saturday, the guaranteed part of his contract might not have been picked up this week. He would have been out of the NBA.
Now people are making signs, taping T-shirts and writing rap songs with his name.
Now people are making signs, taping T-shirts and writing rap songs with his name.
As with many sensations, there is no making sense of all this. The Knicks were through with Lin just like the Golden State Warriors were through with him after last season. The NBA does not draft Taiwanese point guards from Harvard, and Lin certainly didn't fit what the Warriors wanted. They sent him to the D-League. When the Knicks put him on a plane to Erie in late January, Lin was terrified that last year was happening again, that his NBA dream was gone, that he was destined to be an interesting footnote in a long list of international firsts the league loves to tout as it lumbers toward world domination.
Maybe he found himself during the one game he played in Erie, where the coach there, Jay Larranaga, runs the same guard-driven offense as Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni, and Lin had a triple-double. "I think he was anxious to run the Knicks offense and test it out," Larranaga said. "He made the most of it." And then there he was on Wednesday, leaping in the air, dunking on the Wizards. When he came back down to the floor, a broken bandage dangled off his chin.
He had turned into something he possibly didn't even recognize.
He had turned into something he possibly didn't even recognize.
So after Wednesday's game, when he finally emerged from the New York locker room clad in warmups, a backpack slung across his shoulder, he gazed into a wall of cameras and journalists who never gave him a glance until last weekend, and said: "I wouldn't have imagined this. At the same time, it's just a blessing from God."
He is a Christian, vocal in his belief. And because of this and because he is a flawed player proving the experts wrong, people are comparing him to Tim Tebow. And everything was swirling out of control in the Verizon Center: Fans holding signs with Bible verses; fans calling his name; the son of Wizards coach Randy Wittman, a former player at Cornell, texting his father to say his Cornell teammates did a better job of guarding Lin at Harvard than Washington's millionaire NBA players.
Lin might have been anonymous a week ago, but at least he had a firm grasp of his name. Now because of three basketball games it has been tossed into the swirling sea of public consumption.
"Part of me is worried about the Tebow comparison," said Lin's college friend and former Bible Study partner, Eddie Lee, who stood outside the Knicks locker room as a crowd swelled in the hallway. "I hope the media doesn't take that and turn it into something."
It's probably too late for that. Sensations feed on themselves, devouring bits of fact until they get bigger and bigger. D'Antoni, whose season had gone so poorly until now he might have lost his job had Lin not come from nowhere, tossed food to the burgeoning beast by saying Lin is making this all look too easy, that Lin is getting the other Knicks players in the right position to succeed, that he thinks this "is for real" and that Lin "has the ability to do it every night."
Yet what choice does D'Antoni have? Jeremy Lin might well have saved D'Antoni's job. Jeremy Lin might well have saved his own job. Who knows where this started, where it came from, because it doesn't seem like the two men most involved -- player and coach -- had a thought it was possible. And now he is suddenly Michael Jordan, scoring more than 20 points, driving past hapless Washington defenders who either couldn't stop him or didn't even try.
Still almost dazed, Lin stared at his news conference and said, "It hasn't even been a week yet."
Not far away, his friend Lee smiled.
"To see him sitting on the bench getting garbage minutes one day and then to see him on highlights the next, that's a Cinderella story to the core," Lee said. "But he's a humble person to the core, too. I think he's prepared for it. He's gone through the ups and downs throughout his life. He's got a good head on his shoulders. That's a testament to his faith."
The questions were flying at Lin. How surprised is he? What does he think of Tebow?
How long can this last? Lin couldn't even get to most of them. His appearance after the game was brief. The Knicks bus was waiting, the team's public-relations man growled. Not that any of the players sitting on that idling motor coach should care. The Knicks have been searching for years for the point guard that will lead the franchise, and suddenly there he was, on the end of their bench, rescued temporarily from the D-League.
"God must have had a different plan," Lin said.
After going from oblivion to sensation that seemed as good an explanation as any other.
Meet Jeremy Lin...NBA phenom
Brian Mahoney, Washington Post
In an incredible week, Knicks PG Jeremy Lin proves he’s a good player, as well as a good story
Jeremy Lin came with an intriguing story even before he escaped the New York Knicks’ bench.
First American-born NBA player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent.
Harvard graduate.
Nomad who crashed on a teammate’s couch when his brother’s place wasn’t available.
In just one week, Lin’s proven he’s so much more.
Turns out, he’s a terrific basketball player.
“The level he is playing at right now, I have never seen it,” Knicks forward Jared Jeffries said. “It is weird for a guy to come in and be a team leader who has bounced around like he has. He has inspired us to play harder because he gives it his all every day. There is nothing he doesn’t do on a daily basis.”
Lin scored a career-high 38 points Friday night to lead the Knicks to a 92-85 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. After scoring 28 and 23 in his first two NBA starts, he outplayed Kobe Bryant in front of a national TV audience, leaving delirious fans without their voices and his coach without the words to describe it.
“I don’t know what to tell you,” Mike D’Antoni said. “I have never seen this. It’s not often that a guy is going to play four games, the best you are going to see, and nobody knows who he is. That is hard to do.”
Lin is drawing comparisons to Denver quarterback Tim Tebow, with the way he impacts his teammates during games and talks about his faith afterward.
Forget Tebowing. Linsanity is the new sports sensation.
Saturday night, he’s taking his show on the road to Minneapolis, where the Knicks will try to win their fifth consecutive game.
Lin was perhaps on his last chance, and maybe a last resort, when D’Antoni put him in last Saturday against New Jersey. The Knicks had lost on the previous two nights to fall to 8-15, and another defeat that night would have dropped them behind the Nets in the standings and might have made the cries to fire D’Antoni even harder for team management to ignore.
Lin had slept on teammate Landry Fields’ couch the night before, still refusing to get his own place as he headed into the week the Knicks would have to decide whether to cut him or guarantee his contract for the rest of the season.
Lin scored 25 points that night, and D’Antoni promoted him to the starting lineup for the next game.
A sensation was born.
The Knicks haven’t looked back, even while playing without leading scorers Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire. They’ll be back soon, and if Lin gets them to play at their potential, watch out.
“I think it’ll be fun for the city obviously,” Bryant said.
There was nothing fun about the Knicks before Lin, as fans blamed D’Antoni, Anthony and team management for the disappointing start. But as they screamed for Lin throughout Friday’s game, especially after a clutch 3-pointer in the fourth quarter that was perhaps the biggest shot of the game, Madison Square Garden was again the place to be in the NBA.
“I thought that the Garden was rocking, and it was a great atmosphere,” said the Lakers’ Metta World Peace, who grew up in New York as Ron Artest.
Too bad the fun is being missed by so many in the city. A dispute between MSG and Time Warner cable is keeping Knicks games off that system for now, even as Asian networks line up to add Knicks games to their broadcast schedules.
The Knicks began selling Lin merchandise Friday, and one souvenir stand on the concourse level ran out before the game even started. The NBA says Lin has been the top selling jersey online since last Saturday, and the Knicks are the top-selling team this week.
All-Star Kevin Durant and Memphis’ Rudy Gay were among the players tweeting about Lin afterward, and most of the questions Bryant faced were about a player whose game he’d said he wasn’t familiar with only 24 hours earlier.
The only one who isn’t talking about Lin is the point guard himself, a spiritual and humble person who gives credit to God, D’Antoni and his teammates.
“When I’m on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart,” Lin said. “I just love the game, playing with this team and coach.”
His heartfelt sentiments and enthusiasm on the court also captured the attention of Lakers Hall of Famer Magic Johnson.
“The excitement he has caused in the Garden, man, I hadn’t seen that in a long time,” Johnson told The Associated Press earlier this week after watching Lin’s first two games. “When you get a spark a like this, especially in a season like this, this could carry them for a long time because they needed something to happen positive. Everything has been really negative.”
Lin was waived by Golden State in December after splitting last season between the Warriors and the NBA Development League. Houston picked him up for a couple of weeks before cutting him, and the Knicks decided to give him a look.
New York had just waived its point guard, Chauncey Billups to free up money to sign center Tyson Chandler. Three point guards couldn’t run D’Antoni’s offense, so the Knicks were stuck waiting on Baron Davis to recover from a herniated disk in his back. There was no indication D’Antoni would try out a fourth point guard, let alone Lin.
Now there’s no rush for Davis. Not with Lin running D’Antoni’s offense better than anyone.
“In D’Antoni’s offense, he is looking a lot like (Steve) Nash, except a little bit more aggressive in going to the basket and scoring,” Lakers center Andrew Bynum said.
D’Antoni has mentioned Nash, too, in his excitement to talk about Lin. And the Phoenix point guard is a fan as well.
“If you love sports you have to love what Jeremy Lin is doing,” Nash wrote on Twitter this week. “Getting an opportunity and exploding!!”
And creating a whole new vocabulary.
At the Garden, it’s Words with Lin instead of Words with Friends: Linderella; Lincredible; Super Lintendo; and of course, Linsanity, the Twitter trending word of choice.
Expect more puns as he continues to prove himself as a bona fide NBA player.
“He’s not a fluke,” Chandler said. “Just the confidence he plays with, the pace, the understanding of the game. You can tell when a guy isn’t really that skilled but is just having a good stretch. This guy is skilled.”
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Follow Brian Mahoney on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Briancmahoney
In an incredible week, Knicks PG Jeremy Lin proves he’s a good player, as well as a good story
Jeremy Lin came with an intriguing story even before he escaped the New York Knicks’ bench.
First American-born NBA player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent.
Harvard graduate.
Nomad who crashed on a teammate’s couch when his brother’s place wasn’t available.
In just one week, Lin’s proven he’s so much more.
Turns out, he’s a terrific basketball player.
“The level he is playing at right now, I have never seen it,” Knicks forward Jared Jeffries said. “It is weird for a guy to come in and be a team leader who has bounced around like he has. He has inspired us to play harder because he gives it his all every day. There is nothing he doesn’t do on a daily basis.”
Lin scored a career-high 38 points Friday night to lead the Knicks to a 92-85 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. After scoring 28 and 23 in his first two NBA starts, he outplayed Kobe Bryant in front of a national TV audience, leaving delirious fans without their voices and his coach without the words to describe it.
“I don’t know what to tell you,” Mike D’Antoni said. “I have never seen this. It’s not often that a guy is going to play four games, the best you are going to see, and nobody knows who he is. That is hard to do.”
Lin is drawing comparisons to Denver quarterback Tim Tebow, with the way he impacts his teammates during games and talks about his faith afterward.
Forget Tebowing. Linsanity is the new sports sensation.
Saturday night, he’s taking his show on the road to Minneapolis, where the Knicks will try to win their fifth consecutive game.
Lin was perhaps on his last chance, and maybe a last resort, when D’Antoni put him in last Saturday against New Jersey. The Knicks had lost on the previous two nights to fall to 8-15, and another defeat that night would have dropped them behind the Nets in the standings and might have made the cries to fire D’Antoni even harder for team management to ignore.
Lin had slept on teammate Landry Fields’ couch the night before, still refusing to get his own place as he headed into the week the Knicks would have to decide whether to cut him or guarantee his contract for the rest of the season.
Lin scored 25 points that night, and D’Antoni promoted him to the starting lineup for the next game.
A sensation was born.
The Knicks haven’t looked back, even while playing without leading scorers Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire. They’ll be back soon, and if Lin gets them to play at their potential, watch out.
“I think it’ll be fun for the city obviously,” Bryant said.
There was nothing fun about the Knicks before Lin, as fans blamed D’Antoni, Anthony and team management for the disappointing start. But as they screamed for Lin throughout Friday’s game, especially after a clutch 3-pointer in the fourth quarter that was perhaps the biggest shot of the game, Madison Square Garden was again the place to be in the NBA.
“I thought that the Garden was rocking, and it was a great atmosphere,” said the Lakers’ Metta World Peace, who grew up in New York as Ron Artest.
Too bad the fun is being missed by so many in the city. A dispute between MSG and Time Warner cable is keeping Knicks games off that system for now, even as Asian networks line up to add Knicks games to their broadcast schedules.
The Knicks began selling Lin merchandise Friday, and one souvenir stand on the concourse level ran out before the game even started. The NBA says Lin has been the top selling jersey online since last Saturday, and the Knicks are the top-selling team this week.
All-Star Kevin Durant and Memphis’ Rudy Gay were among the players tweeting about Lin afterward, and most of the questions Bryant faced were about a player whose game he’d said he wasn’t familiar with only 24 hours earlier.
The only one who isn’t talking about Lin is the point guard himself, a spiritual and humble person who gives credit to God, D’Antoni and his teammates.
“When I’m on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart,” Lin said. “I just love the game, playing with this team and coach.”
His heartfelt sentiments and enthusiasm on the court also captured the attention of Lakers Hall of Famer Magic Johnson.
“The excitement he has caused in the Garden, man, I hadn’t seen that in a long time,” Johnson told The Associated Press earlier this week after watching Lin’s first two games. “When you get a spark a like this, especially in a season like this, this could carry them for a long time because they needed something to happen positive. Everything has been really negative.”
Lin was waived by Golden State in December after splitting last season between the Warriors and the NBA Development League. Houston picked him up for a couple of weeks before cutting him, and the Knicks decided to give him a look.
New York had just waived its point guard, Chauncey Billups to free up money to sign center Tyson Chandler. Three point guards couldn’t run D’Antoni’s offense, so the Knicks were stuck waiting on Baron Davis to recover from a herniated disk in his back. There was no indication D’Antoni would try out a fourth point guard, let alone Lin.
Now there’s no rush for Davis. Not with Lin running D’Antoni’s offense better than anyone.
“In D’Antoni’s offense, he is looking a lot like (Steve) Nash, except a little bit more aggressive in going to the basket and scoring,” Lakers center Andrew Bynum said.
D’Antoni has mentioned Nash, too, in his excitement to talk about Lin. And the Phoenix point guard is a fan as well.
“If you love sports you have to love what Jeremy Lin is doing,” Nash wrote on Twitter this week. “Getting an opportunity and exploding!!”
And creating a whole new vocabulary.
At the Garden, it’s Words with Lin instead of Words with Friends: Linderella; Lincredible; Super Lintendo; and of course, Linsanity, the Twitter trending word of choice.
Expect more puns as he continues to prove himself as a bona fide NBA player.
“He’s not a fluke,” Chandler said. “Just the confidence he plays with, the pace, the understanding of the game. You can tell when a guy isn’t really that skilled but is just having a good stretch. This guy is skilled.”
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Follow Brian Mahoney on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Briancmahoney
Super Bowl Soundtrack: Good Moves and Bad
NYT
What was Patriots Coach Bill Belichick’s strategy when the Giants tried to mount a late fourth-quarter rally in the Super Bowl?
“Make them go to Manningham” — five words that will haunt Patriots fans and delight Giants fans for years to come.
The sideline instruction to his defense, which turned painfully prophetic, was captured by an NFL Network show that wired several players, coaches and officials in Sunday’s game.
Crouched on the sideline in front of the players, Belichick emphasized that they had to focus on Giants receivers Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz.
“This is still a Cruz and Nicks game,” he said. “I mean I know we’re right on them, it’s tight. But those are still the guys. Make them go to Manningham, make them go to Pascoe, all right. But let’s make sure we get Cruz and Nicks.”
As if on cue, Eli Manning went to Mario Manningham, whose dazzling 38-yard reception along the sideline, as he barely kept his feet inbounds, sparked the winning drive. The catch occurred right in front of Belichick, who challenged the play. It was not reversed.
There was no doubt in Tom Brady’s mind about whether the play would be reversed. Looking dejected on the sideline after watching the replay, he said simply, “He caught it.”
The Super Bowl edition of “Sound FX” was televised Wednesday and will be replayed Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern.
When Patriots receiver Wes Welker failed to hang on to a pass from Brady on second-and-11 from the Giants’ 44 with about four minutes remaining, at least one of the game officials appreciated the significance. The ball fell from Welker’s hands at the Giants’ 20, with the Patriots leading, 17-15.
After the drop, the referee John Parry turned to a fellow official and said, “Whoa, that was the game.” And it was, as the Patriots soon punted and Manning completed the comeback for a 21-17 Giants victory.
It was the most pivotal play of the game in a measurement of Win Probability, according to Brian Burke of Advanced NFL Stats. A catch by Welker would have given the Patriots a 95 percent chance to win. Welker’s drop lowered the percentage to 65.
Other highlights:
¶ Before Ahmad Bradshaw’s should-I-score-or-not touchdown, Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo said in the huddle, “We’ve got to let them score.” Wilfork agreed, saying, “Let them score.”
Brady, again gloomily, figured the Giants wouldn’t take the bait, saying, “They’re not going to score.”
¶ The Giants were fortunate to recover their two fumbles. (Another fumble was wiped out on a Patriots penalty.) Giants guard Chris Snee recovered one, but Wilfork jumped into the fray and grabbed the ball after the whistle. An official told Wilfork: “Nice try, Vince. He got it.”
In another instance, Wilfork admitted to an official that a holding penalty on the Giants’ Kevin Boothe was a bad call: “As much as you guys miss, I deserve one.”
¶ Giants linebacker Michael Boley said to his teammates that Rob Gronkowski “was a decoy,” meaning that he wouldn’t be near his best because of his injured left ankle. “He’s about to be out of here,” Boley said.
Gronkowski, who set an N.F.L. record for tight ends with 17 touchdown receptions, was limited to two catches for 26 yards.
¶ Before the game, Welker told Brady, “I’m open on every play.” Brady said, “I know you are.”
But after two of his passes were batted down, Brady said, “It’s like throwing in a forest.”
¶ Before Brady’s final heave to the end zone, he told Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez, “Run to the goal post and catch it.” Gronkowski almost did.
What was Patriots Coach Bill Belichick’s strategy when the Giants tried to mount a late fourth-quarter rally in the Super Bowl?
“Make them go to Manningham” — five words that will haunt Patriots fans and delight Giants fans for years to come.
The sideline instruction to his defense, which turned painfully prophetic, was captured by an NFL Network show that wired several players, coaches and officials in Sunday’s game.
Crouched on the sideline in front of the players, Belichick emphasized that they had to focus on Giants receivers Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz.
“This is still a Cruz and Nicks game,” he said. “I mean I know we’re right on them, it’s tight. But those are still the guys. Make them go to Manningham, make them go to Pascoe, all right. But let’s make sure we get Cruz and Nicks.”
As if on cue, Eli Manning went to Mario Manningham, whose dazzling 38-yard reception along the sideline, as he barely kept his feet inbounds, sparked the winning drive. The catch occurred right in front of Belichick, who challenged the play. It was not reversed.
There was no doubt in Tom Brady’s mind about whether the play would be reversed. Looking dejected on the sideline after watching the replay, he said simply, “He caught it.”
The Super Bowl edition of “Sound FX” was televised Wednesday and will be replayed Saturday at 8 p.m. Eastern.
When Patriots receiver Wes Welker failed to hang on to a pass from Brady on second-and-11 from the Giants’ 44 with about four minutes remaining, at least one of the game officials appreciated the significance. The ball fell from Welker’s hands at the Giants’ 20, with the Patriots leading, 17-15.
After the drop, the referee John Parry turned to a fellow official and said, “Whoa, that was the game.” And it was, as the Patriots soon punted and Manning completed the comeback for a 21-17 Giants victory.
It was the most pivotal play of the game in a measurement of Win Probability, according to Brian Burke of Advanced NFL Stats. A catch by Welker would have given the Patriots a 95 percent chance to win. Welker’s drop lowered the percentage to 65.
Other highlights:
¶ Before Ahmad Bradshaw’s should-I-score-or-not touchdown, Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo said in the huddle, “We’ve got to let them score.” Wilfork agreed, saying, “Let them score.”
Brady, again gloomily, figured the Giants wouldn’t take the bait, saying, “They’re not going to score.”
¶ The Giants were fortunate to recover their two fumbles. (Another fumble was wiped out on a Patriots penalty.) Giants guard Chris Snee recovered one, but Wilfork jumped into the fray and grabbed the ball after the whistle. An official told Wilfork: “Nice try, Vince. He got it.”
In another instance, Wilfork admitted to an official that a holding penalty on the Giants’ Kevin Boothe was a bad call: “As much as you guys miss, I deserve one.”
¶ Giants linebacker Michael Boley said to his teammates that Rob Gronkowski “was a decoy,” meaning that he wouldn’t be near his best because of his injured left ankle. “He’s about to be out of here,” Boley said.
Gronkowski, who set an N.F.L. record for tight ends with 17 touchdown receptions, was limited to two catches for 26 yards.
¶ Before the game, Welker told Brady, “I’m open on every play.” Brady said, “I know you are.”
But after two of his passes were batted down, Brady said, “It’s like throwing in a forest.”
¶ Before Brady’s final heave to the end zone, he told Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez, “Run to the goal post and catch it.” Gronkowski almost did.
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