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Are you ready for some football?
Damn straight I am!!!!!
While it’s always sad to see summer go, knowing the Fall brings hockey and football makes the change less depressing and much more exciting.
Living in this part of Ontario, and being so close to Buffalo, it’s not easy being a New England Patriots fan since more people see me more as an ‘enemy’ than an ‘ally’….of course when WE go to the Super Bowl we actually win it!!!!
That’s not going to help me win over any Bill fans is it?
Any football fan will gladly tell you tales of their favourite moments, stories of screaming your face off after an amazing catch, or high fiving a stranger in a bar after a game winning field goal, but one of my favourite moments didn’t involve a high five, or any hootin’ and hollerin’.
My youngest daughter was just a few weeks old when the New England Patriots took on the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 38.
With my wife in no condition to have a house full of hooligans screaming at the TV, and knowing going out to watch the game would give me permanent residency in the doghouse, I stayed home and cheered on Tom Brady and the boys solo.
My oldest daughter just turned 2 and by the time the game hit the 4th quarter, both she and Mommy were fast asleep but as most newborns do, the newest member of the family doesn’t live by the clock so the feeding, burping, and rocking all took place with the game tied at 29-29! Stressed? Oh yeah!
So when Adam Vinatieri kicked that three pointer to claim the Lombardi Trophy for the Pats, every instinct in me wanted to fly through the roof and scream my head off with my fist pumping in the air!
But of course I couldn’t, I was 6 inches away from the TV screen, whispering as loud as I could ‘Yes! YES! YES!!!!!’ all while cradleing an infant! Sure I could’ve gotten carried away and acidentially spiked her like a football but I didn’t! Instead, with tears in my eyes I sat back down watching the Pats celebrate, while my new daughter slept through one of the greatest sports moments of my life.
It was our first ‘real’ Daddy-daughter moment!
Plus, it kept the streak alive, every time I fathered a child, the Patriots won a Super Bowl.
Should’ve had more kids!
By the way, my heart says it will be the Patriots and Vikings in Super Bowl, and no my wife is not pregnant, at least I don’t think she is!!!
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Clint Eastwood has opened up about the huge Hollywood roles he’s turned down – he was asked to star as James Bond and Superman.
The Dirty Harry actor was approached to play 007 after Sir Sean Connery left the franchise in 1967 – but he refused to play the superspy because it “didn’t feel right” to steal the Scot’s role.
Eastwood recalls, “I was offered pretty good money to do James Bond if I would take on the role. But to me, well, that was somebody else’s gig. That’s Sean’s deal. It didn’t feel right for me to be doing it.”
The actor also didn’t want to be the Man of Steel in the 1978 blockbuster Superman – and so the superhero role went to Christopher Reeve instead.
He adds: “This was when they first started to think about making it. I was like, ‘Superman? Nah, nah, that’s not for me.’ Not that there’s anything wrong with it. It’s a great part for somebody but not for me. Thank God I didn’t have to do that. I’ve always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.”
Clint as 007? Sorry, can’t see it!
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At the Kitchener Rangers Charity BBQ, I told my daughter to hurry up because the dinosaurs were coming, she didn’t listen!
