NFL Contest

Lifetime Celts, Sox, Bruins, Pats spoiled fan from Lowell Mass. If you've watched the new Mark Wahlberg / Christian Bale move 'The Fighter' or 1995's HBO documentary 'High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell', you've seen my hometown.

I grew up in NY, but now I've been in MD for the last five years. So I am a NY Giants fan. We lost to the Redskins and with our injuries it looks like it will be a long year. Everyone should take pity on me.

Giants, eh? ... ummm, that'd be "Eli" Manning, right?

NOTE => I am a 100% San Fran 49ers fan, but I must admit that I think "Peyton" Manning is probably my favorite modern-day offensive player (sure, and I guess you could also throw Tom Brady into the mix => +500 yards in Monday Night's game, ummm, what was that!?) ... anyway ...

... but I'm sorry, jdavs18, "Eli" Manning and the Giants => not so much => you should be very thankful that they somehow put it all together and won you that recent championship, because they're gonna have a tough year => Philly, Dallas and Washington are all looking tougher than Eli's team.

Hey, but maybe Eli's older brother "Cooper" Manning can suit-up and try to help-out?

I'm just sayin'



hmmm? ... apparently this trash-talkin' stuff is kinda fun ... "bring it"

The only reason I wrote all that was trying to stay up for the next 20 minutes so I can watch The Football Life part 1 about Belichek and the Pats.

I was only at 1 Professional football game in my life and I was a little kid. I might have even got in for free at that age. I know it was the Eagles and the Falcons. It was at Franklin Field and ironically on this very date on September 18 th 1966.
As I recall, it was a long drive and a nice day.
I was impressed with shoulder pads but just thought that they were the actual shoulders of the players and were maybe muscles or something since I was probably hearing about how big these guys were from my Dad and his fellow office worker who took me along. I was about 9 years old,
For a while I remember hunching my shoulders up to look like the players and when my Dad asked me what in the world I was doing I told him I was a football player.
There were much bigger adults sitting in my way so a lot of the time I had to look at the architecture and the people around me as I saw little of the game. I may have even took a nap. I do remember stanchions being in the way so we must have been close to a post holding up the upper deck and I remember pigeons flying overhead and roosting above the crowd.
The Eagles won. I think my Dad and the other adult were DUI all the way home but they were fans of Phila and therefore very happy about the trip. I think I slept a lot of the way home. I do remember it somewhat though and that was my only NFL game I went to.

Norm Snead was QB and I eventually owned a football with a facsimile of his signature on it and a football helmet that looked a lot like the one he's wearing here. My brother had a NY Giants helmet. We got them for Christmas probably later that year. We also had pajamas to match ( sorta ) the uniforms, him blue with numbers and me green.
Probably one of the few times I was OK with getting any kind of clothes for Christmas.

It is not looking good for me...

not in the contest but a 21 year old bills fan....best game have witnessed by a bills team....on the right track finally

Oh well...life goes on! Good luck to those who are left standing!