The Patriots will go undefeated. I was hopeful of this before last night's game. Since they withstood some of the most one-sided officiating known to the NFL and came back from the edge of defeat to gut out a win, I think they really can go all the way.
Wes Welker is now my favourite Patriot. How the Dolphins traded this guy who led their team in most offensive statistics last season to their division nemesis is beyond me. Welker showed the multi-dimensional rushing, returning and receiving skills at key times in yesterday's game, as he has a number of times already this season. It should be noted that Troy Brown (even though he isn't playing right now), Tom Brady and Randy Moss round out the top 4 of my favourite Patriots. That's just on the offence! Then there's Junior Seau, Tedy Bruschi, Mike Vrabel... OK, OK, they have a lot of good players, we get it.
The Patriots built their team with the best combination of acquisitions ever, with Moss, Welker and Donte Stallworth and Adalius Thomas rounding out the talent that the Pats needed and didn't have for the past few years.
I still hope that Brady gets the TD passing record and league MVP, he is well on the way with 33 so far and 7 games to go. That is on pace to complete 59 TDs which would obliterate Peyton Manning's 2004 record of 49 passing TDs. Randy Moss has 12 TD receptions this season. This is slightly below the pace he needs to break Jerry Rice's 22 TD reception record, but I figure the Pat's second half of the season will provide more than 10 TDs for Randy. This will go well with Randy's rookie TD reception record from 1998 of 17 scores. Those milestones will really complement the Super Bowl rings that I expect these gents will have, come next February. Not to mention the 19-0 season and playoff record that they will produce.
How will I get through the next 2 weeks with no Patriot games?!?
Monday, November 5, 2007
Better late than never
It seems like I have a problem in following up on the concerts that I have been going to see this year.
Without a doubt, the Van Halen concert was my favourite concert ever. The seats that were 10 rows from the stage and about 20 feet from the runway that extended into the floor seat area helped a great deal, but just seeing one of my favourite bands of all-time, playing with their first -- and best -- singer, David Lee Roth was exhilarating.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Jonathan knew most of the songs and we sang along to a few of them together. The atmosphere of the show was thrilling and I was able to get about 170 photos and 20+ minutes of video (the entrance, first song, drum solo and 2 guitar solos) on my camera.
There was a brief crazy moment, when I got into a bit of a scuffle with some drunk guy who insisted on falling on top of me while mistakenly trying to get in my seat. I dealt with hom and then turned back to enjoy the show, then waited for the punch or knife to my back. It never came, but you don't know about these things when they are happening. I later saw him in the row behind me, a few seats over. I guess he did have a ticket for a seat, but his drunkenness got in the way of being able to count to eleven (his seat was in row 11).
We had a good time visiting Cheryl's aunts and uncles, who were all nice and friendly (this was my first time meeting 3 of the 5 of Cheryl's mom's siblings). The weekend went by so quick, although I am glad we stayed until Monday to give us that extra day to visit with family.
I posted a couple photos on my Facebook page. I don't want to put a lot of them on the internet because they are for my enjoyment, not for some stranger to re-produce them for a profit. Let me just say, there are some pretty good shots among them. My favourite is the photo of Eddie leaning on his son Wolfgang as they play together. You can tell that Eddie loves his son very much and he told us himself that night that he loves having Wolfgang in the band.
If you can do the thing you love for money AND have your family work with you, can you ask for anything more?
Without a doubt, the Van Halen concert was my favourite concert ever. The seats that were 10 rows from the stage and about 20 feet from the runway that extended into the floor seat area helped a great deal, but just seeing one of my favourite bands of all-time, playing with their first -- and best -- singer, David Lee Roth was exhilarating.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Jonathan knew most of the songs and we sang along to a few of them together. The atmosphere of the show was thrilling and I was able to get about 170 photos and 20+ minutes of video (the entrance, first song, drum solo and 2 guitar solos) on my camera.
There was a brief crazy moment, when I got into a bit of a scuffle with some drunk guy who insisted on falling on top of me while mistakenly trying to get in my seat. I dealt with hom and then turned back to enjoy the show, then waited for the punch or knife to my back. It never came, but you don't know about these things when they are happening. I later saw him in the row behind me, a few seats over. I guess he did have a ticket for a seat, but his drunkenness got in the way of being able to count to eleven (his seat was in row 11).
We had a good time visiting Cheryl's aunts and uncles, who were all nice and friendly (this was my first time meeting 3 of the 5 of Cheryl's mom's siblings). The weekend went by so quick, although I am glad we stayed until Monday to give us that extra day to visit with family.
I posted a couple photos on my Facebook page. I don't want to put a lot of them on the internet because they are for my enjoyment, not for some stranger to re-produce them for a profit. Let me just say, there are some pretty good shots among them. My favourite is the photo of Eddie leaning on his son Wolfgang as they play together. You can tell that Eddie loves his son very much and he told us himself that night that he loves having Wolfgang in the band.
If you can do the thing you love for money AND have your family work with you, can you ask for anything more?
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