Field Yates of ESPN did the math in January. Yes, the weakness of the AFC East is significant, but it’s not like the rest of the league does much better against the Patriots. Even when you break it down by tougher subsections. 

Oh no. No Brahmin accent here. Mines a muted Boston, due to having a Californian father and Boston mother. Also my mother’s accent isn’t that strong since her neighborhood growing up was still pretty fresh off the boat immigrants mix (Irish/German) mainly. 

Top flight Fiddler on the Roof reference. WYTS brings out the best in all of us. 

Ha!

But the bears are already armed with bear arms. So does that mean our bare arms need armed bears in order for us to bear the burden of armed bears baring their arms?

I was in Cape Town, South Africa and heading to Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope, we came upon some wild ostriches. We pulled over to watch at a safe distance and upwind. Another car came past, and got a few from the ostriches and jumped out for selfies. The bird took off running, and narrowly missed one of the…

Underrated comment. 

My college roommate and his dad waited for 12 years to get Jets seasons tickets. I went to a Tampa Bay-Jets game with him once at the old Meadowlands. The only thing I remember is everyone throwing paper airplanes and the crowd cheering when one landed in the end zone. So Jets fans have that going for them. Which is…

Rationally your outlook is the best way to look at it, and one I think most fans eventually adopt. It’s an emotional journey however, which takes time.

That is very fair, and believe me, I don’t expect sympathy from any other fan base. It’s just interesting to me how people perceive success, beyond the binary win/loss The Stanley Cup. Probably because of the loss to St. Louis, I’m still in that binary head space.

Mike Singletary may be gone, but his extra large piece of the True Cross is coaching the linebackers.

Serious comment, as a Bruins Season Ticket Holder. As I processed this past Stanley Cup Finals, one thing that bothered me was the transitive nature of “Boston” success (Patriots and Red Sox) to the Bruins. Obviously in the matchup vs St. Louis, the Bruins were not “underdogs” however, as a franchise, the Bruins…

Maybe he thought that he could only get a University of Phoenix degree by being in residence?

“Everyone complained the Supah Bowl was bahring, instead of just aknowlahging how fawking awesome Tahhmy is, how much of a supah genius Belecheck is. NO ONE FAWKIN RESPECTS US! GOAT. MAHKY MAHK. GO BACK TO COW HAMPSHA. WICKED PISSAH. STAHBUKS SUX. GO TO DUNKS AND MAYBE TIMMY HAHTONS. YANKEES SUCK.”* 

I think he’s one of those “it’s not the years, but the mileage” guys. Even though he’s only 31, he was 19 in his first season in Boston.  

Luke from Ireland is on brand. 

Paul is the worst. 

Salvi Perez and the World Series of Life (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Alex Gordon wouldn’t have scored from third (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Jack Stack, Q39, Bryants which BBQ is best? (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Herrerra and Davis, they haunt the Mets (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Shelter during twisters, don’t take the risk (yeah,…

I’m not a strict vegetarian, but I have similar experiences from my time visiting family in the Deep South. This is best summed up by the “salad” that Chris Traeger orders in Parks and Rec. “Oh look a cherry tomato...nope, it’s a jawbreaker.”