Posts Tagged ‘gillette stadium’
One person is listening. Perhaps more, but at least one. I’m so pleased.
I was asked by many people on Monday morning about the AFC championship game that I attended on Sunday night. One of the most frequently asked questions was: “What time did you get home?” I arrived home on Sunday night around 1:00 AM, but I explained that it was fairly early given the fact that I…
Read MoreTwenty-five years spent standing in a parking lot
I’ll be tailgating in the parking lot at the Patriots game on Sunday. I have seen many things in the decades I have spent tailgating at Gillette Stadium. Public intoxication. Nudity. Fist fights. Fender benders. Lobster shell distance throws. A Christmas tree labeled “Treebow” that was set afire and nearly burned several dummies to death in…
Read MoreThe Patriots lost yesterday. I’m a happy Patriots fan today. You should be, too.
As a Patriots fan who spent yesterday evening in Gillette Stadium, watching his beloved team blunder their way to a second straight loss, you might think that I would be upset today. Depressed. Annoyed. Outraged. Discouraged. Disheartened. Even angry. Enraged. You might think that the flood of messages that I received from joyous Giants, Jets, and…
Read MoreThe best moment that I have ever spent at a football game. Maybe one of the best moments of my life. And it happened during a timeout.
My love of the New England Patriots doesn’t make a lot of sense. A collection of men who I have never met take the field to play a game that I have never played professionally, and even though I have no tangible connection to a single person associated with the Patriots organization, my heart hangs…
Read MoreYour future self wants you to be daring and adventurous. Don’t let the current version of yourself screw things up because it’s cold.
I went to the Patriots-Ravens playoff game on Saturday. Though I love attending Patriots games at Gillette Stadium, it’s not always easy. I left my house at 10:45 AM and returned home around 10:45 PM. It’s a long day. Prior to leaving the house, while I was dressed in my long underwear, my cat vomited…
Read MoreMy highly improbable weekend
On Saturday, I played golf. In December. In New England. The course was closed, and there were sticks and pine boughs in place of the pins, but that didn’t matter. I played. I didn’t even care that I lost. On Sunday I attended the Patriots game at Gillette Stadium. The Patriots lost to the Buffalo…
Read MoreI began the day as a depressed and angry idiot. I ended the day with laughter and rainbows and sunshine. Literally. The lesson: Don’t give up hope.
Bad start to the day. Arrived at my friend’s house, 40 minutes from my home, having forgotten without my ticket to the Patriots’ game. It requires an incredible amount of stupidity to do such a thing, and I felt like an idiot. This meant that I would need to drive back home, pick up my…
Read MoreMy wife and children are ruining football for me.
I attended the Patriots game on Sunday. The weather was spectacular, the pregame tailgate menu was superb, and most important, the Patriots won. It was the first game in more than a month for me. I missed both home games in October thanks to my book tour and a wedding. I was happy to return…
Read MoreWe won that game three separate times, and then we lost.
Excluding Super Bowl losses and a playoff loss to the New York Jets a couple years ago, yesterday’s Patriots loss to the Arizona Cardinals might have been the most difficult loss to bear in my entire life, for the following reasons: 1. It broke a home opener winning streak which began ten years ago with…
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