Monday Thoughts
1. So the worst news possible came out of the CIA, err, Patriots HQ today, with the announcement that Brady would be on IR and miss the season. Interestingly enough he was not on the cover of a Madden game. This sort of injury is supposed to be something a player can come back from, but man, once you are damaged goods, it’s difficult to come back.
1a. Speaking of injuries, my wife and I noticed that my daughter was running awkwardly during soccer. She’s a full time figure skater (Vancouver here we come), but we thought we would have a doctor check out her knee. The doc referred her to physical therapy and they did find something wrong — it’s no ACL but it’s significant — she can still skate but boy I sure do see the desire to keep going when you work so hard for something — it’s difficult to rest.
2. At the end of last season, I had said that hey, if the Pats won the Super Bowl, it really wouldn’t be worth watching football because there’s nothing they could possibly do. If they lost, I wouldn’t watch because hey here we go again. I guess you can look at this as half empty half full — the ESPN guys have already written off the Patriots and while I agree the QB is a very important cog in the engine or whatever, you still have many other parts. I don’t know what to think, but seriously I think Bill B has the ammo needed to move the team forward. Of course they may also suck donkeys on Sunday and then I’ll say I’m glad my son has travel soccer.
3. I like getting 35 Gamerscore for signing into the Live Score tracker on a Monday.
4. You probably won’t hear much from me the next two days because of NHL. Oh just kidding, I have to be knee deep in work so I’ll only post at night…unless I have a moment from my cell phone. We’ll see.