Week five The game: Bengals at Patriots The beer: Left Hand Oktoberfest Märzen Lager The result: Win, 43–17; Packers win, 42–10 The commentary: Football season aligns a little too well with birthday season. The only defense is hoping a majority of preschooler parents are devoted fans. As in, I would never schedule a non-emergency event […]
The beer: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale The commentary: G. and I relived last year’s agenda and visited Foxborough the first Saturday of training camp, bringing along my father this time. It was more of the same: minimal football viewing, excessive scampering, one diaper change and a lot of fun. She even wore the same dress—sign […]
The beer: Cambridge Spring Training India Pale Ale The commentary: Another haircut, another draft. Another media blackout. And another-another haircut, as G. got her first ever this morning. She was so excited about it and wore a super serious face (pictured) for the first five minutes. It amounted to a trim, a cleanup, because her […]
The game: Patriots at Broncos The beer: Southern Tier Plum Noir Imperial Porter The result: Fuuuuuuck The commentary: What is loss? What is the passage of time? What is the intersection of these? I don’t know, but surely it is black. Fucking black. Nah. I’m over it and have been since before the last of […]
The game: Colts at Patriots The beer: Berkshire Scotch Ale The result: Win, 43–22; Seth-Aaron, 5–0 The commentary: Quickly, here’s what I loved this week. Turnovers. The defense is trending in the right direction, even if they’re still lousy. But turnovers are the great equalizer and more Brady drives can only help against Manning and […]
Week thirteen The game: Patriots at Texans The beer: Newburyport Pale Ale The result: Win, 34–31 The commentary: Readers (!) wondering why I comment so infrequently on game details have by now learned the truth: even in the rare week where I post before the next one is played, usually it’s like Saturday night or […]
Week nine The game: Steelers at Patriots The beer: Berkley Harvest Ale The result: Win, 55–31 The commentary: Wow. Look at her! Wow… wow. Just when I think the world is too far gone a moment like this is captured. Everything, somehow, will be OK. Fifty-five points! Despite two no-calls on back-to-back first-quarter touchdowns by […]
Week six The game: Saints at Patriots The beer: Cambridge Sgt. Pepper Saison The result: Win, 30–27 The commentary: G. was on fire today. First we went to A&J King where she hammed it up in mom’s sunglasses. Outstanding. Later, when she wouldn’t nap, I took her out to run a few errands. She rode […]
Week two The game: Jets at Patriots The beer: Maine Peeper Ale The result: Win, 13–10 The commentary: What’s the sound of grown men crying for a solid week? All I remember from this game is four hours of Mike Mayock talking about Geno Smith’s lousy “internal clock” and how the Patriot rookie receivers “can’t […]
The beer: Green Flash West Coast India Pale Ale The commentary: My plan was to go Friday morning. On the road by eight, Foxborough by half past nine. But the rain! What happens to the first day of training camp when it rains? I knew of the Dana-Farber Field House, as in “Practice has been […]
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