Week sixteen The game: Patriots at Jets The beer: Berkshire Cabin Fever Ale The result: Loss, 26–20 The commentary: Shades of Nausea! The Jets game was disjointed in that G. and I suffered through the ugly first half at home, then ran off to the local toy store and café before I was to meet […]
The game: Titans at Patriots The beer: Josephsbrau Winter Brew Dark Double Bock Lager The result: Win, 33–16 The commentary: No clickbait this week! I’m still waiting to see the Akiem Hicks touchdown anyway, since the L-team behind Eye-Anne Eagle and Dan “You Might Learn the Rules, Dan, Since You Used to Play the Position” […]
The game: Patriots at Texans The beer: Clown Shoes Coffee Pecan Pie Porter The result: Win, 27–6; Jeremy, 10–0–0 The commentary: Leave it to fantasy origin stories involving turkeys to reclaim first place in the AFC. These past few weeks have become awfully meta around here: repeated self-referential links to a year-old post about the […]
The game: Eagles at Patriots The beer: Founders Breakfast Stout The result: Loss, 35–28 The commentary: This is where the heaviness sets in. Perhaps my “Before Floyd”/“After Floyd” theory was too broad. Is it, in fact, a Founders Curse? First the All-Day IPA and now the Breakfast Stout: can it be so simple? Or should […]
The game: Patriots at Broncos The beer: Founders All-Day India Pale Ale The result: Loss, 30–24 The commentary: In comparing and contrasting Vince Wilfork and Logan Mankins, beyond the obvious black/white and offensive line/defensive line, one result is obvious: Wilfork’s career with the Pats was bookended by Super Bowl victories (2004 to 2014) while Mankins’s […]
The game: Bills at Patriots The beer: Ballast Point Black Marlin Porter The result: Win, 20–13 The commentary: “I’m not emotionally prepared to write about the state of my football team.” Lo, had I joined the loathsome rabble? Remain I there? Surely not, so long as ours is somehow a top-twenty defense. I’ve recently… acquired… […]
The game: Patriots at Giants The beer: Coronado Blue Bridge Coffee Stout The result: Win, 27–26 The commentary: It’s getting eerie around here. Undefeated (though not nearly so) as in 2007, visiting “New York” to play the Giants in one for the ages. And remaining undefeated through it all! Is this a sign of what’s […]
The game: Redskins at Patriots The beer: Smuttynose Rhye India Pale Ale The result: Win, 27–10 The commentary: I thought for awhile that announcers Kevin Burkhardt and John Lynch (sure, John, it was your decision to leave the Pats in 2008) were deliberately avoiding the name “Redskins.” With so many awkward uses of just “Washington,” […]
The game: Dolphins at Patriots The beer: Ipswich Ruby Red India Pale Ale The result: Win, 36–7; Kelly Ashley, 4–0–0–0 The commentary: Halloween is a big deal in our new hometown. Our previous home was closer to Boston but also closer to madness and the exponential suburban shift has resulted, somehow, in a community more […]
Week four (bye) The beer: Oskar Blues Pinner Throwback India Pale Ale The result: Raiders/Jarrod lose, 22–20 The commentary: Jay Cutler, of all people, has made me a better father. The Pats were off and my gambling hopes rested on, rested all over, the Silver and Black Attack. Or, precisely, rested against the Bears of […]
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