The beer: Silvaticus Rex Czech Pale Lager The headline: “Don’t keep on tellin’ me everything’s OK, ’cause if it was then you wouldn’t be cryin’.” – Latimore, “Let’s Straighten It Out” The commentary: Latimore laid it all out during G’s and my hour-plus drive to Foxborough this week, with sentiment that could apply to two […]
Paging Stanley Morgan: “Name the professional athletes you respect the most and why” The beer: Peroni Lager The headline: “I wanna be your favorite dog, baby.” – Andre Williams, “I Wanna Be Your Favorite Pair of Pajamas” The commentary: Today it’s “Day One” asking about respectable athletes, at training camp in early August it was […]
The beer: SingleCut Frequency Lager The headline: “Don’t you know that I’ll always be true?” – Iron Butterfly, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” The commentary: Three generations of Halfenhalfs returned to Patriots training camp after a year’s hiatus and it’s just as well we missed Matt Patricia’s failure to sit up straight and build a functional NFL offense. Good […]
The beer: Stella Artois Pilsner The headline: “She saw the MAC-10 and the bitch got the shits.” – Ice Cube, “Gangsta’s Fairytale 2” The commentary: Is Ice Cube out here puffing his chest on a victory tour? He predicted Mac Jones would beat out Cam Newton almost thirty goddamn years ago. Newton was three years […]
The beer: Montauk Session India Pale Ale The commentary: “Bitter? Nah.” A little, actually. We almost missed training camp and that would have been a shame. The Patriots only release the open-to-the-public portion of the schedule a few dates at a time with little notice (shocker) and the lack of joint sessions with another team […]
The beer: Ipswich Blueberry Shandy The commentary: I dreamed I was Julian Edelman. On the goal line leading 4–2 (!) over the Buccaneers in the Super Bowl or the opening game—there was tension beyond what the scheduled week-four matchup deserves—“Julian” went in motion behind Brady and told him “I want a touchdown!” I/he scooted past […]
The beer: Founders All-Day India Pale Ale The commentary: Good lord, is it time already? To post every week? These are the problems I create for myself. Instead of keeping the old bloggo muscles in shape—writing about, I don’t know, Captain Fucking Beefheart—I’m thrown into the white-hot cauldron of wordsmithing with no sign of a […]
The beer: Samuel Adams Rebel India Pale Ale The commentary: Welcome back! Is your favorite team the reigning Super Bowl Champion? Is your favorite team-oriented podcast making “Highway to L” jokes? Has your daughter not yet outgrown her team apparel from two years ago? I’ll keep this short with kickoff a week away. Training camp […]
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: 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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