All Entries in the "Football" Category
Vikings vs. Saints: Whose Destiny Wins?
The relationship most fans have with their NFL team is one built on love, trust and understanding. They understand there will be peaks and valleys. They acknowledge there will be times another team will tempt them. And they accept the fact that love alone does not solve all problems. It’s with these delicate points in mind, [...]
They Said It, I Read It and a Car Horn
By Christopher Gabriel Blog Harbor and CGabriel.com The past few weeks have been loaded with what amounts to a verbal and prose buffet’s-worth of items screaming for attention in Blog Harbor. With that in mind, grab your coffee, get comfy and let’s chat. Hi Sweetie-Pie I grew up in a family that frequently used names [...]
Land of the Giants
By Christopher Gabriel, Blog Harbor Last night in the Arizona desert, Team History met Team Destiny. When all was said and done, and as it often turns out, Destiny was just a little bit better than History. In what was thought to be an unthinkable, improbable outcome, the New York Giants ended the New England Patriots’ dream [...]
’72 Dolphins Praying for a Giant Win
By Christopher Gabriel, Blog Harbor As we inch closer to kick-off for Super Bowl XLII, the game itself will be preceded on various networks by the annual ritual of Pregame Shows from Hell. These programs really make you consider running out to the nearest Interstate and playing kickball at rush hour. They’ll serve up stories and interviews ranging from [...]
Boston vs. New York: The Center of the Universe
By Christopher Gabriel, Blog Harbor 75. Does the number mean anything to you? Surely it does to some people. For example, it’s important to LEGO. This past August 10th, they celebrated their 75th anniversary. Esquire magazine will be celebrating their 75th anniversary this year. And the 2007-08 sports calendar has the Southeastern Conference celebrating, yep you guessed [...]
BCS “Championship” Game Proves Little
By Christopher Gabriel, Blog Harbor If it’s the first week of January, it must be time for the Ohio State Buckeyes to get slapped, spanked and sent home by yet another SEC football team in the BCS championship game. Last year, it was Florida. You’ll recall Ohio State ran back the opening kick-off for a touchdown . . [...]
A Look Back, A Look Ahead . . . Some Things Don’t Change
By Christopher Gabriel, Blog Harbor Every December when New Year’s Eve rolls around, it’s long since been the norm for newspapers, magazines, radio stations and cable news outlets to offer up a year-end recap of all that’s gone on in the world. More often than not you’ll read, watch or listen to a well-written or highly-produced piece that is [...]
The Simple Language of Parenting and Football Coaches
I was watching ESPN last week and they were doing a piece on some of the top assistant coaches in college football that should be in line for head coaching jobs in the next year or two. As the film rolled, one coach after another was shown on the sideline going through a series of hand gestures and body [...]
Looking for Bobby (Petrino)
The Scene: Tuesday, December 4, 2007, The Bison Club of Spoon River Junction, Georgia. Tonight is the annual, much-heralded and highly anticipated, Gathering of the Bison Holiday Bash. One night a year, the proud lineage of Georgia Bison (the nation’s largest chapter), all 4500 of them, wearing their holiday “uniform” of black pants, black shirt and [...]
Memo to 1972 Miami Dolphins: Go Away
Let’s get one thing out in the open right off the bat: I have no bone to pick with the Miami Dolphins football organization. None whatsoever. Although I’ve never been a Dolphins fan, I most certainly am not a Dolphins hater. Although I’m a passionate pro and college football fan, I care no more or less [...]
Championship Saturday in College Football
The first Saturday in December, traditionally, is when college football and clarity meet head-on. Conference championships are won, the bowl picture is cleared up and, more often than not, all hell breaks loose. Today shapes up as yet another one of those days. Your biggest games: Missouri vs. Oklahoma, Big 12 Championship Tennessee vs. LSU, SEC Championship [...]
