All Entries in the "NFL" Category
Brett Favre Feeling Minnesota?
And so The Favre Dance begins again. Back on August 1, 2008 I wrote a piece about Brett Favre and the Packers. Namely, that I believed the Packers and Favre were better off together. The flurry of talk at the time was the idea Favre and Green Bay might work out a deal for him to join the Minnesota Vikings. [...]
The Packers and Favre Defy Logic
By Christopher Gabriel, CGabriel.com Let me see if I have this straight: Last season, Green Bay Packers quarterback – former quarterback – Brett Favre leads the Pack to within one game of the Super Bowl and has a terrific season along the way. Several months later, he retires. After he retires, the Packers ask him several times [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
