As a NY Jets fan we have had our ups and downs — mostly downs! We are used to the Giants being the “Pride of NY Football”.
This year we (the Jets) had a run and made it to the AFC Championship game. Believe it or not, we were one game away from playing in The Super Bowl. It was fun while it lasted. We had no illusions of grandeur. We knew the Colts were the better team.
Once the Jets were out of it, I really did not care who won The Super Bowl. I just hoped for a good game that was worth watching. Colts win? So? Saints win? So?
The concept of rooting for teams in “Sports” is interesting. Why do we root for one team or another, when it’s not “our” team?
I have nothing at stake in this game. No bets. No boxes. No ties to either team.
…. I think back to the week before the AFC Championship. A Giants-fan, season ticket holder, buddy of mine says “it doesn’t matter who wins the AFC Championship, there are no good teams in the AFC anyway. The team coming out of the NFC will destroy the AFC team in The Super Bowl….”
Wow. What a case of sour grapes! Poor baby. The Giants didn’t make the playoffs so put down the AFC and the Jets. Poor baby.
* News Flash * NY Giants Fans — The NY Jets are the best football team in New York. And they’re an AFC team!
Now I know who to root for! I am passionately rooting for the AFC and the Indianapolis Colts!
I’m glad I am not taking the SAT’s in the near future because I would have a problem with the definitions of certain words.
<from nypost.com>
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama repeatedly told voters that the health care overhaul would take place in a public forum, most notably on C-SPAN …
In a video montage posted on Breitbart.tv, Obama is seen promising voters — on eight different occasions — that the health care debate would be transparent.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama repeatedly told voters that the health care overhaul would take place in a public forum, most notably on C-SPAN, …..
In a video montage posted on Breitbart.tv, Obama is seen promising voters — on eight different occasions — that the health care debate would be transparent…
According to thefreedictionary.com… Transparent –
adj. — frank, open, direct, straight, straightforward, candid, forthright, unequivocal, unambiguous, plain-spoken striving to establish a transparent parliamentary democracy frank
Ant — mysterious, vague, unclear, ambiguous, deceptive, disingenuous
Unless there is a new definition of transparent / transparency, there is no transparency taking place during the health care reform process.
Now The House and The Senate are getting together behind closed doors trying to push through health care reform. C-Span has requested to broadcast the meetings. It appears the administration is denying C-Span the opportunity to broadcast the meetings.
Why the lack of transparency? They already seem to have the votes, so what is the problem?
Hopefully whatever is passed will help the country. Seriously, what is the problem letting us see these meetings? It was promised to us during the campaign on many occasions.
You are making it into a bigger issue (than it is) by denying C-Span the opportunity to broadcast the proceedings.
The text of the email and the video are below. YOU MUST READ THE POST BEFORE WATCHING THE VIDEO! Amazing. The talent is unbelievable.
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Dont dare to miss this amazing Video Clip . . but first read the following..
This video shows the winner of “Ukraine’s Got Talent”, Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.
The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about $130,000.00
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.
She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.
This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.
In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.
Kseniya Simonova says: “I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment.”
Please take time out to see this amazing piece of art.
Being a long-time Jets fan is painful. They break out hearts almost every year. Now they’re about to back their way into the playoffs. Indianapolis gave them a gift.
Now we’re only a few hours away from… who the heck knows! Will the Bengals play their regulars? Will Sanchez throw 4 interceptions?
Let us Jet fans simply enjoy the next few hours before the game starts. We’ll take a win any way we can get it.
Both won the top collegiate individual awards (player of the year and Heisman Trophy)
Both are hard-working, good citizens.
Both will have difficult times in their professional sports (NFL, NBA). Hansbrough may actually have a better chance of making a “good length” career in the NBA than Tebow in the NFL.
Congratulations to Tim Tebow on a great collegiate career. Please be open-minded in the NFL. You may need to be a part-time hybrid quarterback and receiver. Get in the league and show your value. All the cards will then fall into place. We wish you the best.
better team.
