Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Pigskin Bereft (Almost)

Does the sign at the entry to 1 Patriot Place really read "Abandon hope all ye who enter here?" Yeah. I suppose the comedy hasn't been all that divine for the New England Patriots, lately, has it?


Wait! That "ye" isn't a reference to Kanye, is it?

Monday, December 19, 2022

Pigskin Nut Punch

I hadn't been kicked in the nuts - physically or figuratively - since middle school. That was, until yesterday, around 7:25 pm. Now the sign hanging in the factory of my mind reads "1 Days Since Last Being Kicked in the Nuts."

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Pigskin Pensive

The pigskin dream, with its tangerine trees and marmalade skies, with its missed blitz pickups, those orcs that run a 4.4 forty, and that oblate spheroid that's so hard to hold and utterly unpredictable in its movements when encountering a fixed plane, that dream is still alive. That's right. If the playoffs started tomorrow…

Monday, December 12, 2022

Pigskin Destiny

Destiny. Sometimes it's fortunate. Sometimes it's tragic. And sometimes Destiny's a stripper.

Monday, December 5, 2022

Friday, December 2, 2022

Pigskin Agony

Games like last night are the kind that will send fans straight through the five stages of grief directly to acceptance.


The New England Patriots of 2022 are not a playoff team.