Rooting for Nate

I finally got around to looking for the YouTube video of Nate Ebner that Patriots Nation has been chattering about and before I got to his rugby highlights I found this. I know Nate Ebner is not the first athlete who has suffered personal tragedy (not even the only one on the Patriots) or had to overcome difficulties in their life. Maybe it was that I was expecting to see rugby but instead I was faced with really real life; a good man struck down senselessly and a son left to deal with the rest of his life without his father. Even before I started watching the video below, I knew I’d be rooting for Nate Ebner.  After watching it, I realized just how easy that was going to be…

Oh, and for all those Pigskin Pundits and Bobbleheads who questioned using a 6^th round pick on a rugby player? Yeah, Bill Belichick is smarter than you.

The Truth Hurts

Ignorant?  Disrespectful?  He did call the Jets defense the best in the league.  You know what's been lost in the juvenile trash talk and sanctimonious smack?  Bill Belichick, father of the year, sharing a tender moment with his son.

Say Ow

His name was an affirmation of the game he played. Say Ow. He played linebacker in the NFL for 20 years.  Not quarterback.  Linebacker.  He played 268 games and made 1,526 tackles.  Maybe that was too many. Just three years after he played his last game, Junior Seau is dead.

Haters Gonna Hate

I think it’s pretty classy of Jim Harbaugh to make an actual apology apology. I hate the non-apology apology. You know what I mean. If I offended anyone. If you offended anyone? Why else do you think you’re apologizing, exactly?  As far as it goes, Harbaugh was right about one thing. Haters gonna hate. If you’re still tagging your tweets with #Cheatriots or #Belicheat you don’t need John Harbaugh to tell you to continue wallowing in your pathetic, red-eyed recriminations, sobbing and bleating “Why, God, why?”

Those guys are such a bring down.

These guys are a cool breeze.

In Bill We Trust

When your team goes completely off the board and drafts a kid that SI.com doesn’t even have a picture of, you tell yourself that genius is the exception, not the rule.  Maybe they see something in this young man that other teams didn’t.

Reaching

We knew the first two picks long before Roger Goodell had been showered with boos by restive Jets fans as he walked to the podium.  I guess we knew the first four picks – though not in order – as Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, Trent Richardson and Matt Kalil were taken by Indianapolis, Washington, Cleveland and Minnesota, who looked into the box and found hope. 

WWBD

What would Bill do?  Or more appropriately, what will Bill do?  Nobody seems to know. I don’t think even Belichick knows what Belichick will do.  He has so few peers he sometimes has to play mind games with himself. He doesn’t always drink beer, but when he does, he prefers Dos Equis.