Gautam Mukunda wrote:
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> So, did anyone see it? Thoughts? I figured the list would be abuzz.
Taped it on the upstairs VCR. Will probably watch it tomorrow.
You folks who were watching it, you missed an interesting football
game. I have never seen so much snow coming down during an NFL game.
They were using leaf-blowers to clear the lines at the 5-yard
increments. Plus there was a controversial call late in the 4th
quarter, which allowed the team that was behind to retain possession
long enough to tie the game and send it into overtime, and then they
won.
Julia
just waiting now for someone to post a link to the User Friendly cartoon
that made fun of football fans who make fun of SF fans ;)
Me:
I caught the ending - it was astonishing. Now _that's_ drama. It's an odd
thing about people who come to Boston to study at Harvard - most of us adopt
the Red Sox, but I've never met a non-native Boston person at Harvard who
cared a fig about the Patriots. This includes me - I'm a fanatic Redskins
fan (here let me insert Spurrier! Spurrier! Spurrier! Spurrier! for the
sheer joy of it :-) but really don't feel anything one way or the other for
the Pats. I'd be interested if anyone has a guess as to an explanation for
it. My own is that it's class-based. You can be snooty and elitist and
still love the Red Sox, but somehow that doesn't work for the Pats. I'm
probably wrong, but it's a weird phenomena that sort of caught my attention
senior year and that I still have no explanation for.
Gautam
