My own "NFL moment", thus far, was in the last game before the playoffs, the New York Giants vs. New England Patriots game. It was that Brady-to-Moss touchdown bomb in the Giants game a few weeks ago. That the Pats would go for that big play, botch it up, and then run the same play again and - actually convert it - is to me a moment that has highlight reel written all over it, and I can already see myself watching it 10 years from now, as part of some Network or NFL films retrospective. The sheer audacity of it (never mind the historic importance, vis a vis, oh, three or four different records) was breathtaking. The moment I saw it, I knew it would be burned into my memory - you know, the way you still remember where you were when you learned that John Lennon had been shot.
Teams occasionally go right back to a big play that has just failed on the very next down, but the conversion rate on that play is low, and I've never seen the ploy tried in such a big game, with so much at stake. You have to stand in awe of the sheer Wilanders it took to call the play and execute it to such perfection.
Also, I have a joy to share with the Twibe today. On Friday afternoon, regular poster Ruth sent me this email that began: I just wanted you to know that Soli Baraka Bowling, my grandson (and my first grandchild) arrived yesterday at 3:15 pm -- all 7 lbs 4 oz and 20 inches of him! His parents and grandparents are on Cloud 9!. . .
Congratulations, Ruth!
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