He Knew He Was Right

So, I was walking down the steps into my basement. When I landed on the third step down, I felt something push back from under the carpet, at the rear of the tread. There looked to be a small lump under the carpet. The lump... Thinking it might be my imagination, I tapped it with my foot and I again felt the lump spring back. My first thought was a mouse, though I couldn't figure out how it might have gotten up here, unless it had just worked its way up through the storage close t that is under those stairs. I then stepped on the lump just a bit more forcefully and then pulled my foot back really, really quickly. That damn lump pushed back three or four times. Ok, I now knew I needed to look under the steps and hope whatever was there didn't jump out and start scratching or biting me. Or call an exterminator... Yeah, so I opened the closet door, only to find that the tip of one of my springy cross country skis had slid over and become wedged under the carpe...

It's kind of funny, but with two new stadiums visited this season, this list looks sufficiently different from last year's list that I think it worth sharing again. :) Year Date Home team Stadium Opponent, score, notes 1988 Giants / Jets † Giants* Giants & Jets home games 1990 11/4 Browns † Municipal BUF42-CLE0 11/5 Colts † Hoosierdome NYG24-IND7 1991 9/8 Bengals † Riverfront HOU30-CIN7 9/15 Bears Soldier Field CHI20-NYG17 1993 12/11 Redskins RFK NYJ3-WAS0 1997 12/7 Ravens Memorial Stadium BAL31-SEA24 1998 11/1 Redskins Jack Kent Cooke* (Fedex) WAS21-NYG14 2000 11/19 Ravens PSINet* BAL27-DAL0 12/3 Chargers Qualcomm SF45-SD17 2001 12/2 Dolphins Pro Player ...

And here I am at EverBank Park! Or, from all appearances, Giants Stadium South... So, did you see what I did with that last sentence of my preceding post ? Yeah, HKHWR is up to his old tricks again: Whereas my trip to the Linc last week was rather spontaneous, this football weekend became a given once the NFL schedule was released in May. A few of my friends have been waiting for Big Blue to play in Jacksonville these last few seasons. We figured to have a decent-sized group get together, but we ended up with 50 of us booking flights, arranging long and short road trips, reserving hotel stays, securing tickets, planning tailgates etc. So, I'm at my first Giants road game since 1998! Not keen on planning football trips during ski season, when games may be flexed (ha--like that was a possibility for this matchup), or booking flights during Thanksgiving weekend, the schedule makers did us no favors. But none of that mattered when this weekend finally rolled around. This is wh...