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***PatsDeb*** · 01-09-2010, 07:00 AM

When BB was hired a lot of people I know, including me, thought, "What the he!! is Kraft doing, hiring that loser from Cleveland{and then giving away draft picks for him to boot)." Good thing I don't run the team!!

BrocktonBomber · 01-09-2010, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Patjew

I assumed we would pick up an elite QB from a late round, win 3 Super Bowls, and become the team of the decade fast forward 10 years later.

I saw that coming a mile away

PatFan1932 · 01-09-2010, 07:04 AM

I was thinking if we could only get some WR that don't drop the ball

fair catch fryar · 01-09-2010, 07:08 AM

While I was relieved to see Pete Carroll let go. I always felt bad for him because he really never had much a chance considering the way Parcells screwed the Pats and plucked away a future HOF RB in Curtis Martin. It was poetic justice during that news conference when BB resigned as HC of the Jets and came to the Pats. As far as the franchise QB who would lead the Pats to all their success so far and counting....no one except Patjew would've been able to call that one. Besides, I was still sucking on my "Bledsoe binky" and always figured I'd at least get to watch a QB follow in the steps of Dan Marino and not Joe Montana. Boy, am I glad I was wrong!

PatsFanInVa · 01-09-2010, 07:08 AM

Yep, pretty much ditto what you guys were saying. Then when I found out it came w/draft picks, I was past suspicious... I was like "really? For a guy that's not even a head coach... really???" I did NOT like the idea that the guy who rocketed straight to the middle in Cleveland was supposed to be the savior... but I figured, what the hell, we had our 1 shot per decade in the mid-90s, we'll bumble our way into another shot in the 2000s if we're lucky... then maybe this time we'll get EVEN CLOSER TO WINNING ONE...

Playing the Rams I thought, crap, we didn't draw some middle-tier team, we drew the monster Super Bowl. It may not be '85 all over again (because we'd played the Rams close in the regular season,) but then again, it may just be.

That turned out okay though

PFnV

***PatsDeb*** · 01-09-2010, 07:14 AM

I just remember Pete Carroll tooling away in his sports car (didn't it have a license plate that said, CA GUY or something like that?). leaving us with the BB mess, and thinking, "We're doomed."

Ha Ha. Joke's on me!!

***shmessy*** · 01-09-2010, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by PatsFanInVa

Yep, pretty much ditto what you guys were saying. Then when I found out it came w/draft picks, I was past suspicious... I was like "really? For a guy that's not even a head coach... really???" I did NOT like the idea that the guy who rocketed straight to the middle in Cleveland was supposed to be the savior... but I figured, what the hell, we had our 1 shot per decade in the mid-90s, we'll bumble our way into another shot in the 2000s if we're lucky... then maybe this time we'll get EVEN CLOSER TO WINNING ONE...

Playing the Rams I thought, crap, we didn't draw some middle-tier team, we drew the monster Super Bowl. It may not be '85 all over again (because we'd played the Rams close in the regular season,) but then again, it may just be.

That turned out okay though

PFnV

I hear ya, PFiV. particularly about SB36.

I remember before the game lamenting how we keep drawing the MONSTER champion coronation each time. Bears '85, Packers '96 and now Rams'01. One day, I thought, the PATRIOTS will be the big story instead of some Red Klotz-Washington Generals foil to the Harlem Globetrotters. Some day the Patriots would be the important team that Pat Summerall and John Madden focus on.

Words cannot describe how I felt for 7 seconds when Roman Phifer stripped the ball from Kurt Warner and Tebucky Jones (yes, TEBUCKY JONES!!!!!!!) ran the most ridiculously bedlam-inducing 99 yards to win the Super Bowl...........I'm a grown man and I never "lose it" during any game, but I for a few seconds there I lost all control of (almost!) every function.

OK, the Vinatieri kick was pretty good too.

***PatsDeb*** · 01-09-2010, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by shmessy

I hear ya, PFiV. particularly about SB36.

I remember before the game lamenting how we keep drawing the MONSTER champion coronation each time. Bears '85, Packers '96 and now Rams'01. One day, I thought, the PATRIOTS will be the big story instead of some Red Klotz-Washington Generals foil to the Harlem Globetrotters. Some day the Patriots would be the important team that Pat Summerall and John Madden focus on.

Words cannot describe how I felt for 7 seconds when Roman Phifer stripped the ball from Kurt Warner and Tebucky Jones (yes, TEBUCKY JONES!!!!!!!) ran the most ridiculously bedlam-inducing 99 yards to win the Super Bowl...........I'm a grown man and I never "lose it" during any game, but I for a few seconds there I lost all control of (almost!) every function.

OK, the Vinatieri kick was pretty good too.

My husband and I went to SB 36. He is obsessed with being late, so we were like the first people in the Superdome, probably a good 2 hours prior to kickoff. Our seats were in the rafters, about 3 rows from the top of the stadium, right on the goal line (Ty Law ran in his INT for a TD right in front of us). There were no players or football people on the field (only TV or other people dealing with putting on the game) EXCEPT BB was sitting on the bench, arms spread eagle, stretched out with his legs crossed, like he was relaxing on his yacht. We looked at him through our binoculars and he was smiling. My husband and I looked at eachother and said, "Oh my God, he has a plan and we are going to win!" That game was pure joy - we weren't supposed to be there; the odds were so stacked against us; there really wasn't alot of pressure to win because nobody (except BB) thought we would. Ah bliss.

Patspsycho · 01-09-2010, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by shmessy

BTW, this two weeks BEFORE from Belichick's own future-insider (if anyone wants to pay for the full archived version, I'm sure it's a hoot):

Boston Globe Historic Archives

"FOXBOROUGH - There were several cameras staked outside of Foxboro Stadium yesterday. I still can't believe one of them was not from the "E!" network. Really, it wasn't clear what exactly was happening here. Was this Pete Carroll's dismissal or was it his former players' re-creation of the arrival scene at the Academy Awards?

Why? Because the Patriots are in trouble. It's one thing to have problems and know you have them. It's quite different to be descending toward the belly of a canyon without realizing it. That's where Robert Kraft and his team are this morning. In the past 48 hours, they have actually flirted with becoming worse without Carroll. I say flirted because Kraft might have completed the disaster if Bill Parcells hadn't done him a huge favor by resigning as head coach of the Jets yesterday.

If Parcells hadn't resigned, Kraft would have tried to hire his top assistant, Bill Belichick. Instead, Belichick is the No. 1 football man for the New York Jets, an organization he will destroy if Parcells doesn't hold his hand - especially when it's time to draft players."

(the rest can be purchased for $4.95 at the link, but you get the picture - - color me a shade suspicious of anyone here claiming they were 100% ecstatic back then).

If it was Shanknancy who wrote that, I will buy it and freaking frame it.

robertweathers · 01-09-2010, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by PatsDeb

BB was sitting on the bench, arms spread eagle, stretched out with his legs crossed, like he was relaxing on his yacht.

Got a good chuckle from that line...