SITE MENU
Registered Members experience this forum ad and noise-free.
CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I like when it's nerds running the show, and not jocks.
That's the weird thing about the Patriots: the jocks are the nerds.
Haha, good point. Though in terms of jock-nerd hybrids, I have to believe Curt Schilling takes the cake, right?
Ever since I heard of Adams I wondered if it was a coincidence that the New England teams seemed to be unique in employing these behind-the-scenes savants. I like to think so.
There is a certain sensibility in New England that I think I've grown to understand better since I left it. Not trying to turn this thread into something it's not, but I think there is an answer to your question -- one is more likely to encounter people like Adams in New England. And Belichick, though not a born New Englander is an adopted one that belongs there, and I think you could find some pretty significant similarities between Annapolis and New England.
I live in a place where you can often tell how much a man makes by what kind of car he drives. Where you don't need to know a man more than a few hours to hear about his faith. Where the notion of a man living with his mother would spur immediate Beavis and Butthead like jokes. Where talking is often more important than doing. Where a house built in 1920 is old.
I come from a place where the wealthiest man in my town drove the crappiest truck. Where a man's relationship with his creator was his own business. Where my friends' granfathers knew their friends' grandfathers. Where the people who talked the least often did the most.
Perhaps nowhere was the difference between two worlds with which I'm most familiar more on display than in the pregame ceremonies for the World Series. At Fenway, the Anthems were a new, original composition by John Williams and by James Taylor. In Colorado it was Carrie Underwood.
I'm not trying to sound like an elitist. I think it's hard to hide my bias of which I think is better, but there also is much that is negative about provincialism, and it can lead to closed mindedness. There are definitely things I don't miss. My point only is that I think the places in this country in which you could find a man like Ernie Adams are few, so I would not dispute the notion that its no coincidence that he and Belichick have found themselves coaching in New England.
There is a certain sensibility in New England that I think I've grown to understand better since I left it. Not trying to turn this thread into something it's not, but I think there is an answer to your question -- one is more likely to encounter people like Adams in New England. And Belichick, though not a born New Englander is an adopted one that belongs there, and I think you could find some pretty significant similarities between Annapolis and New England.
I live in a place where you can often tell how much a man makes by what kind of car he drives. Where you don't need to know a man more than a few hours to hear about his faith. Where the notion of a man living with his mother would spur immediate Beavis and Butthead like jokes. Where talking is often more important than doing. Where a house built in 1920 is old.
I come from a place where the wealthiest man in my town drove the crappiest truck. Where a man's relationship with his creator was his own business. Where my friends' granfathers knew their friends' grandfathers. Where the people who talked the least often did the most.
Perhaps nowhere was the difference between two worlds with which I'm most familiar more on display than in the pregame ceremonies for the World Series. At Fenway, the Anthems were a new, original composition by John Williams and by James Taylor. In Colorado it was Carrie Underwood.
I'm not trying to sound like an elitist. I think it's hard to hide my bias of which I think is better, but there also is much that is negative about provincialism, and it can lead to closed mindedness. There are definitely things I don't miss. My point only is that I think the places in this country in which you could find a man like Ernie Adams are few, so I would not dispute the notion that its no coincidence that he and Belichick have found themselves coaching in New England.
PFinAZ, you just expressed beautifully what I, too, have come to realize over the years. You didn't pull any punches and rightfully included the part about the negative provincialism along with all the positive things about New England also.
Well put.
Great article, great responses.
You people, like Adams, are "wicked smaht".
Football is so basically brutal, yet complicated at the same time.
There is a certain sensibility in New England that I think I've grown to understand better since I left it. Not trying to turn this thread into something it's not, but I think there is an answer to your question -- one is more likely to encounter people like Adams in New England. And Belichick, though not a born New Englander is an adopted one that belongs there, and I think you could find some pretty significant similarities between Annapolis and New England.
I live in a place where you can often tell how much a man makes by what kind of car he drives. Where you don't need to know a man more than a few hours to hear about his faith. Where the notion of a man living with his mother would spur immediate Beavis and Butthead like jokes. Where talking is often more important than doing. Where a house built in 1920 is old.
I come from a place where the wealthiest man in my town drove the crappiest truck. Where a man's relationship with his creator was his own business. Where my friends' granfathers knew their friends' grandfathers. Where the people who talked the least often did the most.
Perhaps nowhere was the difference between two worlds with which I'm most familiar more on display than in the pregame ceremonies for the World Series. At Fenway, the Anthems were a new, original composition by John Williams and by James Taylor. In Colorado it was Carrie Underwood.
I'm not trying to sound like an elitist. I think it's hard to hide my bias of which I think is better, but there also is much that is negative about provincialism, and it can lead to closed mindedness. There are definitely things I don't miss. My point only is that I think the places in this country in which you could find a man like Ernie Adams are few, so I would not dispute the notion that its no coincidence that he and Belichick have found themselves coaching in New England.
This is hands-down the most important and insightful article I have read this year concerning the New England Patriots.
Everyone needs to read this piece. It would make an unbelievable movie script.
Ernie Adams is one of the most mysterious and intriguing individuals not only in football, but perhaps anywhere. Reminiscent of D.B. Cooper, Mark Felt or J.D. Salinger.