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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 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.
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.
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).
BB was sitting on the bench, arms spread eagle, stretched out with his legs crossed, like he was relaxing on his yacht.
If it was Shanknancy who wrote that, I will buy it and freaking frame it.
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.
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.
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.
My thoughts (through gritted teeth) were "Krafty better know what he's doing, or else."
After the debacle in Cleveland and the hammer job the press did on him as someone who couldn't manage human beings (from afar, I wasn't that knowledgeable about him then and took at face value what the press was painting about him).
I'm sure there will be alot of posters here who will claim back in January, 2000 that they said "Yes!!!! BB's a genius and we're now on our way! With Belichick here, we will now have FA's breaking down the door to play for us".
I only wish someone could post a video link of the BB presser in NY where he resigned as "HC of the NYJ". I have read reports of it that it was the single most weird press conference many of those writers had ever witnessed and ended with the NYJ GM publicly stating that he feared Belichick was mentally unstable.
It was a huge risk Kraft took - - and he paid alot for it at the time. Kudos.
From my recollection, all the smart words in that story came out of Balaam's ass.