FCB02062
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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've told my story several times...from Toronto so Buffalo games were often blacked out and the NBC station would show the Patriots. Once Mack Herron joined them from the CFL, they were my team.
There's a lot of Patriot fans in Eastern Canada and Quebec because they get the Patriots as the default AFC team on their American network television. In Toronto, there's similarly a lot of Patriot fans because Toronto people won't generally root for Buffalo since people look down on the place (snobbery). I see more Patriot jerseys (and Steeler jerseys) here than Bills jerseys.
Props to your dad. My grandfather was in the first wave on Omaha beach. He won the silver star that day. He survived the war but passed away before I was born. I often wonder what went through his mind that first night in France.Well I have said before I live in Fredericton New Brunswick. Our feeds for American tv are from Boston. Maine PBS with feeds from Boston, and Detroit. So with the Patriots, because of demand, playing on Thursday, Sunday nights, Mondays and on as well as being the regional game just in case Dallas is playing New York, we get to see all the games on TV. I was born in Southern Ontario in Chatham, and that is 50 miles from Detroit and 65 miles north of Cleveland, and so there were many years on ineptitude to drift in and out of. I was stationed in Barrington NS in 1970 and 71 and listened to the games as the only feeds (during the daytime) that we could get clearly were from Boston and that started it. I watched with interest when I could and counted myself a Patriots fan. I enjoyed the good years, I endured the bad. I moved to Fredericton in 2002 and except for my passion to shovel snow, I love the area. And of course it coincides with the rise of Belichick and Brady and Football became a must be viewing/cheering/ and annoying non Patriot fans. I have developed a terrific Muttley laugh when I hear their mournful cries. Mostly it is "we wuz robbed" and the Pats cheat. Yeah....Yeah neener neener. Go Pats! By the By, My old man was born and raised in Regina,
served with The Regina Rifles in WWII and went in first thing on Juno and happily survived the ordeal for me to tell you about it. He was good guy and we have his name enscribed at Juno Beach on the wall. He loved to yell at the Lions. He was very descriptive!
My profound thanks to your Dad. I asked mine a similar question and he said he was fretful of letting his mates down. I think, more than anything, the previous 4 years in England, training, instilled that mechanical response that one must go through with it regardless,and by and large most did. It was a relief to finally get going.Props to your dad. My grandfather was in the first wave on Omaha beach. He won the silver star that day. He survived the war but passed away before I was born. I often wonder what went through his mind that first night in France.