Patriots’ Quarterbacks Should Remember Eason
NEW ORLEANS — There’s a problem brewing here in the Big Easy. Maybe I can help. Tom Brady? Drew Bledsoe? Come on over here, guys. Let me whisper two words in your ears:
Tony Eason.
Remember him? He was the quarterback for your team back in 1986 when the Patriots, on a previous Super Bowl trip, faced the mighty Chicago Bears.
The Bears that year were favored against the Pats the way Donald Rumsfeld would be favored against Don Knotts. That didn’t stop Eason. He felt sharp.
He trotted out to start the game.
And before you could say train wreck, he was done.
Hey, Mister, Have They Got A Girl For You
‘Who IS she?
“She is the perfect woman . . .
“She is your dream wife . . .
“So what now? . . .
“You can’t stalk her . . .
“But WE CAN . . .”
What you just read is the start of a Web-based pitch for a company called Coi–. The reason I use the dash is because I don’t want to send it any business. A matchmaker, I’m not.
IRON MIKE BELONGS ON THE SCRAP HEAP
At a news conference this week, Mike Tyson burst across the stage and attacked Lennox Lewis. He attacked Lewis’ entourage. I believe he attacked Lewis’ luggage.Curtains collapsed. Tables toppled. A pile of fist-swinging bodies took over the stage and Iron...
If N.Y. Statue Is Altered, Who Will Tell Moms?
Ionce wrote a book about five young basketball players, all of whom were black. The book was purchased by Hollywood. They wanted to make a movie.
I flew out for a meeting, and over shared bottles of Evian water, one of the female executives began gushing over the story, the way Hollywood executives often do.
“There’s just one little thing,” she said. “Do you think we could make one of the players white?”
I was tempted to say, “Sure, just tell me which one, so I can warn his mother when the film comes out.”
But I resisted. Some ideas are too dumb to bother with.
3 ATHLETES, 3 TOWNS, SAME TERRIBLE FATE
Last in Mitch Albom’s Dreams Deferred 2001 series on challenges for Michigan athletes and their families.Their son played football. Mom sat in the stands. She wore a team jersey and waved a “K” for Kearsley High. Dad worked the sideline, carrying the...
A Family Without A Son. A Catcher Without A Pitcher. Losses That Can Neverbe Overcomeyes, Matt
Am I my brother’s keeper? Well, yes, out there on the pitcher’s mound, calming Matthew down, getting him to throw strikes, Mark Lestan was, for all those years, from Little League to senior high, his brother’s keeper.
A FAMILY WITHOUT A SON. A CATCHER WITHOUT A PITCHER. LOSSES THAT CAN NEVERBE OVERCOMEYES, MATTHEW LESTAN DIED TOO YONG, BUT HE AND MARK REMAIN …BROTHERS FOREVER
Am I my brother’s keeper? Well, yes, out there on the pitcher’s mound, calming Matthew down, getting him to throw strikes, Mark Lestan was, for all those years, from Little League to senior high, his brother’s keeper.Only now, the brother was dying...
A FATHER FOR CHRISTMASFLINT MAN WELCOMES THREE KIDS INTO HIS HEART AND HIS HOME
FLINT — “Start from the beginning,” someone says. “When did the boy come into your life?”Charles leans back in his chair, crosses his arms. “I was going with his mom. She come up pregnant. She said it was mine. But when I went to...
NOBODY PUT GUN TO HEAD OF TURNCOAT
Parents should love their children, no matter what, so I understand when the mother and father of John Walker say “he must have been brainwashed” to be fighting with the Taliban, that he is basically a “sweet, shy boy.”The problem is that a lot...Stay Connected
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