{"id":26529,"date":"2011-09-15T12:22:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T16:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26529"},"modified":"2011-09-15T13:30:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T17:30:58","slug":"tonight-is-christmas-fourth-of-july-and-octoberfest-rolled-into-one-for-bellichick-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26529","title":{"rendered":"Tonight is Christmas, Fourth of July, and Octoberfest rolled into one for Bellichick fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I had a few beers into me, and in the presense of my wife told an ill-thought out story about November 28, 1995 was the best day of my life.  For those who don&#8217;t remember that day with the crystal clear (if Guinness tainted) memory that I have, from the Boston Globe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AUBURN HILLS, Mich. &#8211; From now on, don&#8217;t believe a thing John Calipari says. The man cannot be taken at his word.  Throughout the preseason, the University of Massachusetts coach said his program was perched on the panic button. He said his team could not defend, could not hit the open man and didn&#8217;t play with passion and emotion.<\/p>\n<p>Nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>The same players that cried after a subpar effort in an exhibition game against a Russian team scored one of the biggest wins in school history last night, a 92-82 dismissal of top-ranked Kentucky in the second annual Great Eight tournament at the Palace of Auburn Hills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly the wife felt that I should have either clarified &#8220;Greatest day in my sports watching life&#8221; or moved it to second after my wedding day.  Fair enough.  Now, on my wedding day, I did not cry, although the chin did quiver a bit.  I was saved from any crying by my amusement of watching my best man &#8220;Brown Neck Gaitor&#8221; drop the wedding ring, and having it come perilously close to rolling under the gazebo.<\/p>\n<p>Well, tonight, I guarantee I cry, when I watch <del datetime=\"2011-09-15T16:13:27+00:00\">Darth Maul <\/del>Bill Bellichick on the NFL Network in  &#8216;A Football Life: Bill Belichick&#8217;.  Since we found out the Maggie was the one that shot Mr. Burns, has there ever been a bigger TV show?<\/p>\n<p>Note: I missed the entire comeback against the Yankees in 2004, as well as the <del datetime=\"2011-09-15T17:25:49+00:00\">Super Bowl <\/del>(check that, I meant the World Series, picture of me during that SB is below), since I was doing Army stuff.  I do however cry every time I see &#8220;4 Days in October.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, who is with me?  I know Tim is.  Anyone else?<\/p>\n<p>(Me on far right in Pats headgear, watching the Pats win the Superbowl from Afghanistam)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Superbowl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Superbowl.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Superbowl\" width=\"475\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Superbowl.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Superbowl-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I had a few beers into me, and in the presense of &hellip; <a title=\"Tonight is Christmas, Fourth of July, and Octoberfest rolled into one for Bellichick fans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26529\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tonight is Christmas, Fourth of July, and Octoberfest rolled into one for Bellichick fans<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}