Click here. Back in the 1980s, it was not uncommon for Super Bowls not to be super. I was at parties when the Raiders clobbered the Redskins and the 49ers destroyed the Dolphins.If every game was a classic, there would be no such thing as a classic.It’s the biggest sporting event. I didn’t much care …
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Here comes the Super Bowl, ready or not!
By MONTE DUTTON (Pixabay photo) https://www.scfbins.com/agents/buddybridges Presbyterian College is going to be playing basketball in a little while. I vowed, having experienced what happens when one insists on writing about ballgames when one is sick, I was not going out to ballgames again until this shingles has run its course. Yet every day I think …
Lord, Coach Lombardi, What Have You Done?
Clinton, South Carolina, Saturday, February 4, 2017, 9:43 a.m. The weather has cooled, though it’s still a poor excuse for winter. I just got through playing “Facebook Friends” on my Pawless guitar. Earlier this morning, I wished a few of them – the Facebook friends, not Pawless guitars -- happy birthday. I had almost exactly …
Super Sunday
The Washington Redskins were playing the Denver Broncos. Amon Paterson attended a Super Bowl party that started hours before the actual game. Doritos. Dip. A refrigerator and several ice chests, laden with beer. Chicken wings back when “hot” was the only flavor. A big pot of oyster stew. Gamblers. Lots of gamblers. Amon had no …
Nightrider's Lament 