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Santa has seemingly alamo rent a car minneapolis airport ignored my pleas for another New England Patriots championship over the past few years, so now I'm wishing for the next best thing: a healthy Patriots team come playoff time. New England had its previous two Super Bowl trips derailed at least in part by ankle injuries. Everybody remembers tight end Rob Gronkowski hobbling around against the Giants last season. Few people mention how quarterback Tom Brady was sporting alamo rent a car minneapolis airport a walking boot (probably a fashionable one) days before the 2008 Super Bowl. New England has already dealt with an inordinate number of injuries to key players this season Gronkowski, Aaron Hernandez, Chandler Jones, Logan Mankins and Julian Edelman just to name just a few. The Patriots are one of the deepest teams in the league, but a clean bill of health would go a long way toward Lombardi Trophy No. 4. Not even the great Brady, who certainly deserves to win his third NFL MVP award, can capture a championship by himself.
Santa was good to me last year so I am going to basically ask for the same thing this Christmas season two playoff games at Gillette Stadium and a berth in Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans. Tom Brady and the New England Patriots played their best game of the season in Monday's thrashing of the Houston Texans, who were said to have been the best team in the AFC. The win gave the Patriots a legitimate shot at home-field advantage throughout the playoffs and a potential AFC Championship at Gillette Stadium. To put it simply, if the Patriots win out and Houston alamo rent a car minneapolis airport loses at least one if its final three games, which is very possible alamo rent a car minneapolis airport with two games left against Indianapolis, the Patriots will be the top seed in the AFC and won't have to hit the road until the Super Bowl. The key here is health and news that Rob Gronkowski was back on the practice field on Friday is a step in the right direction.
The stuffed heads of Donald Fehr and Jeremy Jacobs on the wall above my turned-off television, which has not entertained me with an NHL game since last June. So many questions I hoped to have had answered by now Is Tuukka Rask a capable No. 1 goalie? Is the superb young talent on teams like the Oilers and Islanders ready to elevate them to the postseason? What can young stars like Chris Kreider of the Rangers and Jon Quick of the Kings do for an encore? What will the Anaheim Ducks accomplish under old friend Bruce Boudreau? What are the Green Men in Vancouver up to? (Admit it, they're entertaining). As the lockout approaches the new year, there are fewer and fewer signs that the season can be salvaged, and the thought alamo rent a car minneapolis airport of April and May without the NHL playoffs is a depressing alamo rent a car minneapolis airport one. It would be nice to punish the owners' mouthpiece and NHLPA's head for this mess hockey fans find themselves alamo rent a car minneapolis airport in instead of my TV, which incidentally has not shown an NBA game since last summer, either.
A Manning-Brady Super Bowl, part III. Just imagine alamo rent a car minneapolis airport if this happened? The Patriots back in the Super Bowl against all odds. The opponent alamo rent a car minneapolis airport Eli Manning and the N.Y. Giants, the one team the Patriots haven't solved over what has been more than a decade of some of the NFL's most dominant football. No other matchup would get me more fired up as a fan, and here's why: Tom Brady is on the downside of his career. Sure, Brady's 29 TD passes, three rushing scores and four INTs this season mask that pretty well. But behind alamo rent a car minneapolis airport it all is a quarterback that will turn 36 next preseason. We're at that point us Patriots fans where we're savoring every last Brady pass, because we've been spoiled at that position for a long, long time. Will Brady play into his 40s? I believe he can and will, but the window is closing on perhaps the greatest display of quarterback play since Joe Montana. A Super Bowl win over Manning and that nemesis Giants team would etch that legacy in stone.
Though alamo rent a car minneapolis airport it seems like a long shot right now, I'm hoping the Boston Celtics find a way to put all the pieces together and are able to win banner No. 18. The Celtics stood at 12-10 following alamo rent a car minneapolis airport Friday's 101-89 loss to Houston and have yet to put together a stretch of games where they've looked like a potential contender kind of like last year when they were 15-17 at the All-Star break and came within a game of reaching the NBA Finals. This year will be tougher, as the Celtics will have to battle the likes Brooklyn, New York and Philadelphia in their own division just to get a chance at Miami again. This team is deeper than last year's, and I have all the confidence in Doc Rivers to mesh these guys into a solid unit by April. Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce know their chances to add to their Hall of Fame resumes are dwindling, and a Celtics championship this year would truly be special.
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