Vinny and Phil,
Ah, for the days of Reggie White as the "Minister of Defense."  Now,
there was a class act.  He played defence cleanly and gave the glory
to God every chance he got!  He is in heaven now, playing football
with the angels, but he was a real class act while we had him!!
Kathy


At 04:50 PM 1/9/2006, you wrote:
>Hi Kathy,
>What I am getting tired of, is all these injuries.  I heard a commentary by
>some linemen called Bill Romanowsky, who talked about how he purposely
>injured players--and now, after all these years, he is having terrible
>flashbacks about all the people he has hurt.  I wonder now if this is a
>general trend in football, to try to permanently iinjure the players.  This
>is the problem with big bucks, and increasing pressures to win, gabling and
>all the corruption that goes into big sports  these days.
>Sorry, I guess this is off-topic.  Any Christians left in pro football?
>Vinny
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 2:20 PM
>Subject: Re: the play offs
>
>
> > Vinny,
> > I guess that Brett Farve actually went up in the plane with Mike
> > Holmgrin after the game.  They're still pretty close.  It's too bad
> > that Greenbay couldn't work things out to keep Mike as head
> > coach.  There was a real chemistry there.  Now they've fired Mike
> > Shermon too and who knows what will happen next.  I don't want to go
> > back in to  the dark ages like the 1980s were.  That was so
> > aweful!  Sadly, however, I don't think that Brett has much left in
> > him.  A lot of fans are getting tired of his wandering arm, but I
> > keep thinking that it has to be hard to do your best as a quarterback
> > when your whole first string, and in the case of your running back,
> > all the way down to your fourth string, are on injured
> > reserve.  Maybe they should go into wheelchair football.  They'd
> > clean up there!
> > Kathy
> >
> >
> > At 03:20 PM 1/9/2006, you wrote:
> >>Hi Phil,
> >>For your sake, I'll root for  Denver, bu my giants stunk.
> >>Also rooting for Seattle.  Kathy, I did  root for Greenbay, but at least
> >>they beat Seattle.
> >>Vinny
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 12:38 PM
> >>Subject: Re: the play offs
> >>
> >>
> >> > Kathy,
> >> >
> >> > If Denver can beat New England at this stage of the game, I'll be
> >> > surprised.
> >> > I'm very nervous about this game even if it is played here in Denver.
> >> > Stranger things have happened, though.  I'm surprised about half those
> >> > in
> >> > the play off games in the first place.  Denver's playing is not as
> >> > smooth
> >> > as
> >> > the Pats and that's what bothers me.  Denver looks good in final game
> >> > scores
> >> > but their play is herky jerky at best.  But, that's how it was the
> >> > first
> >> > year they won the super bowl with John El Way.  It was the second super
> >> > bowl
> >> > win that was a no brainer because the team played flawlessly the whole
> >> > season.  It sort of took the fun out of the season, haw.
> >> >
> >> > Phil.
> >> >
> >