Posts Tagged Ravens
Weekend Rundown
- Yesterday, I thoroughly enjoyed the Ravens victory over the Titans. On some level, it seemed to remind me of the 2000 Playoffs where the Ravens travelled to Tennessee and left victorious over a heavily favored foe. Personally, my grandfather’s last visit to Baltimore and his only Ravens football game was the Titans game back in October. I am by no means a religious man, but I am going to postulate that there was some divine intervention at play.
- Throughout the weekend, I was quite productive. Many things were done around and outside the house.
- Tonight, I am getting together with some friends to watch the premiere of the 7th season of 24. I am pretty pumped for the return of Jack Bauer.
Three Generations of Thomas Football Fans
Today, I am taking my uncle and grandfather to their first Baltimore Ravens game. I spent most of yesterday preparing for their overnight stay by tidying up the house. I had to make sure the house was up to snuff given that it has been their first visit. Last night, I took them to dinner at Nick’s Fish House.
The weather should be good, and our seats are in the west end-zone. We will be heading off to a tailgate in short order, and I know this will be a good time.
I am personally looking forward to seeing my grandfather there. He went to–and was a season ticket holder for–many Baltimore Colts football games. He was also the person who took me to what was my first (and at the time) only football game when I was a little Jason. Consequently, this event has a bit of emotional significance for me.
Here’s hoping for a good football game and a Ravens win!
Weekend End
A quiet weekend on all fronts, and I am not complaining about that at all. Given the week that was at the office, this weekend was blissfully quiet.
- Friday night, I joined some coworkers (and friends) at Mick O’Shea’s for some Happy Hour Guinness (Guinni). Friday turned out to be a bit more busier than normal, so it was a welcome respite.
- Yesterday, I puttered around the house, taking care of a couple of things in advance of going to last night’s Ravens preseason game. The only thing on my agenda yesterday was to get a haircut in the afternoon, and that was an easy mission to accomplish. Yesterday was, for the most part, a fairly lazy day for me.
- Speaking of the game last night, I am still amazed by how early folks start tailgating–even during preaseason. My afternoon haircut yesterday was before 2:00 PM, and I was chuckling at some of the early tailgaters that had already set out their spreads.
- My lone comment from last night’s game (as I am keeping it to just one): How about passing the ball a bit more than the Ravens did in the 1st half?
- Today was spent finishing up my laundry, tidying around the inside of the house, and getting some small tasks done around the house. I also spent part of the day making a random list of things to get–a sort of macro-personal to-do list.
Any other productivity today was blunted by the wonders of a MythBusters marathon on Discovery. Thankfully, the DVR has helped with any hindrance today.
Late Christmas Gift
A late Christmas gift has come today to Ravens fans: Brian Billick has been fired as head coach of the Ravens. While not terribly surprising nor the only solution to the problems the Ravens had this year, I think there were too many examples his Billick’s mismanagement of this team. Poor clock management, poor offensive performance, and questionable play-calling were his death knell.
Here’s hoping that vaunted “offensive genius” has better luck being offensive elsewhere.
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