My Football Team

Getting a bit of a late start today, as I watched my football team play last night. There’s a question of whether we should be watching football anymore, but the playoffs is not a time to discuss such things. I am a true fan of my team, who although they are known now as one of the premier franchises in all of professional sports, when I first started watching them they were one of the most inept franchises in football.

In 1970 they went 2-12, and ended up with the worst record and the number 1 pick. Jim Plunkett was our pick, and he did not have the luxury of starting his career as a backup, and they won 6,3,5 and 7 (.500 – 7-7!) games with Plunkett at the helm. They switched over to Steve Grogan (as Plunkett left to join the Raiders, where he was very successful in a football program that had a lot of success).

We had some good teams with Grogan at QB, but fell back to 2 wins after a 4 year run of pretty good teams ( 2 playoff appearances, both times losing). The 1980’s were pretty successful ( including a bad Super Bowl loss) before once more showing their ineptitude by going 1-15 in 1990. Sometime during the 1990’s the team was sold to a great owner who turned the franchise into the hated franchise it is today. Go Pats.

On today’s podcast we look at the world with kaleidoscopes, discuss the heart, look at the number 1, and listen to some old-time country tunes with Procol Harum, Ride, the Chills, the Dukes of Stratusphear, the English Beat, Tom Dickie and the Desires, Joe Simon, Elvis Costello, Harry Nilsson, Them, Ronnie Lane and the Slim Chance, John Lee Hooker, the Dave and Duke Combo, Hank Penny, Hank Williams, and kd lang.

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