I've never seen a better 10-7 game. I've never seen a player account for 270 total yards and not score a touchdown. And I've never been to a luckier bar than Mo's Caribbean on Second Avenue at 76 Street.
As if the $2 drafts of Stella weren't enough. As if the three huge TVs and plenty of elbow room weren't enough. As if the two hotties with big juggs who didn't care about sports and just came to drink on a Saturday afternoon weren't enough, Mo's continues to provide the victories two series-clinching victories for the Knicks at Miami and three straight postseason victories for the Giants. (I stupidly watched Super Bowl XXXV at another place where girls danced on the bar and flashed the crowd.)
What I remember most: whites, blacks, Latinos, guidos, preppies, hipsters, casual fans and fanatics screaming, high-fiving, drinking and hugging as if we'd just won the Super Bowl. No movie produces that kind of unscripted drama.
Next week against San Fran or Tampa Bay: I gotta go to Mo's. Giants fans, get on board.
Also, there is a drought emergency in NYC: there are no No. 80 Jeremy Shockey jerseys to be had. I looked high and low this week to no avail. If anyone spots one, let me know where to direct the cabbie.
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Top 10 Orangemen Hoops Games A fellow Syracuse grad ranks the 10 best, not including any from 1990-94, when I was there. Only once did we charge the court after a win in 1994 after beating Kentucky when I was one of the first to center court and had to wait for the crowd to join me. It wasn't as exciting as it looks.
USC Alum O.J. Simpson hangs With Trojans at Orange Bowl Practice Said Southern Cal coach Pete Carrol: "At SC, our guys hold a Heisman Trophy winner in high regard." You think that would be the case so long as a civil jury doesn't find one liable for the murders of two people.
30 Years of George Steinbrenner The Daily News sits down with the most successful owner in the baseball, who penned an editorial in the New York Post last year, saying that New York is a tough place because, no matter who you are, you have to fight for a cab and a spot at the lunch counter every day. Ol' Stein said that years ago and my coworkers and I laughed at the thought of King George fighting for a stool at a sandwich shop. Especially with those degenerate Mets fans around.
Flops of the Year As part of ESPN.com's year-ender they rank the U.S. Men's hoops team as the only bigger flop than the N.Y. Mets. Congratulations to them.
KMart Sells Phallic Nebraska Cornhuskers Foamhead I got out of the sports media because there are people willing to put things like this on their head. (Found on Sports By Brooks, a dynamite sports blog.)
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Posted by Netti at December 30, 2002 10:29 AM