It's been brought to my attention that Monponsett, one of AOL's resident sports bloggers, rode her bike through a rather dense pocket of New England gravity and took a rather nasty tumble. Now, I encourage everyone to swing by her blog, High Above Courtside, to send her a little love and some good thoughts to help repair her thumped noggin. Laughter is, after all, the best medicine.
As for me, I went out and looked at helmets and found this old-school Patriots' brain-bucket for The Smurf. Look Mon! I can see you wearing something like this. Unfortunately, it doesn't have the old Pat the Patriot, but I think this new one looks solid. I can totally see you racing down the road with this on your bean. I can even hear the children of New England weep in fear should they see this coming up behind them.
"Mommy! Daddy! What is that?"
"I don't know, dear child. I think it was the ghost of Red Grange. In color. The Pats' must've started signing dead people."
Anyway, Stacey. You get well soon. Rest up. And get a helmet.
-DP
The Maginot Line was nothing but a helmet for France, and a lot of good that did....
ReplyDeleteIf you want to play the game, you have to take your lumps. I've always felt that way, and I rarely let fear keep me from what I'm doing... even if I have to exclude common sense to do so.
My mother said that I have more heart than brains. My father thought that I'd make a fine free safety. My husband calls me "the little engine that Could."
I played basketball in college at 5'1". I fought the two guys who mugged me. I readily jumped into basketball scrimmages with my boys teams when I was coaching- if you ever hear me talking about how I broke my leg twice, the second one was in just such a scenario.
"Onward through the fog," my Power Hitter says. "Damn the torpedos, fuck tha police, and last one in's a rotten egg."
You used the word 'rather' twice in your opening sentence.
ReplyDeletenot that there's anything wrong with that...
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
Lucky I wasn't riding tandem with Dan Rather.
ReplyDeleteAren't the cranberries gorgeous in Mon's pics!!! I have already sent her good wishes and I am keeping her in my prayers!
ReplyDeletebe well,
Dawn
bubble wrap stacey, bubble wrap. The when you fall people will hit the ground thinking a mortar just went off.
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