Tom Brady is the human I love the most.
And though I will be sad to see Ray Lewis go,
The Patriots will win, but it will be close.

New England’s offense has a lot to boast.
Even with Gronkowski and Woodhead laid low.
But Tom Brady is the human I love most.

Joe Flacco might make the Pats D look like toast.
He plays with confidence and he can throw.
The Patriots will win, but it will be close.

Villanelles and football predictions go together surprisingly well.
“Fifty years ago, a wide-eyed kid in Detroit had a religious experience. It was partly a baptism and partly an epiphany, but mostly it was an illusion. It was that rite of initiation that occurs in the life of every sports fan, that moment when he sees something so magical that he comes to believe that anything, absolutely anything is possible.” - Our own Bill Morris recalls The Thanksgiving Day Massacre
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“Fifty years ago, a wide-eyed kid in Detroit had a religious experience. It was partly a baptism and partly an epiphany, but mostly it was an illusion. It was that rite of initiation that occurs in the life of every sports fan, that moment when he sees something so magical that he comes to believe that anything, absolutely anything is possible.”

- Our own Bill Morris recalls The Thanksgiving Day Massacre

William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey—the town neighboring East Rutherford, home of the New York Giants. Here’s an appropriate modification of his poem, “This Is Just To Say.” I have beaten the plumsPatriots that were inthe iceboxLucas Oil Stadium and which you were probablysavinghopingfor breakfastwould win Forgive me they were deliciousoutplayed so sweet and so cold
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William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey—the town neighboring East Rutherford, home of the New York Giants. Here’s an appropriate modification of his poem, “This Is Just To Say.”

I have beaten
the plumsPatriots
that were in
the iceboxLucas Oil Stadium

and which
you were probably
savinghoping
for breakfastwould win

Forgive me
they were deliciousoutplayed
so sweet
and so cold
Last night, Tim Tebow passed for 316 yards in his team’s home victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. If you’re curious, this is the text of Timothy 3:16 — Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great:    He appeared in the flesh,    was vindicated by the Spirit,was seen by angels,    was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world,    was taken up in glory.
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Last night, Tim Tebow passed for 316 yards in his team’s home victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. If you’re curious, this is the text of Timothy 3:16 —

Beyond all question, the mystery from which true godliness springs is great:

   He appeared in the flesh,
   was vindicated by the Spirit,
was seen by angels,
   was preached among the nations,
was believed on in the world,
   was taken up in glory.