http://www.thejetsblog.com/2006/05/26/nfl-europe-week-ten-recap/ Ranting and Raving about the Gang Green Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:43:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thejetsblog.com/2006/05/26/nfl-europe-week-ten-recap/#comment-466 Bent Fri, 26 May 2006 23:03:51 +0000 http://thejetsblog.com/?p=678#comment-466 Yeah, they got the please involved but any wrong doing was cleared. Suspicious, but I think it was just plain rotten luck. Yeah, they got the please involved but any wrong doing was cleared. Suspicious, but I think it was just plain rotten luck.

]]> http://www.thejetsblog.com/2006/05/26/nfl-europe-week-ten-recap/#comment-465 Bassett Fri, 26 May 2006 17:14:00 +0000 http://thejetsblog.com/?p=678#comment-465 Food poisoning? Oh that sucks... any thoughts that Arsenal or their fans might have participated in some "fowl play?" If that is the case, I wonder why that stuff doesn't happen more often... Food poisoning? Oh that sucks… any thoughts that Arsenal or their fans might have participated in some “fowl play?”
If that is the case, I wonder why that stuff doesn't happen more often…

]]> http://www.thejetsblog.com/2006/05/26/nfl-europe-week-ten-recap/#comment-464 Bent Fri, 26 May 2006 16:22:13 +0000 http://thejetsblog.com/?p=678#comment-464 "Tottenham Hotspur (they had a decent showing this year in the Premiere, no?) " Ah! Now you've got me going...you'll wish you never asked. Bear in mind this *only* seems to happen to the teams I root for (Endless personnel disasters and defeating themselves in improbable fashion? Jets. Reach the world series and have your closer blow three games then suck for the next five years? Mets. Have two of your best prospects actually die as your best players all approach retirement and follow that up with a series of baffling personnel moves? Celtics. (nb - I like Ainge...all the baffling moves were pre-Ainge). You never even mentioned the LA Kings who reached the Stanley Cup only to lose 3 OT games and then fell apart every year since, including last year where they annihilated the record for lost man-hours to injury.) Long story short, all my teams seem to be cursed. All year, Spurs fans (that's what we call Tottenham) have been saying this year would be different and I've been saying we'd blow it. So we managed to stay in 4th all year long, one place above the hated Arsenal and in position to qualify for the lucrative European Champions League for the first time ever. Amazing considering we almost always end up in the bottom half of the standings. With three games to go, we needed one Arsenal loss to clinch, but they won all three, which meant we just had to win our last game to clinch fourth place, against the lowly West Ham. So what happens? Ten, yes TEN of our players fall ill with food poisoning the night before the game. Despite protests, the game goes ahead and Spurs, with a clearly evident total lack of any energy, despite it being perhaps the club's biggest game since 1991 go on to lose 2-1 to a late goal. So a great year, filled with hope ends with a complete disaster of unbelievable "it could only happen to us" proportions. Sound familiar? Just to compound my misery, Wayne Rooney gets injured in the last game of the season and will now miss most if not all of the world cup, so we won't be winning that either (always ends in a penalty shootout or a stupid disallowed goal or a dodgy hand-ball anyway). *Sigh* Maybe one of my teams will win something one day...let's hope it's the Jets. I will now gouge out both my eyes with a rusty melon baller. “Tottenham Hotspur (they had a decent showing this year in the Premiere, no?) ”
Ah! Now you've got me going…you'll wish you never asked.
Bear in mind this *only* seems to happen to the teams I root for (Endless personnel disasters and defeating themselves in improbable fashion? Jets. Reach the world series and have your closer blow three games then suck for the next five years? Mets. Have two of your best prospects actually die as your best players all approach retirement and follow that up with a series of baffling personnel moves? Celtics. (nb – I like Ainge…all the baffling moves were pre-Ainge). You never even mentioned the LA Kings who reached the Stanley Cup only to lose 3 OT games and then fell apart every year since, including last year where they annihilated the record for lost man-hours to injury.)
Long story short, all my teams seem to be cursed. All year, Spurs fans (that's what we call Tottenham) have been saying this year would be different and I've been saying we'd blow it. So we managed to stay in 4th all year long, one place above the hated Arsenal and in position to qualify for the lucrative European Champions League for the first time ever. Amazing considering we almost always end up in the bottom half of the standings.
With three games to go, we needed one Arsenal loss to clinch, but they won all three, which meant we just had to win our last game to clinch fourth place, against the lowly West Ham. So what happens? Ten, yes TEN of our players fall ill with food poisoning the night before the game. Despite protests, the game goes ahead and Spurs, with a clearly evident total lack of any energy, despite it being perhaps the club's biggest game since 1991 go on to lose 2-1 to a late goal.
So a great year, filled with hope ends with a complete disaster of unbelievable “it could only happen to us” proportions. Sound familiar?
Just to compound my misery, Wayne Rooney gets injured in the last game of the season and will now miss most if not all of the world cup, so we won't be winning that either (always ends in a penalty shootout or a stupid disallowed goal or a dodgy hand-ball anyway).
*Sigh* Maybe one of my teams will win something one day…let's hope it's the Jets.
I will now gouge out both my eyes with a rusty melon baller.

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