Showing posts with label Navy football. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Navy football. Show all posts

Monday, October 24, 2011

Saturday, December 11, 2010

GO NAVY - BEAT ARMY - Talking smack with a One-Star General in Kandahar about " The Game"


The Tradition continues....and we are glad to be able to share in watching NAVY beat ARMY like the rented mules they are....

I was in Kandahar last Christmas, and had a great feast...it is one of the things that makes it tolerable to be there....the food is good.....at the head of the line was a One-Star Army type shaking hands with all...I wished him a Merry Christmas and told him I needed his help answering a question....no one else in the Army could answer, he being a One-star should be able to provide guidance -

” Sure son, what can I do for you?” he asks

I stated, ” Can you tell me why your boys can’t tackle 11 squids with a football for 8 years running????”

Well he laughed and replied, ” One day, we are going to take that trophy away from you…”

My reply, ” You will try, Sir….you will try.”

Message went out that night to e-mail friends,

” Christmas in Kandahar, Christmas Dinner with the Warfighters, Talking *Smack* with a One-star, does it get any better????”

And NO, it doesn’t get any better for this retired Petty Officer 1st class...

GO NAVY - BEAT ARMY

Sunday, November 7, 2010

US Navy Takes Pirates out - On the gridiron (Mids Beat North Carolina 76-35) and AT SEA (where it counts)


The Navy MIDS routed the North Carolina Pirates in a lop sided 76-35 victory in Saturday's game.

The most points scored by a team in the 240-game history of the North Carolina stadium.

It got ugly. Then it started raining.

Most of the crowd of 50,191, the second largest in stadium history, had said "No mas," and headed for the exits as the score mounted in Navy's favor.

When it rains, it pours, as they say.

With no doubt as to the final outcome there were a lot of little things to contemplate.

For instance:

Isn't a military academy a good place to develop a football mindset?

"They train you mentally to succeed," said Pirate defensive tackle Josh Smith, who spent a season at Naval Academy Prep in Newport, Rhose Island. "They make you mentally tough."

It might make you feel a little better about national security knowing that these Navy guys will be making that their career.

On the sea, the US NAVY deals with Pirates every day, but usually, the Pirates aren't around to give the press a sound bite afterwards, and that's OK with me.