This is DaddyCornblog back in 1980, rooting for the Ron Jaworski, Dick Vermeil, Wilbert Montgomery version of the Eagles.  We've got the photo by the TV, where Daddy C patiently waits for the game to get underway.  He was disappointed in 1980, sadly. He died on December 19, 1994 - the day after the Giants knocked [.

North America needs about ten thousand more like him, punk rock, inner city, ex-pat, lover of the Real American Game: sah-ker. Too often coverage of the sport in North America is either clouded by insiderish earnestness, or worse, ESPN talking head bile. Some want the game to shirk its roots in the barren New World to suit the childish anglophilic crushes of Williamsburgs and Mission District Arsenal-scarved hipsters; others are satisfied to make moronic, homphobic jokes about the European disease invading America.

"Today the New York State Senate completed the passage of the Enacted Budget for Fiscal Year 2009-10 Budget, taking the first steps toward getting our economy back on track. After more than 30 hours of rigorous and thoughtful debate this week, we passed nine budget bills that finally reverses decades of fiscal irresponsibility.

The State Senate passed the FY2009-10 public protection budget today that includes many important reforms that will help our state and its public safety officers meet 21st Century needs. Most significant among these changes is the historic reform of the archaic, costly and ineffective Rockefeller Drug Laws.

New York Power Authority (NYPA) President and Chief Executive Officer Richard M. Kessel today announced that all proposed rate increases for the Authority's hydropower customers will be cancelled this year due to the extraordinary economic crisis facing the state and nation. The move will save New York businesses and residents approximately $16.

We attempt to provide a history of the present from a terrain where we exist as forensic vigilantes sousveilling the pretensions of a system.
Pretentious, or what? :)
Piotr Kropotkin: "In fact, the masses never believed in sophisms taught by economists."
Which is a good job really as we have all been systemically disinherited, and systemically disinherited we will all remain.