{"id":1019,"date":"2013-09-12T20:05:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T00:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigredsportsmachine.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2013-09-12T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T00:40:19","slug":"how-i-learned-to-stop-hating-and-love-the-hoodie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"How I learned to stop HATING and love THE HOODIE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re a regular BRSM\u00a0reader this won’t come as a shock to you, but let me just get this out of way: I love the Buffalo Bills.\u00a0 As with most self-respecting Western New Yorkers, my obsession<\/del>\u00a0passion is borderline unhealthy.\u00a0 The shout song played at my wedding…multiple times.\u00a0 My sports Mt. Rushmore consists of Jim Kelly, OJ Simpson, Bruce Smith and Hunter Kelly.\u00a0 I’ve got Champagne on ice for the day when the last member of the ’72 Dolphins dies.\u00a0 My four German Sheppard’s are named: Flutie, Losman, Fitzpatrick, and our newest pup, Manuel!\u00a0When the\u00a0Bills say jump, I’ll be the one\u00a0driving the school bus off the cliff.\u00a0 \u00a0So it should come to no surprise, that as a\u00a0life-long Bills-backer I’ve been programmed\u00a0to hate all things Miami Dolphins, NY Jets and\u00a0New England\u00a0Patriots (note: I still hate the Colts even though they were banished from the AFC East in 2001).<\/p>\n

But I can no longer hide my man-crush for\u00a0this guy:<\/p>\n

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The hoodie. \u00a0Literally every Patriots game that I’ve watched the hoodie pulls some crazy stunt. \u00a0It’s not always over-the-top, like going for it on 4th down on your own 30 yard line, or taking an intention safety. \u00a0Sometimes it’s subtle craziness. \u00a0Like Sunday, when the hoodie has LeGarrette\u00a0freaking Blount returning kickoffs. \u00a0Yes, this LeGarrette Blount:<\/p>\n

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Why? \u00a0Why not. \u00a0Just for shits\u00a0and giggles here is how Blount stacked up Sunday against the other AFC East kick returners:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\nResults<\/em><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AFC East<\/em><\/td>\nPlayer<\/em><\/td>\nWeight<\/em><\/td>\nHeight<\/em><\/td>\nPos<\/em><\/td>\n40 time<\/em><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/em><\/td>\nKRs<\/em><\/td>\nYards<\/em><\/td>\nAvg.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Buffalo<\/td>\nTJ Graham<\/td>\n6’0″<\/td>\n180 lbs.<\/td>\nWR<\/td>\n4.34 s<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Miami<\/td>\nM. Thigpen<\/td>\n5’9″<\/td>\n195 lbs.<\/td>\nRB<\/td>\n4.45 s<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n2.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NY<\/td>\nJ. Kerley<\/td>\n5’9″<\/td>\n188 lbs.<\/td>\nWR<\/td>\n4.56 s<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NE<\/td>\nL. Blount<\/strong><\/td>\n6’0″<\/td>\n247 lbs.<\/strong><\/td>\nRB<\/td>\n4.74 s<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n17.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
*One of these is not like the rest*<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

That’s just Bill being Bill. \u00a0Always the contrarian. \u00a0It’s these deviations from the norm that make watching the Patriots enjoyable and how I stopped hating and learned to love the hoodie!<\/p>\n

Can’t wait to see what he has in store for Rex and the Jets tonight!<\/p>\n

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If you’re a regular BRSM\u00a0reader this won’t come as a shock to you, but let me just get this out of way: I love the Buffalo Bills.\u00a0 As with most self-respecting Western New Yorkers, my obsession\u00a0passion is borderline unhealthy.\u00a0 The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Bp3y-gr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}