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| have a chance to settle an old score, right an old wrong, find peace in my old age and apologize, in sideways fashion, to those whom I wronged so many years ago. The way to do all this is to pick the Giants to upset New England, and that's what I'm doing. Giants to upset the New England Patriots, currently favored by 12½, in the great stormfest known as Super Bowl XLII. In 1968 I was the beat man, covering the Jets for the New York Post. I was around the team every day. I flew down with them to Miami for Super Bowl III and I stayed in their hotel, the Galt Ocean Mile in Fort Lauderdale. The Colts opened as 17-point favorites. By game time, the rush of Baltimore money had pushed the price up to 19½, one of the biggest line moves in Super Bowl history. They were calling the Colts The Greatest Team Ever, or at least the greatest on the defensive side of the ball. Their owner, Carroll Rosenbloom, thunderously echoed that sentiment. I had a feeling about the Jets, not a strong one, but Joe Namath working against that strong side rotating zone? Gee, he'd never had trouble with it before. Could it be that ... ? Do I have the courage to ... ? Nah, I'll pick the Colts to win, but by under the spread. That'll make everyone happy. So I did and it made no one happy, least of all me when the Jets scored the biggest upset in Supe history. Who was happy? Leonard Shecter of the Post. He picked the Jets. I kicked myself for the coward I was. No longer. Today, I am a man. I was in Green Bay on Sunday. The Giants clearly were the better team, tougher, more resilient, harder hitting. That bone chilling cold that was supposed to imbue the Packers with strength and sap it from their enemies, kind of like the giant Antaeus from Greek mythology who drew his strength from contact with the ground ... that brutal, minus-24 wind chill cold was brushed aside by the Giants. |
I live in Milford, and have for the past 15 years and I find it hard to believe he had trouble fitting in. especially the comments about his clothes and the beauty of the place being intimidating.
really hard to believe.
Don Hutson
Raymond Berry
Lance Alworth
Dave Casper
Art Shell
Ron Mix
Forrest Gregg
John Hannah
Jim Parker
Dwight Stephenson
John Unitas
Jim Brown
I go along with that.
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possible, but I doubt it. It's next to Hopkinton (very wealthy town where the Boston Marathon begins), and other wealthy towns, and not far Medfield (Bledsoe, Schilling, etc, live(d) there). It's always been a blue collar-ish town founded as a quarry town with so many Italian and other European craftsman. Typical New England suburb.
I just find it hard to believe.
Charlestown though has made a 180 since Long grew up, it has changed due to the gentrification, it's now a place I can see a poorer person struggling to fit in far more than in Milford.
Charlestown homes average probably close to $1M now, Milford homes average probably around 350k.