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| Sunday, November 26, 2006 |
| Patriots VS Bears |
Catherine's Football Trivia Question:
Q: Why were the Philadelphia Eagles named "The Eagles"?
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 Today the Patirots met the Bears in Foxborough, Massachusetts, where they played in weather hovering in the mid 50's.
I picked the Patriots because their helmets look like the American flag and they are 3 time Superbowl champs, so they can't be all bad. 
There were several turnovers in this game. I don't have much Super Bowl hope for either team if neither offense can hold the ball. There were a lot of incidents of tipping the ball as well. After awhile it kinda looked like an expensive, angry game of extreme volleyball.
One thing that just cracked me up was the Patriots Quarterback, Brady, juked this huge linebacker to run the ball to a 1st down. He just cheered like "In your FACE". It cracked me up. Here's an official review of that game...
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Patriots outclaw Bears, 17-13
New England survived five turnovers, coming up with four of their own and came away with a 17-13 win over the Chicago Bears at Gillette Stadium.
Asante Samuel was the defensive star of the game with three interceptions of Rex Grossman. As a whole, the Patriots defensive squad did not allow Chicago to really take advantage of their opportunities, holding them to only one touchdown. Tom Brady was 22 of 33 for 269 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions on tipped balls.
The first quarter began less the defensive struggle many predicted and more a series of miscues by both teams.
New England went three and out on the game's opening drive while Samuel picked off Grossman on the Chicago's first series. Although the turnover set the Patriots up first and 10 at the Bears 39, it was just the first of four that kept both teams off the scoreboard in the first quarter.
The second one came during the series after Samuel's pick. New England had a third and 8 from the Bears 24 and Brady looked down the middle to Watson. The ball was on the mark and it looked like Watson was going to come down with the catch at the 1-yard line but Bears safety Todd Johnson made the hit just as Watson's feet hit the ground and the ball popped up into the air. Charles Tillman came down with it at the 5-yard line.
 Turnover number four happened when Grossman, on third down at the 5-yard line, fumbled the snap. Seymour made his second big play of the day by coming up with the recovery and New England escaped.
During the second quarter, Junior Seau was hurt and taken to the locker room with an arm injury.
Given the second life, Gostkowski made good, just sneaking the ball over the crossbar for a 10-3 Patriots lead at the half.
The turnovers continued into the second half, two of them coming on one play. On the Patriots second series of the third quarter, Brady completed what looked like a 23-yard pass to Watson around the Bears 20. From behind, Briggs punched the ball loose and into the air. Caldwell came down with it but he too was stripped by Manning with Manning making the recovery as well.
A roughing call on Charles Tillman, who hit Watson after double-fumble play, gave the Bears first and 10 at their 7. Grossman hit Mushin Muhammed for 18 yards to get some breathing room and then proceeded to start handing off to Jones. Jones ran seven times to the New England 29 but from there, Grossman looked to Clark and Samuel read it perfectly for his second interception of the game.
Three plays later it was yet another turnover.
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The game proceeded like that, even ended in an interception. One of the Bears' tuchdowns was totally because a series of terrible calls by the officiating staff, in my humble opinion. Entertaining game, but if you can't hang on to the ball and you have to count on the officials being on your team, ... like I said, don't look for either of these teams at the Super Bowl.
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Trivia Answer: A: When Bert Bell established his NFL franchise in Philadelphia in 1933, the country was struggling to recover from the Great Depression. New president Franklin D. Roosevelt had introduced his New Deal program through the National Recovery Administration, which had the Eagle as its symbol. Since Bell hoped his franchise also was headed for a new deal, he picked Eagles as the team name.
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