Tag: Green Bay Packers
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Whelan still rollin’ as Cowboys get ambushed
Someone once said to me that football is a language which the whole world can communicate through. It makes sense on a lot of levels. However, that needs clarification as its considerably more nuanced than the original quote would imply. Simply as there are so many variations of football around the world. From Gaelic, to…
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Just when you thought the GAA couldn’t frustrate you anymore…
David Clifford is a phenomenon. The best ever to play Gaelic football? That’s a subjective issue but he’s certainly in the vanguard thereof. Though only via video in my case, comparable in style and class to Matt Connor and – perhaps more aptly in this case – Maurice Fitzgerald. But, as I always say in…
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Master still holds sway as great story rumbles on
One of the great things about having a life centred around sport is that sometimes all is not what it seems to be. For example, Leitrim shouldn’t win the Connacht Senior Football Championship – on perceived rank and status within GAA – but in 1994 it happened. Indeed, the people of that great county have…
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New Brady bunch, same outcome
The two greatest things derived from reading Con Houlihan’s mesmeric meanderings were a vastly increased vocabulary and an ability to scribe on a much broader range of subject matter. Or, to be more accurate, having the confidence to do so. Now read on… Baseball and ice hockey remain as the two bridges that have never…