Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Jim Harbaugh has more firy season with the Niners

Jim Harbaugh and the San Francisco Forty-niners may heading for a nasty divorce after it was reported though Cleveland Browns that the Browns went hard after Harbaugh and missed. Harbaugh who may or may not of been interested in the head coaching that ended up going to Mike Pettine but story looks like Niners GM Trent Baalke has seen enough of Harbaugh's ego trips and it looks like one of them will be leaving sooner than later and it looks like it is Harbsugh with two more seasons on his 5 year/25 mil deal who could be leaving. Jim Harbaugh who is a brilliant head coach (just ask him) rod in on his high horse in January, 2011 and who has been to the NFC Championship game all three seasons in control of the Niners with a lost to the Gaints, a win but lost to his brother in the Super bowl, and then lost to the Seahawks. He has been very argent since winning the Orange bowl in his last college game as head coach of Stanford with Andrew Luck leading his charges and his ego has gotten bigger in the NFL as he has rubbed head coaches the wrong way and has not been graceful in defeat. So it looks like a kind of Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson kind of thing with it being GM Trent Baalke taken the place of the owner in this situation and even though has been linked to USC in college and the Browns almost traded for Harbaugh I still think that Harbaugh will one more season with the Niners and it will be explosive season between coach and gm in the media. I do not know if it will end in a big celebration in Arizona next February but after the 2014 season will find his way another team either in the NFL or college and get the huge money he is looking for. The 2014 season will have fireworks and not only for the new stadium Tom Mehegan

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Vicki Keith 's 24 anniversary of village 24 hour swim

On February 17, 1990 the (funny) crazy and the (good) insane Vicki Keith decided to for a little bite of a swim in the Variety village pool and by the time the young lady was done she hit 2772 walls and just kept going until 24 hours had been used up and it was February 18,1990 and she in the middle of the pool. The 2772 laps known Vicki that not a mistake because at some point she thought 70 km (ended up with a very impressive 69.31 KM) which would given a nice and tidy 28 hundred which most people my not do in their life time but near the end she probably motivated herself to get to a number that she can read backwards and forwards just like she has been motivating young people for decades and decades. Be it if u have a disability and u have a brother or sister without one why not swim together or in Vicki's style she will get u to try a few laps of her favorite stroke butterfly making flames fly and the more impressive penguins to fly when she moved from Toronto to Kingston in the early 2000s. Her will power off a lot of young people who have reached goals they may of never could of imaged when they started swimming with Vicki and of course many doctors have been proven wrong by Vicki because through her swim program people who were told they would not be able to walk got so strong they were able to walk and through it all Robert has been that thorn just poking at her first at the village and now in Kingston. Keep up the great work Vicki u r a guiding light for hundreds if not thousands of people Tom Mehegan

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Andre Reed is finally in the football hall of fame

Andre Reed was the big target for Jim Kelly and the K-gun of the Buffalo Bills in the late-eighties and early-to-mid-nineties that brought great regular seasons and remarkable playoff runs to Super Bowl 25-28. With the best movement was the Buffalo Bills playoff comeback against the Houston Oilers being down 35-3 on January 3,1993 101 seconds into the third quarter and the Bills rallied back to win 41-38 and it was a game that western New York and Sothern Ontario did not get to see until the very end because of the stupid local blackout rule that if the game is not sold out. In the end the legacy of Andre Reed and the late-eighties-early-to-mid-nighties was defined by one kick by one kick by Scott Norwood in Super Bowl 25 where he kicked a 47-yard field goal wide right given the New York Giants a 20-19 victory. Also the Bills were defined by the fact that the Bills went to four straight Super Bowl appearances with nothing but pride that left the players and the fans with empty hearts with the feels of what could of been. Andre Reed was drafted by the Bills in 1985 in the fourth round (86 overall)and played 15 seasons with the Bills and was voted to 7 pro bowls and had 941 receptions (951 in his career) for 13,095 (13,198) in 221 games (234) as a Buffalo Bills. He will now join his rightful place besides teammates Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, and Jim Kelly in the Hall Of Fame after a very long wait to get in, It makes me feel soooooo gooooood that the best NFL seasons of the Buffalo Bills being honored just like the players they lost to in the Super Bowls Tom Mehegan