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Jared W. Smith is a 23-year-old IT nerd and perennial college student in Charleston, South Carolina. He's maintained some sort of presence on the Web since 1998 and has been blogging since before "blogging" became a term (the year 2000, to be exact).

Recent Posts Tagged With 'patriots'

• Watching the game in the era of Twitter

  Posted on Sunday October 12th, 2008 at 21:02 in Asides, chargers, football, nfl, patriots, twitter

  It’s so much fun to watch the game with tweets about the Chargers and Patriots on in the background. Lots of great fan reaction — it’s like watching the game with a bunch of friends...

• NFL Week 1 in a nutshell

  Posted on Sunday September 7th, 2008 at 20:59 in 2008 season, chargers, jake delhomme, nfl, nfl week 1, panthers, patriots, philip rivers, recap, sports, tom brady

  In case you haven’t heard, all indications are that Tom Brady is done for the year. Last year, the Patriots talked about playing through the adversity of Spygate, etc — but they had all t...

• 18-1

  Posted on Sunday February 3rd, 2008 at 21:14 in giants, patriots, super bowl xlii, upset

  Upset of the century. Wow. I’m pretty much speechless. Absolutely speechless. Belichick’s arrogance finally caught up with him. On 4th and 13 in the 3rd quarter, instead of a 49-yard f...

• A dignified end

  Posted on Sunday January 20th, 2008 at 20:05 in afc championship, chargers, patriots, Playoffs

  For the second time this season, the Chargers fell victim to The Perfectriots. This is the second consecutive postseason loss for the Chargers against New England. Unlike last year’s loss, I f...

• Da BOLTS!

  Posted on Sunday January 13th, 2008 at 15:49 in afc championship game, afc divisional round, chargers, colts, patriots, upset

  Has Hell frozen over? Norv Turner’s Chargers are in the AFC Championship Game without LaDainian Tomlinson and with BILLY VOLEK at quarterback. What an amazing game, with amazing play from both...

• The Divisional Round

  Posted on Sunday January 13th, 2008 at 10:12 in afc divisional round, brett favre, chargers, jaguars, nfc divisional round, packers, patriots, peyton manning, ryan grant, tom brady

  After winning a playoff game for the first time since I was 9 (a game they didn’t have to play in last year), the San Diego (Super) Chargers head to the Room Temperature FieldTurf Tundra of the ...

• 16-0

  Posted on Saturday December 29th, 2007 at 22:26 in nfl, nfl week 17, patriots, undefeated season

  The New England Patriots have just completed the first undefeated 16-game regular season in NFL history. The Giants gave ‘em a game for the first half, but the Patriots pulled away and really w...

• Rainy days are here again

  Posted on Saturday December 29th, 2007 at 12:39 in 16-0, betamax, bryant gumbel, common sense or lack thereof, giants, lawsuits, nfl, nfl network, nfl week 17, patriots, rainy days, riaa

  It’s nice to finally get some rain around here for a change. We need whatever we can get. The green and orange blobs — if they hold together (which doesn’t always happen) — w...

• The Patriots should be VERY worried

  Posted on Monday December 3rd, 2007 at 23:02 in Asides, monday night football, patriots, ravens, Thriller, undefeated season

  The Patriots had no business winning tonight. They had no answer for Willis McGahee. Their offensive line was no match for Ravens defensive coordinator Rex Ryan’s overload schemes. The Ravens...

• The Big Game (and a couple little ones, too)

  Posted on Sunday November 4th, 2007 at 23:40 in adrian peterson, brad childress, chargers, colts, david carr, john fox, john kasay, nfl, panthers, patriots, titans

  This is one of those Lousy Football Days that I will just care to forget… David Carr is not the answer for the Panthers. Period. He may be a warm body at the quarterback position, but there&#...