A Tennyson poem to toast the Super Bowl champs.
Tag Archives: New England Patriots
Eagles’ Win Was Like a Thunderbolt
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The Super Bowl, Comic & Tragic Versions
The Patriots miraculously escaped a hanging, the Seahawks did not. It’s the difference between Gay’s “Beggars Opera” and Bierce’s “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”
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The Miraculous Ride of Tom Brady
If they win the Super Bowl, Brady and Belichick will become as legendary in the sports world as that patriot of old, Paul Revere.
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Belichick Ranks with Lit’s Great Plotters
Coach Bill Belichick resembles the nefarious plotters in such works as “Portrait of a Lady” and “Liaisons Dangereuses.”
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Tom Brady Channels Medea’s Fury
Lack of respect can lead to fury and destruction. As it was with Medea, so it was last week with Tom Brady.
