Author: Kevin Stone
Renegades: Allison Cahill doing her best Brady impression as Boston looks for three-peat
In case you’re still not over Tom Brady, don’t trust Cam Newton (why would you) and still need a new veteran quarterback with all sorts of accolades to root for, you may want to start paying attention to Allison Cahill. On Wednesday it was announced that Cahill was named the Women’s Football Alliance National Football Conference Most Valuable Player. The MVP is the fourth of Cahill’s career. Since beginning to…
Patriots: 25 Days celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC title – Day 16
We’re down to single digits in our 25 day celebration after today, so before we finish up with a few more key pieces to the puzzle and a look back at the postseason wins, there’s one major aspect of the season we haven’t really talked much about yet. Good ole Foxboro Stadium. Most people my age don’t remember the old place with the metal benches, gross bathrooms, mud pits in…
Patriots: 25 Days celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC title – Day 15
We’ve had mostly positive things to reminisce about during our 25 day project, but today we take a look at a 12-6 loss to the defending Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys on December 15, 1996. The score wasn’t pretty, but it was a very important day confidence wise for the young defense and coordinator Al Groh. At the time, the Patriots’ offense was humming while Dallas entered as the NFL’s…
Patriots: 25 Days celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC title – Day 14
Two weeks to go in our look back at the 1996 AFC championship season for the Patriots. Before we take a look at a dominant win over the Jets late in the season, a quick reminder that if you missed our live show on Monday night with Drew Bledsoe and Todd Rucci, do yourself a favor and find an hour to listen to it. Both of them were incredibly generous…
Patriots: 25 Days celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC title – Day 13
Lucky No. 13. First and foremost, a reminder that we are very lucky to have both Todd Rucci and Drew Bledsoe jointing us on the New England Football Show tonight at 8 to reminisce about that season and talk about what they’re up to now. Getting back to our trip down memory lane, we take a look back at the season that the original 87, Ben Coates had in 1996….
Patriots: 25 Days celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC title
We’re up to our 12th day of 25 celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC championship team. A few days ago, we talked about the job offensive coordinator Ray Perkins did that season with the Patriot’ offense. Well, the guy leading the charge on the field was Drew Bledsoe. We are absolutely thrilled to have Drew and offensive lineman Todd Rucci joining us to reminisce about the season on…
25 Days celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC title – Day 11
It’s a bit hard to believe we’re already on our 11th installment of this little project celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC championship win for the Patriots, but here we are. Today, we’re going to take a look at arguably the best overall game of the year for New England. It happened to come in primetime on Sunday Night Football, December 1, 1996 in San Diego. Coming off…
Day 10 – 25 Days celebrating the 25th anniversary of the 1996 AFC title
The Patriots’ offense in 1996 can honestly be considered one of the best in team history, at least as far as rankings go. That season, Drew Bledsoe, Curtis Martin, Terry Glenn, Shawn Jefferson, Ben Coates and other contributors helped New England finish second in the NFL in points scored. Aside from the 2007 offense, how many times in recent memory has there ever been an offense that prolific residing in…