{"id":3279,"date":"1969-12-31T21:49:45","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T01:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/1969\/12\/31\/the-17-minute-season\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T12:02:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T16:02:40","slug":"the-17-minute-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/1969\/12\/31\/the-17-minute-season\/","title":{"rendered":"The 17-minute Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;margin-top: 10px;margin-bottom: 10px;margin-right: 10px\" alt=\"101807-tom-brady-model.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/bostonist.com\/attachments\/boston_caroline\/101807-tom-brady-model.jpg\" class=\"imgleft\" height=\"212\" width=\"282\" \/>It&#8217;s not a wonderful life. Food doesn&#8217;t taste good. Sleep doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\ncome easily, and the air is polluted. New England sports fans are lost<br \/>\nboys and lost girls. They have lost their leader and their mojo. They<br \/>\nhave lost their way.<\/p>\n<p>It was just two days ago that the football<br \/>\nseason was starting and hope was infinite. The Patriots were going to<br \/>\ngo 18-0 again and this time they were going to finish the job. Jealous<br \/>\nhaters across the land were going to be forever silenced. Tom was going<br \/>\nto win the Super Bowl and there would be no tarnish on the Patriots&#8217;<br \/>\nclaim as &#8220;greatest ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/football\/patriots\/articles\/2008\/09\/09\/a_perfectly_miserable_development\/\">Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The 2008 season of the New England Patriots lasted exactly 17 minutes.  For all the protestations, promises and optomistic bleatings from the lockerroom and the pressbox, all realistic football aficionados know that for all intents and purposes this campaign is over and done with.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><br \/>Which is not to say that there isn&#8217;t a lot of football yet to be played, or that enjoymnet cannot still be sucked from the shell shocked schedule and the challenges to come.  But it will be hard to watch.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a wonderful life. Food doesn&#8217;t taste good. Sleep doesn&#8217;t come easily, and the air is polluted. New England sports fans are lost boys and lost girls. They have lost their leader and their mojo. They have lost their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/1969\/12\/31\/the-17-minute-season\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}