Saturday, January 21, 2012

Two American Traditions

Owing to the fact that I'm an Army brat, allow me to indulge in two very American traditions. Football and the Armed Service.

The football season is winding down now, coming upon two huge contests between the 49ers vs. the Giants and the Ravens vs. Patriots. And if you're a homesick soldier roasting in the desert of Kuwait, pining for the roar of a TV and the brews being passed to and fro while everybody yells at the vacuity of the commercials in between?

You make a video, of course. And post it online.

So courtesy of the 113th Sustainment Brigade currently stationed at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, a National Guard unit out of North Carolina overseeing and assisting the drawdown in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters, we bring you this, the videos, in order of winners to losers in each game (ordering my own):

New York Giants at San Francisco 49ers:








Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots:








(Ed. note: Excuse my selective curating, but it would be completely un-American of me to not indulge in that other American pasttime: false confidence masquerading as blowhardery. I am not a communist.)