Posted in Burt Talks Sports on Feb 3rd, 2011 Comments Off
Eagle-Tribune Pro Football Writers Bill Burt and Hector Longo will be hosting their first-ever Super Bowl Spectacular today, from 2 p.m.-5 p.m. on WCCM-AM radio 1110. Special guests like New York Giant Zak DeOssie and former Patriots great Steve Grogan…
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Posted in Burt Talks Sports on Jan 23rd, 2011 Comments Off
We may want to put this guy at the top of the NFL heap in terms of NFL quarterbacks. He’s that good, particularly when it counts the most. I write a column in Monday’s Eagle-Tribune sports on this very subject. Also, the odds are out and th…
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Posted in Burt Talks Sports on Jan 23rd, 2011 Comments Off
AFC Championship, N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh: How could a guy pick the Jets to score six points and lose by five-plus touchdowns one week pick those same Jets to beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh? Because. The Jets showed me something against the Patriots, …
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Posted in Burt Talks Sports on Jan 18th, 2011 Comments Off
The Patriots announced the signing of seven free agents, all practice squad members at the end of this season, including Andover’s Buddy Farnham. Farnham, 6-foot and 185 pounds, was originally signed by the Patriots as a rookie free agent out of …
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Posted in Burt Talks Sports on Jan 18th, 2011 Comments Off
It isn’t often I will side with the Jets when it comes to the Patriots, but in this instance I am J-E-T-S Jets! Jets! Jets. A few Patriots after the game, particuarly Deion Branch, alluded to a few of the Jets as being classless after their celeb…
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Posted in Burt Talks Sports on Jan 17th, 2011 Comments Off
Here’s the silver lining from yesterday’s misery at Gillette Stadium: The Patriots got a slightly better draft pick. We pretty much knew a few weeks ago that the Patriots would be getting three of the first 33 draft picks (Oakland’s f…
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Posted in Burt Talks Sports on Jan 17th, 2011 Comments Off
OK, so I hung around the Jets Bart Scott for too long Sunday afternoon, here are some great snippets from him that you may have seen or missed after the Jets knocked off the Pats, 28-14. On the visit by Dennis Byrd to the team on Saturday … “Just t…
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Posted in Burt Talks Sports on Jan 14th, 2011 Comments Off
This comes from the Weather Channel: Baltimore Ravens @ Pittsburgh Steelers Saturday, 4:30 p.m. ET, Heinz Field – Pittsburgh, PA Gametime Weather Index: 6 High 33° F; Low 20° F, 70% Chance of precipitation. Weather factors: Light snow is expect…
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Posted in Burt Talks Sports on Jan 13th, 2011 Comments Off
Call is humor. Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker was among three players interviewed this morning and it was probably more than a coincidence that he used one particular word about fvie times. The word? Foot. The Gresh and Zo show on the Sports Hub, 98…
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Posted in Burt Talks Sports on Jan 13th, 2011 Comments Off
This is all over the Internet, worth a chuckle … Peyton Manning, after living a full life, died. When he got to heaven, God was showing him around. They came to a modest little house with a faded Colts flag in the window. “This house is you…
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