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That crazy, rabid and dedicated New York Giants fan you see to your left is Belle. She is a beautiful 11-year-old girl suffering from Cystic Fibrosis, and on Monday, October 8th, she, along with former New York Giants center Shaun O'Hara, the Shaun O'Hara Foundation and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation will be holding the "Great Drives" golf benefit at the Fairmount Country Club in Chatham, New Jersey.
In April 2009, Shaun, along with his wife Amy, launched the Shaun O'Hara Foundation, whose mission is to increase knowledge and education for life-threatening diseases for which there is limited funding. This former New York Giant and Pro-Bowl Center has been instrumental in raising money and awareness for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and we are incredibly proud to host this event with him.
All proceeds from this event will directly benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
The schedule of events for the golf benefit are as follows:
10:30 – Registration at Club House, Putting Green Competition and Driving range opens for practice.
11:00 – BBQ/Lunch at Club House
12:00 – Shotgun Start
4:30 – Cocktails and Hors D’oeuvres
5:30 – Dinner in the Formal Dining Room and Golf Awards/Live Auction/Silent Auction
So whether you own a business and are just looking to support a fantastic charity and receive some advertising, or you're just a fan and/or golf enthusiast looking to help a great cause, there are plenty of options available to you. For more information please visit the Shaun O'Hara Foundation, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation or the "Great Drives" even page on Facebook. You can also e-mail Liz Christ or Siobhan Reid at eporet@optonline.net, or siobhan.redi1@gmail.com respectively.
We hope to see you there!
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Well done, Dan. More of this please!
It’s good to see “All proceeds from this event will directly benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation”.
I know I’m supposed to feel nervous about this game. But I’m not.
Ordinarily, I’m on edge for the entire week leading up to any divisional contest. Only this time I am strangely calm.
Yeah, I know it’s the Eagles – the team that has posted a 7-1 record (including one playoff win) in their last eight games against the Giants. I’m intimately familiar with the whole painful history; the bad mojo; the horrific game plans that have all contributed to the Giants dubious record of futility against the Brotherly Lovers.
Maybe I’m just deluding myself but this one feels different. Maybe it’s because I think this is a very different Giants team – and a very different Eagles team – than the ones we’ve seen over much of those previous eight games.
The biggest difference, methinks, is at the most important position of all, QB. In six of those eight games, the Eagles QB was Donovan McNabb. In his prime he was a very, very good QB who always seemed to have the Giants number. He was also a far better pure QB than Michael Vick.
No, McNabb was never the running threat that Vick is. But the Super Puker’s ability to stand tall in the pocket, go through his progressions, and wait for an opening downfield was always light years better than the Dog Killer’s.
McNabb may never have elevated his level of play to “elite” status but he was just a cut below at his best. And, frankly, for much of those last eight games, he was every bit as good a QB as the younger Eli Manning – who had not yet elevated his play to an “elite” level himself.
Today, of course, we’re talking about a very different Eli Manning who is arguably playing the QB position at a higher level than anyone else in the NFL right now. I think Giants fans – accustomed as we are to expecting the worst (especially against Philly) – tend to underestimate what an enormous advantage Eli affords this team every time they take the field.
Simply put, the gap in quality between the Eagles and Giants QBs, once razor thin, has widened to an abyss the size of the Grand Canyon. This is not an insignificant factor.
That’s as far as I’m going to go with this. I’m feeling relaxed – but I’m not yet bold enough to translate those feelings into actual predictions. Superstition dies hard. That 1-7 record is hard to ignore; an ever present reminder that the football gods have historically saved their most cunning pranks for Giants-Eagles tilts. Wouldn’t want to tempt them too much.
And then, there’s this:
The Eagles have actually beaten the Giants lately — a lot.
They won seven of the past eight times they played New York, to be exact.
Given that it’s such a lopsided run of head-to-head results, that only made Giants coach Tom Coughlin’s and Pierre-Paul’s remarkably jovial moods Friday seem all the more notable. Coughlin actually cracked a few jokes, but that’s easy to explain; he’s always loved big-game weeks such as this NFC East showdown, even if it’s going to be played at the Eagles’ place Sunday night. But Pierre-Paul? It was almost as if he was happy because he knows something.
Think it might be that the Eagles’ offensive line is expected to be without its starting center and forced to start its third-string left tackle?
“Oh man, that’s trouble, right? Third one? Man! That’s trouble,” JPP repeated, breaking into another laugh.
“You know what they say about third string, right?” Then he laughed again.
Pierre-Paul went on to suggest that regardless of the Eagles’ recent domination of their rivalry, the Giants think they have come across something that worked so well defensively against Vick the last time they met, the rest of the league has copied it. And it’s not just the part about hitting Vick again and again, as often as they can, which is something the entire Giants defense takes great satisfaction in. Not just the defensive line.
http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/8436881/new-york-giants-jason-pierre-paul-issues-warning-michael-vick
Translation … “Sure they routinely beat our a$$. But we showed other teams what to do against them.”
Wonderful.