Dear Boston Sports Fans, you have my wife to thank for the past eleven years...

Eleven years to the day, my future-wife-to-be and I packed up our Honda Civic with a cooler, a Victoria's Secret nightgown & a Holiday Gift Basket accidentally sent to our home from Jerry Bruckheimer and left for a five hour road trip to Vegas where we would fight, make-up and eventually get married at The Wee Kirk O' the Heather wedding chapel.

It was a brash move that nobody saw coming...  much like the soon-to-be 2001 Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots decision to introduce themselves as The New England Patriots instead of the usual player by player introductions of either their offense or defense.

Married only a few months, I celebrated my wedding nuptials with the most likely of wedding gifts - a SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP PARTY - wonderfully hosted my WIFE... it was weird to say those  words at first... it was nice and felt right but also seemed like such a foreign concept - something that would happen far, far, far in the future - like "When the Patriots won the Super Bowl", I might have joked only a few years earlier.

For the next few years things went smoothly until my wife announced she was pregnant with our first child (it was my second child - a beautiful girl from a previous relationship) and this being our first child together created a very exciting and tumultuous nine months which culminated in...

    THE PATRIOTS WINNING THEIR SECOND SUPER BOWL IN THREE YEARS!!!!!!!!

Okay, so maybe that wasn't the culmination but what an entrance!!!  My son entered a world where the New England Patriots were becoming an NFL DYNASTY - it was brand new world for him and it would be completely changed again when before he was only one years old...

                      THE BOSTON RED SOX WOULD WIN THE WORLD SERIES!!!!!

In less time than it took for my wife to make a baby - the Boston sports world had completely changed from lovable losers to ARROGANT KINGS OF THE SPORTS WORLD the rest of the world - especially Spike Lee hated...

But my wife and I weren't finished and neither was Boston Sports...

The Patriots followed up their 2nd Super Bowl Win with a third the very next year....

Which was followed by another Red Sox World Series....Ho-hum....

More years of marriage then...

A CELTICS CHAMPIONSHIP...

...Then another Son - my second boy!   It was so amazing - his entrance punctuated the Patriots undefeated season and another trip to the Super Bowl and then as if the Gods couldn't provide enough.....

MY FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM OF ALL TIME!!

      MY FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM OF ALL TIME!!

                MY FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM OF ALL TIME!!

THE BOSTON BRUINS WON THE STANLEY CUP!!!!!!!!

MY FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM OF ALL TIME!!

I pushed my wife, daughter and two sons in front of the TV... I talked about my grandfather who introduced me to hockey many years ago and was now watching down from Heaven.  I gave thanks for the Bruins, for my wife, my children and my life - Life was good - LIFE WAS GREAT and it keeps getting better... with an occasional hiccup...

But as I look back on the past eleven years, I can honestly say that the greatest sports moments in my life were experienced with my wife - hand in hand - with her heart, patience, love and care - she has changed my life and I am so grateful for these past eleven years......

Now let's see what she has planned for this year......