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Training camp schedule announced

The practice schedule for training camp this August has been released. If you are going to be in Albany to watch any of the sessions, send me an e-mail. Perhaps a beer, a round of golf -- or both -- will be in order.

The Giants signed have signed fourth-round pick Andre Brown, a running back.

NOTE: I am outta here for a couple of days. I'm heading to our summer place in the Adirondacks -- without my laptop. Can't remember the last time I did that. So, I'm leaving the inmates to run the asylum for the weekend. Enjoy!

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Not to be nosey or anything

It’s been slow on the news front lately and thought i would throw this out here. Seeing how Ed has stated he was going to the Adirondacks, i was actually curious where some of you folks are from. The reason why i ask this is pretty simple, i generally do not read anything from people pertaining to my part of NY!

I’m from upstate NY approximately 30 miles north of Utica (50 miles N. originally) in a small village of Boonville (currently). It’s pretty rural if you could imagine. I just get curious when i see people referring to this part of the state!

Put it this way, the Catskills and Albany are not upstate NY! Like-wise from Buffalo-Albany and anything south of the I-90 corridor! lol

by Hootman on Jun 26, 2009 4:00 PM EDT reply actions  

Boonville

I actually know where that is. My friend just got married there. I did not make the trip, up from DC (Arlington, VA, actually) where I am.

by queler on Jun 26, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

It's a small world

But really, no one gets married in Boonville unless your from here and the Brides father has a shotgun! lol

by Hootman on Jun 27, 2009 11:13 AM EDT up reply actions  

wow

I didn’t actually know there was a place called “Boon-ville”. I always thought of places way the FK out there as the boonies or the boondocks (funny show too), but lol at there actually being a place called Boonville.

Actually the tri-state as plenty of funny names, like Coxsackie NY and Mianus CT.

by FreeBradshaw on Jun 27, 2009 1:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

New Orleans, La

Born and raised in a jar full of swamp water and cayenne pepper.

When people ask me how I can be a Giants fan growing up around the New Orleans Saints. I always ask one question…. have you ever seen the Saints play?

by EverBlue on Jun 26, 2009 5:00 PM EDT reply actions  

I don't know about N.O.

I really wouldn’t feel too comfortable knowing that the city is below sea level. lol

by Hootman on Jun 27, 2009 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions  

Philadelphia

Maybe the toughest place in the world to be a Giants fan.

by Tucker Fredrickson on Jun 26, 2009 10:56 PM EDT reply actions  

Tuck

I think we should microchip you and keep a close eye on you as a potential double agent. I despise all things Philadelphia. Let me tell you about the time I got kicked out of Philadelphia.
I was about 17 and getting poontang irregularly enough that when an online friend (chick) suggested I visit, I hopped on a bus. Now, I had made sure this broad would have friends, and so two of my boys, Dan & Ed, came along as sort of an insurance policy in case this broad wasn’t all that.
And she wasn’t. No spark whatsoever. I wasn’t going to be getting in this gal’s pants, but fortunately my longtime love booze was around.
We were staying at a big Embassy Suites somewhere near what I imagine was the city center. And at the time, about 15 years ago, they had free open bar from about 6 to 8 or 7 to 9. To a 17-year-old budding alcoholic, that’s a drag race of drinking. We had already been boozing it up in the room with the girls and probably knocked back 6 or 7 free drinks in the allotted time. This was back when all I could drink was about 15 beers. I can’t believe we didn’t get carded, especially with the frequency of our refills.
On the way back up to the room, Eric spilled his last drink on my shirt in the elevator. So I punched him in the face. Dan and I went back into the room while Eric drunkenly stormed about the hotel. Dan & I ordered a pitcher of Pete’s Wicked disgusting Ale from room service to supplement our dwindling bathtub stash of beers.
Eric returned to the room worked into a sufficient rage to punch me in the face, to which I replied by dragging him into the bathroom, throwing him into the bathtub, and punching him in the face repeatedly, breaking his nose. (This is what happens when guys don’t get laid.) Now Eric is running around the room like a chicken with his nose cut off, gushing blood all over the furniture.
Hotel security was at the room before long, to find a room in shambles, it must have looked like a murder scene. Only poor Dan was innocent. We managed to chug the Pete’s directly from the pitcher while being forcibly ejected from the hotel.
We then discovered that in the commotion we were short one return bus ticket, and spent the next two sore drunken hours aggressively panhandling in the streets to appalled passersby to make the $30 or so for the ticket, which we did.
I left Philadelphia, never to return. Eric’s dad, who had made the credit card deposit for the room, was charged for the blood and other damage.
As for me, Dan, and Eric, well, we’re all still pretty good friends.

You play to win the game!

by Simms-McConkey on Jun 26, 2009 11:23 PM EDT up reply actions  

Also from Philly

Its a bitch.. Especially because i’m a mets fan too :(

President of the Ramses Barden Fan Club

Fact on Villanova Sports

by Hoyadestroya85 on Jun 27, 2009 12:42 AM EDT reply actions  

Last time i was in S.C.

Well, back in ‘99 i was moving back home (Glenfield, pop. 250) from Jacksonville, FL and took a bus. As we were in S.C., some reason or another, a detour perhaps, the bus driver got us lost “somewhere” in what i would consider the boonies of S.C. The bus driver had to stop at this little run-down but still operating gas station to ask for directions. Meanwhile, i was observing the junk that littered the area and off to the side, there was this old junk car with about 5 gentlemen (all in their 70’s) surrounding the hood playing cards and shootin dice. Off course, no card game is complete w/o cigars and booze, as there bottles and cans scattered amongst the ground and on the car. Mind you, it was 10am! lol To this day, i still try to figure out how a bus driver can get lost?!

On a side note, if your ever thinking about taking a bus for a long haul. Think twice about it. It took 27 hours to go from Jax., FL to Syracuse, NY. Thank god i had a local friend that was in Syracuse that day to pick me up. As i was originally suppose to end up in Watertown, another 70 miles. Ugh!!!

by Hootman on Jun 27, 2009 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions  

But everyone in Moonville is too embarrassed

to actually use that as their address so we all have Piedmont addresses…I was born in Springfield, Ma but was an Army brat so I lived everywhere from Ethiopia to Hawaii. But for the last thirty years of so I’ve lived in South Carolina.

I have never been to a training camp. I would like to come up this year and meet some of the people I wrangle with on the blog. But I warn you, I’ll be wearing my “Bring back the 3-4 defense” T-shirt…..LOL

by giant fan since 57 on Jun 27, 2009 4:59 AM EDT reply actions  

You want to know whats embarrassing

The year i graduated from high school, 1990, is the year my hometown finally got cable tv.

The county i lived in (Lewis, est pop. 26,000) has more dairy cows. lol

by Hootman on Jun 27, 2009 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions  

Newark, NJ right here,

but I’ve been living in North Carolina for the last 18 years, hence my love for the ACC, Tarheel basketball and Hakeem Nicks. I remember growing up in Jersey in the days before cable and what you got on the tube was the Giants(channel 2), Jets(channel 4), Mets(channel 9), and Yankees(channel 11). I chose Giants and Mets as my teams. Didn’t do hockey back then. WWE was WWF and came on at midnight on channel 9 after the horse races. Things sure have changed. Now WWF is a prime time pay per view cash cow, I’m a regular at Hurricane hockey games and I’m living in Carolina where I have to pay $250+ every year (NFL Direct Ticket) just to see the Gmen.

by njgiant on Jun 27, 2009 7:05 AM EDT reply actions  

Long Island, NY

Stony Brook actually.

Im in college in an armpit of a city called Worcester Mass.

by FreeBradshaw on Jun 27, 2009 1:49 PM EDT reply actions  

westchester NY

and go to college at SUNY albany

by Simon72 on Jun 27, 2009 3:18 PM EDT reply actions  

Bethesda, MD

at least for the next few days, then I’m moving 10 miles west to Silver Spring (one metro stop north from where the big crash was last week). I’ve been down here for 3 years (I go to law school at American University in DC) after spending 4 years at college in Newark, Delaware. Originally from the south shore of Long Island.

by cjmulrain on Jun 27, 2009 4:12 PM EDT reply actions  

hmm..

If you were still in college, would Villanova still be beating the hens :P haha

President of the Ramses Barden Fan Club

Fact on Villanova Sports

by Hoyadestroya85 on Jun 29, 2009 12:51 AM EDT up reply actions  

Sydney, Australia

It may be tougher living in Philly, but you try surviving when you only get 1 NFL game per week.

by ChuckyofNorris on Jun 27, 2009 9:50 PM EDT reply actions  

That's a drag

Do you have to make do with Australian Rules Football?

by Tucker Fredrickson on Jun 28, 2009 6:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

Well

as long as its a Giants game you should be fine

by FreeBradshaw on Jun 28, 2009 8:27 AM EDT up reply actions  

thats the problem

it’s almost never a Giants game, and even if it is I have to get up at 4:30 am to watch it.

by ChuckyofNorris on Jun 28, 2009 11:46 PM EDT up reply actions  

where in Bergen County

my college roommate was from Westwood and now he lives in Patterson, so I’ve spent a decent amount of time in the area over the years

by cjmulrain on Jun 28, 2009 11:45 AM EDT up reply actions  

Ottawa, Canada

I have to put up with an extreme amount of Bills and Dolphin fans here (for years the only NFL you got was AFC East, unless you had a lot of cable channels). Luckily my father raised me right and got me watching the Giants… the rare Sunday they were on TV at any rate.

by brisulph on Jun 29, 2009 8:53 AM EDT reply actions  

London, UK

I blame my dad and Uncle (who lives in NY) for getting me into football and the giants. As (sort of) revenge, I painted my first ever car with a terrible giants helmet paintjob.

by catsmeat84 on Jun 29, 2009 12:04 PM EDT reply actions  

That reminds me...

Why don’t we come up with some kind of T-shirt for our motley crew?

by giant fan since 57 on Jun 30, 2009 5:32 AM EDT reply actions  

Would be good advertising

But I ain’t spending more than like 15 bucks tops for a tee!

You play to win the game!

by Simms-McConkey on Jun 30, 2009 7:47 AM EDT reply actions  

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