Kebob (explained later) comes to Giants Stadium to steal a victory from the jaws of, umm...err.. the tie monster. With the weather, recent news, the tail end of Hurricane Charley, and the Metros collapse in the final minutes, there was a lot of blowing in Jersey.

The Tailgate

Due to an imminent threat of torrential downpour (a bit exaggerated), the group once again headed indoors to Bazooka’s, the official pre-game Idiot hangout.

Those present: Paul, Brian, Ronen, Keith, Jason and Joshua (Jason's son).

Absent: Andrew, Joey, John, Greg and Ofer. Reasons? Who cares at the this point, check prior game recaps for the different ones given. At this point, we should just assign a number to each reason and members can simply call and say “dude, its last minute, but #5” and it’ll be understood to mean that my wife looked up at the sky and said, "its suppose to rain, John (oops, sorry), there’s no way you’re driving an hour and leaving me home alone with nothing to do while we have all of these errands to run for the house and don’t forget you promised me that you would fix that thing over in that room and didn’t you already hung out with some of your friends during the week and what do you think you are single, we got married god damn it." Anyway...

The bar was quite eventful, as Keith continually dumped Joshua’s cup of water off the table with the hopes of bringing the bazooka girl running over (why, I have no idea). Joshua is 2 and was thirsty… nice Keith. Regardless, plenty was discussed including future World Cup games as well as the imminent World Cup qualifiers approaching for the US and the first road trip of the year to Foxboro.

Wow, this recap is dull. Blah blah blah, blah blah blah…. It’s foreshadowing of the game that was imminent. (hey, why the hell am I using the word "imminent" so much?) The answer, is…umm…err….imminent.

Brian and Keith, after withstanding sitting across from each other the entire time, decide to ride to the stadium together...Developing...

The Game

Brian and Keith arrive a little late though they left Bazooka’s at the same time everyone else did and lets face it, both of them are New Jersey residents with you know who as the governor facing an imminent departure. The remaining Idiots attending were all NY residents.

So, Brian and Keith decide that although we have 11 open and empty seats in the first row, they decide to sit right next to each other...Developing...

The game was a snore fest, with the Metros missing a few quality scoring chances, most notably, Cornell Glen’s sitter at the end of the first half. Jeff Parke continues to have a rookie of the year performance stopping most of TFKATB chances "the team formerly known as the Burn". The acronym kind of sounds like Kebob if you try and say it ten times quickly. So anyway, as a draw and the end of the game seemed, you guessed it, imminent, Kebob pressure our Metro goal and score a header in the final minute to win 1-0. Eddie Johnson, being the punk choker that he is, gets in the altercation with me, and although no water bottle was thrown at me, the incident rates as one of the better ones second only to the US Open Cup incident with Franchino. What’s great is that I only realized the next day that he didn’t score the goal, but judging by his reaction, you’d think that he did.

Following the game, we all realize that Joshua’s developing a great foot and Keith, by senior member vote, must give Ronen full attendance credit for the July 10th game. Keith’s attempt to skew the attendance race for his own benefit is not much different than the self serving actions of his Governor.