Jake Delhomme is 33-years-old. He's been throwing passes all his life. He's thrown them in his family's yard in Breaux Bridge, La., at Teurlings Catholic High in Lafayette, La., at Louisiana-Lafayette, in New Orleans, Amsterdam and Frankfurt, in Charlotte, Minneapolis, Seattle, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York. And he has never thrown a pass in the snow. Not one.
"I've never played in a snow game," he says after practice Wednesday.
He might. Snow is a possiblity Sunday night at Giants Stadium.
The closest Jake has come to snow is Green Bay. Late in Carolina's victory at Green Bay Nov. 30, gunk came down from the sky. But it wasn't snow. It was like floating garbage, a mix of unwanted stuff. Delhomme threw a spiral through it to Steve Smith and the Panthers won.
But still. How could you play the game as long as you have and never play a single game in real snow? Everybody has.
"I come from southwest Louisiana," Delhomme says. "We didn't get a lot of snow."
that was a terrabile title to this post
Posted by: chris | December 17, 2008 at 04:49 PM
The real challenge here won't be for Jake. It will be for the Giants when they have to convince Eli to stop making snow-angels and snow-forts and play football.
Posted by: South Florida Panthers Fan Club | December 17, 2008 at 05:04 PM
LOL!!! I agree Chris- and this man is a "professional writer"?
Hey Tom! Your grammar teacher is on line 3. . . .
Posted by: huh!? | December 17, 2008 at 05:20 PM
I was at the Green Bay game. The precipitation was in fact snow. Can't you write about Kemo's ankle or something?
Posted by: Jerry | December 17, 2008 at 05:41 PM
now come on, guys. tom's just trying to be his cute self.
Posted by: fan | December 17, 2008 at 08:41 PM