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Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:16 pm**

I am sure a number of locals have been following the hype round the Super Bowl and Lawrence Tynes with much interest.

Lawrence and his brothers Jason and Mark grew up in Campbeltown before moving to the USA. All three brothers played for Longrow Boys Club and attended St Kierans Primary School.

Lawrence kicked his team to the Super Bowl two weeks and becomes the first Scot to play in a Super Bowl tomorrow night at his team, New York Giants, meet New England Patriots in Arizona.

Anyway, just wanted to say good luck and best wishes. Been in contact with his father for some time now who some of you may recall - Larry. Very exciting time for them all.

I put off posting these photos until now as I didn't want the press pestering me for copies! The auld man gave me these photos sometime ago and some feature on the Down Memory Lane bit of the site.

Here are some photos when Lawrence played with Longrow.

Lawrence is 1st left back row at an award ceremony in the Vic, Dec 1988.

Lawrence with Lowngrow under 10s in the Vic -

Winners down Kinloch Green - 1988 - front row far right.

And of course the one posted on the SPorts section some time ago - Longrow under 12s at Helensburgh. All three brothers feature in this photo.

Lawrence now

Article from the Courier last week.

American football star was ‘soccer’ hopeful
Published: 25 January, 2008
A KINTYRE American footballer has become the toast of New York after kicking his team to the Super Bowl with a dramatic extra time goal.

And his old Campbeltown football coach this week revealed that Lawrence Tynes had been an exceptional ‘soccer’ player when he played on the left wing for Longrow Boys Football Club under-10s team.

Lawrence fired the New York Giants into the Super Bowl after kicking a 47-yard field goal in overtime against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday.

The kick saw the Giants win 23-20 and they will now take part in the sport’s showpiece game against New England Patriots in Arizona next month.

Although born in Greenock, Lawrence attended St Kieran’s Primary School where he played football and shinty. He left Campbeltown, aged 10, when he moved to Florida with his family.

Lawrence, aged 29, is now aiming to become the first Scot to win the Super Bowl.

Willie Paterson was coach of Longrow Boys Football Club when Lawrence and his brothers Jason and Mark played in the late 1980s.

‘It was 17 years ago when he left Campbeltown with his family,’ recalled Willie. ‘His parents lived in the high street in the town and his dad Larry was a medic in the American naval base at Machrihanish.

‘At the time there were five football clubs representing the different areas and we had under 10, 12 and 14s teams. Lawerence was very good. He had great skill and control and played with us for four years. He had exceptional pace although he was quite a tall boy and played on the left for us.

‘Lawerence was our player of the year for the under 10s so we moved him up to the under-12s where he didn’t look out of place amongst the older boys. I received a nice letter after the family moved to America from Larry thanking me for working with the boys.’

Willie says it is hard to tell whether Lawrence would have become a professional footballer in Scotland. ‘Larry was very keen for Lawrence and his brothers to get involved in football,’ he said. ‘But it is hard to judge at that age because I had two or three boys before, of a similar age, who you thought might have had a chance of going professional but they lost interest.’

Lawrence, who is a big Celtic fan, is pictured below with current Rangers manager Walter Smith when Longrow played Helensburgh.

Willie said: ‘The picture was taken when Walter Smith was assistant manager of Rangers and his son was playing for Helensburgh. He was very good with our boys giving them tips.’

The Super Bowl will be watched by an estimated one billion people worldwide when it is screened on February 3.

Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:25 pm**

I hope he kicks the winning points.

I remember Larry playing golf at Dunaverty...quite often on his own...practising practising practising.

Good luck Lawrence Tynes.

Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:40 pm**

He might have invited Willie P and Jayne over for the final,his first mentor and coach. :wink:

Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:11 pm**

i read the bit about this fella and campbeltown in the record today

quite funny when it mentioned he wants to walk down aryll street :lol:

Posted: **Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:22 pm**

bud wrote:quite funny when it mentioned he wants to walk down aryll street

He might well have memories of Argyll Street - he walked along it to go to school. :wink:

Posted: **Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:28 am**

Go Giants!

Posted: **Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:27 am**

Congratulations to Lawrence, who got the scoring underway in the fantastic win by the NY Giants. A boy fae the toon wi a Superbowl ring, who would have thunk it!

Posted: **Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:45 am**

willie p might have taught him how to kick a ball, but he got his love of the gridiron from watching his old man play against, big doogie, spo, joseph, wee mark, neelie strings, cocker, wee sna-ba, big eddie, neil the veet, crater face, and thon handsome big fella, the well toned athlete with the hand to eye co-ordination of art monk and santana moss that used to stay over killean place, every sunday doon the quarry green.

big eddie in particular must have impressed him with his ability to kick the pigskin a country mile, he wisnae bad at kicking a ball either, but preferred to kick pigs, nobody knows why?

lawrence tynes for citizen of the year, we could do with the publicity while we're waiting on the ferry!!!!!!

no, that wasn't meant as a joke

Posted: **Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:05 pm**

it would be actually really quite good if someone pointed this forum out to Mr Tynes or have you done that already MrP?

Posted: **Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:07 am**

All i can say is what a cracking result for the Giants! Luckily enough, me and the wife are in NY for the week and atmosphere here is electric, for someone who new little about the NFL and the rules of the game... im loving every minute of it.

Tomorrow there is going to be a massive parade through manhattan and its going to be some party, maybe with a little luck i can catch a yarn with lawrence after the parade is finished

as the players are going to be mixing with the crowd.

MON THE GIANTS! Eli Manning { wot a guy]

Posted: **Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:57 am**

if you do ask him how it felt after kicking the game winning field goal to get to the superbowl and all the cameras automatically focusing on eli manning, rather than on him, he was the hero afterall but it was No.10 that was shown celebrating not No.9. then again by winning the superbowl he probably guaranteed himself a job for the next season, if they'd lost he would have been given his jotters for missing two field goal attempts in regular time. such is the lot of the kicker in the NFL, other teammates don't regard them as real players, fans don't hero worship them like they do the glamourous positions, but when it comes down to the wire its the kicker who has to get them out of a hole. the patriots three previous superbowl wins were by a total margin of only eleven points, points all scored by their kicker, lawrence tynes five points in the superbowl were the difference between victory and defeat, but will he get a three or four year contract with a big bonus? i think not, he'll only be as good as his last kick, here's hoping he never misses another one, until they play the redskins of course, where i hope he canna kick his ain erse, in both games.

Posted: **Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:16 pm**

Buzz Lightyear wrote:it would be actually really quite good if someone pointed this forum out to Mr Tynes or have you done that already MrP?

I e-mailed his father a couple of months ago with regards the website and forum. Perhaps Lawrence did read it and hence the reason I never got his e-mail address! :wink:

I was always looking to contact his father, Larry, as my Dad speaks about the Longrow days alot and every now and again the Tynes are featured in his stories. I tried to get in contact (with Larry) a number of years ago but it took until Sept last year to finally get contact with him. I had left a message on a forum in Jan 2006 looking for Larry and the Express phoned when they noticed a reply to it and were doing a story about Lawrence and playing football in Campbeltown etc. I'll e-mail Larry and point out the comments.

On another note, it is rather sad to see that one of the Sunday tabloids could use a photo I previously sent again without permission. (didn't give it away there :wink:

) Was rather annoyed to see the photo used again and also quoting me! Seems it was something I said on here! Journalists! :evil:

Posted: **Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:25 pm**

Well.. managed to get a few good photos taday at the Giants parade through manhattan, but as you can imagine the place was mayhem.. i think there were 1 million plus.

You would have thought they would have put the full winning super bowl players on 1 big open top bus, that wasnt the case. They had several floats with different groups of players on each [ie] offence then defence e.t.c.
but luckily enough i managed to grab a couple of photos of Lawrence going by on his float :wink:

, so will get them on the forum nxt week sometime.

cheers

Posted: **Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:42 pm**

Sounds like a great day to be in NY.

Surely people were asking for photos with you Ringo?? :wink:

Posted: **Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:57 pm**

I was the main attraction Jock strap!!

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Super Bowl - Good Luck Lawrence! With Photos

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