The Kintyre Forum

Former resident of Campbeltown Lawrence Tynes has become the first Scotsman to win a Superbowl ring. Lawrence, the kicker for the New York Giants kicked a 3pt field goal and 2 P.A.T in the Giants 17-14 win over the New England Patriots in Arizona tonight.

the game went right down to the wire with Giants reciever Plexico Burress scoring the winning touchdown in the last minute of the game. By now with all the media attention everyone should know that Lawrence grew up in Campbeltown while his father Larry was stationed here. He moved to Florida when he was 10, just in time to avoid having to play for Rangers Boys Club, a lucky escape as he is a celtic fan and his hero is Mo johnson. After a spell with the Scottish Claymores and some time in Canada he joined the ranks of the NFL when he signed for the Kansas City Chiefs. He moved to the Giants at the end of last season and during the playoffs scored the winning field goal to take the Giants into the Superbowl.

Congratulations Lawrence (through gritted teeth as i'm a redskins fan and the two teams are deadly rivals, think Rangers/Celtic, you'll get the idea)

How about the town doing something to honour our most famous son? there was over 500 million worldwide watching tonights game. How about citizen of the year? he's brought the town the only good publicity we've had in a long while, every interview with him in recent weeks has mentioned the town as the place where he spent his early years and learned how to kick a ball (a round one that is, thanks to wullie P)

he plans to try and get over to Scotland during the close season to watch his beloved Celtic, an invitation back to the town wouldn't go amiss?

Superb achievment !!!


(I'm a Giants fan anyway :D:D)

what are you doing up at this ungodly time? i know why i'm up, i'm an insomniac, plus i haven't missed a superbowl since 1984.

which coverage did you watch? i watched BEEB2, it was quite good if you ignored that pleb presenter, dick stockton an sterling sharpe were good, they're not john madden, but then who is? except peter alliss, murray walker, bill mclaren, doogie vipond.

Aye, well done to Lawrence Tynes and the rest of the New York Giants team. He said in an article in one of the Saturday tabloids that he does intend to return here, this year, but I agree that some form of formal invitation wouldn't go amiss.

what time do you want us up?

theres some major pee heeing going on in this site this morning

well done lawrence and the giants,see you soon

Technically he is a Greenock man.

I had the day off so I sat up and watched it. I'd say it is probably the first time I have ever sat and watched a game (the full thing) and it was far more exciting than I thought.

The toon will have to get a wee plaque on the High Street post office saying 'LT stayed above here' !

Excellent game, one of the most exciting superbowls since Buffalo lost in 1991 by a missed kick.

I recorded and watched it today, the whole recorded programme was 4hrs 15 mins long but, with the fast forward button I managed to watch the whole thing in 1hr 25 mins.

Makes ye wonder why they have to have all the other shite going on!

All part of the game. Also, people watch for the commercials that are sometimes priceless during superbowl, although I didn't see any yesterday that I thought were overly good.

Trapper wrote:I recorded and watched it today, the whole recorded programme was 4hrs 15 mins long but, with the fast forward button I managed to watch the whole thing in 1hr 25 mins.

Makes ye wonder why they have to have all the other shite going on!

Don't tell me you didn't bother watching Tom Petty at half time?!

Really enjoyed the game myself, first one I've watched in full for a good few years. Might need to tune in a bit more often next season.

Trapper wrote:I recorded and watched it today, the whole recorded programme was 4hrs 15 mins long but, with the fast forward button I managed to watch the whole thing in 1hr 25 mins.

Makes ye wonder why they have to have all the other shite going on!

I must admit once the game started in didn't drag. But I was struggling a bit at half time. How long do they get? 30 minutes?

Where did all those fans at half time come from? Imagine that at half time of the Scottish Cup Final - letting the fans on to enjoy the music. Then they all vanished!

Now Trapper, can I post the photo of you and Lawrence at your birthday party in your house? Its a cracker!

of course you can davie!!

Trapper wrote:of course you can davie!!

Well you did say so....

I am sure your sister will love this.

I love the way Dennis is trying to sneak another Tunnocks Tea Cake in while you are all smiling at the camera! I used to carry my camera everywhere in them days too.

That is a cracker! I've nae shame, although I believe I'm sporting a bit of a what we used to call "helmet" haircut!!