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Steve's Bio

I am a former Officer and NCO from the US Army Special Forces. I now work as a Security Advisor for the film industry and get to still travel all over the world.
I have followed all of the local Boston sports teams since the 1960's. I went to my first Patriots' games at Fenway Park and Harvard Stadium, back in the days before they had a permanent home.

Steve's Recent Articles

New England Patriots 50th Anniversary Team

Published 3 months ago
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Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and the Myth of the "System QB"

Published 5 months ago
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Steve Writes About

Steve Balestrieri has picked Tom Brady: The Tortoise Who Conquered The Hare as a favorite article
Caleb M. responded to a comment on Tom Brady: The Tortoise Who Conquered The Hare

The Short List What Steve thinks about sport's most pressing questions

Favorite Athletes

Tom Brady, Bobby Orr, and Yaz from Boston Joe Montana, Dick Butkus
Favorite Sports Teams

Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins
Favorite Coaches

Bill Belichick, Terry Francona, Pat Burns
All Time Sports Moment

Adam Vinatieri kicking the GW in the Super Bowl against the Rams
Most Memorable Game Attended

Stanley Cup Finals Boston-Montreal 1977
Most Unbreakable Sports Record

Dimaggio 56 game hitting streak
Ruth or Mays?

Ruth
Unitas or Montana?

Montana
Jordan or Russell?

Russell
Gretzky or Orr?

ORR by a mile
Pele or Maradona?

Pele

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by Steven
3 months ago

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/233389-the-half-dozen-reason-im-a-patriots-fan
by Alex
3 months ago

With Patriots training camp just around the corner, check out some of the most intriguing position battles to keep an eye on this summer!

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/224001-new-england-patriots-five-position-battles-to-watch-this-summer
by JW
3 months ago

the defense is up for a look :

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/220816-the-almost-all-time-cleveland-browns-defense

btw - if you look on my bb...you'll see I did the Patriots last week
by Steven
3 months ago

Hi Steve,

Here some light reading in case you're stuck in an airport somewhere waiting to get back home.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/220618-my-favorite-team-has-fans-that-suck
by Steven
3 months ago

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/219781-when-i-played-for-the-mn-vikes-and-learned-a-valubale-life-lesson
by JW
3 months ago

check this offense out :

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/219662-the-almost-all-time-cleveland-browns
by Steven
3 months ago

It was definately a pain. Especially at night, roll over and hit your self in the head with it.

No plates in it. You can't see in the photo but he also cut my wrist open right behind the gear works to try and rebuild it. Unfortunately when he wen't in he couldn't get anything to take since so much of it was tiny pieces. He put in what look like really big push pins to kind of push all the pieces close together and let the body figure it out. Will likely have issues as I get older. But I have really cool looking scars, lol.

My father was in the 101st for most of my childhood and he would often tell me about somone that got hurt. I also have a brother in-law that was in the 82nd and got his leg caught in the riser causing him to rip his sternum. I guess all I can say is I don't envy them.
by Steven
3 months ago

Steve,

I never know if I should answer here or on the other persons board so I'll do both.

That's not all I can do with the other hand. lol

No, actually it's an injury from about 4 years ago. It's my brush with steroids. I was assaulted by some dipsh$#@@#$ and ended up having a shattered ulna. The surgeon that worked on it said he hadn't seen anything like it since he was an Army surgeon for the 82nd at Ft. Bragg.
by Steven
3 months ago

Hope you get a laugh.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/218854-how-i-climbed-into-the-br-patriots-writers-top-ten
by Steven
3 months ago

Thanks for reading my article "What's in a name?" and favoriting it. To be honest I don't even know how to do that I'm so new to the site. Lol
Great name by the way.
by Robert
5 months ago

Thank you for your service to our country Steve. GOD Bless & Protect you always.

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