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@RiverheadPatch Social Media Updates

A look at the top comments and followers of this site each week.

We'll occasionally take a look back at the top comments through the @RiverheadPatch social media channels and show you what some of your fellow readers are saying on Riverhead Patch.

Twitter comment of the week: @sgreen3 ... "So... driving an hour out to the outlet mall in Riverhead may not have been the best plan. The LIE was in horrible shape. We made it though."

You Really 'Like' Me!: Apparently I wasn't the only one who wasn't shoveling their driveway on Saturday. Over 25 people liked that comment.

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Riverhead Patch Facebook comment of the week: Colleen Hughes was one of a half dozen readers who shared their cat names with us. ... "Our cat came with his name 'Wingnut' it suits him well."

Riverhead Patch comment of the week: Doug Wald, , of his friend and fellow Giants fan. Call me biased, but I think Doug made a case for the best Giants fan:

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"My friend Jimmy from Teaneck, NJ is probably the biggest Giant fan I know.

His family has had season tickets since WWII - his dad was actually at the game on December 7th, 1941 when all enlisted men were summoned to their military posts to prepare for war. (Coincidentally, so was my dad.)

Jimmy eats, breathes and sleeps Giants 365/52/24/7, he has been to every big Giants game since the old Stadium was built in 1976 and has probably been to virtually every home game there, in Yankee Stadium since the early 70s and Yale Bowl

He's been to every Super Bowl, and saw every playoff game home and AWAY in the 1980's (LA Wild Card in '84, SF Divisional Playoff in '85, Soldier Field in '85, etc.) and has been to every road playoff game and almost all road stadiums.

You walk into Jimmy's house, there's a framed letter in the kitchen from the owner of the Giants and the original architect that built the NFL, the late, great Wellington Mara apologizing to HIM about a road ticket snafu.

In that kitchen is also a blue and white tile floor, Giants garbage compactor, Giants refrigerator, Giants spice rack, on and on.

When his dad passed away some years ago, in the church for the funeral, there was the old school framed gold plaque of the old NY helmet, THEN Jesus on the crucifix below the helmet above the coffin.

He's always at training camp, attends a number of charity functions held by the team and coaches and loses sleep over preseason losses."


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