Your goddam Superbowl 42Thread

as in any other context you might imagine those pictures in, I'm gonna bet on the loser

a hundred thousand hollywood motion picture films have taught me, even if he loses, he wins

does he have a lazy eye?

Dr. Z's Pick: Giants 24, Patriots 20

I imagine that Eli is saying "White people drive like this ... but black people drive like THIS."

i think he's doing a karaoke rendition of "mandy".

eugh

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2008/01/30/2008-01-30_the_tom_brady_man_crush_.html

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/01/31/sports/31patriots.pop.jpg

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never forget.

one of them can't grow a beard. i think it's either steven neal or ryan o'callaghan.

hmmm, google is no help but does provide this bit of information:

Neal is a former N.C.A.A. champion wrestler at Cal State Bakersfield who did not even play college football. He landed with the Patriots only because he made a telephone call to the sports agent Neil Cornrich, who is a close friend of Bill Belichick, the Patriots’ coach. Neal has a wrestling move named for him, the Neal Double, which is a takedown in which one wrestler pulls the legs of another out from under him, taking him to the mat. When Neal arrived at the Patriots’ camp in 2001 as a defensive end, he was so raw that Belichick once said of him, “We’re starting from below scratch.”

I hate offensive linemen. I was a d-lineman in college, maybe this is why, but I think of o-linemen as total dweebs.

Regarding the Patriots lineman and their beards,

I’m fairly convinced that this is some odd co-opting of Sébastien Chabal’s current look.

collie buddz is a giants fan i guess

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1b93nwNUo4

This article is very interesting:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=adams

this is amazing
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/01/how-do-i-live-up-to-whats-expected-of-me.php

Part of it is because both my daddy and my brother also worked in the industry, and people hold me to the standards they've established. To be honest, I don't pay that any mind, but sometimes I do feel like I never wanted to do this job in the first place but I got pushed into it because of everyone else's expectations and now everyone's looking to me and hoping that I screw up so I can prove whatever jackass theories they have about my guts and intensity and I swear sometimes it just makes me want to grab the world by the throat and KEEP CHOKING IT UNTIL IT FALLS TO THE GROUND IN A GIANT HEAP OF SORRY

dear eli manning...

anxiously awaiting the crushing blow of the banhammer...

dude i think that's the joke~

"Dr. Z's Pick: Giants 24, Patriots 20"

I love the Doc and I hope he is right, but in my gut I have a feeling NE is going to dismantle the Giants in a 49ers style Superbowl laugher.

My pick: Patriots 38 Giants 17

I figure the score is not as close as it looks as the Giants score 10 junk points in the fourth quarter.

has anyone linked this yet?

Chuck Klosterman explains why losing the Superbowl would make the Patriots immortal

Or this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b68_pU2wes

IT'S THE LEAGUE OF THE FYOOTCHER
FOR TH' MIGHTEE AND TH' BOLD

also that ad is obviously about eating pussy and they both clearly need a coach or five. if it were not for the fact that becoming a coach in any sport signifies that you will no longer be participating in said sport except in a sweatsuit-clad demonstrative role I would offer my services on the spot

see what I did there

dudez, ESPN website = war is the secret subplot of SB42. Wojciechowski and Pasquarelli seem to love the Pats beyond all reason (moreso even that Simmons right now) and Chadiha, Clayton and Easterbrook can barely conceal their hate and bitterness (tho Easterbrook not really trying). the lines were drawn as early as the whole camera business. some guys are gonna end up fuckin' sore in the office on Monday and the others aren't gonna let them get over it.

yeah, cankles otm, why the holy fuck would i post a random advice column written by tionna smalls on the nfl board if that wasn't the joke?? O_o kevin, you should be banned because the pats are making you retarded and humorless and i hope that in some small way being prevented from talking about them will make you think things over. u_u

Thanks Gr8080!

don't blame my humorless retardation on the pats, they're innocents in this.

wait re: arkansas article...

the fact that they confuse chuck klosterman for chuck palahniuk?

I corrected it. I'm hollow-headed in the morning.

Just be glad I didn't call him Chuck Taylor.

• Super Bowl picks: Our experts weigh in
• Merrill: Nine previously perfect Patriots
• Merrill: Harrison deals with his rep just fine
• Clayton: Giants' O-line worthy of accolades
• Pasquarelli: Tip Sheet
• Wojciechowski: 15 reasons Patriots will win
• E-ticket: Patriots' man of mystery
• Sunday Countdown
• Clayton's First and Goal
• Chadiha: Giants miss Shockey
• Garber: Injured war vet inspires Giants
• Pasquarelli: The Pats' crucial cameos
• Garber: In Brady's world, insecurity remains
• Merrill: Hixon's traumatizing season
• Football Outsiders: SB numbers crunching
• Pasquarelli: Patriots' silent sentinel
• Wojciechowski: Unflappable Eli
• Sando: Brady rising among all-time QBs
• Chadiha: Giants' rookies playing prominent role
• Fleming: Cardinals/Pottsville Curse
• Clayton: Youth serving Giants well
• Chadiha: Ranking the best QBs by decade
• Klancnik: Top QBs by jersey number
• Hashmarks: Media day coverage | Gallery
• Pasquarelli: Pats' old-school LBs
• Helyar: Marketing windfall for Eli Manning
• Garber: Seau's ring quest
• Pasquarelli: Bruschi's full-circle journey
• Animated plays
• Chadiha: Pierce just wants to win
• Wojciechowski: Explaining Bill Belichick
• Helyar: Recession? Not at Super Bowl!
• Giants' Snee doesn't stray from roots
• Sando: Seymour in eye of storm
• Merrill: Welker scales new heights for Pats
• Pasquarelli: Brady is ready to play
• Garber: The preservation of Plaxico
• Pasquarelli: Hill's spirit lives on
• Clayton: Giants' juggling act at CB works
• Wickersham: Giant ideas
• Klosterman: All too perfect
• Crown Jewels: A look at Super Bowl rings
• FB Outsiders: Giants one of worst SB teams
• Helyar: Patriots will drive TV ratings
• Clayton: First and goal
• Chadiha: Giants' glory road
• Mosley: Brady's ankle saves the week
• Woj: Preseason predictions revisited
• Merrill: David Woodley's dark spotlight
• Former SB QBs: Plunkett | Rypien | Ferragamo
• More: Morton | Humphries | Hostetler | Eason
• Starting matchups of Super Bowl QBs
• Ranking the QB performances: 1-40 | 41-82
• Jaworski: Six Super Bowl surprises
• Joyner: Brady's bad decisions Insider
• Clayton: Eli's managing fine
• Chadiha: Focused Giants
• AccuScore simulation: Pats to prevail
• Chadiha: First Look at the Super Bowl
• Playoff schedule

That's sixty articles on ESPN.com about the Super Bowl.

Sixty articles.

as i peruse the news i see there seems to be a few people trying to rake up new shit about the cameragate business at a suspiciously sensitive time, as if trying to unsettle New England, somehow in complete ignorance of the effect that affair had on their performance in the first two months of the season. if i were Coughlin i'd be so pissed.

I'm really surprised at the Dr. Z pick.

I'm not one of the populace who think the Giants have 'no chance', but I've always felt with predictions that you go with whom you truly believe will win, rather than hope.

However, I respect Dr. Z a lot so I figure he based this on more than just a personal desire.

i think dr z explained in his column a week ago or two weeks ago about how when he was a young(er) sportswriter he felt that the jets would beat the colts and almost put that prediction in print following broadway joe's guarantee. but he succumbed to peer pressure and went with the conventional wisdom that the jets had no chance. he said this is a chance for him to right that wrong.

my prediction: pats 34 giants 27. it won't be a blowout but there won't be many times where the pats are in danger.

its one thing to pick the giants - but to predict the pats only score 20 points - krazy

I just read Dr. Z's article and I feel that it was fair and well-balanced, as I expected.

jhoshea--I'm not sure why that's crazy, they only scored 21 last week, and 20 a few months ago against the Jets.

It would have been a crazy prediction in weeks 1-8 for sure, but it could happen. There would have to be turnovers though.

yah it would tie their lowest score of the year in a game theyve had two weeks to prepare for. jets game, werent trying; chargers game, brady injured, chargers much better team than giants. aka crazy prediction.

pats gonna pwn eli so hard today !!!!

jets game, werent trying

Somehow I doubt that. That would suggest that the Patriots actually 'took a game off' in their quest for undefeated. I don't buy it.

brady injured

That may still be true today to some degree, but who knows with Belichick's injury report....and I don't know, with me, ailments bog me down more the day after I first acquire them then when they first creep up, because there's no adrenaline to stabilize it.

chargers much better team than giants.

Yet the Giants came closer to beating them...

Note I'm not penalizing the Chargers for the conference championship, they were way too banged up on offense to achieve anything. And I do believe the Chargers defense is superior, but their offense pales in comparison to what it was last season. except for LT, he's picked up where he left off, there was no way he could repeat what he did last year...

dude i hate to be the one to break this to you but the giants are one of the worst superbowl teams ever and the pats are one of the best - this shit will not be close.

jets game - you dont have to take a game off to coast you just coast knowing that this team cant touch you.

and people are reading waaaay too much into to pats v giants part 1. when the pats realized the giants were actually trying to win the game they scored 22 straight points and were ahead by 10 w/1 minute left. that shit wasnt close

That's the second time you've implied the Patriots were giving half-effort in a game. I don't know what Patriots you watch, but I have yet to see that this season from them. The Giants actually played very well, and then the wheels came off at the end.

You can call them one of the "Worst Super Bowl Teams" all you want. The 'weak NFC argument' won't work this year however, because after defeating the pretty mediocre Buccaneers, they had to defeat the #1 and #2 seeds in the NFC, both of whom were solid teams, on the road, one of the games in the most ridiculous of weather conditions.

I put more stock in this team than I do the 2001 Giants, even though that team won their division.

but hey, what does Dr. Z know?

i hate to be the one to break this to you but sometimes even great professional sports teams give just enough to win - sorry if that hurts your feelings.

winning two v close games doesnt prove youre a good team - especially when all the evidence from the entire season suggests youre the worst team in the playoffs.

its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished.

I don't know what Patriots you watch, but I have yet to see that this season from them.

did you see the first jets game?

and That would suggest that the Patriots actually 'took a game off' in their quest for undefeated.

the jets game was the first game of the year, do you really think they were on a "quest for undefeated" from the first game of the year? i think the hype started around week 4 and wasn't really taken seriously until after the dallas game.

lol ill take vegas over dr z everyday of the week

i wonder if the pats would be undefeated if it weren't for spygate? because they DEFINITELY turned it on after the first game and started playing that "fuck you" brand of football for about 2 straight months.

if they hadn't been caught with that camera would that have been as intently focused early in the season?

so anyway as long as were predicting

pats 45 giants 13 eli 4 ints

mvp RADNY MOTHERFUCKING MOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSS

mvp = maroney? brady? welker? samuel?

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^^^^^^^^^^^^

the jets game was the first game of the year

Um, actually, no it wasn't. You're talking about the season opener.

I'm referring to their 20-10 win late in the season.

ah, i stand corrected.

i still think the pats came out against the giants not expecting to play against the giants starters. i would love to know what belicheck said to the team at halftime. i think that may have been the only game i saw where they didn't give 100% for 60 minutes.

hate to be the one to break this to you but sometimes even great professional sports teams give just enough to win - sorry if that hurts your feelings.

Lol, I'll try to console myself later this evening.

winning two v close games doesnt prove youre a good team - especially when all the evidence from the entire season suggests youre the worst team in the playoffs.

Actually, as one sportswriter aptly said about the Patriots performance in tight games late this season, the way you perform in adversity in tough situations often tells us more about a team than the way they perform in blowouts.

its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished.

If your definition of a fluke is winning three games on the road, then you and I don't see eye to eye on that.

Besides, I hate to break it to YOU, but that's how the NFL playoffs currently work, always have worked, and always WILL work. It's less about the body of work you put up during the regular season and more about who is hot at the right time. While this is true of other professional sports, it's especially true of a sport that has a single elimination tournament to determine a champion.

It's just that typically speaking, a team that did modestly in the regular season usually did so because they didn't have the talent of upper echelon teams. Occasionally you have the opposite, like the Giants, who had a lot of talent, but underachieve during the regular season.

The Giants that have played the last 4 weeks bear little resemblance to the Giants that had to struggle to put away the Miami Dolphins at midseason. Who, besides the Patriots, has played better football than the Giants in the last month?

If the playoffs were re-run as much as even 100 more times, law of averages states you'd have several different combinations of results, and some of them may even have the Patriots losing a game. That proves absolutely nothing. If you re-ran the regular season 10 times, you'd have different playoff teams too. That's the way football works.

I won't be surprised if the Patriots win--nobody has been able to finish a game against them and they are the best team in the league, undisputed. That fact arguably doesn't even change even if they lose this game--Champions do not necessarily equal the 'best team' in a given season.

However, talk like I'm seeing here is the same talk I saw in 2001 before the Rams-Patriots Super Bowl. I got laughed at much the same way when I said the game wouldn't be a blowout. And right after that game, those excuse makers shifted their vitriol to the officials, claiming they handed the Patriots the game.

they didnt take the jets game off - IT WAS RAINING, WITH 27 MPH WIND GUSTS. THAT IS WHY CHAD PENNINGTON HAD A GOOD GAME, NOBODY COULD PASS FURTHER THAN 7 YARDS DOWNFIELD

tbh i would probably be rooting for the Giants today if it weren't for ~*&~*~*~RANDY*~*~*~*~, if he doesnt get mvp i will be fukkin pisssssssssssssed

if bjo is wrong abt this game can we ban him then?

and omg there is no such thing as "the law of averages" lololololol wtf god

gene wojo from espn.com made a great point about length of prep time between first giants game and this one

and bjo when you bring up rams and pats plz remember which coach orchestrated that upset

if bjo is wrong abt this game can we ban him then?

-- jhøshea, Sunday, February 3, 2008 5:29 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ONLY IF WE CAN BAN ALLY TOO

yah 5 days v 2 weeks

belichick gonna pwn coflign
samuel gonna pwn eli
brady gonna pwn strahan
moss gonna pwn all

lol ill take vegas over dr z everyday of the week

Vegas has been wrong several times this postseason already (including all three times against the Giants, who were a 7 point underdog to the Cowboys).

They also missed the Colt game (in which at some points, the Colts were 11 point favorites), hell they wrong against the spread in both Patriots games I believe (I know they did in the Chargers, Jaguars depends as to whether it did wind up at 13 or 14).

oh come on canky u dont really wanna ban teh schef

hey bjo lik my ballz

jh0shea, I hope you are raped by the ancient spirits of Odin, and that you are forced to spend 40 years living in the anus of an overweight Eskimo.

(I mean hey, why let anything like 'facts' get in the way of stupid statements like "I'll take vegas anyday!")

anyone ever notice the anal-centric nature of a lot of bjo's posts here?

bjo cant u see ur desecrating the corpse of this once great bord hurting everyones feelings

(I mean hey, why let anything like 'facts' get in the way of stupid statements like "I'll take vegas anyday!")

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, February 3, 2008 11:41 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

i dont mind you dude but you said you "wouldn't be surprised" if the pats won. just saying.

PLZ SOMEONE TOM ALLY ANYONE BAN BJO FFS

i dont mind you dude but you said you "wouldn't be surprised" if the pats won. just saying.

for all intents and purposes, I do think they will win. I don't want it to happen, but I think it will.

I merely had a problem with the statement "I'll take Vegas over Dr. Z anyday" as if the Vegas line is an almost perfected method of predicting games. Vegas bookmakers know a hell of a lot about football, but their lines don't come true quite frequently. That's what makes for interesting betting.

It's just that it's hard to predict games, no matter how much you know about football!

ban^^^^^

jh0shea=

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OMG GOOD ONE BO JACKSON OVERDRIVE

if I were a magician I would turn you into a Real Audio file so that you would get caught in net congestion for eternity.

just try and be cool is that so much to ask

but their lines don't come true quite frequently.

the lines always always ALWAYS do what they're supposed to do.

the lines always always ALWAYS do what they're supposed to do.

Yes, but that purpose isn't 'accurately predicting football games'. I'm well aware of why they set their lines the way they do.

just try and be cool is that so much to ask

says the guy who told me to 'lik' his 'ballz'.

whatever dude.

y/n: the grocery store will be an absolute horror show.

hope not but y

i meant try to be cool as in try not to be the most annoying guy in the world

if I were a magician...

Whole Foods wasn't that crowded, and also they had sample guacamole!

alphabet city party with wii guitar hero and air hockey halftime show!

if I were a magician I would turn you into a Real Audio file so that you would get caught in net congestion for eternity.

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, February 3, 2008 5:53 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

this is the worst post ever on ilnfl guys respect that

also i ve been doing $2 "pats" & "giants" shots all afternoon along w/ $2 domestic pints so i am so ready

and all at the bar and now ive been watching madden challenge <3 <3

lol forks my party has rock band pregame

All I've heard this week is how the Giants have a real shot at winning this since they are such a hot team and have no pressure on them.
If they do win I'm gonna slap the first person who says no one saw this coming

re: pepsi commercial

i wish joe buck would take a nap every sunday :\\\\

also hey coach belicheck is that a new hoodie? :)

wtf @ creepy cougar Comcast commercial

this superbowl would be so much better if every five minutes they cut to Peyton in the booth looking angry.

he looks bored, much like me

whoop, spoke 11 seconds too soon

This game! Is Brady hurt or has the offensive line just sucked all night?

hay wat time does the game start

holy shit kids

WTF. Really.

brady's been taking a lot of hits tonight

when I was earlier and slightly less drunk I believe I referred to the Giants' offensive line as "a bunch of 8 year olds on Xanax"

I kind of want my own dvd copy of the brady sack montage.

Yeah, I know he's been hit a lot of times, but still.

youtube, tomorrow, with soundtrack by pat benetar

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i love how welker's the workhorse all game and moss gets the TD

welker for MVP?

I like how Brady fucks up how many passes and now according to the announcers he's the "best player in the game."

not a toomer

omg

omfg

:(

:D

http://pami.uwaterloo.ca/tizhoosh/images/imperfection.gif

I screamed really loud when the Giants scored and now I think the rest of my apt. building is probably going to beat me up.

:( This game! :(

It sounded like the ENTIRE block screamed just now actually

BWAHAHAHA.

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oh my stars and garters

huh

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

bellichick had a pressing engagement to attend no doubt

just fyi, boston is silent right now.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/153/24-179s~Perfection-Posters.jpg

8D

oh man that play to tyree!

OH THANK G-D.

that was insane (xp)

wow ... i am speechless.

enjoy it eli -- and all you giants fans.

where are jhoshea and kevin

bwahahahahahahahahahaha.

http://www.gatorcountry.org/wearetheboys/images/eli_drunk.jpg

no reaction shot from peyton?

1-10-NE 16 (:01) 10-E.Manning kneels to NE 17 for -1 yards.

SOMEONE IS SHOOTING OFF FIREWORKS ANYWAY.

That Tyree play was the new Dwight Clark play. Eli Manning, you are pretty damned good.

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2CD

I am sad. :( I wonder if it would be worse if I had gone and watched it at a bar to share this moment with other Pats fans instead of sitting at home. :(

2CD, dg

My boyfriend informed me I am not allowed to go to a bar right now.

2CD - I don't understand?

Oh, now I understand. :(

sweeeeeeet

lmao people are outside swearing and yelling.

HA HA THE WITCH IS DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so glad I was wrong.

That shot of the Pats walking back in sad face to the locker room was so great. I love the fact that the Boston fans are going to have to deal with the fact not only did they blow a perfect season, they lost to New York and to a Manning.

Wait til the real smack talkers get back to ILNFL (if they ever show up here again)

Eli Manning is going to dream of so many hot babes with beer tonight.

OMG PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING IN THE STREET

^^^this is why I wanted the Pats to lose in the first place.

I like Eli actually

no reaction shot from peyton?

http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/img/manning0116.jpg

can you imagine having to admit that bo jackson overdrive was right and you were wrong? I'd ban myself

You know, the one time I went to a real live NFL game I realized that although I don't know a ton about the intricacies of the game, 85-90% of the rowdiest dudes in the stands don't know shit. So now they are fighting

My mom called and gloated after the last Pats TD. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

fuck, now i gotta buy my boss a pizza

http://www.clusterflock.org/brady.jpg

AW, SHUCKS

kinda pissed at belichick leaving, waht a bitch

Can't wait for Belichick's press conference. "fuck YOU... and fuck YOU...and fuck YOU..."

Eh, who cares what Belichick did. I gotta hand it to NY. Damn.

As much as I hate Boston (and I really HATE Boston) I feel really sad for everywhere else in NE

Jessie please to make youtubes of sad boston residents!

somebody needs to go change all the verb tenses on the sbxlii wikipedia page

Dude you are from Providence why are you happy? Boston hate? (That, I understand.)

samuel adams hate

i've hated the patriots since i was eleven years old, and forced to stay home every game-day at patriot stadium b/c the roads were blocked

foxboro, i mean

I live in New York.

Important thing about that last Giants drive was how long it was and how much of a rest it gave the defense. They were totally gassed on the last Pats TD drive, and if NY had scored quickly, NE would have rolled over them for a 21-17 finish.

I guess I adopted the Pats because they were the only NOT shitty thing from my POV about living in New England. (No offense, but.. I grad school = sucks) Once I got really sick in late January and watched the end of the AFC Championship from Providence hospital emergency room.. all the staff kept running in and out to check the score.

Belichick interview next! heheh.

all the local news stations are split-screening between sports commentators and EMPTY BOSTON STREETS. One newscaster described the emptying of the Boston bars.

a city's heart is broken.

city needs to man up

I hate Boston. Belichick's expression didn't change one bit: "Well, we're disappointed."

stay tuned for 'house'

Bill Belichick looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets.

whatever fuck that dude

cannot wait for the next Sports Guy column

hahahahahhahahahahahaha

best NFL season ever. Is there going to be some long behind the scenes article at some point about just what went on with the Pats all year?

lol, you root for new jersey

yeah fuck bill simmons, wasn't his last one titled like "yeah sorry pats will win" or something

so glad I didn't put money on this game! was all set to take the Pats for $200 and chickened out

bill simmons:

If this Patriots season really is a perfect storm, then the Super Bowl should end like that Clooney movie. In other words, the Patriots would charge out to an early lead, throw all over the place, make a couple of big plays, put the Giants on their heels, force the Giants to abandon their running game and put Eli Manning in the position of playing from behind. And the lead would keep growing and growing, and by the time the game ended, New York's boat would have been smashed to smithereens. That's what the football version of a perfect storm should look like.

Will we see it on Sunday? I say yes.

The Big Pick: Patriots 42, Giants 17.

lol half right buddy

They keep running a ticker underneath the ESPN coverage saying that Sen. Spector is going to look into why the NFL destroyed the tapes at issue in the Patriots "SpyGate" controversy. The "destruction of the tapes" story surfaced months ago, but seemed to get no traction at the time. Could be a long offseason in NE.

yeah, that story was on CNN this morning, they interviewed Specter about it. (He is still pissed about that Eagles loss.) As far as the tapes destroyed.. I somewhat suspect it's about this kind of stuff going on all over the league and the NFL trying to pretend its not..

That was the best Super Bowl I've ever seen. Four lead changes. Brady sacked five times (I've been saying it all year: The way to beat Tom Brady is to blitz like crazy!). The Tyree catch was the play of the year. Patriots do not go undefeated. And Tom Petty rocked the house.

It's a trivial subject for Congress, but the dismissive attitude of the NFL about the story is galling. And if tapes are destroyed across the NFL, it isn't done like this, in the shadow of a brewing spying controversy.

(xp)

The Sports Guy can eat a dick.

seriously, i'm trying to figure out if that was the best super bowl i've seen in ages b/c it was good or b/c i developed such a visceral hatred for the pats.

man, how about that worst team to ever play in a super bowl, huh?

nfl, cia... same diff!
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18-1*

dude i hate to be the one to break this to you but the giants are one of the worst superbowl teams ever and the pats are one of the best - this shit will not be close.

jets game - you dont have to take a game off to coast you just coast knowing that this team cant touch you.

and people are reading waaaay too much into to pats v giants part 1. when the pats realized the giants were actually trying to win the game they scored 22 straight points and were ahead by 10 w/1 minute left. that shit wasnt close

-- jhøshea

lol

I watched the Giants playoff games and they did not look like a bad team at all, and Pats mysteriously looked pretty bad last week, and I still wonder if there is some dark secret at the bottom of it, but there probably isn't.

Now I get why they talk about the football gods.

I think the Pats just wore down mentally over 20 weeks.

This wsa awesome, guys.

seriously, i'm trying to figure out if that was the best super bowl i've seen in ages b/c it was good or b/c i developed such a visceral hatred for the pats.

There have been a bunch of very good Super Bowls lately, e.g., Rams-Titans, Patriots-Panthers. This one was good, too.

I grew up in an era when almost every Super Bowl was a boring blowout. The past 10 years or so have seen a refreshing run of competitive games.

Tom Brady scoffed when told Wednesday that New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress guaranteed New York will beat Brady's undefeated New England team in Sunday's Super Bowl.

"We're only going to score 17 points?" Brady said before chuckling about it. "OK. Is Plax playing defense? I wish he had said 45-42 and gave us a little credit for scoring more points."

This wsa awesome, guys.

-- HI DERE, Sunday, February 3, 2008 11:09 PM (Sunday, February 3, 2008 11:09 PM)

I've been waiting for you to show up!

see, dan esk, i don't think just b/c a game is close it's necessarily a good game. i factored those games you mentioned into my assessment and i feel like those were just close games, but this was a genuinely taut, well-played game.

yes? There were chunks of it I didn't see (I was taping it LOL) and.. I could not figure out #1 why the offensive line couldn't protect Brady at all and #2 why they couldn't adjust the playcalling..

eighteen and one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok...I ain't here to tell anybody "I told you" because I didn't. I'm as surprised as anybody here. Not that it was a good game, as I didn't think it was going to be a blowout. Thought the Giants could win, but didn't think there was any chance in hell they would win.

A game that was largely uneventful for 2.5 quarters turned into a great thrill ride. It was a great game from both teams, but...give Eli a fucking hand. What a game. And his one pick was his own receiver's fault.

I have to say the play where he, by the hand of God, avoided a sack, and threw a pass caught on the HELMET...has to be one of the greatest Super Bowl plays of all time.

Congratulations to the Patriots, I mean, it was still a great season...and even though I loathe them, I respect them. The Patriots were good for football this year because they inspired so many teams to lay a lot on the line.

Whether it was the Giants sacrificing their starters against them in Week 17, Philip Rivers and Gates trying to tough it out despite being royally banged up, it always created drama week in and week out.

I'm exhausted. I had a great time.

giants TOTALLY outplayed the pats in this game
reminded me of the GB game in that respect where they still could have lost

yeah tyree will prob be off the giants in a few yrs but he will be legendary forever for that catch...i almost wanted him to win mvp instead of eli

shit. I currently seem to have the same problem I did when I wound up in the Prov emergency room watching Pats AFC title game.. heart racing and won't slow down (last time it did not start because of football). What can I do?

Yep. Just a great battle.

so, chicago kevin, daria-g, and other pats fans, my condolences, but hey, just relish in the fact that you've still had 3 super bowl titles in this decade, 4 appearances, and 6 playoff appearances which is still amazing.

jhoshea, you, however, can eat a dick!

also, WEHERE IS CHI KEVIN?

daria: honestly, i think spagnuolo dialed up a hell of a game plan and eli manning was playing sort of out of his skull.

so, question: how big of an asshole does tiki barber look like now?

http://bostonherald.com/sports/football/patriots/view.bg?articleid=1070926&srvc=home&position=recent

ehh, I don't think Tiki ever said anything that wasn't true.

Eli hadn't been living up to expectations prior to this year, and really even before the playoffs was hit and miss.

but we saw the real Eli during the playoffs.

Archie must think he's fucking father of the year now. :)

Yeah, good for Eli. I like Eli.

Chi Kevin is probably very drunk?

tiki and shockey both look like overpaid assholes

so, biggest upset of all time in the NFL?

nah. Jets in Super Bowl 3 still owns that one.

but I think this has to be a close second.

The Patriots over the Rams in 2001 lingering not too far behind.

Bill Belichick looks like a motherfucker with some dark secrets.

-- Rock Hardy, Monday, February 4, 2008 3:37 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^THIS

the worst thing about this Super Bowl is the endless debate that begins tonight between Dolphins and Patriot fans, as to whether the Patriots getting to 18-0 before losing trumps what Miami did since they technically won more games in a row.

Despite being a Dolphins fan, I won't partake.

oh and man was Tom Petty's halftime show sleep-inducing.

Especially when compared with Prince's last year.

Tom's a guy I can take or leave, but not the type of guy I want to see headline a Super Bowl halftime show. Not NOW.

that boston herald pats blog dude looks like such a perpetua douche

daerest football gods: heart still racing, please stop. I think I am developing a beer allergy. Two beers + close game.. ugh

well, you're in uncharted territory. i have to imagine it feels harder to be unbeaten and lose in the end to be 15-1, 14-2, 13-3, all of which have been done before.

so again my condolences...your heart rate will come down soon. I still woulda killed for the season they had, my team barely scraped out one win, which I didn't even get to see.

I'm cool I think I better stick to wine though? I think I was slightly more stressed when Denver was up 10-0 on my Redskins when I was about 10 years old, but only a little :)

just be glad you haven't broken anything.

I haven't ever broken anything serious, but there are other football fans I know that have destroyed televisions after games.

so, biggest upset of all time in the NFL?

nah. Jets in Super Bowl 3 still owns that one.

but I think this has to be a close second.

The Patriots over the Rams in 2001 lingering not too far behind.

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, February 3, 2008 10:38 PM

Nobody gave the Broncs a chance against the Packers (except me :))

Can't remember exactly what the spread was, but it was double digits.

That was the best Super Bowl I've ever seen. Four lead changes. Brady sacked five times (I've been saying it all year: The way to beat Tom Brady is to blitz like crazy!). The Tyree catch was the play of the year. Patriots do not go undefeated. And Tom Petty rocked the house did not play a medley.

fixed

booooo drunk html

was it? let me know if you find anything on what the line was exactly. I think 5 of those points had to be automatically assessed due to the fact that the NFC hadn't lost in about 17 years! :)

well I still have to give second to the Giants just cuz the Patsies were undefeated. the dropoff could have been significant in the perception had the lost just as much as one game in the regular season.

DUDE. THE PATRIOTS LOST.

THE SUPER BOWL.

DO YOU SEE.

THE PATRIOTS WERE NOT UNDEFEATED

THEY LOST.

TO THE MANNING BROTHER THAT DOESNT LIKE FOOTBALL

had the lost just as much as one game in the regular season.

Besides, man, I don't need the reminder, I've been celebrating their loss for the last 3 hours...:)

finishing off my last guiness right now

ogod that was so good

I really wis hI didn't have to go to work tomorrow I'd keep drinking.

YOU CAN NOT PUT THE TEAM THAT WON THE SUPER BOWLZ IN SECOND PLACE.

I didn't.

I said in terms of greatest upsets of all time, this one is in second place behind the New York Jets defeating the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl 3.

well I still have to give second to the Giants just cuz the Patsies were undefeated.

^^^^^^^^^ WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS SENTENCE SAY

I see why what I said was confusing...

When I said I gave the Giants second place because the Patriots were undefeated, that was to the gentleman that included the Packers-Patriots game as an entry for one of the biggest super Bowl upsets of all time. My response was saying to him that I still considered the Giants' upset the second best because the team they beat was undefeated.

guys its one thing to pick the giants - but to predict the pats only score 20 points - krazy

seriously, read my post after reading the one above it.

lol omar.

he's probably gone for months xpost! :)

srsly pats gonna pwn eli so hard today

I STAND BY MY SLANDER AND LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR BANNING TOMORROW

all i have to say

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

ya if you replayed that super bowl 10 times I guarantee you THE PATRIOTS WOULD WEURIENA ALL 10 TIMES OMGOMGOMGOM

its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished.

see, dan esk, i don't think just b/c a game is close it's necessarily a good game. i factored those games you mentioned into my assessment and i feel like those were just close games, but this was a genuinely taut, well-played game.

This one was the best BECAUSE THE PATRIOTS LOST.

this shit will not be close this shit will not be close this shit will not be close this shit will not be close this shit will not be close this shit will not be close this shit will not be close this shit will not be close this shit will not be close this shit will not be close this shit will not be close OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

ahahahha...

man jhoshea's given us material for another 8 months

http://www.marinersinternational.com/titanic-queenstown.jpg

http://website.lineone.net/~stu_williamson/big%20pics/wreck-poster-print.jpg

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l39/jw420intucson/49jaqYoeY9.gif
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l39/jw420intucson/49jaqYoeY9.gif
http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l39/jw420intucson/49jaqYoeY9.gif

the reasons this game was so good:

1. The Patriots lost at the hands of ANOTHER Manning in the playoffs.
2. Very little laundry on the field during the game.
3. Little to no controversy.
4. Strong defensive play as opposed to offensive ineptitude (cough Steelers-Seahawks super bowl)
5. Both teams trading tds within the last 2:42.
6. 85 yard game winning TD drive.
7. Fuck Terrell Owens. Tyree="The Catch, II". Who cares if they ain't the 49ers, and it wasn't a touchdown pass. Without it, there is no td pass later.
8. Compared to the humongous fanfare preceding the game, this was just a classic, non-pretentious football game with little histrionics until the very end, where they belonged.

lol forks my party has rock band pregame

-- jhøshea, Sunday, February 3, 2008 4:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

hope you played some afterwards too...

recommended setlist should include

Rolling Stones--Out of Tears
Third Eye Blind--Losing a Whole Year
Doobie Brothers--What a Fool Believes

i didn't see the game, did the pats lose or did the giants win? i also have fucked up my life in a total and severe way to the point where i no longer care about football.

those are the times when i care abt football the most, kev~

lol at the bjo was right parade

im not gonna lie i thought all of peter king etc.'s "justin tuck will be mvp" talk was on some bullshit but hats off

also thought peyton reaction shots were great :/

those are the times when i care abt football the most, kev~

Yeah, me too. I hope this year's better than the last one. 2004 sucked but the Pats came through that time

i wasn't right about nothin other than the fact that it wasn't a blowout.

still entertaining to see jhoshea's quotes later though.

I still want to figure out, well, what happened with this team toward the end of the season. did they get burned out? pressure of keeping that perfect record? they looked pretty bad against San Diego and I wondered what was wrong with Brady and the rest of the offense then. heard during a brief halftime interview with Belichick that he was pretty much saying the defense would have to win it..

I turned off my cell this afternoon and fear turning it back on to read all these txts from the schef

Added Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss: "I think their intensity from the beginning snap to the end of the game was really higher than ours. We just couldn't meet that intensity."

Yeah, me too. I hope this year's better than the last one. 2004 sucked but the Pats came through that time

;_;

why things are awsome:

fuck u

i only texted u once. to say sorry

but i'm not sorry

because we beat yr ass

lol

also tom brady

guys i never want to be hateful

but

i watched this game in an amazing 99% pr ny atmosphere, and i'm a lifelong gman fan

and

HOLY SHIT

is about all i have to say?? intellectually i knew this could happen but emotionally i prepared for the loss. and intellect beat the heart in this one.

also vaguely drunk and gonna get drunker!!! lol!

keep it up girllll and u know what u boston fucks youve got like 42 superbowls and the world series how bout you sit this one out and let eli get laid

I'm sorry I was too hungover to leave to house today ;_;.

i put on my bears 85 t-shirt in a possibly successful jinx effort while my pats fan buddy tried to get the ouija board he discovered in his new house's crawlspace to predict a pats win.

This game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWPjHAqrDb0

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LOL SUP NOW TOM BRADY

lol @ you bitter ass Argentinian bandwagon hopping dick sucker. My team won four games and I still enjoyed watching faggot ass Belibitch and faggot ass Moss and faggot ass Brady get anal raped by a Manning in front of the whole world. Mercury Morris is doing coke off of Larry Czonka's Viagra enhanced boner right now while Bob Griese and Paul Warfield are tag teaming Junior Seau's wife. Your cheating asses took a shit in the biggest game ever and now the whole world has a RIGHT to laugh at your asses. HA HA FUCKING HA

all these photos on every news page of INTENSE ELI are kind of freaking me out

alo Osi's "18-1, they need to trademark THAT"

like daaaaamn

CONGRATS ON BEING 18-1 PATRIOTS. GOOD TRY MY BROS :D:D :D :D :D

btw what did i mean earlier??? wau!!

all i mean is that i was RIGHT!! lol!

time for cigs. goodnight! and whiskey.

you can tell the real giants fans on this bitch by the way they are still not in bed like responsible adults

and I'm not even drunk!

my reaction:

GUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

morning is too early guys

I actually woke up early for once, wtf. You know, I hope Pats lighten up next year and get one (1) sense of humor after this thing but I'm sure Belichick's hopeless

i want to apologise to Mr. Tom Petty for bashing his selection as the super bowl halftime show after it turned out that his performance was nearly the best thing about the whole super bowl, second only to when they paid tribute to that dude who has been a Giants' coach since 1948. my dad was born in 1948. doesn't that dude qualify for retirement yet?

dudes this game was mentioned on the Radio 4 Today Programme this morning, in the UK!

i watched the BBC2 broadcast last night (this year was the first time ever that the BBC has broadcast the Super Bowl) and it was being commentated entirely by morons and guys who were barely old enough to tie their own ties; apparently feetball is hugely popular among Brits though (i.e. the Wembley "match" between the Giants and the Dolphins this year).. the yokels in the booth kept saying things like "and we'll... we'll start a Europe-wide league!" lol good luck with that fellas

i actually enjoyed the tame stylings of mr petty as well -- opening with "american girl" forgives a lot of sins

but yeah basically my reaction can be summed up as follows

HOLY

SHIT

Tyree you caught a pass with your helmet and won me $175.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS (only without the $175 ;_;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/petty_superbowl.jpg

tyree catch=tyrone prothro v. so. miss catch

oh shit I missed "american girl"???? ;____;

how many running plays were there last night? like six?

Giants ran quite a bit in the first half. Patriots couldn't get much of a ground game going.

Bundchen likes her wine ♥

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Plaxico = Nostradomus.

none of the smug pats fans have showed up to work yet ;_;

Halfback Brandon Jacobs, whose running style is about as subtle as an Angus Young guitar riff, put it even more bluntly: "Most definitely, other teams gave the Patriots too much respect. Our attitude was, '(Expletive) them (expletives). We're gonna beat these (expletives).'"

i think he called seymour a "little (expletive)" post-game as well

I'll give you a quote on Seymour," Jacobs said. "You can write that he's a soft (expletive). He said we should get ready to go home. Well, now he's on the team that went 18-1."

http://i14.tinypic.com/8ek37dt.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/19-0-Historic-Championship-Englands-Unbeatable/dp/1600781500/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202132706&sr=1-1

I seriously got like 45 minutes of sleep last night cause I had to be in early for nu-employer orientation and badge photo coffee klatsch, I don't know how I'm really maintaining right now except that I was wise enough to avoid alcohol yesterday and I'm still riding this weird high. I didn't go to bed because I didn't want it to end, I sat up and watched nfl.com highlights and interviews and shit and just tried to pretend I was living in an eternal loop of the last two and half minutes of the game

if Belichick's gear as DC from Wide Right is in the HOF then they there's no justice in not putting Spags' right next to it. A perfect circle.

so are you still jumping ship next year or will you stick with the giants?

I never said I was going to start rooting against them, so they'll still be my NFC team, I guess, but a man has to stand by his statements. In my sad lonely mind there is nothing more appropriate than rooting for the sleepiest, tealest, smallest market perennial sleeper in the league

that's funnt that jacobs talked so much shit. he didn't play very well. i didn't fel like the giants got their ground game going until they started running bradshaw.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51226TCNXCL._SS500_.jpg

http://a285.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/28/l_44230cb83623e3ad02a6b6cd56c26d64.jpg

never said I was going to start rooting against them, so they'll still be my NFC team, I guess, but a man has to stand by his statements.

no i completely understand. that's why i can root for the cubs but not the white sox. or actually, i can root for the white sox like 154 games a year or whatever.

You guys, I am 2 degrees of seperation away from Spag.

you know jared lorentzen?!?!?

whenever i see the truncated version of that dude's name i think of this.

xpost.

so is belichick going to switch back to his filthy grey hoodie now instead of this new fancy man red one he was sporting last night?

also 4th-and-13.

His fancy man red one highlighted his bitchtits and stubby arms! lolololol

Tom: He's from the same town as a very good friend of mine and was close friends with my friend's brother, to the point where said brother's early death is mentioned in a pre-Superbowl article as a pivotal life event for Spags that eventually led him to the path of creating a kickass amazing defense.

also 4th-and-13.

yeah this. are boston papers giving him shit for this? as a giant fan i was totally psyched they went for it there.

it was like the ghost of schottenheimer showed up and gave him that advice.

schottenheimer's not dead

o rly?

i was really hoping it would come down to gostkowski missing a fg personally

the 4th and 13 call woke me from my hungover state and I felt whole again

loved troy aikman saying "he doesn't want to miss a field goal and give the giants good field position"

schottenheimer's not dead

-- El Tomboto, Monday, February 4, 2008 3:19 PM (Monday, February 4, 2008 3:19 PM) Bookmark Link

you've obviously never seen him coach.

bradshaw recovering his own fumble after the pats dude had his whole body on it made me love again

yeah troy better to go for it on 4th & 13- i like those odds!

xxpost

btw peter king called tyree "this year's max mcgee."

fuck, now i'm going to have to watch this game somehow and see what the fuck you guys are talking about.

i guess i could read a report of the game too.

you really should go watch the highlights online. no writer can really do justice to the miracle pass.

what are they going to call it?

"The Helmet"

"Lol I Caught A Ball With My Head"?

^ftw

just catching the pass in that manner is hard enough but there was a defensive player swatting the ball at the same time

chi kev here's a youtube link to it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5BWzoyzVbc

http://bestmessageboardever.com/uploads/monthly_02_2008/post-579-1202154477.jpg

kev, link to this key brady sack

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D_ld7ttWPZU

chi kev here's a betting slip of a friend of mine

Future Wager 01/05/08 16:04 ET
bet 25.00 to win 1,500.00 (paid 1525.0) Result: Wager
Won

Odds to Win 2008 Super Bowl XLII - Glendale AZ
New York Giants Win 02/03/08(20:00 ET)
60 - 1

just need a Pam Oliver .gif and that's Super bowl 42 in a nutshell

I can't watch!

i was really hoping it would come down to gostkowski missing a fg personally

Something tells me if they'd have tried to kick it, same difference. But yeah, should've at least tried - after the punt Giants were on what, 31 yard line instead of 39?

fuck, thanks for the links i'll watch them at home if i ever get out of here.

nice ticket your friend punched brownie, i lost a bean on the pats, i was giving 10 1/2 points.

jhoshea to thread pls

hello

Ya know I was just wondering myself. Hope he's OK.

Actually he's about the only one in this thread that I didn't feel sorry for. :)

sayonara

i don't even know who you are.

olbermann is gloating.

I don't think I'm turning on the TV until at least Friday..

its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished. its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished. its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished. its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished. its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished. its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished. its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished. its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished. its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished. its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished. its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished. its a complete fluke the giants made it this far. if the playoff were run 10 more times i doubt theyd make it to the superbowl once. and theyre abt to get so fucking demolished.

http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2008/0203/nfl_g_manning_tyree_580.jpg

got any pics of the last sack?

tyree in the offseason:

http://blog.inman.com/inmanblog/images/2007/04/12/carnak.jpg

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6eNbG7svliE

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BDWkQKvOrN8

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5d_na_tb-fw

"I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!"

OK SO I'M NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO JUST HEARD OLBERMANN SAY THAT

i mean i don't think that quote has any relevance to the super bowl whatsoever

wow that play was even more insane than I remembered. wtf

i have no idea how that play even existed, it's like a rip occurred in the space-time continuum to have allowed that to happen.

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE. I DRINK IT UP.

it's like a rip occurred in the space-time continuum

football gods v Belichick. Something had to happen right?

olbermann is basically the smuggest man on earth right now!!

OH ZING ON FOX

zing on fox re brady ankle!!

XPOST

olbermann hates brady, doesn't he

I'm sure he does (he is usually the smuggest man on earth) but what did he say now?

he just said Brady's ankle was clearly fucking with him and thought it was ridiculous that nobody at Fox said anything on that point. I don't know if that amounts to Brady hate though

So I assume that was sarcasm, then..

did you miss the brady-bush thing?? and when he said that losing the super bowl counts like SEVEN losses.

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agh
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haha yeah I must have missed that

brady's rug looked good this season though

LEAVE BRADY ALONE :)

I DIDN’T TUNE IN UNTIL THE LAST 2 MINUTES OF THE
GAME BECAUSE I CAN’T STAND MYSELF SHOUTING & SCREAMING FOR 3 HOURS. WHAT A CLIMAX & WONDERFUL
ENDING FOR A VERY NICE, HUMBLE PERSON, TOM BRADY.

— Posted by Ira

(taken from the comments on http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/the-game-comes-to-the-rescue-and-oh-what-a-game-it-was/)

http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/e94c54a453_tony02042008.jpg

http://deadspin.com/assets/resources/2008/02/elimanningsuperbowlmvpwtf.jpg

that one you just posted is like the perfect storm of a picture, omar

strahan's like 'oh no wai where he goin'

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2008/writers/peter_king/02/04/Giants/t1_strahanhatNEW.jpghttp://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008_images/CapThis020408.jpg

ok that picture of strahan
http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/6057/30jqstx9201nq5.gif

That actually happened, right..? I'm still having trouble, guys. But (*&^# Belechick. I liked that he was evil but for crying out loud, don't act like that.

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/sp/getty/c5/fullj.802ff0c0d45f96b7e4fb425205ddcb78/802ff0c0d45f96b7e4fb425205ddcb78-getty-fbn-super_bowl-giants-patriots.jpg

that pic of strahan I posted has been my desktop background since I showed up today. and it will stay that way as long as I can stand it.

dar1a, i'm basically still in a total state of unbelief myself. like i'm pretty sure i'm going to get up tomorrow and find out that i dreamt all of this.

I can only hope. Unfortunately, I think it really happened. I haven't watched that video but def recall from the start.. was like, where is the team I watched all season? and what was the game plan? it didn't look like they wanted to win, a lot of the time.

they were outplayed fair and square by a better team, that's what happened to that team. I KNOW THIS SOUNDS INSANE BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE GIANTS AND THE PATRIOTS. the giants front four dismantled the supposed best offense in the league like they were playing a jv squad from ohio. i had faith the giants would win, but not like this! when was the last time the pats scored less than 20 points in a game?? 1999?

i'm just glad they stayed classy at the end. i know you love the pats dude, but christ what a bunch of blow jobs.

i'm just shocked that, somehow, over the course of the last month, the giants became a better team than the fucking patriots! WHY DON'T YOU GO MAKE SOME MORE CUPCAKES WITH MATT LAUER, TIKI! LOL!

and shockey's ass is so fired, finally. it's like all of my dreams came true all at once!

this game made me feel better about the packers loss, i was like 'are we that bad or are the giants really that good suddenly'. now i know.

I read some postgame stuff on the Boston sports site yesterday.. Junior Seau was asked if he'd leave football and was like "I'm having too much fun" (seriously), Brady talked to the media and didn't act like a jerk, but I don't think Belichick said anything except gave a few answers to one ESPN guy in the hallway?

I saw they were outplayed I'm just thinking, you know.. if they'd lost that Ravens game at least and nobody went in there thinking a loss here was like the total end of the world. And I wonder what happens next year (can not wait until next season!!!) if certain people change their attitude from this. brady stops yelling at guys, BB stops being evil. one can hope. I'm still gonna root for them but can't really defend his behavior after this one

http://homepages.nyu.edu/~dg504/bellichick.gif

lol wtf short sleeve hoodie

that strahan pic is like some perfect candle on the cupcake.

lol britishes:

Peyton Manning miracle brings New York Giants sweet success

Others who fell in sight of history:

The Australia cricket team lost the Perth Test to India by 72 runs last month when they needed one more win to beat their own record of 16 consecutive Test wins.

Pats = Aussie cricketers

if certain people change their attitude from this. brady stops yelling at guys, BB stops being evil.

brady yelled at guys when he was in ann arbor, that's not going to change. as as far as bb, well.... i dunno, ask bernie kosar or bill's ex-wife or the ex-husband of that other marriage he split up. one loss of a football game isn't going to change anyone's nature.

I have no idea what someone's personal life has to do with it, but, well, let me try google & see what Bernie Kosar has to say..

i meant if he's an evil person you can expect him to continue to be evil on the field.

Not if it doesn't work any more?
Otherwise, eh, I thought it was funny to be rooting for the forces of evil all season long and just figured evil would always triumph because good is dumb. But unfortunately the Packers didn't make it to the big game so we didn't get Favre with a big halo and nearly as much hype :)

http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/4b71885cb8_ltpbrady402042008.jpg

“If it looks like a rape and acts like a rape…”

http://assets.espn.go.com/i/page2/topstory/pg2_02052208_412x232.jpg

Thank you, espn.go.com

Not if it doesn't work any more?

i'd wager not too many people would change much about a coaching job that saw a team go undefeated in the regular season, win two playoff games, then lose to the hottest team in the league in the superbowl.

my goal is to now move out of my apartment and into a new one where i can have a satellite dish so i can order nfl network in time for the draft.

Maybe my gut is telling me I should just go back to where I grew up, buy a double wide and a big ass pickup truck, go hiking in the mountains, and put up a satellite dish to watch NFL network and stock car racing the rest of the time. I could probably do all that for what it costs to rent a tiny studio in DC.

Inside the brain of ... Jared Lorenzen

ha!

daria you can get a townhouse in gaithersburg for the cost of a studio downtown.

chicago rents, despite being on the incline, are still insanely cheap compared to the rest of the country. i couldn't get a studio in the tiny backwards-assed suburb in north bumfuck massachusetts where i grew up for what i pay for my one bedroom.

which is why i still live in an apartment i hate i suppose. i just don't hate it enough, yet.

Have I ever mentioned how we pay less than $600 for A HOUSE in a nice, historic neighborhood?

Have I ever mentioned SHUT UP?

Have I ever mentioned how we pay less than $600 for A HOUSE in a nice, historic neighborhood?

if i was gonna live in little rock i would move to memphis instead.

it really just warms me to the bottom of my heart to see the outpouring of brady/belichick hatred that has come forth the past week, to be honest.

l-r: Eli, Belichick

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/42/180px-Stgeorge-dragon.jpg

if i was gonna live in little rock i would move to memphis instead.

memphis is muggier.

good stuff...

http://kissmesuzy.blogspot.com/2008/02/last-post-before-we-turn-on-giants-and.html

Uh.. Hasn't it been an outpouring all season? :) I still don't think Brady did anything hate worthy and hope he picks up at least another super bowl ring. Belichick is pretty bad though.

I will say.. this season after watching a few playoff games in crowded bars (Capitol Hill), going to a game and sitting in the cheap seats, actually reading online forums besides this one.. I realized the extent to which professional sports brings out the worst in 99% of the population

dar1a, me and alex yelling that we hate brady at you every week isn't the same thing as a national outpouring of hatred!

going to crowded bars to watch sports is basically the worst idea in the world unless everyone there in the bar is a fan of the exact same team :\

aw, the Pats defensive backfield had to start smoking weed to kill the pain

hey I don't mean you guys w/the hate.. during the first half of the season I was stuck in class Sunday afternoon a lot of times so would have to follow early games online via SI/ESPN play by play and fan comment forums, and every single Pats game half the stuff on any given message board was just people dropping by to say how much they suck

I watched Skins lose to Seattle at what was apparently a Steelers bar and by halfway through the fourth quarter people were basically hovering over our shoulders so we'd leave early and they could take our seats. should've stuck around to keep the chair AND watch their team nearly come all the way back and then get beat

At least I didn't go to 51st state for the super bowl (was in the neighborhood and I thought about it).

maybe someone should call jhoshea yeah? i'm worried that he hasn't had a chance to be mocked yet.

I STILL LOVE YOU TOMMY AND BILLY YOUR THE BEST AND IT DONT MATTER WHAT NOONE ELSE SAYS BILL YOU STILL HAVE 5X MORE RINGS THAN ELI AND EVEN 2X MORE GIANTS SUPERBOWL RINGS THAN THAT DOUCHE KEEP SMILIN!

xpost - that was on my behalf, but now also jhoshea's too

i thought belichick was the horse there for a sec

going to crowded bars to watch sports is basically the worst idea in the world unless everyone there in the bar is a fan of the exact same team :\

-- the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, February 5, 2008 1:33 PM (Tuesday, February 5, 2008 1:33 PM) Bookmark Link

“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities”

I'm still laughing at Belichick's stubby gimp arms tbh.

Uh.. Hasn't it been an outpouring all season? :) I still don't think Brady did anything hate worthy and hope he picks up at least another super bowl ring. Belichick is pretty bad though.

lol i am the opposite... i still adore belichick, perhaps even moreso when he is a grade-A shitbag. brady is more disgusting with his golden boy crybaby BULLSQUID~

what crybaby squid?

and yeah, i kinda like belichick more now that he's totally embraced the dark side. it's gonna be sad when this sudden character transformation turns out to be a brain tumor or something.

Have I ever mentioned how we pay less than $600 for A HOUSE in a nice, historic neighborhood?

hahaha, I was hoping you'd give in to this evil impulse before I did.

Also, I do not get the Belichick love. I wouldn't let that Jack-Torrance-acting-motherfucker within a mile of my front door.

dude, unless you're tom coughlin, you wouldn't be able to stop him.

spagnuolo home security inc

position a reporter or a tailor at your door. he wouldn't dare

lol
lol (xpost)
lol (xxpost)

The only acceptable ruining of the pats that I can deal with is for osi to kill tom brady.

I am not kidding or exaggerating.

-- TOMBOT, Monday, December 24, 2007 8:42 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

lol at daria sincerely not getting why people hate tom brady??

guys this game basically made me like american football again, i never thought i'd see the day tbh

i forgot about the majesty of the long drive, there's nothing else like it in sports

hi i hate u all ;_; ;_; ;_;

ban bjo 4 eva!!!!!

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sw

aw

lol we were worried about you you son of a bitch

lol @ loading this page, seeing giselle at the top, then the gif i posted at the bottom

aw nothing to worry abt now that i am a being of pure hatred - although i did have to kinda smile at the deli a few block away's window plastered w/OMG WE WON! newspaper headlines accompanied by a hand lettered sign reading WE DID IT! i should take a picture of teh cuteness - but uh losing to bjo in this thread did add a nice insult to injury - not that im ready to really discuss any of it aside from my infinite reservoir of hate

yay we missed you jhoshea! i'm glad you're okay.

Back to the prognostication drawing board.

omg, *eyeroll*

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/nfl_experts/post/We-must-stop-the-unfair-treatment-of-the-New-Eng;_ylt=AldHO8e13S.3gzjM1S4.iaBDubYF?urn=nfl%2C65863

nm already posted elsewhere!

lol at "bill belisecond-place"

Ya know, Steve Smith deserves mo' credit for his catch on 3rd and 11. Because as majestical and awesome as the Manning-escape/Tyree catch was, it would have gone for naught had they not picked up the 3rd and 11, and Smith had to pick up a tough last 2.5 yards to get that 1st, and then get out of bounds!

(sorry just watchin da youtube highlights!)

OH MY GOD LOL @ IDEA OF DAR1A GOING TO THE 51ST STATE FOR THE SUPER BOWL!!! god that was a bullet dodged, my dear.

btw i have a permanent laundry lady at my door to prevent belichick's entry, just fyi.

yeah that would have been bad!! I still can't believe that game really happened.

Why is the off season so long... Do we need a thread for that --> the Belichick suicide watch thread.

GODHEAD:

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3814121n

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/2008/02/08/0210-STREET/21891545.JPG

that picture makes me unnaturally happy for some reason. and i think i wish i was that guy.

http://img.fannation.com/images/ap/2008/02/08/18/200802081850678256903-p2-210x210.jpg

the picture was from nyt style slideshow on bright colors being the current look, so it was all these fashionistas with funky shoes and then that guy

i'll bet i'd rather hang out with that guy than with funky-shoed fashionistas.

its one thing to pick the giants - but to predict the pats only score 20 points - krazy

― jhøshea, Sunday, February 3, 2008 11:07 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ahh it never gets old...

Remember that one time when you were right about something?

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE. I DRINK IT UP.

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