AFC / NFC 2011/12 Championship Games: Believed to be one of the few — if not only — “flying dumps” ever recorded.

Sabol said the most impressive dunk he ever saw came at the end of Super Bowl XXXVII, when a group of Tampa Bay Buccaneers players carried a bucket as they ran behind Coach Jon Gruden, who was excitedly sprinting down the sideline.

Sabol said the NFL Films cameramen were running alongside the group, too, giving the entire sequence a certain “National Geographic as an antelope is being stalked quality.” Finally the players dropped the liquid on Gruden as he leaped in the air, providing what Sabol said he believed to be one of the few — if not only — “flying dumps” ever recorded.

“It was impressive,” he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/21/sports/football/a-splashy-football-tradition-gatorade-style.html

Call Em:

Giants / Niners
Ravens / Pats

niners pats

Giants/Pats
and Eli better fucking come correct

how odd would a san francisco / baltimore superbowl be

pats giants

lol @ flying dumps

how odd would a san francisco / baltimore superbowl be

I'd never want to hear the name Harbaugh again after the two weeks of hype leading up to kickoff. That said, this is 49ers/Pats.

still going with my start-of-the-playoffs pick: ravens and giants

leaning towards harbowl

ugh

AdamSchefter Adam Schefter
Front page of today's NY Post, starring Gen. Coughlin. lockerz.com/s/176424936

Not quite as good as "Giant Jerk Shoots Himself," but, hey, they can't all be winners.

I really don't like 3 of the 4 clubs, so the odds that I am good with the results will not be that likely.

49ers impressed me last week. They got a bit of everything. I think the game with the Giants being a pretty much total pickem, as the NY passing game definitely has more horse power and their running game has come along. Then again the Niners went toe to toe and beat the best offense this year with the Saints. Close game, but I'm leaning SF by a field goal.

I could see Baltimore knocking off NE, but I have seen them play way too stupid and bad at points to think they can get it done, even though the Pats defense isn't like the old days. Give me NE, but it could be close.

49srs

pats

srs?

ers

pats 9rs - these are my 2 fav teams btw

I don't love any of it really.

Kinda want Giants Pats, in the hope that Eli beats them AGAIN and the Patriots burst into flames, lol.

Maybe 9ers Pats? I dunno that the 9ers have any more games in them like last weekend though...I kinda want them to go just to get creamed.

http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2012/01/22/covers/front012212.jpg
http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2012/01/22/covers/back012212.jpg

i don't want the Giants (sorry mom) cuz I don't respect this squad like I did 2007's.

I want 49ers-Patriots and the 9ers to fuck the shit out of the Patsies

Pats overwhelm teams 9 out of 10 times*. Hoping for giants/pats rematch.

*fake statistics!

Is Victor Cruz about to eat those people falling from the streetcar?

it's his thing

lol never change nypost

wtf is goin on on nfln - they are doing dunk tanks in the parking lot

rich eisen throws like a girl

lol i just saw that

i couldn't tell if irvin was actually pissed or not

Steven Tyler looking sharp!

Omg Tyler.

I think my ears just broke

you better believe i muted that shit

i loved his shirt

Way to shoe hometown pride, Sean. I blasted it.

Show - stupid phone.

Flacco nailed! 3 & out. So far so good

Lets go Patritos

Way to shoe hometown pride, Sean. I blasted it.

― ENBB, Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:07 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol tyler is so cringey

why do some QBs wear a wee bum bag?

Hand warmer

travellers checks

did anyone think it was weird that drew bledsoe was wearing a drew bledsoe jersey?

It's OK Sean. I understand that u hate Boston. ;)

Nice sack!

I did not really blast it BTW.

don't believe u

how come I have never seen Flacco's stupid mustache before

maybe Bledsoe still thinks they might put him in?

Go Law Firm!

I would like some Gronk pls

some fat guys seem to have stumbled onto the field

The Ravens are crushing the Pats so far, the Pats need a TD here to crush their spirit.

Flaccos mustache is so stupid

wilfork is blowin shit up

Pats D looking really good so far

Yep + Flacco is taking way too long

Pats need to run Green-Ellis more and stop handing off to Woodhead

Woooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

Stressful first half

Wind beneath my wings commercial!

Stressful first half

― Moodles, Sunday, January 22, 2012 4:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

More like balls so soft university emirate?

Autocorrect!

he kinda fast

uhhhh... refs gonna call a face mask?

Ooh big swing right there

dayyyyym

http://i.imgur.com/szDIq.gif

Ugh

Oooh Gronk's ankle got blowed up

Haaaaa it was Bernard Pollard who did it, also!

yo pollard is a patrito killah

Looks like he was walking ok

He'll be ok.

Yeahhhhhhh!

am enjoying brady having 2 pick up his handwarmer everytime it comes off like a man purse or w/e

More like balls so soft university emirate?

― ENBB, Sunday, January 22, 2012 4:54 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha what did suggs do to elicit this?

DENIED

welp

ha love that dive

Finally Brady

he looked like a dolphin

holy shit brady

Yeah OK sometimes Tom Brady just reminds me that he is a total badass.

christ on a stick i forgot how stressful this is

So stressful.

The reward for the stress happens when your team wins the Super Bowl, though, and it is spectacular. Of course, that also means that most of the people who take on the stress just end up unhappy wondering why nobody on the Packers could catch a ball last week.

Rickkkkyyyyyy

Rickkkkyyyyyy

― C-L, Sunday, January 22, 2012 5:41 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

SHUT UP PHIL SIMMS

yooo ricky

my god what a classic run from ricky

So I got fitted for a bra and bought two and I am p sure the lady was crap and this is the wrong size.

Um wrong thread.

oh no!

xp haha

why does Phil Simms exist

fucking flacco

its flacco time

spikes!

Yesssssssssss!

When the chips are down and the situation is tense, Joe Flacco never forgets that he is Joe Flacco.

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssss

flacco distracted by bra talk

Spikes!

if the pats are in the superbowl for the millionth time, i blame u, joseph flacco

It's all falling into place right now

Guys bras are srs biz.

If the pats go through u should come to Boston HS.

Totally serious, btw.

I've always found bra sizes really confusing

they are

IS THAT AN INT

That is one of the best interceptions I've ever seen.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Uh oh

O_O

PLAYOFFS

holy fuck

wut

BERNARD POLLARD WILL BURN NEW ENGLAND TO THE GROUND

i fucking love football for real

waow

y throw deep there

Like the call, not the throw

Ahhhhhhh

WHAT IS HAPPENING

i fucking love football for real

― horseshoe, Sunday, January 22, 2012 2:48 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ravens oline is puttin in work here

just keep using ricky wtf

Like the call, not the throw

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, January 23, 2012 12:48 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, what kind of crap throw was that?

kind of a big moment here

dammit

Good job Wilfork

wilfork earning that money

FINALLY a big third down stop for the Pats

'whatta call'? maybe nantz thinks a punt is the way to go?

looking forward to watching this denzel movie on FX

charlie rose looks so out of place on that cbs show

lololol

What is Joe Flacco even

VINCE

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee

what the flac are u doing

wilfork is kinda good

I luv him

http://bostonist.com/attachments/boston_caroline/010407-vince-wilfork.JPG

Exactly.

even i love vince wilfork

kick it ffs. 50 yards is a hell of a lot more makeable than that shit.

it's billy cundiff tho

i am on board w this willfork fellow

getting in that down & distance was a disaster for ravens. no way in hell cundiff makes that fg

I would have punted and tried to pin the Pats back at their end zone

ED REED

edward reed

One last chance for Flacco glory, you guys

Ravens D really stepping it up on that play

still 2 t.o.s but 1 flacco so..

Oh my God

OK so this is gonna be Joe Flacco's quarterbackery versus Julian Edelman's Defensivebackery. FOR THE SUPER BOWLLLLL

edelman covering anquan boldin is insane

OK or alternately do not cover Anquan Boldin at all

holy shit lol

what horribly formed "dfense"

Dear Patriots:

HE IS GOING TO THROW IT TO BOLDIN

This is too much. Ahhhh

o m g

simms wanted them to run there

JOE FLACCOOOOOOOOOO

Omg

OH MY GOD

OMG

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

No good!!!!!!

Yesssssssss

HE BRICKED IT !!!!!! OMG

OMG

Yayyyyyy

hahahahah

u guys this crazy sport

CUND-OFF

SUPER BOWL BABY

PATRIOTS!

I just freaked out my family with my screaming

man

what a fuckin game

Yayyyyyyyyy

that defender knocking the ball outta evans hand was a legit incredible play

http://s46884.gridserver.com/images/uploads/1_-_wilfork_weei.jpg

I think my friend just had a coronary. Benson is spooked.

Oof glad Pats won but feel pretty bad for that kicker.

Yay!

he totally cundiffed that kick

slowmo suggs OMG

rip billy cundiff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Moore

If the BCS games this year taught us nothing, it is that you should never ever leave the game in the hands of your kicker in 2012. KICKER CONSPIRACY LIVES

moore off raiders practice squad YOU'RE WELCOME

OMG that was epic

omg

pats did not deserve that but.. Man. I was thinking that awful pats D would be the key..

that defender knocking the ball outta evans hand was a legit incredible play

― johnny crunch, Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:11 PM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Moore was the second best corner in raiders camp and preseason and Raiders mans (e.g. me) were really disappointed he got cut loose

raiders mayns

Cozen why are u up?

JESUS CHRIST

Sterling Moore cut from several practice squads iirc! Including NE?

Guys it was because I am wearing my lucky Pats shirt. True story.

Sterling Moore cut from several practice squads iirc! Including NE?

― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:14 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, oops

xp was that the one u bought at the game we went to?

welp, twitter is down

Boy, I don't like the Ravens, but that was a big ole' 1 2 to the croch for Baltimore fans with Evans not hanging on to that ball and missing that field goal.

I'm sure Cleveland is good with it.

how is a team using wide receivers and practice squad dudes as dbs going to the super bowl

that defender knocking the ball outta evans hand was a legit incredible play

― johnny crunch, Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:11 PM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Definitely the biggest play of the game.

I just.. good lord Brady throws like 3 picks they play Edelman at corner and still win. wtf

vince wilfork people vince wilfork

billy cundiff: believed to be one of the few - if not only - "flying dumps" ever recorded

vince played the game of his life

I am also wearing a lucky Pats shirt
purchased in Rhode Island in fact

How did NE get it done? AFC kind of sucks this year. No one is really that great in the whole conference, which is a switch from a few years back. The good teams are all getting old or are weak in one area or another.

xp was that the one u bought at the game we went to?

― call all destroyer, Sunday, January 22, 2012 6:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No it is an older one. I couldn't find that one earlier! Regardless - yay!

RIP Ed Reed's sanity

I am most interested in seeing 49ers-Patriots (for stylistic reasons), but the Ravens are my 3rd favorite team and I really did like the potential angle of having the Ravens play for the Super Bowl in Indianapolis the year the Colts finished 2-14 and Peyty possibly said goodbye.

OK Fox's play of the year apparently had LeGarrette Blount running past the entire Green Bay Packers winning over the dude on the Bengals who did the flip and stuck the landing.

kinda surprised the lee evans thing wasn't reviewed (i mean, it wasn't a catch, but it was pretty close)

Drew looks good

Kraft super drunk?!?!?!

i need a special pullout section of SI that's just full page images of the reactions of guys like t suggs and e reed and ray rice to that kick

also, like, i hope you guys realize that cundiff DIDN'T EVEN HIT THE NET from like 30 yards out. i think that's the worst shank in the history of football... at least scott norwood was like 3 inches off.

haha i was just about to summon the ghost of scott norwood

that kick stuuuuu-uuuunk

also, like, i hope you guys realize that cundiff DIDN'T EVEN HIT THE NET from like 30 yards out. i think that's the worst shank in the history of football... at least scott norwood was like 3 inches off.

― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:26 PM (55 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Norwood was 47 yards. This is wayyyyyyyyy worse

it's just really rare to see a guy just completely and utterly choke like that... and the idea of "choking" is prob overrated but the word was invented for this kinda thing

finkle is cundiff, cundiff is finkle etc

Norwood probably makes this 31 yarder 99/100

i feel really shitty for ed reed

kinda surprised the lee evans thing wasn't reviewed (i mean, it wasn't a catch, but it was pretty close)

yeah, how long do you have to hold onto it before it's a TD? like you can "break the plane" and then fumble, but if you catch and it gets knocked out, it's not?

feeling really, really bad for Cundiff. can't imagine anything in sports feeling worse than this

yeah, how long do you have to hold onto it before it's a TD? like you can "break the plane" and then fumble, but if you catch and it gets knocked out, it's not?

― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Sunday, January 22, 2012 6:31 PM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, basically

finkle is cundiff, cundiff is finkle etc

― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Sunday, January 22, 2012 6:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^

scoring rules for running in/catching are completely different

yeah Ed Reed deserved to win this game ..

also lee evans is terrible

yeah lee evans sucks

should've been torrey smith

The thing with the plane-breaking fumble is that you had already established possession before the goal line was involved; with this one, he didn't quite establish possession, I guess.

yeah

what the fuck is a "football move" anymore? spiking it in the d's face?

this national anthem is weird as fuck, with the crowd reacting to the tv shots?

i'm already seeing this on twitter and it really needs to stop--that's an incomplete pass every goddamn day of the week

yeah he didn't catch that

Tebowing is a football move imsmr

joe rogan and jay glazer need to get in a car together and drive headfirst into an oncoming semi

otm

Niner crowd as bad as Raider crowd with anthem...secondhand embarrassment ahoy, jesus fuck

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/sports/playmagazine/28lewis.html?pagewanted=all

i realize that it's not a complete pass, he holds onto that and the ravens win, just saying it probably should be reviewed. the dumb thing about this "all scoring plays must be reviewed" rule is that it doesn't overturn anything that wasn't called a score but should have been...this probably wasn't one of them but it's happened a few times this season

yeah that was an insane oversight by the competition committee that i assume will be rectified in the offseason

this game is gonna get muddy huh?

"i think that's the worst shank in the history of football... at least scott norwood was like 3 inches off."

Drunken kicker's kick with the Colts to blow that playoff game against the Steelers the year they won it all was really bad. That thing I don't think touched the endzone, it was like a coffin corner punt.

They probably didn't review that last Ravens pass as the NFL didn't have time to sell another advertisement for it, which I think is the real reason they do that stupid 'we review all TDs' BS.

Oh yeah, I also have a theory if your kicker is the 'most accurate kicker' in NFL history (at that point), your team is totally screwed in big games.

Scott Norwood
Gary Anderson
Drunken Kicker
Nate Kaeding

Enough Giants fans in attendance to do the Cruuuuuzzz thing

Yeah I feel like everytime the PBP guy is like "This is THE MOST ACCURATE KICKER" or "This is a back who HAS NEVER FUMBLED" then he is basically asking football God to do something hilarious.

where the hell is the pass rush?

Enough Giants fans in attendance to do the Cruuuuuzzz thing

― C-L, Sunday, January 22, 2012 6:52 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

these are just undercover cops hoping someone decides to punch them

Just yelled at my TV "You have GOT to pressure him" at the 49ers, I feel like I may have some unresolved anger from last week.

Janikowski scares the shit out of me in tight games, he can go 50/50 when game is on the line

eli stares down cruz
*makes jerk off motion*

Janikowski scares the shit out of me in tight games, he can go 50/50 when game is on the line

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:55 PM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah but this year he finally seemed to come together; I trust him now

See so it turns out useful things happen when you get to Eli Manning.

well there you guys go

also sea bass's kicks always go in like 13 diff directions before finally going in

yep

xxposts to Matt, true but my nervousness never really left, lol

He might shank it from 25 yards out but at least with Janikowski you actually have a shooter's chance if you got to kick a 55-70 yard field goal. The dude has a trebuchet of a leg.

NINERS

decided they will be my team this year

Whoooooo doggy

VD!

Wow. That Vernon Davis is a beast. He looked like a man playing with boys when he was at Georgia, so I am not surprised.

I'm like 'how is it legal to stand on that'
yellow flag flies by

lol antrelle rolle was drafted as a cb, just got burned by 10 yds by vernon davis

Vernon, you rule

Holy shit he would have been out had his heel hit the ground but Vernon Davis is too busy being goddamned awesome at football.

remember when mike singletary sent him home early?

lol if he went out of bounds and is still penalized

someone tell ed hochuli to stfu

we all know how replays work

lol hochuli

he should have just done a whole monologue "guys look.... this is a toughie"

show and tell with ed hochuli

"in order to do a replay, I must first look in a little teevee"

"we got ourselves a real headscratcher folks"

people are tweeting @ snoop from the wire like "throw cundiff in a rowhouse"

man... vernon davis had a pretty pedestrian year but dude has been like the single best player in the entire playoffs

davis is superbeastmode

"what if you could read all the patters in the universe"

"uh... i have no fucking idea?"

hochuli explaining to fans who don't know if their football team is the giants or not

"looks like nicks has a shoulder"

Jesus Christ

that reese witherspoon movie is hella teal & orange

o shit a bear pasco

when did "business decision" become the preferred term for avoiding a hit/tackle? I have just noticed this

I think Deion coined it in the 90s

explaining why he didn't tackle

Wow I had not paid enough attention to Andy Lee before, dude kicks the bejesus out of the ball.

cruz is nuts

hmm could someone w/ a working stream of this pm me?

Vernon Davis U R THE BEST

BEAST

U R ALSO THE BEAST

They show Smith's crappy numbers up until now and five seconds later he makes two incredible passes.

Guys were mobbing Vernon Davis to keep him from climbing any more camera platforms.

that was a high quality dance from vernon davis

Oooh I think the Vernon Davis TD put the spark back in the defense, game is about to get kinda awesome maybe.

has to be a concussion

and the niners hard hitting secondary finally shows up

i love how the dude tried to yank him up by his jersey afterwards like he wasn't totally knocked out

Yeah I'm not quite sure if he got knocked out by the collision with his own man or with the collision with the ground.

I like how one of Fox's overhead cams is all fogged up and hazy on the edges.

every time they show the skycam i think "so this is what the game would be like if i was watching it in the shower with my glasses on"

that def touched him

fox super zoom has my backk

woah he touched that

looked like it, that replay not really conclusive enough though?

don't worry ed hochuli will explain this one to us

there are really a lot of commercials on tv huh

Can you challenge that?

can't advance a kick? a kick w/ his knee?

Oh well obvs I guess you can but I mean I dunno how much it means that they blew the whistle and whatnot

prob can't advance because they blew the play dead?

Gotta like how the crowd goes from a total momentum-killing ruling to immediately chanting "Defense"

Manning is a machine on 3rd downs.

"by rule, a player on offense may not hold a defensive player attempting to make a tackle. therefore, it is a penalty, and 10 yards will be assesed against the offensive team. the down, however, is unchanged; it will be replayed as if they were not playing ten yards farther behind."

MANNING HAM

Brother Eli has really gotten good.

hey guys checking in late re pats game, so tense! hard fought! ended w/a lol lol

Loving watching Eli's footwork in the pocket.

"An eligible receiver who catches a forward pass from the quarterback on his own team in the end zone, is, by rule, deemed to have scored a touchdown, and his team will be awarded six points, with the option to either kick for a single point or attempt a run or pass from scrimmage from the 2 yard line for two points in an untimed down following the touchdown. However, if the ball is caught in the end zone by a player from the opposing team--which in this case, it was not--the ball will be said to have been intercepted, and the receiver has the option to return the ball out of the end zone, or down it for a touchback."

I started writing that after the Manningham TD, it took a little while.

"none of these players may, by rule, climb onto a camera stand"

btw how did the patriots win w/70 fewer total yards and -2 turnovers

lol c-l

maybe this is the magical year where the pats win the superbowl despite everyone in the world knowing they kinda suck

Billy Cundiff and Joe Flacco were prominently involved for the Ravens, I think is the issue

Alex Smith is mobile!

Is Smith about to get all Steve Young up in this mother?

49ers are playing on TEBOW TIME

sb

SF needs to run the ball here and burn some clock.

sb is for superbowl

Alex Smith doin the wacky play action fake.

lol mordy

This game hasn't had the fireworks of the Niners/Saints game, but really it has been played about as close.

I really like watching the 49ers play defense.

God he just Flaccoed it out there when it mattered most.

I knew they'd show up eventually

Joe Flacco played pretty well today. That throw he made that got broken up was dead on the money in a tight window.

flacco played v well I thought, missed the one wide open bomb badly, threw that int, p solid besides that

manning waited so long there

Like I feel like outside of Davis and maybe Gore the offense doesn't deserve to score points, but the Def/ST totally deserve the Super Bowl.

xp the throw at the end was perfect but Flacco also made several other poor decisions late.

"Several"= "A couple I can remember"

lol eli lookin mad bedraggled

Victor Cruz!

Flacco out played Brady, who really wasn't exceptional. I think the story of the last couple of weeks is that NE's defense has played really well, maybe a bit reminiscent of the Colts run a few years back when they were shite all year then played great in the playoffs. NE had some success running the ball today too.

if Cruz even caught that

Yeah Brady made more bad throws today than I can remember him making in a while.

I think the Niners problem on offense is that their wideouts are just freaking terrible more than Alex Smith.

terrible punt

Steve Weatherford is just not having a good day.

Brady played like poop but the ravens D is v good so

also the patriots won that game for no actual reason

they won bc raves lost.

JUST GET RID OF THE BALL ALEX SMITH

what the hell is smith doing

wtf

The Pat's D made a couple of huge plays that cut down points. That one sack with that huge push up the middle along with a false start put the Ravens out of field goal range and they went for it and didn't get it.

The play in the endzone is huge.

That's 10 points right there.

does that count as a third-down conversion?

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if they tie they each play a half vs the Pats, right?

Right now I feel like this could maybe go to 2nd Overtime, neither offense can get enough going.

ed hochuli has waited his entire life for the chance to explain these overtime rules

"before i toss the coin id like to say a few words about my childhood.."

itd be funny if they both score fgs on their opening drives

Ed is a lawyer, he probably gets paid $225 hour for that advice.

Gronkowski is going to the ship u guys

$225/hour is pretty low for a man that strapping

my name is rob, im going on a ship

Well they probably pay Ed in coal and he just squeezes it into diamonds.

i am watching a sky sports feed from the uk -- they'd be better off reading the comments from this thread than letting the guys they have in the studio actually speak

lol lagoon: that should be our superbowl thread title

ohhhh shit

yo sf dbs are playing good d on each other thank u

Cool thing about these OT rules is that it gives you a good reason to go for the TD and possibly get the classic real "sudden death" ending like in the 58 NFL championship.

That is the second possible INT SF has missed because they had two guys with a play on the ball collide.

i am watching a sky sports feed from the uk -- they'd be better off reading the comments from this thread than letting the guys they have in the studio actually speak

pockets of long silence punctuated by inside ilx joekz?

sure!

we would be awesome commentators

I feel like every throw Smith has made on the run ends up bouncing in front of the intended receiver.

niners offense is so clueless right now

how many overtimes can you have. I foresee at least 4

nah this is over in 5 mins

^^^

Crap field and weather to count on a FG to win a game.

oh what a hit

Willis is really good.

SF defense has mostly been ready for primetime really since Nolan was the coach.

hochuli: no, dude, he came into the neutral zone!

mckenzie is terrible

wowww

holy

oh shi

what a strip!

welp

o boy

great non-block

OMG

Wow...screwing up TWO kick returns in a game to go to the Superbowl.

I feel for that guy, that ain't nothing you want on your life resume.

Ted Ginn, haunting teams from the sidelines.

Was not expecting to ever say "They would have made the Super Bowl if Ted Ginn Jr had been healthy", but here we are.

feel like bradshaw could still fumble if they give it to him

that was i think the longest ny run of the game

guh I don't know if I can deal w/this rematch, starting to have flashbacks

block it!

haha delay (though that's probably beneficial)

ugh. worst possible SB.

lol coughlin "I got this Eli"

no way this is beneficial!

NY/Boston - SB - ESPN dream.

'eli wondering why they're not taking timeout' would make a good gif

GIANTS

whatevs i'm psyched as hell for this super bowl

i don't even want to watch this sb but i'm already on the hook for a sb party

giants, work on snapping the ball for 2 wks

this sb doesn't even want to watch YOU

XP

soz 49ers, you were awesome at times this season, but you need to cook a little longer I guess

i know giants snaps have been low all postseason

you would think they could fix that

lawrence tynes suonds dazed

I swear Weatherford was saying as he ran down the field..."I'm going to the f-in Superbowl!"

I'd like to see that as a GIF.

tynes specified the distance his dream fg was from

haha yeah he totally was xp

haha that made me feel for him. waiting for postseason games to just happen already must be excruciating

what did tynes say in slow-mo there? "[unintelligible] the fucking super bowl!"

well San Francisco those threes finally caught up to you

fuck the Giants ;)

hahaha xp, guess that wasnt tynes

we'll always have sauceless hotwings u guys

I'm replaying it and all I can make out is "i voted the fucking super bowl!"

that's a 3rd party that might some votes away

"i cant believe im the sauceless hotwings play of hte game!"

http://30fps.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2012-January-22-22-36-7.jpg

this was pretty good btw
http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=7478563&s=espn
ELI ELI

haha for anyone with this capability: I highly encourage watching weatherford in reverse and reading his lips? he looks like a deranged Italian

g-men broke twitter

? = ,

is this locker room the sf giants dugout?

the Giants play on a waterfront stadium, so no but it used to be in the last decade

omg eli is so cuet in his gigantic t-shirt

man my feelings towards the giants are remarkable neutral but as that game went on all i could think was can we please play the niners because alex smith sucks balls.

'eli wondering why they're not taking timeout' would make a good gif

this was just adorable!

wow i don't even know what to think about another giants-pats super bowl guys. i mean.. how are the patritos going to stop victor cruz/manningham/nicks with edelman/moore/ihedigbo?

yeah i'm nervous

oh hey also more quality ny post covers, cannot wait. did you notice guy on the giants holding up the ny daily news and fox sports quickly cutting away from it

eli stares down cruz
*makes jerk off motion*
― johnny crunch

^i need gifs for this and of concussed eli trying to call a timeout, stat

oh that was something as well, where he had turf in his helmet and one eye open. <3 eli

i hate having to root for him to get sacked by wilfork 5 times in the super bowl but hey

eli stares down cruz
*makes jerk off motion*
― johnny crunch

this did NOT happen

seriously i have no idea how patriots defense can handle nyg, the whole afc conference game i'm thinking here's where belichick's patched together secondary catches up with him.

kev, it absolutely did.

well i mean the giants put up 24 on them in the first matchup this season; i don't think we need to go that crazy.

giants will move the ball but the key for the pats is like it always is: score 30.

haha deion sanders just said, "eli manning has the same gomer pyle look no matter what"

eli has this look like... the entire game of professional football is absurd

I AM BUYING MADDEN SO I CAN CUT KYLE WILLIAMS.

http://funkatron.com/content/im-goin-deep-fan-club.jpg

guys rex grossman beat the giants twice this year

now look where they are

rex grossman almost beat the patriots too!

god bless u rex grossman

I weirdly have a feeling that Rex Grossman will end up a college head coach and be running some kind of weird, high scoring open passing game.

His dad was a football coach, so I think it possible.

nyfg are three-point underdogs? not too sure abt that

really felt like neither of the better teams won tonight

http://30fps.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2012-January-22-22-2-43.jpg

poor Eli

Stay classy Niners fans. Kyle Williams is getting death/violence threats on twitter.

aw jeez. Poor guy looked so shattered on the field.

nyfg are three-point underdogs? not too sure abt that

― mookieproof, Monday, January 23, 2012 12:13 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Are you fucking nuts?

nuts like a fox

still talking about a 13-3 1st seed vs. a 10-6 6th seed that was outscored by 20 in the regular season

the Giants do match up well though. if the line moves to 3.5 i'd bet on NYG right away

http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_960w/Boston/2011-2020/2012/01/22/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/137565802-2101.jpg

9-7 4 seed but w/e -- line seems right to me

#steamingwilforkhead

probably the best game i've ever seen from an interior lineman

9-7 4 seed but w/e -- line seems right to me

lol i was thinking of the 2007 Giants but then got them confused with the Packers that were the 6-seed, either way you get the drift

well i mean the giants put up 24 on them in the first matchup this season; i don't think we need to go that crazy.

giants will move the ball but the key for the pats is like it always is: score 30.

― call all destroyer, Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yep if the pats couldn't score points theyd be fucked, the of course they wouldnt be in the superbowl

i guessed the line would be pats -2.5 so i mean, on the other hand I could see it moving to 3.5

feel like all four this weekends teams were p evenly match which is rare

I feel like the Giants are going to match up pretty well vs. the Pats - I can see the Giants putting up 30+ as Eli and Cruz really seem to be peaking and the Pats pass defense is ripe to be picked apart, and I think they pressure Brady enough to force him into some bad throws (same thing the Ravens did). Will be close but I think that the Giants are once again peaking at the right time while the Pats haven't really looked good in victory the last 6 weeks or so, outside of the second Denver game.

the giants are clearly a better team than the patriots, going by overall talent level. when they come undone, it is usually because oft he weird psychological problems that team seems to have as a group. the relationship between coughlin and the players is so bizarre. they either just don't give a fuck or they buy in 100% and with a 3 playoff wins under their belts they are true believers right now. the sad truth is that new england has no business winning this game. doesn't mean they won't, of course.

giants win and they establish long term domination
giants lose and it's still 1-1 in the superbowl
PATS LOSE EITHER WAY
*think about it*

New England wins. I've never seen a worse performance by a professional sports team in person than i did when i went to the Eagles-Giants Sunday night game this year at the Meadowlands. If that same team wins the Super Bowl, it will be a joke.

if the pats win again it is nbd. if the giants win, 2007 stops being an aberration, ie we all lose. the only possible upside to a gients win is that eli goes 2-1 ahead of his much more talented brother. and it is hard to see any more rings looming for big bro.

hey rs how was your blood pressure on sunday?

i was a complete mess of internalized stress.

i spent the whole 4th quarter pacing a circuit around the apartment. we were so loud by the end that the dog was hiding.

poor benson

I can't really explain the 2 losses to Washington but the Giants did have a rough middle of the schedule.

I think part of it is that they started getting healthy and the new people on defense started to gell at the end of the year.

Sun, Nov 6
New England Patriots @ New England (5-2)
W 24 - 20

Sun, Nov 13
San Francisco 49ers @ San Francisco (7-1)
L 20 - 27

Sun, Nov 20
Philadelphia Eagles vs Philadelphia (3-6)
L 10 - 17

Mon, Nov 28
New Orleans Saints @ New Orleans (7-3)
L 24 - 49

Sun, Dec 4
Green Bay Packers vs Green Bay (11-0)
L 35 - 38

The Pats only played 3 games against playoff teams losing to the Steelers and Giants while beating the Broncos.

if eli wins big brother will probably be favring around until he dies on the field or wins another championship

lol poor benson.

fwiw i pretty much agree with your assessment. patriots will need to play much, much better than they did this week and keep getting treats from the ghost of myra kraft.

I only ended up watching like 5 minutes of the game; had a concert at 5 yesterday

nfl football is v hard to figure out. if jason pierre-paul doesnt block that fg wk 14 @ dallas AND/OR if romo doesnt overthrow miles austin wide open earlier that 4th qtr this season may have ended w/ firing coughlin, to the delight of many nyg fans (not me).

in sum, nfl football is v hard to figure out, pls accept the mystery

otm

any given sunday, iirc

there are years where 'the best team probably won the super bowl' and there are years where a good team that had the right combination of health/luck/momentum wins the super bowl. this year is gonna be #2.

where's ally when you really need her?

you may find her thoughts on manning's mind here

it was an up-and-down day

why doesn't she post on ILNFL anymore? we scare her away? she was hilarious.

I don't own a computer and it is super hard to follow this on a phone! Hi y'all! Mookie summoned me! I watched the game yesterday with a passel of niners fans!

hey what's up!

omg ally!!! congrats to your giants! missed you!

did they throw beer bottles at you?

in sum, nfl football is v hard to figure out, pls accept the mystery

― johnny crunch, Monday, January 23, 2012 6:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there are not enough games basically is the thing

hay schef

there are not enough games basically is the thing

yeah in order to really get a good set of data you'd need teams to play like 100 games, but if teams played like 100 games (or even 30) everyone would probably die. it's like the schrondinger's cat of sports.

i think ochocinco is this year's schrodinger's cat

it was sad during the last game when phil simms was all ochocinco is inactive today because he attended the funeral of his father yesterday, then he goes I think thats why hes inactive :(

o shit is that what happened?

i assumed mcdaniels had just finished writing him out after the denver game

it mightve been his grandfather idk

surprised the sith lord doesn't have ocho playing db just because he can

giants win and they establish long term domination
giants lose and it's still 1-1 in the superbowl
PATS LOSE EITHER WAY
*think about it*

― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Monday, January 23, 2012 5:57 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is almost right tho really the crux of it is that even if the pats win they havnet beaten an undefeated giants team, a perfect season is like winning 3 superbowls, I'll take some measure of solace if they destroy them and Eli has 6 interceptions and poops his pants and crys, otherwise it's not really revenge, tho it is a superbowl win which is p sweet, also would unequivocally punch the pats dynasty ticket, but no im not really pumped for this matchup

i will dance like a fool if the giants beat the pats again.

ill prob just murder/suicide eli

omg don't do it jho!

i don't really care, but lag∞n (harder to type than icey) otm

mans got to do xp

There definitely have been seasons though where you pretty much knew the 2 or 3 teams that would be in the Superbowl.

Pretty much the early 90s were that way as the Cowboys and 49ers were so much better than everyone else. Giants knocked off the Niners one year that was unexpected. At the same time the Bills pretty much were a huge step over everyone else in the AFC.

Pretty much Steelers, Raiders, Dolphins, Cowboys and Vikings dominated the 70s. That's nine of the winners and almost all of the teams that made it there. Redskins, Rams and Broncos made it and lost once and I think that's it. Oh yeah the Colts beat the Cowboys in the fugly bowl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrIah78tKI4

^^^ fucking BADASS

i tivo watched that like thirty times
and tbf it's not exactly BADASS (even though it is) because it's ELI and he looks like he's calling timeout to his mom so he can go get iodine

;_;

YOU SHUT UP FORKS OR I'LL TELL MY MUM ON YOU

"uh time, uh time out guys ah gotta get the sheets off thuh line before it gets windy"

by way of apology veggrrl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=gewshpy6n2w

praise jebus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LbFVvu_IU

nfl football is v hard to figure out. if jason pierre-paul doesnt block that fg wk 14 @ dallas AND/OR if romo doesnt overthrow miles austin wide open earlier that 4th qtr this season may have ended w/ firing coughlin, to the delight of many nyg fans (not me).

^it gets better. if you remember against arizona early in the season Victor Cruz went down without being touched on a catch in the late fourth quarter and just dropped the ball. Like he was in college or something. The refs came up with a doozy of a call and said it wasnt a fumble.Giants go on to score and win the game.

^ jk about the computer thing, this is why I left

seriously though this is what I was up against on Sunday
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/406921_10100831578741339_828176_61214436_466498814_n.jpg

i remember early in the season there was a tectonic shift that was THIS close to an earthquake that would've swallowed the city of New York and there's no way the Giants go to the Superbowl if it does

if 9/11 had just been done RIGHT we never would've won in 2007 OR be in the Super Bowl this year

I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT

lol

awesome

thread delivers

schef just parroting the discussion in Boston today

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Report-Gronkowski-has-ligament-damage-in-ankle.html

gronk has ankle ligament injury. will probably play, won't be 100%

;_;

that injury looked so rough

I predict he fights it out like a trooper.