Your 2012 Superbowl LXVI Thread

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Who you got?

Gints to win.

I'm going Giants and laughing as i do.

giants are the better team overall and match up advantageously. i'm going new england.

I purchased a Junior's Cheesecake via mail order for either a celebration or the binge-eating. Either way, I gots a cheesecake.

Go Giants!

lol @ distracting eli by playing cartoons on the scoreboard

http://manningface.s3.amazonaws.com/images/1292815989_eli.jpg

someone tell the onion that pats cut haynesworth after the regular season giants/pats game

Sneak preview of Madonna's set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khozde8d2zI

please someone photoshop brady's head four times onto cover of computer love lp.

http://itiswhatitis.weei.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/image0031.jpg

someone tell the onion that pats cut haynesworth after the regular season giants/pats game

― seriously, THIS GUY (daria-g), Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He'll still get a ring and an SB $$ share, i believe.

http://i.imgur.com/y1Uo2.jpg

giants are the better team overall and match up advantageously but tom brady is most beautiful. i'm going new england.

laocoön otm

I wagered two fancy bottles of beer that the Patriots will win.

Tracy Morgan was on Jimmy Fallon tonight, talking insane about vaguely football-related things, and went on to a bit about how he and Tom Brady grew up together and went to the same special ed school. Tom had to wear the safety helmet.

How to bet on sports?

Really, I just predict that the Giants will win by three points. I'd like to know how to profit on it.

use the internet

Brandon Jacobs is key to Super Bowl

i may not know much, but i do know that brandon jacobs is like the 18th-most important key to the super bowl on a good day.

all keys are key is the way i break it down to an extent

all keys are key, but what doors do they open?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PECk9A-07Pw

if bradshaw has a good game and jacobs doesn't, the giants will likely win
if jacobs has a good game and bradshaw doesn't, i dunno...

if isn't too much to ask, where is adam schefter?

afternoon tv is delivering. jaws says that eli will "throw the ball 50 times for almost 400 yards". it is cool to see gruden's eye go dead every time jaws speaks. as a bonus: commercial that somehow manages to make hooters seem creepy, of all things.

robby krieger got that black eye blocking a punt iirc

madonna is performing w/mia and nicki minaj i hear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cItHOl5LRWg

enjoy

wikipedia seems to know her setlist

Setlist:
"Vogue" (Madonna)[40]
"Music" (Madonna with LMFAO)[40]
"Give Me All Your Luvin'" (Madonna with Nicki Minaj and M.I.A.)[40]
"Like a Prayer" (Madonna with Cee Lo Green)[40]

tho the cite is to some spanish language site dealing w/ "gay trends" so ymmv

(Madonna with LMFAO)

good lord

also i just got nyg 7 / ne 4 in a box pool - n.b. ive never ever won $ in a box pool

pats will def score 4 i feel

i mean look at their quarterback he is fat n short

http://i.imgur.com/9K3MM.jpg

this is going to be a trainwreck of a halftime huh

aw, thomas bardy u pudgy handsome devil xp

i like his sisters haircuts

http://i.imgur.com/MrXYh.jpg

nerd

i keeping on hearing predictions that this is gonna be a giants blowout

Which can only mean one thing...

final score ne 7 ny 4

I'll be at a 7-1/2-hour Hungarian film, but this Victor Cruz is delish.

posts v much in character

haha morbs

man that tom brady pic should be used in elementary schools across the country to help boost self-esteem

'hey even if you look like this you might one day become tom brady'

nfl channel is playing old superbowls, glimpsed a young belichick on the giants sideline the other day, lol

man got to go see if i can dvr 49ers 55 broncos 10

ah no go but lol anyway http://www.hulu.com/watch/123641/super-bowl-highlights-1990-super-bowl-xxiv-san-francisco-49ers-vs-denver-broncos

lol theres a show on the nfl network right now abt how brady is mad that he was drafted in the 6th round, it opened w/him reciting the list of qbs drafted ahead of him from memory

was he actually mad about that at the time, or has he just read enough sports writer bullshit that he's decided to accept that narrative as key to his success

it is p hilarious be barely started in college

49ers 55 broncos 10

this was awesome bc my asshole freshman year roommate was a broncos fan

new england is pretty lucky that brady managed to complete a couple of passes over JPP's paws at crucial times, tbh the game wasn't as close as it looked, giants dominated them, probably should have been 57-3

I just don't see where this comes from

http://i.imgur.com/AOnW4.jpg

halfway through the 4th q and the giants are in a pretty shitty spot and the game is effectively out of eli's hands. pats offensive deserves credit for fucking this up, but if we're looking at the game at that point the story def isn't 'everything's going by plan for the giants'. and as much as the next two drives defined the end result, if you've only got half a q left and the game is essentially out of your hands that's not a game you 'played well' imo.

oh shit a chart

I'm right...scientifically

the giants didn't completely dominate the game so how can they have played well? i have seen teams score over 50 points loads of times and they didn't get half that many!

context is nothing, chart is everything

the chart is the context! I'm not saying the giants 'didn't play well' or even that they played worse than the pats. they played fairly competently, their offense didn't do a v. good job at getting points on the board, which does matter and put them in a pretty shitty spot in the 4th q. pats also played competently, which is why one or two catches would have turned the game.

(takes out calculator and nerd glasses, goes and plays madden)

iatee OTM

I'm not saying the giants 'didn't play well'
that's not a game you 'played well' imo.

lol

probably should have been 57-3

this was a joke

SANCHEZ

serious "pythagorean expectation" answer: giants should have won 37-0.

safety would have been a brady pick returned for a TD, 7-0. cruz td catch, 14-0. gotkowski FG blocked, returned for TD. 21-0. back and forth for awhile, brady marches downfield and passes towards woodhead, blocked by JPP. halftime: 21-0. hernandez drops easy td pass in 3rd quarter, 21-0 still. 2 FGs from tynes, 27-0. bradshaw TD run, 34-0. brady fumbles on opening play of subsequent drive, recovered by giants, tynes FG as time expires, 37-0.

Adding fuel to the fire:
http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/features/2011/nfl_2011/super_bowl/giants_patriots_super_bowl_math_says_if_wes_welker_catches_that_ball_the_patriots_win_.html

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according to my math, if the Patriots had scored more points than the Giants, then the Patriots would have won

^^^crazytalk

that seems to be in line with the controversial 'scoring is important' narrative that I've been attempting to sell

i thought the whole point of super bowls was to have really good teams play against each other? meaning the statistical certainties get whittled down to hazy 50/50s? which is what happened?

i'm kind of losing track of what this argument even is

the argument = "ILXers wish Superbowl had lasted forever, attempt to simulate it via opinions; also, lol @ Patritos"

two really good teams playing each other doesn't always lead to 50/50 games, but this one did. I guess my only argument is that if the giants played better they did by a v. tiny margin really but, yeah, that was enough. this was a margin of error game and not at all a victory that demonstrated that the giants were 'better'.

well sure, cue angry swigging

i guess my point is trying to argue what a team like the giants or the patritos "should be" able to do "on average" is sorta pointless. it's not average! they're playing each other!

two really good teams playing each other doesn't always lead to 50/50 games, but this one did. I guess my only argument is that if the giants played better they did by a v. tiny margin really but, yeah, that was enough. this was a margin of error game and not at all a victory that demonstrated that the giants were 'better'.

well... the Giants were better at turning their drives into points; considering that both teams scored two touchdowns and a field goal, the Giants had an unanswered field goal which won them the game even without the lol saftey

well I am not trying to argue that the giants did not win that game, statistically they did win that game 100% of the time iirc, this is about 'who played better' and 'what did that game reveal about the two teams'.

the browns beat the Patriots two years ago and last season if the ball would've bounced the right way they were super bowl shoe-ins so ergo

i can't do this

hahaha

there is a ceiling on hope
and it lives in cleveland

lol wikipedia

The Game Ended With An Exciting Hail Mary Pass Thrown By Tom Brady Into The Endzone Full Of Players, But The Ball Was Dropped By Patriots Tight End Rob Gronkowski.

wikipedia otm

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OTM

lol

haha

looool

*golf clap*

rofl i just noticed romo

wow I didnt even see that

outstanding!

wait how did you guys not see that

don't judge me! ;_;

:D

that is so good

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― pplains, Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:05 PM (3 hours ago)

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

btw, this is a cake made by erstwhile ilxor carly (i think; at any rate it was she who brought it to my attention) and it is amazing:

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyxqn5uhvA1qdogfto1_500.jpg

^_^

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