Ok, I'm of course joking about the title to this thread, but how else can you explain tonight's Super Bowl? The Giants and Eli Manning are the World Champions. Repeat that to yourself. The Giants who spent most of the year looking completely mediocre all the sudden morphed into world beaters and rolled to a championship. This shit never happens to us and that's why I'm pretty freakin' far from alright at the moment.
I don't know what the city of New York did to deserve such luck, but we should find out so we can bottle it up and bring some good fortune to our fair city. How else can you explain that ridiculous David Tyree catch?
Maybe karma from the Spygate scandal finally caught up to the Pats. I can't think of any other plausible explanation.
Now that the Pats have lost a Super Bowl, maybe the deal with the devil that Tom Brady signed will be unveiled. I've always thought there was something fishy about him and his meteoric rise to NFL God status.
I suppose we now can move to the offseason and I'm sure we'll hear from Andy Reid and Company that they were only three points away from beating the World Champions and fail to add anything significant to the roster. Or, maybe they'll learn something from this Giants team. Who knows.
I'm just too aggravated to try and find anything good about this Giants' victory.
I don't know what the city of New York did to deserve such luck, but we should find out so we can bottle it up and bring some good fortune to our fair city. How else can you explain that ridiculous David Tyree catch?
Maybe karma from the Spygate scandal finally caught up to the Pats. I can't think of any other plausible explanation.
Now that the Pats have lost a Super Bowl, maybe the deal with the devil that Tom Brady signed will be unveiled. I've always thought there was something fishy about him and his meteoric rise to NFL God status.
I suppose we now can move to the offseason and I'm sure we'll hear from Andy Reid and Company that they were only three points away from beating the World Champions and fail to add anything significant to the roster. Or, maybe they'll learn something from this Giants team. Who knows.
I'm just too aggravated to try and find anything good about this Giants' victory.
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Editor's note....I did think of one good thing. The victory made my buddies Uncle Farrell and Steve From The Great White North happy. Good for you guys. I'm now going to polish off the rest of the beer in my fridge.
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You make it to the superbowl, three nfc championship games....You're not doing too bad. It's not all good in NYC, why don't you follow jets? who have been grounded for a long time. It's not as bad as you think....This is now the season for everyone to get better!
Uncle Farrell
Hey PSP, at least you don't live up here in NYG/NYJ territory where you'll hear about this victory until you're blue in the face.
Aside from that, give credit where credit is due: The Spagnuolo "Defense" came ready to play and executed. That is one area where Philly fails. Too bad for the Giants though, Steve S. has his interview with the 'Skins this week.
Tom F.
Well here is another thing to be "positive" about as it pertains to the Eagles. Yes i am being sarcastic. This can possbily be the worst thing that could have happened for Eagles fans. Now the team can say, "look, the Giants don't have any special receivers, the team with supposedly the best receiving corps in football just lost so we can get by with what we have. We just need to sure up the offensive and defensive lines and we are good to go to challenge the, now World Champion, Giants." I am not saying the Eagles will go that route, but now they have a built-in excuse for not doing anything about the playmakers that McNabb wants so badly. I have zero problem with making sure both lines are better, but wouldn't it be nice to have somewhere to go with the ball on offense with all this extra time a better line would give the quarterback?
Oh well, at least I had some good food last night. Other than that, the game was so-so until the fourth quarter and the commercials were nothing special either, for the most part.
So we have another Manning to hear about for another offseason. Hmmm....when do pitchers and catchers report again? ;-)
Pardon the long post, but I find anything that bashes New England and Bill Beli-cheat to be awesome. I love the tie fighter line!
In this glorious moment, when words seem so inadequate to express the joy all non-frontrunning sports fans feel, the first thing that comes to mind is this: We are all Giants. We are all New Yorkers, just as surely as JFK declared himself to be a Berliner in 1963. How can we not feel profound brotherhood with Eli Manning, with Tom Coughlin and all the others to whom we owe both the sight of little Billy Belichick sprinting off the field in an ungracious, you-took-my-Legos huff and our collective freedom from the Boston Globe's "19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England's Unbeatable Patriots?"
How can we not be struck at the same time by these observations: Plaxico Burress was right; teary-eyed Mercury Morris can get back to sweeping his empty driveway; Belichick's TIE fighter is probably still tumbling around in deep space.
February 3, 2008, marks the ushering in of a new age that seems so far from the promise of another historic day, Feb. 2, 2008 [the Patriots still undefeated, Tom Brady still upright], and a somewhat historic season, 2007-08, which we thought might conclude with a New England title and Belichick publishing "The Passive-Aggressive Manager's Handbook to Grumpy, Self-Serious Perfection in Football and Life." The first decade of the new century instead reminds us that games are worth playing, that odds primarily exist to enrich bookies, that America's preeminent advertising platform can still deliver a compelling sports experience and that Boston fans can now add 18-1* to Bill Buckner and Bucky F'n Dent.
In their ruthless professionalism and obsession with offensive metrics, in their ends-justify-any-means subterfuge and Only-Sing-When-You're-Winning single-mindedness, the Patriots embodied the most disturbing, dehumanizing aspect of modern athletics: Transforming play into work. In the long term, this attitude is untenable, because football is really nothing more than a complicated version of 5-year-olds chasing a soccer ball around a park, falling into each other and having a good time. It is the gap-toothed smile of Michael Strahan, crusty Coughlin enjoying a Gatorade bath. Joylessness, even under the pretext of competitiveness or dressed up in an extra-colorful Patriots hoodie, is never a force that can make sports worth watching or caring about. That is why today we are all Giants.
--Patrick Hruby
The following are my personal highlights:
1) Strahan calling Howie Long out in front of everyone for always picking against the Giants, and claiming that the Giants were "overconfident" and could not win
2) The Giants are finally drafting right, as shown by the play of rookies Alford, Boss, Smith and Bradshaw last night, and throughout the playoffs
3) We should have made Tiki retire 5 years ago
4) Teamwork, and confidence, and belief in yourself can produce absolutely stunning results.
GO GIANTS! Now that we have done this, I will move on to my next project...Go Leafs!
The Great White North
By the way, I forgot to ask - who cuts the sleeves on Billy Boy's hoodies?
GWN
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