Your 2012 Superbowl LXVI Thread

/ also since the pats did let them score (just not soon enough)

it's a hard decision to make when the offense has done nothing with the ball for 20+ minutes, tho. i was yelling at them to let the first bradshaw run go in, but before that it is not as easy a call as you make it sound. it's the flip of the 4-and-2 decision where the offense was hot and the defense couldn't stop anything.

words i don't need to hear: "shirtless matt light"

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lol

that dude bouncing on the wire was by far the best part of the halftime show

looks like Biggus Dickus from The Life of Brian

well...give my love to the princesses...you'll see!

couldn't resist

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+1

ohhh that is glorious

that's good memin'

someone juxtapose it with romo_botched_hold.jpg

lolllll

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http://www.theawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Screen-shot-2012-02-06-at-8.48.09-AM-e1328536172120.jpg

BUT WEATHER'S NICE

gisele <3. with bianca (wilfork's wife) in that clip. i was offline for a long time and just saw it. that's the big deal? good grief, that's nothing.

she does have a point. it's not just that a couple of guys dropped passes but BB has really failed at drafting and developing any WRs.. they have no deep threat

i mean the consistent strategery of stockpiling all these picks and trading down every year.. it would be nice if belichick the coach didn't have to try so hard to make up for the deficiencies of belichick the personnel guy. maybe josh mcd will help

I'd take Gisele more seriously if her husband didn't spot the Giants the first two points of the game.

like he had a great game and had they won he would have been MVP but like don't act like he played no role in the loss! but then again it was an ambush taunt and hell who wouldn't get emotional and defend their man so more power to her? ehh wahtever

brady made his share of mistakes no question!

i read about this on some other nfl site long before actually watching it and appreciated ILNFL all the more, because elsewhere the story gets posted and someone immediately is like "he needs to get control of his woman" followed by 10,000 THUMBS UP

ugh

brady made his share of mistakes no question!

i read about this on some other nfl site long before actually watching it and appreciated ILNFL all the more, because elsewhere the story gets posted and someone immediately is like "he needs to get control of his woman" followed by 10,000 THUMBS UP

ugh, she says, before taking an angry swig of her bottled water.

FYI giants fans, handy parade route map:

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I am so late with this but:

this was a real weird superbowl soup to nuts

I think you meant "slackline to nuts"

one thing that makes me happy about the giants winning is how angry chris christie gets about how everyone pretends like the giants aren't in new jersey

https://twitter.com/#!/MarkHerzlich/status/166902364652056576

wow, this is kind of crazy. Mark Herzlich obviously pissed about missing the super bowl, but he compares the giants' win to one of the greatest tragedies of recent years.

subway was completely packed with blue today on the PATH train

siap

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that rules

if only Gisele had stayed with Leo, she'd be complaining about Eastwood and Dustin Lance Black.

I was hoping for a Pats win, but as someone who's officially unaffiliated, that stupid touchdown almost makes up for another Manning ring.

MORE RINGS THAN DAN MARINO

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I still don't understand not wanting to score there. What if they fumble on the next play?

you can kneel down 3 times and then kick. no danger of fumble, just remote chance of flubbing the kick. remote unless you are the cowboys, of course.

just prevent NE from scoring, 'fraidy cats

they mostly managed to

everyone in new england seems to be in complete denial about the fact that this was a terrible loss (and yes i include myself)

terrible how?

they should have won? they were ahead with the ball and a chance to ice the game?

i mean, if the giants led the whole time and straight up outplayed them you could be like yeah not terrible the gmen were just better. but on the whole it was a pretty terrible loss and i think there's a lot of rationalizing going on up here.

pats had a small lead but it's not like they were dominating in any sense

no of course they weren't dominating.

so there's not really the 'tragic' aspect there. I mean I guess there is if you are a pats fan. but it's not like they blew a huge lead or lost to a worse team. they lost a close and fair game.

might seem more tragic in retrospect if it's brady's last super bowl tho

no not tragic but pretty bad and it seems like a lot of ppl here are surprisingly ok with it?

legacy implications may well be tragic, its true

What would have made me lol would have been if dude had stopped at the goal line and not kneeled, but just waited for a Patriot to actually tackle him. Since the D had been told "let him go in", how many seconds would go by before they realized "oh wait, he's not going in and time is still running off the clock"

might seem more tragic in retrospect if it's brady's last super bowl tho

― iatee, Tuesday, February 7, 2012 10:58 AM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh, he's won three! things get a lot more tragic in the nfl.

I was hoping he'd stop and pats players would try and push him in the endzone, that woulda been beautiful

on the one hand i disagree with cad, because despite leading into the 4th, NE were the second best team and the turn was kind of inevitable. the giants played it perfectly - pats can't stop the short-mid passes and brady can't dump points on you if he only gets a handful of possessions and those from inside his 20. they put themselves in the best position to win. it's not like NE lost a 2 score lead or anything.

on the other hand, the loss is a piece of shrapnel moving towards my heart and rationalizing is like the complicated and unlikely iron armor keeping me alive, somehow, with magnets maybe.

there was a quote from the nyg running backs coach who said they'd practiced situations like that and he was supposed to basically wait it out and force the other team to knock him in so it would have been an amazing stand off if that couldve materialized

on the one hand i disagree with cad, because despite leading into the 4th, NE were the second best team and the turn was kind of inevitable. the giants played it perfectly - pats can't stop the short-mid passes and brady can't dump points on you if he only gets a handful of possessions and those from inside his 20. they put themselves in the best position to win. it's not like NE lost a 2 score lead or anything.

i would totally agree with this except for the possession with the welker drop and branch miss. that was the chance to survive in spite of all the above.

yeah brady and the offense are getting some stick for not performing but they did okay in the circumstances. a TD drive in the 4th would obv have been the difference between okay and championship great. would championship years brady have completed one of those drives? maybe. altho his specialty was getting in FG range of course.