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

http://todayschamps.com/images/beardedbrosT.jpg

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?

http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/c6801132fb_moss_10192007.jpg
^^^^^^^^^^^^

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!!!!!

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb158/bluej9/WelcomeBack1-1.gif

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.

― El Tomboto, Monday, February 4, 2008 8:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink