Your goddam Superbowl 42Thread

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
^^^^^^^^^^^^

the jets game was the first game of the year

Um, actually, no it wasn't. You're talking about the season opener.

I'm referring to their 20-10 win late in the season.

ah, i stand corrected.

i still think the pats came out against the giants not expecting to play against the giants starters. i would love to know what belicheck said to the team at halftime. i think that may have been the only game i saw where they didn't give 100% for 60 minutes.

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.

Lol, I'll try to console myself later this evening.

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.

Actually, as one sportswriter aptly said about the Patriots performance in tight games late this season, the way you perform in adversity in tough situations often tells us more about a team than the way they perform in blowouts.

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.

If your definition of a fluke is winning three games on the road, then you and I don't see eye to eye on that.

Besides, I hate to break it to YOU, but that's how the NFL playoffs currently work, always have worked, and always WILL work. It's less about the body of work you put up during the regular season and more about who is hot at the right time. While this is true of other professional sports, it's especially true of a sport that has a single elimination tournament to determine a champion.

It's just that typically speaking, a team that did modestly in the regular season usually did so because they didn't have the talent of upper echelon teams. Occasionally you have the opposite, like the Giants, who had a lot of talent, but underachieve during the regular season.

The Giants that have played the last 4 weeks bear little resemblance to the Giants that had to struggle to put away the Miami Dolphins at midseason. Who, besides the Patriots, has played better football than the Giants in the last month?

If the playoffs were re-run as much as even 100 more times, law of averages states you'd have several different combinations of results, and some of them may even have the Patriots losing a game. That proves absolutely nothing. If you re-ran the regular season 10 times, you'd have different playoff teams too. That's the way football works.

I won't be surprised if the Patriots win--nobody has been able to finish a game against them and they are the best team in the league, undisputed. That fact arguably doesn't even change even if they lose this game--Champions do not necessarily equal the 'best team' in a given season.

However, talk like I'm seeing here is the same talk I saw in 2001 before the Rams-Patriots Super Bowl. I got laughed at much the same way when I said the game wouldn't be a blowout. And right after that game, those excuse makers shifted their vitriol to the officials, claiming they handed the Patriots the game.

they didnt take the jets game off - IT WAS RAINING, WITH 27 MPH WIND GUSTS. THAT IS WHY CHAD PENNINGTON HAD A GOOD GAME, NOBODY COULD PASS FURTHER THAN 7 YARDS DOWNFIELD

tbh i would probably be rooting for the Giants today if it weren't for ~*&~*~*~RANDY*~*~*~*~, if he doesnt get mvp i will be fukkin pisssssssssssssed

if bjo is wrong abt this game can we ban him then?

and omg there is no such thing as "the law of averages" lololololol wtf god

gene wojo from espn.com made a great point about length of prep time between first giants game and this one

and bjo when you bring up rams and pats plz remember which coach orchestrated that upset

if bjo is wrong abt this game can we ban him then?

-- jhøshea, Sunday, February 3, 2008 5:29 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ONLY IF WE CAN BAN ALLY TOO

yah 5 days v 2 weeks

belichick gonna pwn coflign
samuel gonna pwn eli
brady gonna pwn strahan
moss gonna pwn all

lol ill take vegas over dr z everyday of the week

Vegas has been wrong several times this postseason already (including all three times against the Giants, who were a 7 point underdog to the Cowboys).

They also missed the Colt game (in which at some points, the Colts were 11 point favorites), hell they wrong against the spread in both Patriots games I believe (I know they did in the Chargers, Jaguars depends as to whether it did wind up at 13 or 14).

oh come on canky u dont really wanna ban teh schef

hey bjo lik my ballz

jh0shea, I hope you are raped by the ancient spirits of Odin, and that you are forced to spend 40 years living in the anus of an overweight Eskimo.

(I mean hey, why let anything like 'facts' get in the way of stupid statements like "I'll take vegas anyday!")

anyone ever notice the anal-centric nature of a lot of bjo's posts here?

bjo cant u see ur desecrating the corpse of this once great bord hurting everyones feelings

(I mean hey, why let anything like 'facts' get in the way of stupid statements like "I'll take vegas anyday!")

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, February 3, 2008 11:41 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

i dont mind you dude but you said you "wouldn't be surprised" if the pats won. just saying.

PLZ SOMEONE TOM ALLY ANYONE BAN BJO FFS

i dont mind you dude but you said you "wouldn't be surprised" if the pats won. just saying.

for all intents and purposes, I do think they will win. I don't want it to happen, but I think it will.

I merely had a problem with the statement "I'll take Vegas over Dr. Z anyday" as if the Vegas line is an almost perfected method of predicting games. Vegas bookmakers know a hell of a lot about football, but their lines don't come true quite frequently. That's what makes for interesting betting.

It's just that it's hard to predict games, no matter how much you know about football!

ban^^^^^

jh0shea=

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OMG GOOD ONE BO JACKSON OVERDRIVE

if I were a magician I would turn you into a Real Audio file so that you would get caught in net congestion for eternity.

just try and be cool is that so much to ask

but their lines don't come true quite frequently.

the lines always always ALWAYS do what they're supposed to do.

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