Your goddam Superbowl 42Thread

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?

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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!

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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.

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

Yes, but that purpose isn't 'accurately predicting football games'. I'm well aware of why they set their lines the way they do.

just try and be cool is that so much to ask

says the guy who told me to 'lik' his 'ballz'.

whatever dude.

y/n: the grocery store will be an absolute horror show.

hope not but y

i meant try to be cool as in try not to be the most annoying guy in the world

if I were a magician...

Whole Foods wasn't that crowded, and also they had sample guacamole!

alphabet city party with wii guitar hero and air hockey halftime show!

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.

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, February 3, 2008 5:53 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

this is the worst post ever on ilnfl guys respect that

also i ve been doing $2 "pats" & "giants" shots all afternoon along w/ $2 domestic pints so i am so ready

and all at the bar and now ive been watching madden challenge <3 <3

lol forks my party has rock band pregame

All I've heard this week is how the Giants have a real shot at winning this since they are such a hot team and have no pressure on them.
If they do win I'm gonna slap the first person who says no one saw this coming

re: pepsi commercial

i wish joe buck would take a nap every sunday :\\\\

also hey coach belicheck is that a new hoodie? :)

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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