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The NFL Playoffs thread
RobbieOC:
Everyone will watch it if it happens again next year, just hoping that someone beats the Pats. But, it won't happen again next year.
...will it?
VisualRhetoricProject:
--- Quote from: Narr on 23 Jan 2008, 11:51 ---God, still with the Giants bashing.
The Steelers didn't "deserve" to go to the Super Bowl a couple years ago and ended up winning it, so calm down already. They earned a spot in the playoffs and beat every team they encountered. If they don't deserve to go to the Super Bowl, then what the fuck do you have to do to earn the rights?
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Consistent playing. I hate to add to Giant bashing, and I'm not a fan of either team. Brady always pulls out in he last quarter, so it'll probably be a good game until the end of the 3rd. I say Eli doesn't deserve to go because the Giants have just barely pulled together in their games to win. They are SLOPPY and awkward.
However, I concede. The only thing needed to "deserve" to go to the Superbowl is to beat everyone else. So, you're right! I'm wrong! I still hate the Giants!
Narr:
I don't see how a close game is an indication of sloppy. I concede that they started the season pretty rough, but I think they're playing better than any other team right now. I also think the playoff games they won weren't as close as score would indicate. Green Bay had two giant plays that basically gave them 14 of their 20 points. Yes, you can't afford to give up big plays and that does show weakness in a team, but OTHER THAN THOSE TWO PLAYS, the Giants played excellent football against the Packers. The Cowboys game was pretty much the same.
I think the Giants have a better chance of beating the Patriots than any other team, anyway. I thought that before they even earned the Super Bowl trip. They were the only ones that gave them a run for their money the ENTIRE SEASON that didn't throw the game away. Every other team that was doing well against them always ended making huge errors (seriously, Baltimore, how many f***ing penalties do you need to commit while the Patriots were on O? retards) that cost them, rather than it simply being the Patriots making big plays.
I think it'll be a great game, basically. I really dislike the Patriots, and never felt one way or the other about the Giants but the genuine effort they've put together this post-season makes me like them.
Narr:
Bump because the Super Bowl is on in a couple of hours.
I'm excited, guys. Can you tell? I'm very excited.
Alex C:
--- Quote from: 0bsessions on 22 Jan 2008, 14:57 ---None of us?
Are you forgetting that before this decade, outside of the Celtics, New England was essentially one of the saddest sporting regions in North America? Particularly through the nineties. The Sox hadn't won it all in decades, the Pats were a joke, the Celtics were starting to descend into the joke they were for a while and the Bruins haven't been relevant in forever. We know heartache.
Shit, I still get a little pissed off about Aaron fucking Boone and Grady Little's inability to handle a pitcher. Lord knows how people like my grandmother, who had to live through Bucky fucking Dent, feel.
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Uh, you do realize that back when hockey still mattered the Minnesota North Stars went to the Stanley Cup finals only to get blown out 8-0 in game 7, the biggest blowout in modern NHL Finals history and was promptly sold after the next season, right? The Timberwolves? Three words: Kevin Fucking McHale. As for the Twins, how about Puckett suddenly going blind in one eye? Or the contraction happy owner, Carl Pohald (Richest owner in baseball; three times richer than Steinbrenner) who cleared the team of everyone making a million dollars by the '98 season ('cept for Radke)? Which brings us to 1998 and the star of the show: the god damn Vikings. Try being the fan of a 15-1 team who misses the Super Bowl when their kicker who had a perfect season up 'till that point suddenly can't make a field goal. Then there's the Herschel Walker trade, Korey Stringer's death, the Randy Ratio, the 2003 collapse in which the Vikings missed the playoffs due to a last second TD by the Cardinals, lost the 2001 NFC Championship game to the Giants 41-0, and of course, the colorful string of failures in the Superbowl during the 1960s.
Oh, I nearly forgot: Pohlad just let Santana go too, despite the fact that the state finally just caved into his stadium demands. And you know what the saddest thing is? I still would rather be a Minnesota fan than a Cleveland, Philadelphia, Atlanta or Buffalo fan. Even tossing out the recent success of the Sox and Patriots, Boston fans have had it pretty good; there's a lot of teams out there that have had devestating losses and no truly dominant teams in their history to show for it.
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