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bff:
--- Quote from: StaedlerMars on 04 Feb 2008, 03:30 --- new england (no offense)
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Bet Tom is glad he made fun of Plax for predicting the Pats would ONLY score 17 points
Mazlow01:
--- Quote from: bff on 03 Feb 2008, 22:52 ---I started to smell upset as soon as I saw Bellichek wearing the red sweatshirt.
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Me too! I was shocked he changed the shirt.
Leinad:
That game was the most boring game of my life until 3 minutes from the end, I swear. We seriously stopped watching and started playing in the street until it was almost over. I just wish the game as a whole had been more exciting, then I wouldn't have felt cheated.
Ozymandias:
Man.
I don't watch football. I generally don't care.
But I enjoyed the fuck out of that game. That was an epic match. I always feel bad rooting for a team (because they nearly always lose) but the Giants pulled it out. Their defense couldn't keep their hands off Tom Brady. It was nuts and I enjoyed it every time he went down.
Narr:
--- Quote from: BobJoeJim on 04 Feb 2008, 02:02 ---Narr, I get what you're saying and of course it's huge that this was the Super Bowl as opposed to a regular season game. That week 17 matchup, though, was the most entertaining regular season NFL game I think I've ever seen. 16-0 was on the line, and both teams played their hearts out; the Giants did everything they could to try to keep the Pats from perfection (obviously they made good on try two today), and just barely fell short. At the time, I was complimenting the game for having a "Super Bowl level of intensity". Not only that, but it was a fantastic football game, played very very well by all four units, offense and defense of both teams; it was high scoring but not because the defense was bad. By contrast, the Super Bowl today was in my opinion rather sloppy. It was low scoring, but not because of remarkable defense. I give kudos to the Giants D-Line for great pressure all day, but New England also really didn't look sharp, and when the Giants had the ball (except for the first, and last two, drives) it was pretty painful football to watch, basically what happens when bad offense and bad defense are combined. The finish was exciting, and the play was pretty solid in the fourth quarter, but most of the game was just mediocre football. It happened to be close because the mediocrity was evenly distributed between both teams, but it wasn't particularly good or entertaining. At least, not in my opinion.
And Storm Rider, obviously yes I meant Rams/Titans. Patriots/Titans would have been an... unlikely... Super Bowl matchup, lol. I guess, despite my arguments that it wasn't a great game, this Super Bowl *is* still affecting me somewhat. Otherwise I don't know where that slip could've come from.
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I get where you're coming from. I disagree on the it being sloppy because of the offenses, though. The New England Patriots had the best offense of all time and were being completely shut down. I have never seen the Patriots' O-line crumble like that in the 8 years since they picked up Bellichick. Brady isn't that great of a quarterback when he's got that much pressure on him. (Of course, there's not a lot of quarterbacks who ARE in that situation. He was getting absolutely manhandled.) The Patriot's D was doing pretty solid themselves, up until that last drive. I won't even say they did a BAD job except on the game-winning touch-down. The miracle throw and miracle catch from Manning to Tyree was magical. There's no other way to describe it. You can't say the Patriots didn't do all they could to stop it, either. 3 guys had their hands on Manning, and Tyree had a defender on him the whole time, somehow managing to catch the football with his helmet. To me, this game was proof that lots of punts doesn't make a game boring. I love the old-fashioned scuffles, where guys just pounded each other in the mouth until one of the two teams just crumbles. That's what I saw last night.
I disagree with all the sports announcers that are saying these Patriots will now just be a footnote and don't deserve to be mentioned alongside the "best teams of all time." Yeah, the Super Bowl is incredibly important and it's what puts the stamp on good seasons, but as much as I hate them, the 2007 Patriots are one of the best teams to ever play, or will ever be fielded in professional football. I don't see their loss at the end so much a fall as I see it a true David and Goliath match-up.
It did finally dawn on me today, though, that this football season is officially over. I don't count the pro bowl.
My hopes for next year:
The Arizona Cardinals will finally have a .500 season.
The Patriots don't make the playoffs.
Peyton Manning gets the single season TD record under his belt again.
Philip Rivers dies in a fire, and the end result is the Chargers winning the Super Bowl.
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