The football gods have spoken.
Their verdict : GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS
Their sentence : one of the biggest chokes in SPORTS history, on the biggest possible stage, with special physical beating put on their pouty, shallow, high-maintenance quarterback for his complicity in regular system running-up the score.

Verdict on post-game charges of poor sportmanship and laughable arrogance by petulant coach bill bellacheat and pouty boy are pending. Any sentence meeted out will be mitigated by the character, class, and dignity displayed by a real man, star wide-receiver Randy Moss.

dinsdale_piranha,

There are two types of sports fans in this world; football fans and baseball fans. All I have to say is Pitchers & Catchers on February 14th! Yay!

But, I’ve avoided the internet and television all day, and probably will continue to do so for a few days until this passes over. Are the Giants better than NE? Not in a thousand years. But they were on Sunday, and that’s really all that matters.

I’ve never believed that the NFL was fixed, until this past Sunday. This was the exact game and the exact story the league wanted. A rematch of week 17 (which was the highest rated regular season game) and a rematch in the Super Bowl (the highest rated super Bowl ever) but this one with a different outcome in the last 2:26 of the game.

For a team to go 19-0 it would ruin the league’s efforts to sell this concept of parity to the owners, and NE has been very good in recent years of turning the league’s partity system upside down. The other owners hate what NE has managed to do in this decade, and a whole lot doesn’t pass the smell test about that game. The league made money, Vegas and bookies all made money, and that’s the real story here.

I’ll leave all the harsh personal indictments about players and coaches for the legions of Patriots Haters out there. If it makes people feel better to call them cheaters and attack these men personally, well, not much we can do about that. I suppose its only fair for all the Yankees trash talk I come out with…. But, We’re Bostonians… we know how to handle sports disaster. We’ll get over it and move on, and come back and try again next year.

Hi Sweetie-

I’m not actually a big football fan to begin with. So I just found the 3/4 of the game the other night to be great football, no matter who one.

That said, if they played that game 5x, the Patriots would win it 4 of them.

They nearly won by simply executing well on basic plays.

The Giants, otoh, had to have unbelievably lucky, once-in-a-lifetime plays to merely keep going.

How many times could Tyree catch the ball on his helmet while doing a backwards somersault and sticking it? After Manning narrowly escapes a sack?

Clearly, the Giants got very lucky, were motivated, yada, yada.

Again, my condolences Nina.

xoxox
-saratoga

What was I thinking? Obviously, nothing. I apologize for my cruel, callous comments in your dark hour.
I shamed myself, my family, my neighborhood, my city, my birth city, my team, the drunk on the corner by my favorite restaurant…
Oops, Black Tuesday brought out the politician in me.
My apology is sincere, however, unlike those of a politician. I was rude and did not deserve a thoughtful response back.

saratoga,

Oh absolutely. Had Asante Samuel made that interception, which he should have, New England wins the game. The Giants got unbelievably lucky on Sunday, like a broken clock which is right twice a day. But, football is over and now we can get to the serious business of baseball and the Red Sox!

We’re going down to see some spring training in a couple of weeks and we already have tickets to a couple of games too! I would have loved to been able to go to Japan to see Boston play Oakland at the Tokyo Dome. That’s going to be fantastic! I wish we could go…

No need for condolences hon. I’m not the real football fan in my family. My husband tho… well, let’s just say that he’s still got that stunned look on his face. Total disbelief. I mean, I’m a hometown girl and would have loved to see NE go 19-0, and I’m pretty crushed that they lost, but it isn’t going to linger with me like it will with Jeff. But I still can’t watch ESPN…

Fucking Mannings… ugh. But as I said, this is exactly what the NFL wanted to see happen because now they can make Eli and Peyton their poster boys for the league and we’ll see all kinds of obnoxiously sickening commercials all next season with the two of them. Maybe if Tom Brady were more of a prima donna like Peyton is, and Eli will certainly become, we wouldn’t see the kind of rabbid hatred from the sports media towards the Patriots which seems to have become the en vogue position to take these days. NE is still the best team to play the game, but fate it seems was not on their side on Sunday.

Thanks!

xoxo,
nina

dinsdale_piranha,

Thank you sweetheart for your apology.

xoxo,
nina

Coulda, shoulda, woulda. please! I’m a Patriot’s fan living in NY, we got beaten fair and square. It could have gone either way.
Let’s give the Giants credit, this sort of sore loser attitude is what got us destroyed. By acting like arrogant fools we gave a lesser opponent a clear reason to elevate their game and rise to the occasion. C’mon, we have more class than this. Go Pats! Kudos to New York.

Sign of the times?

The Ticker Tape Parade Indicator

I have to say, I wasn’t surprised by the upset. But I’ve seen waaay too many games where the better team lost. It happens: you pick up, you learn, you prep for next year. ;-) And you console each other…somehow….

Alberto,

Hmmm… I question your Fandom. I don’t know any NE fans who are feeling magnanimous towards the Giants, or any team from New York. Rather, I hear talk from Patriots fans about putting out a contract on Eli…

There’s a whole lot of darkness up here over this. Maybe you’ve been in NY too long.

But thanks for sharing your thoughts with me.

xoxo,
nina

Lazy Ichi,

Hmmmm, interesting isn’t it? Well, there’s been a real schism in the markets lately. I have friends who claim that we’re not in a recession, and others who are heading for the hills and burying a weapons cache and predicting that the end is coming. As for us, we’re holding and are in a good position to ride it out.

Tho I still haven’t watched ESPN since Sunday’s loss! And I haven’t seen any news coverage or read any news coverage about the Giants.

xoxo,
nina

alliterative red,

Yes, you’re quite right. These things do happen, and I have to say that I’m not surprised either about the upset… for a lot of different reasons, very few of them actually having to do with the actual playing of the game of football. I mean, NE’s O-Line was a solid brick wall all season, and we’re expected to believe that it just collapsed in the Super Bowl? NE scored more points this season than any other team in the history of the game, and they only score 14 in the Super Bowl? Coach Bill goes for it on 4-13 instead of going for a field goal at 49 yards on a field inside a dome? And the Giants were the lowest seeded team to ever make it to the Super Bowl, and then they go on to win it?

No, a whole lot doesn’t smell right… and I think it has a lot to do with the league’s homoerotic love affair with all things named Manning…. but, we’ll get thru this. This city has seen its share of sports disaster, and we’ll be back next year.

Thanks!

xoxo,
nina

Grrrrr!

Damn them Mannings Anyway!

Lazy Ichi,

lmao! Good lord do I hate the Mannings! ugh!

Tho I thought this one was funnier!

xoxo,
nina