The Official 2007 NFL Thread!

Non-Phish General
#569

This past Friday night I was forced to “educate” my 8 year old grandson when he was over for dinner with his Cowboy loving father, and he proceeded to convince me how badly the Giants were going to get beaten by New England yesterday. Parroting mostly what he hears in his house, at 8 years old, he really hasn’t developed the long term hate for the Giants that his father exhibits, so I don’t blame him so much for his statements. But I took him to my knee, in a grandfatherly way, and with his father in ear shot, but pretending not to listen, I tried to tell Jaime not to listen to all the “experts” no matter what they say.

“The experts said that the Giants would lose to Tampa Bay, and guess who won? And then the experts said the Giants could never beat the mighty Cowboys in Dallas, but guess who won that as well. Finally, the experts said the Giants could never go to Green Bay in 4 degree weather and beat the Packers, but who got into the Superbowl afterall? And now the experts are saying the Patriots are going to walk all over the Giants. Are you telling me, you’re still going to listen to all those experts?”

He said “yeah, cause the Patriots are going to kill the Giants”.

I told him to go eat his pizza because it was obvious the brainwashing was already working. Allthough maybe he’s remembering our little talk this morning. Sure would like to get him to enjoy the spirit of the game first before becoming a hardnosed fanatic.

#570

Agreed!

My mom told me that that particular commercial was one that Doritos had some open contest for and the best idea they would pick and fund? Anybody know anything about this?

#571

well I posted this in the thoughts section but it goes here too.

I’m not even a fan of any team, nor do I understand all the rules, but I stayed up last night till about 3am watching the game and it was awesome. Would have liked patriots to win though.

I almost feel sorry for the sport that around 80% of the audience are mainly watching so that they can see the adverts. I was glad that the BBC didn’t have any adverts and filled the time with talk about the game.

#572

There was that play in the last Giant drive where freakin Eli pulled a rabbit out of his ass and scrambled out the pocket and heaved that thing down field where the dude doubles back to make the catch. What. The. Fuck.

I was thinking before the game what would have to come together for the Giants to win. First the Giants would have to be nearly flawless. The Pats would have to be lack luster. That happened. Second the Giants would need a bit of luck and it was there which gave them momentum. But the real story was how the Giants d-line handled the pats o-line. That was where the game was won yesterday. Brady had a terrible performance. Even so they almost pulled it out and the Giants made that history making drive which was, by any football fans standards, fucking brilliant. Course I missed some of it and had to catch the rest on replay b/c I was at work and a little old lady crapped her pants in the middle of the drive. Naish.

#573

That is true. The only other Doritos commercial I caught was before the mouse trap one… It was just a girl singing with her acoustic guitar.

I thought it was horrendous.

#574

Yay, me!!

Booo, me!!!

Boo me again.

Seriously, THREE games in a row I say “Giants cover and lose.” Thank God for the point spread.

Few things:

Earlier this year, I wasn

#575

^^ agreed. awkwardly placed… (the guitar/singer girl)

what a game.

i kinda wanted both teams to lose. but i wanted the pats to lose more.

some huge plays though in the 4th. awesome.

edit - yeah i dont think the leaving early thing wa a big deal either. i was hoping they’d just run the last second off. i actually felt bad for bill as he had to jog back to the sideline…oh well.

#576

Good grief.

Nielson just reported that not only was last night’s game the most-watched SB ever (eclipsing 1996 by 3.5 million people), it was the second-most watched TV broadcast in American history.

WoW.

#577





better luck next year, fuckers

#578

That is hilarious the guy has a card reading “I’m going to Disneyland.”

#579

Most watched TV show evar? Final episode of MASH. ::slight_smile: Which is fairly impressive since that was back in the stone age and nothing has eclipsed it since.

#580

^^what is Luke Skywalker doing in that pic montage?

#581

#582

^haha where’d you find that one?

cripes that game was epic beyond belief. The pace was a little slow the entire game but I knew we were gonna have a down-to-the-wire finish.

Tyree’s (I think that’s his name) catch is a top-5 clutch play EVER in the super bowl as far as I’m concerned. Epic.

and yeah I’m with a huge Dolphins fan so she was totally pumped the Patriots didn’t finish undefeated. I was too. Watching Belicheck after the game do his stupid bland interview was hilarious.

Where is “BESTTEAMEVER” at? haha sorry man this must be rough for you.

#583

I thought Belicheck leaving prematurely (although he did shake hands with Coughlin) while there was still time on the clock was classless. He had to have known that there was going to be at least :01 left.

And I don’t see what the big deal about his interview is…he would give short, dick-ish answers even if they had won. That’s just how he is.

#584

^I kind of took it both ways. I like the guy even though his personality sucks. I think he’s a brilliant coach.

I saw his crossing the field early was an act of concession of that 1 second. Problem is that it signaled for all these people to pour onto the field and it really wasn’t up to him to concede. They actually had to run the clock out. I don’t see it necessarily classless, as much as assumption he was wrong about.

He made lots of wrong assumptions that day.

I think that whole 18 and 0 thing made the Pats vulnerable, and I have to blame the coaching staff for it, because they certainly had the talent on the field. There’s a tendancy, when you win all your games, to be less innovative because your current formulas seem to work like gangbusters.

Trouble is, using those formulas continually because they work leaves you vulnerable to those who figure out your patterns of behavior, and therefore exploit the weaknesses of those patterns.

I have to praise the brilliance of the Giants defensive coordinators because they must have studied that offensive line and backfield until they understood every nuance of each player. I mean, if they watched the center for instance, and realized that 63% of the time he held his right elbow up at a 45 degree angle when approached from the left, that’s a behavior pattern that could be exploited.

If the Pats weren’t doing the same thing to tell their linemen to be aware of their patterns, to be aware of how they can be exploited, these guys will be beat eventually, and in many different combinations.

In every playoff game the Giants were in, they were tuned up and understood their opponents. It wasn’t just luck, and not just superhuman play by average players. The whole team was doing their job, especially the coaches and spotters. Maybe they bought some new software tool that analyzes the other teams better than anything before. It seemed like something was different about the team, and I have to give the credit to the coaching staff as well as any other part of the team.

#585

^This is all wrong. The Giants won because of Gisele. There’s no other explanation. Obviously, women are the devil.

Stevo

#586

i think they said during the game that the giants defensive coordinator was a student of jim johnson, the eagles d-coordinator…it made me wonder whether they shared some knowledge before the game…what with the whole cheating accusations and whatnot…idunno. maybe.

#587

definately. And Brady and Moss both dropping out of the pro-bowl now.

sore losers.

#588

Not playing in the Pro Bowl isn’t really that big of a deal I don’t think…some stars are sick of football and want to get away from it. Although I’d play one more half-assed game for a week in Hawaii…