^^ 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.
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.
better luck next year, fuckers
That is hilarious the guy has a card reading “I’m going to Disneyland.”
Most watched TV show evar? Final episode of MASH. :
Which is fairly impressive since that was back in the stone age and nothing has eclipsed it since.
^^what is Luke Skywalker doing in that pic montage?
^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.
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.
^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.
^This is all wrong. The Giants won because of Gisele. There’s no other explanation. Obviously, women are the devil.
Stevo
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.
definately. And Brady and Moss both dropping out of the pro-bowl now.
sore losers.
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…
You can now buy Homer Bill Simmons’ unlucky Randy Moss jersey that he wore during the SB on eBay!
Yeah, a week before the Super Bowl, he wrote an article comparing the 86 Celtics to the 07 Patriots under the assumption that it was all IF the Pats won it all and went 19-0. He continued to remind folks in the article that it was all IF the Pats win, but it’s still a horrendous idea. What a jinx.
Still, it IS an interesting article…some the similarities were a little uncanny. Grabbing Randy Moss was very similar to getting Bill Walton and it was also strange that both teams had/have a very high draft pick the next year through trades (the Celts got Lenny Bias…ouch…bad omen for the Pats).
Stevo
Hey yall, congrats to big blue, they played a hell of a game, I havn’t been hiding from this thread I just got back from Mexico today and I had no interlove…Anyway 4 points away from being the best team ever (still ONE of the most impressive seasons by a team in history just w/out the icing on the cake, at least the Sox won…Pitchers and catchers in a few weeks it’s Baseball time baby!
I think this could be the beginning of the end for the Patriots. This loss will eat at Belichick for ever. I’m not sure they will ever recover from this.
I heard on Mike & Mike this morning that Greeny heard from another source that Belicheck may not even be coaching next year, that’s how big “Spygate” is.
Coincide that with the Clemens thing…geez.
^Well considering how the NFL itself is burying this entire story, I doubt that’ll happen. The NFL put the biggest fine ever on the Pats at first, then destroyed all the tapes they had and then at the Super Bowl, Goddell said that what was on the tapes was basically no big deal since they only showed other recordings back to 2006 (a year when the Pats conveniently didn’t win the title). If it was no big deal then why the biggest fine ever? And did the Pats actually give them everything they had?..did the NFL even try to get everything? The way the NFL has handled this story since they destroyed the tapes without showing anyone what was on them, was VERY fishy.
Stevo