Posted on 02/05/2012 8:15:19 AM PST by doug from upland
Okay, comments and predictions here.
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Neither team is very good. In fact, what’s really astonishing in the NFL is that we haven’t seen a complete team in many years. Every championship team has had tons of holes and flaws. Maybe the Broncos of the late 1990s were the last of the really good all-around teams.
“Only 23 players of 106 are carryover from the NE/NY matchup four years ago.”
Those are normal figures. The average running back only lasts four years on average in the NFL.
Jobs come at a premium and are demanding and difficult to keep.
Look, I am a life-long Giant fan and so I may be suspected of being biased but I don't understand your "Mr. Silver-Spoon-In-His-Mouth" comment.
Every thing that Eli Manning has attained has been earned on the field. From being a #1 Draft Pick in the Draft to his Super Bowl MVP, all has been earned on the field.
Look for Eli and the G-Men to get a “do you remember me moment” from Tom tonight!
It’s all about peaking at the right time. The Giants had a rough patch in late November, but they got it back under control in the last few weeks and have played great football in the playoffs. They’re proof that things are working great in the NFL today. It’s an any given Sunday league where you there’s no way to know at the beginning of the season what’s going to happen in the end. Even with a dynasty like the Pats this season saw their first playoff win since the last time they faced the Giants in the SB, nobody was really thinking they were going to get it together. Having an unpredictable season makes it a more exciting season, with higher levels of fan engagement, and that means more spending. Which is, in the end, what it’s all about, entertainment for money.
One of my buddies has a kid who’s been in the NFL for 6 years. I think he’s been with 6 teams, on and off the practice squad, etc. For the marginal player it’s a challenging life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Pociask
That’s the direct result of a system with a salary cap and non-guaranteed contracts. The wholesale player turnover among NFL teams is destroying the game, in my opinion.
Jacaobs and Bradshaw open up field for Manning and Cruz. Giants 31-24.
I swear some Freepers would be better off with the Occupy crowd, wouldn't they?
If that’s what it’s all about, then why not let the Washington Redskins into the playoffs — or anyone else, for that mater? The Redskins were 2-0 against the Giants this year. Maybe they could have been peaking right now, too!
I don’t know about destroying the game.
By my reading, the tv ratings and price of commercials is at an all time high.
Stasi...? Spare me. You’re rooting for a team that comes from the liberal cesspool of New York and plays in the liberal cesspool of New Jersey.
In reality, I go to 2-3 Raiders games per year. Raiders fans are more akin to a biker gang than they are to state police....
No matter what happens, Brady gets to bang Giselle later and we don’t. He wins.
Pats 24 giants 20.
Even the commercials I've seen are lame.
But any excuse for a party, and my chicken wings are Super.
What NFL city, maybe outside of Green Bay, isn’t a liberal cesspool?
The Super Bowl hasn't been about football in years.
As someone with a handle like "nascarnation" you should be sensitive to this sort of thing. That sport was at an all-time high a few years ago when it traded in its traditions and long-time fans for big-city TV revenues, and it's been declining ever since.
True about NASCAR. When they started playing rap and crap I knew it was gonna slide down.
The Redskins didn’t win their division, and couldn’t sneak into a wild card. That’s why they didn’t get in.
There’s nothing new about this. All sports have the occasional team that “sneaks” into the playoffs with a questionable record that then puts together a run. It happens more often in sports where the playoffs are single elimination because randomness has a heightened impact. Happens periodically in Now-it-happens-in-April-March Madness. It’s the Cinderella story, it’s why there’s the phrase “that’s why they play the game”. Yeah you can make all kinds of arguments about why the Giants shouldn’t be in Indy right now, but the fact is they needed to win 5 games to get here, and they did, and the teams that didn’t win the necessary games are not.
This isn’t the BCS, nobody is trying to declare today’s eventual winner the best, a champion will be declared. You become a champion by winning the right games, you can go ahead and lose all the rest (which I think this year’s Giants might have) but if you win the right ones you get the to the title, then you win that to become champion. The Giants won all the right games. Period.
We have hot wings, 7 layer dip and chips, tzatziki sauce and veggies, prosciutto and basil wrapped mozzarella, and chilled shrimp and cocktail sauce over here. What have you got??
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