[baseballfanjm]

And the Pats won fair and square!

[TC Rider]

Hoo Hoo!

[ambrose]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1060365/posts?page=43#43

To: rdb3
Patriots win if it is snowing, Colts win if it isn't.

Carolina wins by two touchdowns.

43 posted on 01/18/2004 10:46:38 AM PST by ambrose
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[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

Bring on the panthers!!!

this should bring out good rush enviro-wacko super bowl pick. Anti-tax freedomfighter against the helpless endangered panther

[CharlotteVRWC]

Great Game! I can't wait to see the Panthers win the Superbowl!

[TommyDale]

It took the entire night before anyone said anything at Fox about giving the Panthers defense credit for mauling Philadelphia. All we heard all night was how badly the Eagles were playing on offense. Well, DUH!!! When your receivers are getting the crap beat out of them, they tend to drop a few passes, or run a few wrong routes, don't they?

That idiot announcer Buck should be removed. He was bad enough during the baseball playoffs, but far worse at football. Geez, Fox -- get some decent announcers for next season, PLEASE!

[Intolerant in NJ]

Bump for later when I have time to read 1500 comments.....

[ATCNavyRetiree]

Hate to be an Iggle fan.
Rush was RIGHT!...McNabb is a GOOD quarterback, NOT a GREAT quarterback.
GREAT quarterbacks play great consistently...and win Super Bowls!
...And they play with pain.

[sully777]

Don't have time to read all comments. Forgive me if this point was made already. I can't recall any QB like McNabb that was ever effective in the BIG GAME. For example, Tarkenton made it to the Superbowl several times but his team made it on the backs of the defence (purple people eaters) which later proved not as good as originally believed. Tarkenton was overrated--simple truth. And if Tarkenton did not have his Chuck we'd be asking "Tarkenwho?"

Some QBs like Stabler, Favre, Young, Montana, and that guy from Denver that lost 4 or 5 Superbowls before winning his last two could scramble if they had to scramble but they were QB first. But even these guys must admit they had an awesome D and a great running from HB/FB when it counted.

The point is that scramblers scramble because they don't have the experience, the arm, or the ability to read the field completely. McNabb is a scrambler. He is an overrated QB. His accuracy is not good. He was throwing stuff all over last week and this week. But the media always loves scramblers because it adds excitement to game which translates to better ratings.

Skin color has nothing to do with the truth about scramblers, except that most older QBs nowadays that scramble are black, or they're white rookies on the field.

Anyway, I believe the media is biased toward Philly and McNabb just as much as they are biased toward 49ers and their QB in their day. Some teams can do no wrong. I remember my beloved Giants destroying Montana in the playoffs and the media was insisting that their 49ers would still win with seconds on the clocks, using phrases like "Montana's back is broken but what an artist."

Some teams can no right like the Patriots that are going to their forth of fifth Superbowl, second in last three years. And Carolina is no one's favorite, apparently even in Charlotte. But that's how I like my football--working class no frills smashemcrashem D&O.

[dirtboy]

After the first quarter, I decided the Eagles game was best viewed through closed eyelids. Best sleep I've had in weeks.

[evets]

"There's no words. Each year gets harder" -James Madden, 27, of the city's Tacony section. Nearby, a friend tried comforting Robert O'Sullivan with a hug, but he shrugged it off. "This was it," the 43-year-old resident of Upper Darby said. "This was our time." Others raged at the stadium. "Burn it down!" cried Ryan Hughes of Mount Laurel. "Somebody give me a lighter... . Burn it down!" And in the nearly empty stands, Carlos Martini, 21, of Northeast Philadelphia, sat with his head between his knees, unable to leave. Across the field a knot of Carolina fans whooped and hollered. "I wonder what that feels like," he said. "I just want to know what it feels like to win like that." "I'm not too happy right now, not too happy at all," said Tim Miller, 25, of Northeast Philadelphia, who spouted expletives at the stadium's JumboTron as McNabb threw an interception near the end of the second quarter. Two interceptions and no Eagles touchdowns later, an ominous noise rose from the stands. "Yeah, they were booing," said security guard Ricardo Tucker, 21. "It's getting ugly in here." "If they don't win, everyone's going to be flipping out," said Purvis, 20, a junior from the city's Mayfair section surrounded by tense dorm mates. "It is destiny," said Bill Lennox, 21, of Southwest Philadelphia, who was at the stadium. "My dad smashed at least five TV sets watching the Eagles while I was growing up. I had to believe." Then Lennox spoke the unthinkable, beginning a sentence with: "If the Eagles lose..." His friend Justin Lang, 21, responded with a backhanded slap. "What did you say?" snapped Lang, hitting Lennox hard enough to spill his friend's beer. "Sorry, sorry," Lennox said. "Don't quit on me now," Lang said. "These past three days have been crazy at work. I can't concentrate, can't work on anything," said Holly Bracken, a 32-year-old sales manager from Ocean City, N.J., who was 9 when the Eagles lost Super Bowl XV. "They're not going to let us down, not this team, not this year, not this time," proclaimed Bill DiMenna, 39, a designer and draftsman from Runnemede. Loretta Wonderlin, 67, leaned over the railing and shook a 12-inch troll doll named Touchdown at the field below. "We're definitely going to win," squealed Wonderlin, an Avon representative from Delran. "That's what he [the doll] told me - 10 points." As the game ended, it was a funeral inside the American Legion Post 832 in Northeast Philadelphia. Chuck Devlin, a 73-year-old veteran, pulled the cigar out of his mouth to hum Taps. Nursing a beer nearby, Jim Gallen, 57, shook his head. "We are the most frustrated fans ever. This hurts." But the older Devlin had seen worse. He already saw a summer sun on the horizon. "Just wait till the Phils play. We've got to win sometime."