Top 10 Reasons Why The Patriots Will Winn The Super Bowl

CNN-SI ^ | 1-27-02 | vanity (of course)

[paul in cape]

10. They will be huge underdogs (see Pittsburgh)

9. Georgia Frantiere is already getting measured for her huge rings (see also Bill Cowher ordering Hotel rooms for New Orleans)

8. The last game they lost (and barely) was against St. Louis, back when Brady was still green

7. Coach Belichick is coaching his arse off, and can game plan against anybody.

6. During their 8-game run, they shut down the top running backs in the league Curtis Martin, Edgerine James, Jerome Bettis (etc)

5. St Louis will now have to prepare a gameplan against 2 Pro-Bowl quarterbacks

4. Patriot cornerbacks have shut down every Hall-Of-Fame bound recievers (Rice and Brown, plus those whiners in Pittsburgh)

3. They've dominated every game on special teams, and make big plays

2. They have few, if any, stars. What they have is discipline, like the Marines

Which brings me to my #1 reason why they'll win the Super Bowl....

They're PATRIOTS, and of all years where patriotism has come back in vogue, THIS IS IT

[lugsoul]

Read your rule book. As disheartening as that reversal was, it was the CORRECT call under the rules.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

OUCH!

[Diamond]

Coach Martz said when the Rams played the Pats during the season that the Pats were a superbowl caliber team. Before the playoffs I saw Kurt Warner pick the Pats to be in the Superbowl. That having been said here are 22 reasons why the Rams will win: (this is an extra cathedra armchair pronouncement)

QB Kurt Warner
LT 76 Orlando Pace
LG 61 Tom Nutten
C 67 Andy McCollum
RG 62 Adam Timmerman
RT 50 Ryan Tucker
TE 84 Ernie Conwell
TB 28 Marshall Faulk
WR 80 Isaac Bruce
88 Torry Holt

DE 91 Leonard Little
98 Grant Wistrom
DT 90 Jeff Zgonina
66 Brian Young
LB 59 London Fletcher
58 Don Davis
52 Tommy Polley
CB 21 Dexter McCleon
35 Aeneas Williams
SS 31 Adam Archuleta
FS 20 Kim Herring

Cordially,

[VRWCmember]

Marshall Faulk only carried for 83 yards in week 10. He'll need to do better than that on Sunday.

Look what he did yesterday against a very good defense.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Look what he did yesterday against a very good defense. "

That wasn't the Patriots defense. He'll have a tougher time against the Patriots defense. We got Bill.

[Rube23]

I think snow may have had something to do with shutting down Rice and Brown, not the Pats D.

[Sloth]

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[KSCITYBOY]

Nothing against the Patriots but I think STL will romp on super Sunday. BTW I was happy the Pats won and I really don't care much who wins the Superbowl but after seeing STL several times this year I don't see how they can be stopped.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

BTTT

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Of course.

[Texbob]

The 100 chances they will lose the super bowl is they have had 100 chances and failed them all.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Does the fact that they have just beaten Pittsburgh, the best team in the AFC,..

Let me clairify... I was talking about the Steelers not the Pats. The Steelers were always suspect (to me anyhow) they Lost to the Bengals and, I was wrong about the Ravens, they lost to them once also! The looked good because they played against middle of the road Defenses but got hammered when a defense "got after" them!

[mlo]

They didn't shut down Rice and Brown.

[mlo]

Read your rule book. As disheartening as that reversal was, it was the CORRECT call under the rules.

Please post that rule from your copy so we can all see it.

[skeeter]

Wish I could recall the name of the player who said anytime they play the Steelers or the Raiders they know they have to prepare for the 11 men on the field plus the officiating crew.

I dunno who said that, but anyone who thinks that Oakland has benefitted more than they have been hurt by officiating over the past twenty years is too dumb to play football:)

[wi jd]

I dunno who said that, but anyone who thinks that Oakland has benefitted more than they have been hurt by officiating over the past twenty years is too dumb to play football:)

Two words: Holy Roller.