Giants/Patriots Super Bowl, who wins

[center rising]

Giants and Patriots in Super Bowl 46. Who wins and why!!!

[UnrepentantLiberal]

1. Every bar in New York, New Jersey and New England

is going to be packed.

[Initech]

2. Ugh, I'm sick of the same teams in it all the time.

I want the Giants (I despise the Patriots and Bili-cheat) but I really don't care about this one. I wanted it to be Ravens and 49ers but it seems like every single team I root for this post season winds up losing. Go figure.

[kimsterdemster]

4. really...

boring as jimmy johnson, chicago bulls, tiger woods, etc.

[kimsterdemster]

3. who cares

same ole same ole

[kwassa]

5. The Ravens

They played extremely well, and almost beat the Patriots. A hard-fought fight and a great game.

[mvd]

29. Thought they outplayed the Pats, but..

a couple plays did them in (the dropped pass and missed FG). In the playoffs, any mistake can mean no Super Bowl since it's just a one game elimination.

[CatholicEdHead]

6. The Greater Northeast

there will not be as much interest in other parts of the country.

[Xipe Totec]

7. So be it. nt

[EastTennesseeDem]

10. And that's just the way the NFL likes it.

Advertisers too.

[Jennicut]

14. I am from Connecticut.

Which has tons of Giants AND Patriots fans. I guess it will be interesting to us. We are kind of inundated with sports here being surrounded by the Giants, Pats, Jets, Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, Knicks, Celtics etc. Not to mention Uconn basketball. My father took me to my first Yankees game when I was 12 and had me watching Giants games before I was 10. And I was a girl. And it was really normal around here. I mean, we had Red Sox vs Yankees fistfights at school. Its all a bunch of silliness but I will be watching the Superbowl while my Dad roots for the Giants and my husband roots for the Patriots.

[SeattleVet]

8. The advertisers and the NFL are the main winners.

Everything else is superfluous.

[Iggo]

9. Giants again.

[Archae]

11. Giants need to lose.

Bad.

They beat the Packers in the playoffs.

[cherokeeprogressive]

12. Giants. Brady owes his trip there to the Ravens' kicker. n/t

[edbermac]

27. Patriots. Manning owes his trip there to the 49er's kick return man.

[cherokeeprogressive]

32. Ouch. That's going to leave a mark... n/t

[trackfan]

13. Sadly, I can not name one player on either team

However, I'm not intrinsically a non-football fan. I can name, from memory, all these players from the Ram's of the late 60s:

Roman Gabriel - QB
Dick Bass - RB
Les Josephson - RB
Ken Iman - C
Tom Mack - OL
Joe Carollo - OL
Joe Scibelli - OL
Charlie Cowan - OL
Billy Truax - TE
Jack Snow - WR
Bernie Casey - WR
Wendell Tucker - WR
Pat Studstill - K/WR
Bruce Gossett - K
Lamar Lundy - DL
Rosey Grier - DL
Merlin Olsen - DL
Deacon Jones - DL
Myron Pottios - LB
Maxie Baughan - LB
Jack Pardee - LB
Clancy Williams - DB
Eddie Meador - DB
Tony Guillory - DL/ST
John Kilgore - K

But football has gone way downhill since the late 60s, and I just can't drum up much interest any more.

[Art_from_Ark]

35. Late '60s/early '70s is essentially where my knowledge of NFL players' names ends

Let's see, there was...
Joe Namath, QB
Johnny Unitas, QB
Bart Starr, QB
Fran Tarkenton, QB
Billy Kilmer, QB
Joe Theissman, QB
Roger Staubach, QB
Roman Gabriel, QB

and um, um,

[Behind the Aegis]

15. Who beat San Fran tonight?

[KamaAina]

17. Pats. 'Cause they, at least, won't choke to a 9-7 mediocrity.

And it better be a serious beatdown, too.

edit: I had forgotten that East Rutherford had lost to the Deadskins twice. Think about that.

[av8rdave]

18. I'm predicting Giants.

The NFC will take it again.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

19.

[Major Hogwash]

20. Obama.

You were expecting maybe something different?

[rurallib]

21. I'll say baseball

seems like the 2nd coming of Alabama - LSU

[hifiguy]

22. The Pats.

Brady and Belichick are still pissed about four years ago.

And the next defense that finds a way to cover Gronkowski (who is roughly the size of a refrigerator) and the other tight end (Hernandez?) will be the first.

[Yavin4]

26. Gronkowski is Hurt

And the Pats have no one that can cover Victor Cruz.

[Chan790]

30. Gronk will be fine by then...

he's got a mild ankle sprain.

The Pats totally have Cruz covered. It's the role they drafted Patrick Chung for, jumping up into man-coverage of big-bodied WRs the AFC East is full of, just like Cruz. Hit him a few times hard so he hears footsteps, then you can start using McCarty to jump his routes and get INTs. Chung was hurt most of the season, missing 8 games and playing 3 more hurt. He's healthy now.

[Yavin4]

36. You Make Me Laugh

Flacco put the winning TD pass into the belly of the WR who could not hang on. Joe Flacco should have beaten you.

Eli Manning may be the best QB in the NFL. He's already beaten the Pats twice with lesser teams.

[Chan790]

37. This Giants team is not even 75% as good as the Giants SB-winning team.

The Giants owe the fact that they're in the SB to the Niners return guy. They're out of their league. This is going to be fun to watch for Pats fans.

As for laughable, Eli Manning isn't even the best Manning at the QB position in the league...Payton will come back next year but probably never be the same QB he was before the injury...and he'll still be better than Eli. I've also always loved the fact that Giants fans cannot admit they got the short end of the Rivers trade.

[hifiguy]

39. Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees

are better quarterbacks than Eli Manning. The regular season W-L totals show that much, definitively So are his brother Peyton - when healthy - and Tom Brady.

[Yavin4]

41. Here's A Better Sentence: Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees

will be sitting at home munching on Doritos while watching Eli Manning in the Superbowl.

Eli will double his brother's Superbowl totals, and he will be one game behind Brady. And, he didn't need a tuck rule or videotapping the opposing team to do it.

[Yavin4]

23. Giants Will Destroy the Pats - 45 to 17

Bet the house on it.

[Chan790]

31. The Giants won't break 29 points.

I'm thinking 35-24, Pats.

[Maine-ah]

24. Pats!

[ohiosmith]

25. GO GIANTS!

[mvd]

28. I think the Pats. Really dislike both teams, but..

I hope the Giants lose even more.

[Motown_Johnny]

33. Brady > Manning

Pats win

[whistler162]

34. Detroit!

but more likely which ever soccer team scores the most points!

[HappyMe]

38. Giants!

No concrete reason that makes any sense. I just like them.


Go Giants!

[Myrina]

40. PLEASE be the Patriots ...

... Indy is obsessed with hero worship for the Manning family, and despises the Patriots, so for them to come to our barn, kick another Manning's ass & win the Superbowl would be priceless.

[hay rick]

42. Giants.

G-men beat 2 of this season's 3 best teams (Packers and 49ers) and the 49ers beat the other (Saints).

[Plucketeer]

43. They do

if you watch. I plan on denying them victory.

[Pool Hall Ace]

46. Best answer

to this thread. And the best sig line, too!

[Fearless]

44. Pats... 30-27.

[bigwillq]

45. I hope the Giants.

Should be a real good game.
I think the Giants are a better team overall, but one could never count out Brady and the Pats.

[trof]

47. OK, this thread was alerted. And I'm a host.

Yeah, it's really suited for Sports (Football).
But come on guys...
Many of us who aren't usually football fans get interested in this game.
So...Not Locking.

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