Day After Super Bowl XLII Jabber
The problem with calling something one of “The Greatest” is that it takes reflection. This game, the last drive, Eli’s amazing escape, David Tyree’s amazing catch, and the Giants defensive output will be looked back upon with deep toned voice overs for years to come as some of the greatest moments in football history.
Earlier in the week we did our Top Ten Super Bowls countdown. Given the scoring used to determine where those games ranked, the Giants and Patriots Super Bowl would have ranked Top 5 easily. That is without the underdog status and the Patriots 18-0 record coming into the game taken into consideration. That’s just on the game itself.
Ok, about Plaxico ticking so many people off. I wrote earlier in the week also that the Patriots were making just as much of a prediction by being so offended with the “How dare they think they can win” type of talk. I thought that Tom Brady’s take on it was legit. His concern was that Plaxico only had them scoring 17 points. At the time of reading it that made sense. Now he appears to have been bunched with the others. The YouTubers are already on it.
As I watch the Super Bowl I try to keep the MVP thing in mind. You can’t give it to a unit or I would say the Giants D. I was thinking that it should have gone to Justin Tuck with six tackles, five on them solo, two sacks, and a fumble recovery. That was until the 2008 version of “The Drive” in which Eli Manning put some distance between himself and the view of him just being Peyton’s pesky little brother. By the way, nobody can ever, EVER, complain to Peyton Manning that they have a younger sibling that follows them around and always has to do what they do.
About some other things. Jordon Sparks did a pretty good version of the National Anthem. Are they still lip syncing this? I just ask because she looked like she was going to pass out from being nervous before and after but her voice didn’t tremble a bit during.
It has been years since more than a handful of people have cared about Tom Petty. I’m thankful for the fact that I was behind a little on the DVR and could forward through most of it.
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There is a god in heaven. All is right with the world. Harmony has been restored to the universe.
Here we go Steelers, here we go!
What a showing by the Giants D. Do you think the Pats were being conservative? That tends to happen when a powerhouse offense makes it to the Super Bowl. See the Pats vs. Rams Super Bowl. I know they didn’t give Brady time but I don’t think they were going for the throat as much as I expected…maybe worried about making a mistake.
I think not kicking that field goal was the ultimate form of hubris. 4th and 13 and you go for it? Stupid. The Pats slept on the Giants and thought they would just walk into Arizona and be crowned the best of all time. Not so fast. I don’t even like the Giants and I felt like my team won last night. The Pats are just getting older on the O and D lines. They are going to be on their way down if not next season, the one after. The Pats days are numbered. The secret to beating the Pats? Presure Brady and the rest falls into place.
I came to your site today with the intention of asking you what you thought of the game after the fact that you made you top 10 list. But you have already answered it.
So I’ll ask you this. Did you think the “guitar” that was floating around the stadium looked like a wandering penis looking for something to penetrate? And the FCC thought Janet Jackson’s breast was something to hoot and holler about. At least she dressed it up.
It sure did seem to play off Prince last year, didn’t it? Now that you mention it that was the one thing from the Prince portion of the show that people remember as being questionable (but brilliant) and it’s something very similar that we see first thing from the halftime show.
I agree wholeheartedly with the hubris remark, Bryan. That was just not the right thing to do, and how it even would have come up in conversation on the New England sidelines, much less make it onto the field as a play is completely beyond any sensible way of thinking. It was very un-Belichick like, simply because of the aggressive and successful day the Giants defense was having. Where did they think they would find the time for Brady to make a throw like that at that spot in the game when even Giselle could not have kept him up?? Strange. New York deserved this one.