Positions Battles and Breadowns|Camp Time!

This is a very exciting time for an NFL fan.  All we are really going to see is reports of guys running around on a practice field.  It’s more than that for us, isn’t it?  Roster battles, hold outs, injuries.  Most important is that it is a sure sign that the season is right on top of us.  Seems just like yesterday we were enjoying the new streamlined NFL Draft.  Let’s have a look around the league at some NFL Jabber to wet our whistles a little bit… Read more

Drew Brees, Meet Jeremy Shockey

This finally happened.  Next years 2nd and 9th round picks of the New Orleans Saints now belong to the New York Giants.  Jeremy Shockey will team up with Sean Payton, who was his O-Coordinator in his rookie season, in New Orleans.  Something jumped out at me in John Clayton’s little snippet… Read more

Early NFL Power Rankings Up

Yes, it’s early.  Camp has not even started yet.  The page has been sitting there with a “Coming Soon” on it for way to long.  So here are the Football Jabber Pre-Season NFL Power Rankings.  Feel free to voice your argument in the comments.

NFL News and Jabber

Dan Patrick and Keith Olberman are going to be reunited on NBC’s Sunday Night NFL coverage.  The duo originally worked together on a sports network called ESPN back in the day.  For those that remember these guys working together more than ten years ago, it should be entertaining.  Olberman has been doing time on MSNBC and had to deal with working with Bob Costas last season.  Networks tend to work hard to put together a good team for broadcasts and this should be a proven deal for NBC.  Read more

NFL Jabber News and Notes

Remember a couple weeks ago when we talked to that American football loving Brit, Adam?  He continues to make his rounds in promotion of his record setting vacation of taking in 35 NFL games in the 2008 season.  This week he has landed on the Canal Street Chronicles.  If you have any extra season tickets laying around make sure you give Adam a buzz! Read more

David Tyree a Permanent Giant?

As I’m looking over the headlines in my feed reader I come across Clark Judge’s article on New York Giants WR/ Super Bowl Hero, David Tyree. You remember Tyree, right? Made a pretty good catch in the last game of the year. Let me rephrase that…Made one of the greatest, most important, catches in Super Bowl and NFL History! So anyway, Judge ponders the fact that Tyree may not even make the Giants roster this season. Read more

NFL Jabber | Mini Camp and More

The media is trying really hard to make Jason Taylor’s comments about wanting to win in 2008 into a confrontation between Taylor and Bill Parcells. “Please give us some kind of story people…” I feel your pain mainstream media. Not much going on right now so you work with what you have. Jason Taylor would like you to point out that his talk is not a demand to be traded (DAMN!) but a request… Read more

NFL Jabber | Old, New, Stiff Arming RB’s, and More

Chris Johnson is already raising eyebrows in practice for the Titans. Just wait until he is comfortable (seems to be what the staff and players are saying). Read more

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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Football Jabber’s Top Ten Super Bowls

We are just days away from the biggest game of the year. The Patriots are up to becoming the first team to post a 19-0 record and the first team since the 72′ Dolphins to run the table. What better time to take a look back at the Top Ten Super Bowls played? Of course some of the games can be up for debate. Things taken into consideration were lead changes, comebacks, game deciding scores, and when the game was decided, among others things.

#10 Super Bowl III Jets 16- Colts 7

MVP: Joe Namath QB, Jets

What makes it great? I could catch some flack for this but this game barely gets in here. It bumped out the Niners and Bengals Super Bowl XVI and Joe Montana’s first MVP performance. The game wasn’t even close and the Jets were never threatened. That, however, is why it is looked at as one of the greatest Super Bowl (and Football) games in history. We all know about the guarantee. The Jets were 18 point underdogs. This is the game that showed that the AFL could hang with the big dogs, which gives us the NFL we have today.

#9 Super Bowl X Steelers 21- Cowboys 17

MVP: Lynn Swan WR, Steelers

What makes it great? The Cowboys went into the fourth quarter with a 10-7 lead. The Steelers scored four straight times with a safety, two field goals and capped it with a 64 yard from Terry Bradshaw to Lynn Swan. The Cowboys scored another touchdown with a little under two minutes to play but the game was decided. Lynn Swan becomes the first WR to be MVP. He only has four catches but he gained 164 yards and that TD mentioned above.

#8 Super Bowl XXV Giants 20- Bills 19

MVP: Ottis Anderson RB, Giants

What makes it great? The Giants come in as underdogs and they don’t have their starting QB. They go into the second half trailing 12-10. Halfway through the fourth quarter the Giants go up 20-19 on a Matt Bar field goal. The Bills have a chance to seal the deal but Scott Norwood’s filed goal sails wide right with seconds remaining. The Giants held a HUGE time of possession advantage having the ball over 40 minutes of the game.

#7 Super Bowl XIII Steelers 35- Cowboys 31

MVP: Terry Bradshaw QB, Steelers

What makes it great? The Steelers enter the fourth quarter with a small 21-17 lead. With half of the quarter scoreless the Steelers tack on two more scores with a Franco Harris run and Bradshaw to Swann TD pass. The Cowboys do not lay down and score on two Roger Staubach touchdowns in the last two and a half minutes of the game. Once again the Cowboys fall just short of beating the Steelers in the Super Bowl.

#6 Super Bowl XXXIV Rams 23- Titans 16

MVP: Kurt Warner QB, Rams

What makes it great? The Rams go into the second half with a 9-0 lead. Halfway through the third quarter Kurt Warner hooks up with Torry Holt for a nine yard TD pass. Trailing 16-0 the Titans begin their comeback and have three straight scores that tie the game. Kurt Warner hits Issac Bruce for a 73 yard TD with a little under two minutes to play. The last two minutes are some of the most exciting in Super Bowl history as the Titans drive down into scoring position. With six seconds to play and the clock running, Steve McNair hit Kevin Dyson on the three-yard line. Dyson appeared to be going in for the score when a hail marry of a tackle by Mike Jones stopped him. Dyson stretched for the score but time expired with the ball marked on the 1 yard line.

#5 Super Bowl XXXII Broncos 31-Packers 24

MVP: Terrell Davis RB, Broncos

What makes it great? The Broncos come into the game as underdogs. After giving up the first score to Green Bay, the Broncos score three times before the Packers score again just before the half. Going into the second half the score was 17-14 in the underdogs favor. The Packers tie the game up just minutes into the 3rd quarter. Within minutes of the end of the 3rd quarter and start of the 4th, the Packers and Broncos exchange blows with two more scores. In an act of desperation as the Broncos are driving for the winning score, Mike Holmgren says he lets the Broncos score so they could get the ball back. 1:45 later the game is over and John Elway has finally got that ring.

#4 Super Bowl V Colts 16-Cowboys 13

MVP: Chuck Howley LB, Cowboys

What made it great? This game is a good example of staying with it and not giving up. The Baltimore Colts had three interceptions and lost four (of five) fumbles to the Cowboys. They trailed from the first quarter, never having a lead in the first half. At the end of the second quarter the Colts trailed 13-6. The Cowboys were shut out in the second half. The Colts tied the game in the fourth quarter and then with five seconds left in regulation, Jim O’Brian hit a 32 yard field goal to win the game for the Colts.

#3 Super Bowl XXXVI Patriots 20- Rams 17

MVP: Tom Brady QB, Patriots

What made it great? The Patriots were 14 point underdogs. The largest spread since Super Bowl III when the Jets upset the Colts. The “Greatest Show on Turf” of the Rams were held to a field goal until the fourth quarter. Trailing the underdog Patriots 17-3 the Rams began a fourth quarter comeback when Kurt Warner ran a two yard TD in. With 1:30 left in the game Warner hit Ricky Proehl from 26 yard out to tie the game. As time expired Adam Vinatieri hit a 48 yard field goal to mark the biggest upset in the Super Bowl in over thirty years. In the times of 9/11 the Patriots were victorious.

#2 Super Bowl XXXVIII Patriots 32- Panthers 29

MVP: Tom Brady QB, Patriots

What made it great? The score was locked at zero until the final three minutes of the first half. The Patriots scored…then the Panthers…then the Patriots…then the Panthers, going into the half with the Patriots leading 14-10. The third quarter was another stalemate as neither team could find a way to score. Eleven seconds into the fourth quarter the Patriots started the electric final quarter of the season. The Panthers scored twice, taking a 22-21 lead. The Patriots struck back and added a 2 point conversion making the score 29-22. The Panthers would tie the game with just over a minute left when Jake Delhomme hit Ricky Proehl (yeah the one ironically mentioned at this point in game # 3 above). The Patriots, in Patriot fashion, drove down and kicked a winning field goal with four seconds left on the clock to take them to 2-2 in Super Bowls.

#1 Super Bowl XXIII 49′ers 20- Bengals 16

MVP: Jerry Rice WR, 49′ers

What made it great? Neither team could do more than a field goal in the first half. The teams exchanged another field goal each before the first touchdown was scored on a 93 yard kick return by the Bengals at the end of the third quarter. The underdogs were up 13-6 going into the final period. Joe Montana hit Jerry Rice for a touchdown within the first minute of the 4th quarter, the 49′ers first steps in the endzone in the game making the score 13-13. With just over three minutes left in the game the Bengals hit another field goal taking a 16-13 lead. From here, Joe Montana does what Joe Montana does. With 34 seconds left in the game, Montana hits John Taylor for the winning touchdown and the third ring for San Francisco.

As we go into Super Bowl weekend and the Patriots are well favored to defeat the New York Giants, hopefully I will feel like this list needs to be updated next week. Take a look at game #3…just ask the Patriots…you never know who can come out on top!

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