East Coast Bias Bowl -- Running Super Bowl XLVI Thread

If you guys had the chance to choose between Eli Manning or Tom Brady to be your starting quarterback next year, who would you take?

 

Either. You can't really lose, if it's just for one season. Obviously Eli is younger.

 

Damn good question, and I was going to say Brady. But Brady does seem to get rattled more easily than Eli, so if you want to win it all, I guess Eli would be your man.

 

So, RickStain is Spock? And all this time, I thought it was warp speed, not VORP speed...

 

db?

Evidence of East Coast bias: The Giants’ 21-17 win over the New England Patriots on NBC Sunday in Super Bowl XLVI was the most watched ever, with 111.3 million viewers, narrowly edging out the 111 million for last year’s game...On Sunday, viewership grew steadily in each half-hour, starting with 99.2 million from 6:31-7 p.m., Eastern. It then peaked at 117.7 million from 9:30 to 9:58, when the Giants were driving to their game-winning touchdown.

While its 47.0 rating is only the sixth-best in Super Bowl history, it is the highest in 26 years. And among adults 18 to 49, the 40.5 rating is the highest since Super Bowl XXX in 1996....
http://fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/super-bowl-nets-near-record-ratings/

 

The Giants gave up a touchdown to the Packers in around the same amount of time this year. I think the smart play was to play for the FG and if they let you score, go down at the 1. Saying that a play worked is not the same thing as saying that it was the right thing to do.

Actually, the smartest play might have been to let the Pats call a TO on 1st down, take a knee/run into the line on 2nd down and then try to run it in on 3rd down. Then call a TO and kick with no time left if you don't score.

 

Manning, provided I get to have his receivers, too.

 

Aaron Rodgers.

 

I'm a nice guy. I'll let you pick first and I'll take the one who's left.

 

Roethlisberger

 

There are what, five or six active QBs who've won Super Bowls, depending on whether or not you count Peyton. You can take any one of the other five, Eli, Brady, Brees, Rodgers or Roethlisberger, and quarterback will be a considerable strength of your team in 2012. You'd probably pick Ben last of the five because of health issues, but you'd still be happy you got to pick fifth.
The standard is "good enough to win titles" not "superduperperfectist."

 

At the risk of starting a rockfight ... do we reignite the Eli vs. Rivers discussion?