Running Supe XLII/42nd Large And Important American Football Game Thread

I know there's some debate as to whether Belichick leaving the field with one second left is a big deal or not, so I figured I'd throw my $0.02 in.

In my opinion, it is a big deal. Belichick had to have known cameras were on him. Here it is, the final seconds ticking away on an amazing season going down the drain. His defense is forced to go out on the field for one more play, get in formation and go through the motions. I would like to think if I was Belichick, even if I had realized I'd made a mistake and started running off early, I'd stop and get my ass back to the sidelines.
Why?
A few reasons. 1) To stand behind my players who, despite the awful feelings they must've had in the pits of their stomachs, were still out on the field. It's the least I could do, staying on the field and showing support. 2) To hold my head high. My team went 18-1 and just lost on a last-second touchdown in one of the greatest finishes in Super Bowl history. Does it suck? Yes. But, I'm a three-time world champion. I've got nothing to be embarassed about. Finally, No. 3) I've won 3 Super Bowl titles. I've worked with Tom Coughlin before and we're friends. The last thing I wanna do is steal his spotlight. His team won the game and they deserve all the accolades. I'm not the story. They are. I'd HAVE to know me running off the field early is going to take some of that spotlight away from the winners.

I know Belichick shook Coughlin's hand and they hugged briefly before he left, but he knew that he'd have a ton of cameras following him as he walked off the field with time left on the clock and his players still out on the field. I've always believed that Bill Belichick is a narcissist. He just proved it at the 59:59 mark of Super Bowl XLII

 

He said the Patriots debacled the game.

I wish I was making it up.

 

I know he won "Dancing With the Stars." How do you think he'd fare on "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?"

 

I'm not sure how he'd fare on "Are You Smarter Than A Rock?"

 

Damn you, Flint. Damn you. You always break off when I am going for the kill.

 

He'd get blowed up there.

 

Next year's NFL countdown DEFINITELY needs a weekly scene where Emmitt Smith and Channing Crowder show off their Florida educations in some way. Emmitt can take some English tests, and Crowder can do some geography.

This would bring me back to ESPN for a non-live-game event.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1290248,00.html

 

Wouldn't he get debacled by Foxworthy?

 

You're telling me "3" didn't make you have a love explosion in your pants?

 

There was definitely some kind of explosion in my pants.

 

So I guess you hit the wall with that one?

 

Do you call his "comments" worthy of the term during any of the presser he's presided over during his 13 years as an NFL head coach? Forget looking you in the eye. That's out the window. Forget personability or charisma; he probably doesn't even smile after sex. I'm talking about basic issues of courtesy and respect insofar as issuing a response that indicates he has at least paid your query some -- any -- degree of thoughtful consideration.

Go ahead, frame your questions 25 different ways. You will get terse, mumble-jumble crap. Every time. It's not going to help your copy sing and it sure isn't going to make you look like you endeavored to ask anything sensible. He has a gift for that, very specifically.