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

Double Down · Feb 4, 2008

Fenain make Gary Smith sad.

beefncheddar · Feb 4, 2008

Rumpleforeskin said:

Going back to the game, like plays that happened...a coach can challenge 12 men on the field? It wasn't a play where there was gained or lost yardage or a spot of the ball, so how can it be challenged? What is the exact rule?
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Wondered about that, too.

I also thought the Giants were toast when Manning shook loose the first time and missed a wide-open Burress on the sideine.

beefncheddar · Feb 4, 2008

ESPN subhed: The unbeaten Pats did what they do best: rally late. Then Eli Manning's Giants rewrote history.

Seriously. Rally late? WTF?

And Simmons is up: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/080204

Simon_Cowbell · Feb 4, 2008

hockeybeat said:

I'm trying to think of anyone who deserves a championship more than Eli Manning. For four years, all he's heard is that he's not his brother, that he's a bust, the Giants can't win with him.

Has there been anyone more reviled by their fanbase who has done less to deserve it? Maybe other than Patrick Ewing?
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He did pull the Elway horseshit on the Chargers, but I like the brothers.

Simon_Cowbell · Feb 4, 2008

hockeybeat said:

Holy Hell, am I the only one who is listening to Keyshawn Johnson? He more or less suggested that the Pats have to upgrade at every position. I understand that they weren't good in tonight's loss, but suggesting across the board upgrades--including the wide receiving corps--is the height of knee jerk stupidity.
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The Pats are in major trouble on defense in the back seven

Simon_Cowbell · Feb 4, 2008

Oz said:

BYH said:

hondo said:

JR said:

Great damn football game.
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For the last 15 minutes it was. For the first 45, it blew.
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This is crazy talk. It was a close game the entire way. yeah, there was no scoring. So it was like a pitcher's duel. Fine by me. And with every passing minute, the impossible became more possible. How was that not captivating?

I cannot believe people who remember a decade's worth of complete Super Bowl duds can call a game in which neither team led/trailed by more than four the whole way a bore.
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Agree completely. Three lead changes in the final minute, including two in the last 2:45. Best Super Bowl ever, in part because of the historical importance, but also because of how the Giants won -- after the Patriots scored late, less than three minutes away from 19-0. Hell, I didn't have any problems with the first 45 minutes. Just a great game, start to finish.
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No winning team has had to score a TD, and then done it, in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl, until yesterday.

Simon_Cowbell · Feb 4, 2008

BYH said:

Bubbler said:

MileHigh said:

Giants-Bills is hard to beat.
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This beat it. Best Super Bowl ever. Unlike Super Bowl XXV, you can't say the outcome was determined by someone missing a play or anything, it was decided by the winning team making plays on both sides of the ball.
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That was a 47-yd kick Norwood missed. It would have been good from 45. not like he missed a PAT or something.
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8 seconds on the clock.

Inexcusable that Levy didn't have an out pattern to try to get him closer.

Plenty of time.

Simon_Cowbell · Feb 4, 2008

hockeybeat said:

Bubbler said:

BYH said:

Bubbler said:

MileHigh said:

Giants-Bills is hard to beat.
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This beat it. Best Super Bowl ever. Unlike Super Bowl XXV, you can't say the outcome was determined by someone missing a play or anything, it was decided by the winning team making plays on both sides of the ball.
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That was a 47-yd kick Norwood missed. It would have been good from 45. not like he missed a PAT or something.
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I'm generally the first one to give Norwood some leeway, it wasn't an easy kick, you're right.

But easy kick or not, that Super Bowl's drama climaxed with a failed play.

The Giants' win tonight climaxed with a scintillating winning drive in response to a trademark drive to the presumed champs and would-be perfect team. The Giants' defensive line harnessed what many thought was an unbeatable offense.

But games were great, but I'll take 42 over 25.
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If I'm not mistaken, Norwood hadn't made a field goal on grass from that distance during the regular season. It was already going to be a tough kick before factoring in its importance.
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And considering he didn't have a tie in the bank, like Vinatieri did those two times.

Simon_Cowbell · Feb 4, 2008

Lee Jackson Beauregard said:

broadway joe, he would issue the same responses for those questions as for the ones asked of him.

Someone asked him about the field goal. He said "Well, it was a 50-yarder" or something to that effect. Yeah, and so?

You are clearly not going to get anywhere with this guy, so why not make him squirm right off the bat.
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Ball was a nudge inside the 31, it would have been a 49-yarder.

Simon_Cowbell · Feb 4, 2008

Tom Petty said:

dooley_womack1 said:

How, precisely, is that dumping on the game? You chanting it like an obscene mantra doesn't make it so. He should have stood there to watch one second?
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jesus christ. yeah, the coach of a super bowl team should be on the field while the game is being played. i don't think asking a coach to respect the game and the other team is asking too much.
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How is this arguable?

Simon_Cowbell · Feb 4, 2008

spnited said:

Truthfully, this game was a colossal bore for three quarters and got great only in the fourth quarter.
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One old, crazy motherfucker.

Thus ends my 8-0 run.

lono · Feb 4, 2008

mustardbased said:

ESPN subhed: The unbeaten Pats did what they do best: rally late. Then Eli Manning's Giants rewrote history.

Seriously. Rally late? WTF?

And Simmons is up: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/080204
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I think that column should go in the SportsJournalists.com dictionary under looser fanboy.

The man probably sleeps in a cum-stained hoodie.

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