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

[hockeybeat]

Giants-Bills is hard to beat.

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.

That was a 47-yd kick Norwood missed. It would have been good from 45. not like he missed a PAT or something.

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.

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.

 

[Tom Petty]

The celebration has begun:

With that goofy headband there's no doubt at all he's a frontrunner.

Since it's red, white and blue, that doofus could claim he's a Pats fan or a Giants fan.

maybe this is why we haven't heard a peep from bostonbred.

Cop on left looks to be a captain. they rarely get their hands dirty.

you know how bostonbred likes to stir the shirt.

 

[suburbia]

Giants-Bills is hard to beat.

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.

That was a 47-yd kick Norwood missed. It would have been good from 45. not like he missed a PAT or something.

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 by 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.

If that's your standard, you have to put XXIII in there too, with Montana leading a 92-yard TD drive in the final three minutes.

 

[GB-Hack]

I can't wait for Carl's reaction on AdultSwim.com.

Oh god, I didn't even think of this.

You know it's going to be a classic. I doubt he'll be pissed.

 

[Bubbler]

Giants-Bills is hard to beat.

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.

That was a 47-yd kick Norwood missed. It would have been good from 45. not like he missed a PAT or something.

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.

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.

I'm not arguing any of that. But that point remains that he missed the kick, and thus, the drama of that Super Bowl was over.

It doesn't matter whether it was a chippy or a field goal attempt the length of which would make Tom Dempsey pee his pants, the game turned on a failed play. It was the seminal moment of that Super Bowl.

Tonight's seminal moment was Manning-to-Tyree, a moment that was as sublime as it was lucky and clutch all rolled into one. That's all I'm sayin'.

 

[hockeybeat]

Giants-Bills is hard to beat.

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.

That was a 47-yd kick Norwood missed. It would have been good from 45. not like he missed a PAT or something.

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.

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.

I'm not arguing any of that. But that point remains that he missed the kick, and thus, the drama of that Super Bowl was over.

It doesn't matter whether it was a chippy or a field goal attempt the length of which would make Tom Dempsey pee his pants, the game turned on a failed play. It was the seminal moment of that Super Bowl.

Tonight's seminal moment was Manning-to-Tyree, a moment that was as sublime as it was lucky and clutch all rolled into one. That's all I'm sayin'.

I agree with you on both points. I think Norwood receives far too much blame for that loss. And the one play everyone's going to take away from this game was Eli's Vince Young-esque escape and heave and Tyree making the leaping catch.

 

[Bubbler]

Giants-Bills is hard to beat.

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.

That was a 47-yd kick Norwood missed. It would have been good from 45. not like he missed a PAT or something.

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 by 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.

If that's your standard, you have to put XXIII in there too, with Montana leading a 92-yard TD drive in the final three minutes.

I see your point, but that Super Bowl was pretty much dreck to that point. I didn't think tonight's game was dreck even in the early stages. Plus, there is no upset factor for Bengals-49ers II.

 

[Hammer Pants]

Another underrated moment: Rookie DT Jay Alford making up for his bad long snap in Lambeau with that sack of Brady on New England's final drive.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

If ESPNews' broadcast of the postgame press conference is to be taken into full account, no one asked Belichick about leaving the field early.

Unbelievable cowardice, if this is true. On both ends of it.

 

[pseudo]

Giants-Bills is hard to beat.

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.

That was a 47-yd kick Norwood missed. It would have been good from 45. not like he missed a PAT or something.

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.

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.

Norwood hadn't made a 47-yard-or-longer kick on grass in his career.

I won't argue Bubbler's point, though. The emotional pain from watching that kick sail wide was surpassed only by the physical pain of cracking my head on the endtable as I fell backward onto the couch. Might have been easier to take if it had ended as tonight's game did, with a fourth-down incompletion...

 

[pseudo]

If ESPNews' broadcast of the postgame press conference is to be taken into full account, no one asked Belichick about leaving the field early.

Unbelievable cowardice, if this is true. On both ends of it.

They may not have gotten a chance. Judging by what's on nflmedia, this could rank with the shortest PCs in Super Bowl history:

PATRIOTS HEAD COACH BILL BELICHICK

(on the game) “Congratulations to the Giants. They made some plays there at the end and we didn't. It's disappointing.”

(on the comments made by the Rams) “I haven't heard them.”

(on whether he thought about going for the field goal instead of going for it on 4th and long) “Yeah, but it was a 50-yard field goal.”

(on whether he thought this was the toughest loss of his career) “I don't rank them. It's disappointing.”

(on what the Giants did well to stop your offense) “They did a good job defensively. They played well.”

(on the Giants pass rush) “They are a very good defensive football team. They played well.”

(on anything specific the Giants did to stop your offense) “I mean look, they played well. They made some plays. We made some plays. In the end, they made a couple more than we did.”

 

[Inky_Wretch]

If ESPNews' broadcast of the postgame press conference is to be taken into full account, no one asked Belichick about leaving the field early.

Unbelievable cowardice, if this is true. On both ends of it.

Any chance that given the madness of the final minutes of the game, nobody in the press room saw him walking off? FOX only showed a second or two of him walking off.