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03 February 2008
GO GIANTS! I shall be here for the game. GO GIANTS!
The neighbor we used to have is a SF Giants fan.
She and I used to have a great time, since I am a Dodger fan. We are looking after their house, since they moved away but have not sold it yet.
So I am on the phone to my wife (she's in Tucson over the weekend) and she says something like "I'll bet Rena's excited this weekend."
"Why?"
"Because the Giants are in the Super Bowl."
OK now I have you riveted, another story. Once I am on the phone, and the tv's on with this or that pregame show. Don't even remember the sport. And when I get off the phone and come back in the room, she goes, "you're missing a great game!" Which was strange to hear from my sports-disinterested wife.
Turns out that they were showing a reel of the season's highlights, and she assumed that it was this great game, in which every play was highlight-quality.
I love moments like this. Makes me love her even more.
I say that mainly because ikkyu says it every time he talks about the Giants (unless he's talking about the LA BASEBALL Giants, and it makes me giggle.
I wanted the Packers to get in, too, desjardins. I'm a Bears fan who loves Brett Favre. It's confusing and shameful. :-)
I kinda like the whole Greek drama aspect of little brother Eli trying to prove himself, but I gotta root for the Patriots. I was forced to watch too many games in which the Raiders wasted Randy Moss's talent not to root for him.
I remember when I watched the Packers-Giants playoffs game, there was only one Packers fan in the bar and He was from Bosnia (I've met him before, he digs blues music). When I looked at him funny, he said (for best results imagine thick Eastern European accent), "I hate Eli Manning. Iz piece of shit pussy."
I have to root for the Patriots also. It's only fair because husband is from NH and a huge Patriots fan. I'll cheer for the Giants on the inside. I always love an underdog.
I'll concentrate more on my seven-layer dip with homemade guacamole. What goes with seven-layer dip? I'm thinking beer and brownies with walnuts, maybe? :)
Perfection. That is what we should all be hoping to witness today.
What purpose would it serve for the Giants to add their names to the list of ultimately forgettable Super Bowl winners like the 2006 Steelers and the 2002 Buccaneers?
In the era of parity in the NFL, when none of this was supposed to be possible, we have the chance to witness a dynasty, and a perfect season.
We should all set aside our petty tribalistic loyalties, and come together in support and appreciation of true greatness.
The fact that I'm a lifelong Pats fan from Massachusetts is really not relevant to my point.
(I'll be watching at a friend's house, and rooting for the Giants. How could you not? Brady's a pretty boy corporate shill and Moss is, even by the standard of NFL wide receivers, a self-centered jerk. And after Spygate, I'm not sure the Pats should even be playing in the postseason. But because of the excitement of 19-0, and because the Patriots are the new Cowboys, America's-Team-bullshit-and-officiating-bias-wise, the league's mostly just looking the other way. Say what you will about Rozelle, but he'd've taken more serious actions. When Alex Karras bet on NFL games in the '60s, he was suspended for a year and ordered to appear in Blazing Saddles and TV's Webster. Compared to that, the penalties against the Patriots look like a slap on the wrist. (Also, Belichick used to coach the Browns, and I like the Steelers, so fuck that guy.))
Me too, dano, me totally too. GIANTS. yeah the patty patsy pats are going to win, but damn I hope the Giants show up. I'm watching mainly for the Thomas Petty show at the half.
(.......and for the ad highlights I think Pepsi will generate one laugh with teh nodding ad, and one "aw, that's nice + laugh" for the deaf ad which is all goodwill for them. Coke isn't doing to well this game, with the Odd Couple republican and deocrat sharing a coke in Washington, kinda dull. Audi gets to braggy. I'm waiting for Fedex carrier pigeons and I hope that it's good. I've been sworn to secrecy on Sobe, and I want to see what on earth is going on with careerbuilder.com and Planters peanuts. Over and out.)
Go Giants indeed. At the beginning of the season I would have been happy with one game over five hundred and here they are in the Super Bowl. The season is already a success, but denying the Pats perfection would be sweet indeed. Nobody thought they were going to beat the Cowboys and there were few believers when they faced the Packers, so who knows? As for the 12 point line, boy I am glad I am not a bookie.
Go Giants. I dislike the Patriots, but only really because of Belichick. I'd really like to see the Pats go this far undefeated, only to be beaten in the end.
FedEx carrier pigeons was great. Sobe was mostly weird, especially since it's not the first time they've gone after the Vitamin Water market. And was this just a local thing, or did everybody see an Obama ad toward the end of the game?
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