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The scene at my beloved Remote Sports Bar was insane. Biggest. Upset. Ever. (You haven't lived until you've sung four shoruses of this song with a barful of Noo Yawk drunks)
In Astoria, we've got choruses of honking horns and shouts of 'Fuckin' Giants!' from the street (a homeless guy passing by even pumped his fist in the air at me), but I do live near a bar.
Congrats, Jon! What a great game -- greatest upset I've ever seen. Being a hardcore AFC girl, it is a rare day indeed when I root for an NFC victory (especially when it's a team who once beat my beloved Broncos in the Superbowl), but that was really a thing of beauty. GOD, I love football, and GOD, I love good defense, and HOLY GOD do I love a well-played upset. Brilliant! Salut!
I generally can't stand football, but that was a riveting last quarter, very well played, I think that was my first time yelling HOLY SHIT at the top of my lungs at football game when Manning threw that first long bomb.
Ahh Jon, I'm a family man, I woke up the wife and sent the kid scrambling in from her IM party with my holy shit. Also the one cat jumped a foot in the air and the other one looked at me reproachfully. The dog seemed unimpressed and perhaps a little hungry.
That Declaration of Independence reading at the beginning was so fucking odd and stilted. I was wondering if the NFL was trying to secede from America or something. Ben Franklin, football, what the fuck?
What a GREAT fucking game. Best soopah bowl evah! I'm pretty sure our neighbors loved us screeching on the bomb to Tyree. I was yelling, "come ON little brother we are all pulling for YOU! This is it! This is what you have been wanting now GO GET THE DAMN THING and keep it in the family!!!!" It upset one of the cats so much she went out into the living room and hacked up a hairball.
I have to say it was super sweet to see the worried Pats' faces come 4th Q, and I'm sorry but I can NOT stand Tom Brady & BillTheChick, smug arrogant fuckers.
Remember how through season 2 of the Sopranos you felt like "meh, this is alright but one or two good episodes does not a season make"? And then at the end Richie Aprile gets what's coming to him and you realize all the other episodes were just set up for a marvelous and wild conclusion?
That's how I feel about this NFL season. David Chase couldn't have scripted it better.
I'm not sure why people think Belichick's behavior was bad. Yes, he did exit the field before the game was officially over, but everyone had swarmed the field already with 1 second left. He went straight up to Tom Coughlin, congratulated him, then left the field. The field was cleared for the final play (formality). After the game in the locker room, his answers were short and to the point, but none of his answers were rude or sour-grapes.
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