If you're too young to know what all the whining was about regarding the 86 Red Sox...well now you know.
Unlike every other game this year where the Patriots were down at some point in the second half, I never felt like they were really going to win this game. For a brief moment when they scored their final touchdown, I felt like things were setting themselves right in the universe and the Patriots would shut down the Giants for the win. Just incredible really.
A few quick hits:
1. The Giants were the best team this post season and got better every single game.
2. Eli was as good as Brady was bad on 3rd down.
3. Goats: Matt Light, Brady, Ellis Hobbs
4. Everything was un-Patriots like - penalties, bad play calling, bend and then break defense in the end, inaccurate throws, you name it.
5. If the Patriots had won, Wes Welker (who tied Deion Branch's SB record with 11 catches) would have been the MVP.
6. Pretty much everyone who is headed to the Pro Bowl next week from the Patriots came up small tonight.
7. It was a great season regardless. If you can avoid media of any kind in the next week, you'll come around to feeling that way too.
Reasons this loss was worse than the 86 Red Sox:
1. Mercury Morris has a platform to gloat on again
2. The entire country will see this as a karma thing.
3. Best Team Ever become cautionary tale.
4. 19-0, 4 in 7 years, best QB in history....all gone.
5. Losing to a New York team
6. Ditka, Easterbrook, Plaschke, Norman Chad, Dr. Z, and many more
7. It's difficult to gloat about an evil team when they get vanquished.
That's it for me tonight. Good season. Spring Training is right around the corner.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Evil Vanquished
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Hey, You can change the temperature of the nation ..... We love the 2007 patriots... They are the "butt" team.. They went 16-0 butt lost the super bowl..... They broke all kinds of offensive records butt they lost the super bowl.... Brady would have been compared to bradshaw, Montana, butt he lost the super bowl... Brady was hit a few times and he was rattled... Like a freshman college quarterback......
It was wonderful!
I feel dead inside...I was too young for the '86 Sox-Mets game. Is this how it feels? I'd rather give it all up. It just hurts too damn much.
Thanks for the fun.
Better team won tonight. Patriots outplayed. Neither the homer nor the intellectual in me could have seen this coming.
Time to watch my 2007 Red Sox DVD...
Hollywood Brady
This blog has been the most entertaining football reading I've done this season. Are you coming back next year? What if the Patriots are no longer evil?
You HAVE to come back!
The pressure of this particular season (and I'm just talking from the fan's point of view) surpassed anything I have ever witnessed --including the '86 Sox. This site helped me cope, protected my sanity, and kept my sense of perspective and sense of humor intact. Otherwise the HATERS would have beaten us down long before the Super Bowl. And the haters are still out there EVERYWHERE.
Thanks for a terrific and unique web-destination. I'll be checking back in to see what's up.
I'm not over this thing (and probably won't be for a while) but will always keep trying to keep the faith!
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