Are You Ready For Football - Super Bowl

[Sava]

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Another Yawn Superbowl.

Guess I'll have to root for Panthers. Yawn.

I agree... the Pats/Colts game was probably the best game of the playoffs... the Super Bowl will suck. The NFC was very weak this year.

[ixnay]

Originally posted by Sava
I agree... the Pats/Colts game was probably the best game of the playoffs... the Super Bowl will suck. The NFC was very weak this year.

Pffft.

This super bowl is going to be a close, exciting game. It might not be flashy and high scoring but it should be good football.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Including two teams I could care less about.

At least last year I had the Bucs to hate more than the Raiders.

[MLeonard]

disclaimer: i am from new england and as such, i am extremely biased

that being said, i find it unbelieveable that anyone could honestly hate the patriots. they have done no wrong as a team. they don't put up huge scores, they don't obliterate the opposing team, they just play great football as a unit. in fact there is some stat out there that says they've won most of their games this season by no more than 10 points. they don't have a huge dynasty backing them up either like green bay or the cowboys. there are no cocky ******* runningbacks and i don't think we boast at all about our winnings. plus we've got great fans
additionally, until this year, the patriots have gotten completely trashed by every commentator on tv. now that they've all changed their tune they expect people to forget that even before and after the superbowl two years ago the whole team was being berated by the likes of jim nantz and his cohorts

so, maybe the superbowl won't be the best in history, but i think that if the patriots win, they will have deserved it after their hard work as a great TEAM.

[monolith94]

So very very true, Matt. ALL of it!

[Sava]

Originally posted by ixnay


Pffft.

This super bowl is going to be a close, exciting game. It might not be flashy and high scoring but it should be good football.

nah... the two best teams in the NFL played yesterday in New England.

The Panthers are the Cinderella story team, which makes for good PR; but I doubt their offense can get much of anything done against NE. Brady will continue to lead New England to victory.

When two great defensive teams play each other, you have to look at the D's respective strengths and weaknesses. Carolina's secondary is their weak link and won't be able to contain New England's passing game. And in contrast, New England's secondary is superb and will shut down Delhomme's game. Davis is hobbled, so I doubt the Panthers will do much of anything on offense. I see a relatively low scoring game (sub 30 scores on both sides), but I see New England coming out on top. And if it is close, New England has the best clutch kicker in the last few years.

[JohnT]

Well, if you want to bet your way to mortgage-free glory, just pick opposite of me. 0-2 yesterday, 0-4 the previous week, and 1-3 the week before that.

[Zopperoni]

Yea, you're slipping away, man =\

Fortunately, Sneak and I did good business Sunday, holding a chance to sweep it for [FoG]!

(I think we may even be #1 and #2 now, with Sneak being first and me being second, tied with Rah.)

[-Jrabbit]

JohnT and I are, like, brothers of the bet...

[reismark]

Well, I'm about as happy as a disappointed Bucs fan can be. The right teams (get that, *teams* - must be a foreign concept to you fanboys who drool all over Manning and McNabb) won yesterday and we've got ourselves a dandy of a Super Bowl matchup.

It's a tough choice, but even though the Panthers managed to make me smile by beating the teams I hate most back-to-back, I gotta root for the Pats in the final. You know, division rival and all.

[badams52]

Originally posted by Sava
I agree... the Pats/Colts game was probably the best game of the playoffs... the Super Bowl will suck. The NFC was very weak this year.

The think the idea of the Pats-Colts game was the best for the play-offs, but the game itself wasn't as entertaining as any of the 4 games last week. The only think keeping the Colts in the game was how they held the Pats to only field goals instead of TDs on their drives. The game itself never really put me in a place of excitement as for most of the game it just looked like the Colts couldn't win.

i find it unbelieveable that anyone could honestly hate the patriots.

The answer is simple: because they win.

Actually, the team I hated most in college football in the last two years was Ohio State. They never won big either, but they never lost. They were a team who didn't seem as good as their record and I felt like they were over rated, but they wouldn't lose. That is why I didn't like them.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I would call McNabb a choker, but I don't consider him as important to Philly's success as Manning is to Indy's... Philly's game is D... but with Indy, their entire success relies on Mannings ability to not SUCK and throw 4 INTERCEPTIONS.

So you are saying that without McNabb the Eagles could win 13 games and go to all those Conference Championship games? With all that offensive... *ahem* talent?

Bull... you are just making excuses because your hate for Manning has clouded your judgment.

Get used to it, Manning is one of the Top 3 QBs in football. 'Your' MVP, Brady isn't the passer that Manning is. Give Peyton the same D and I'd see Manning already winning more than a few Superbowls.

It's like calling Marino a choker or Elway before he got Terell Davis a choker. Just ignorant babble.

the two best teams in the NFL played yesterday in New England.

Isn't that what people said about the AL in the 2003 MLB playoffs?

I'm picking close game, with a Delhomme pass to Muhammed sealing it. Carolina wins and becomes the new 2000 Baltimore Ravens.

[Imran Siddiqui]

i find it unbelieveable that anyone could honestly hate the patriots.

For the unwarrented drooling over them lately. I mean I really didn't care too much about them and then some idiots kept calling Tom Brady the next Joe Montana. That kinda set me off. Montana didn't just win Superbowls, you know? He does have the 2nd highest passer rating in history (Brady isn't close).

That and this whole 'Belichek is a head coaching genius'. I can take the defensive genius (he is good on that side), but no one was calling him a head coaching genius in his other head coaching jobs (which were pretty mediocre).

[MLeonard]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
and then some idiots kept calling Tom Brady the next Joe Montana.

believe me, i agree that brady is no montana. he's got a long way to go. but i'll bet that the idiots that said that were the same ones i was talking about.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Refering to the 'idiots':

until this year, the patriots have gotten completely trashed by every commentator on tv.

Why shouldn't they have been? What did they do last year? I mean, looking on it, you can easily speculate the 2001 NE Patriots was a fluke seeing the records of the team before and after.