NFL got what it wanted - Giants vs Pats

**hokiefan** · 01-22-2012, 09:29 PM

#10 on SF needs to hook up with Cundiff over the off season and produce a video, How to blow the game for your team.

**myfavoriteboxer** · 01-22-2012, 09:35 PM

Ouch, that may be an even more brutal way to lose than we did.

**Uli2001** · 01-22-2012, 09:40 PM

Eli Manning is one tough customer. Much tougher than his brother. The Giants will not be denied in the superbowl. I mean just imagine what a real NFL receiving corps, such as the Giant's, will be able to do to the Patriots secondary.

**RavenScallywag** · 01-22-2012, 09:40 PM

Both Harbaughs, done in by special teams. Sad.

**myfavoriteboxer** · 01-22-2012, 09:47 PM

Fuck it all, I hope the Pats get their revenge for 07. I like the Giants even less than them, and just don't have a hatred for NE the way I do for PIT and IND. Plenty left to dislike but none of it doesn't also apply to the Giants.

**GOTA** · 01-22-2012, 09:51 PM

It's not what the NFL wanted. It's what NBC wanted. There the ones who will now get record breaking ratings from NY/BOS

**SteelFaninBMore** · 01-22-2012, 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by myfavoriteboxer

Fuck it all, I hope the Pats get their revenge for 07. I like the Giants even less than them, and just don't have a hatred for NE the way I do for PIT and IND. Plenty left to dislike but none of it doesn't also apply to the Giants.

I'll always have a soft spot for the Giants because they saved the world from a 19-0 Patriots team. You think Steeler fans having a monopoly on most Super Bowl titles is bad, imagine Boston fans laying claim to the best team in NFL history. Thank you, Eli Manning and David Tyree.

I've already got other plans for SB night, but I hope the Giants win it again. Think they can. Like 2007, they'll be able to get to Brady without having to blitz, and the Patriots defense is going to be overwhelmed by Cruz, Nicks, and Manningham.

**The Excellector** · 01-23-2012, 08:11 AM

I have not looked at the highlights of the Giants/49ers game yet. Could anyone please summarize how they lost?

**lovefootball** · 01-23-2012, 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by The Excellector

I have not looked at the highlights of the Giants/49ers game yet. Could anyone please summarize how they lost?

Two mistakes by same guy on return team for 49ers. First one. ball brushed his leg, giants picked up ball . Refs blow whistle. Review shows ball hit #10 leg, Giants get ball at that spot. Eventually score . Overtime,#1o fumbles ball after catch, giants recover. Run ball closer to goal line, Tynes kicks field goal. Maybe weather had something to do with both teams having moments of weakness..

**KidSampson** · 01-23-2012, 01:42 PM

Awesome. I am forced to cheer for a 9-7 team that lost to the Redskins twice.

**Ravenswintitle** · 01-23-2012, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by SteelFaninBMore

I'll always have a soft spot for the Giants because they saved the world from a 19-0 Patriots team. You think Steeler fans having a monopoly on most Super Bowl titles is bad, imagine Boston fans laying claim to the best team in NFL history. Thank you, Eli Manning and David Tyree.

I've already got other plans for SB night, but I hope the Giants win it again. Think they can. Like 2007, they'll be able to get to Brady without having to blitz, and the Patriots defense is going to be overwhelmed by Cruz, Nicks, and Manningham.

Pretty much sums up my feelings as well

**madmikey** · 01-23-2012, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by KidSampson

Awesome. I am forced to cheer for a 9-7 team that lost to the Redskins twice.

The last few seasons have shown you don't need the best record to win - you just have to be the team that gets hot (and lucky doesn't hurt either) at the right time.

In the Giants defense they were pretty banged up for much of the regular season then got healthy at the right time.

**GOTA** · 01-24-2012, 05:23 AM

Originally Posted by The Excellector

I have not looked at the highlights of the Giants/49ers game yet. Could anyone please summarize how they lost?

Eli was sacked 6 times and never let it get to him. He still threw for over 300, a couple of touchdowns and no picks. I heard one person say that Eli's helmet looked like a chia pet it had so much turf in it. It was impressive.

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**saintmatthew** · 01-27-2012, 03:06 PM

That game was turning into a fucking brutal slugfest too. It was gonna come down to a stupid turnover as neither offense could seem to come up with squat in the last quarter as the defenses were just laying the wood.

**the cysko kid** · 02-10-2012, 07:55 AM

Originally Posted by myfavoriteboxer

Fuck it all, I hope the Pats get their revenge for 07. I like the Giants even less than them, and just don't have a hatred for NE the way I do for PIT and IND. Plenty left to dislike but none of it doesn't also apply to the Giants.

Why hate indy?

**GOTA** · 02-10-2012, 09:22 AM

Highest ratings ever for a TV show. NBC was right to want this matchup

**The Excellector** · 02-10-2012, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by GOTA

Highest ratings ever for a TV show. NBC was right to want this matchup

Thank Goodness for Eli Manning. That's all I have to say.

**AirFlacco** · 02-11-2012, 03:01 AM

Originally Posted by GOTA

It's not what the NFL wanted. It's what NBC wanted. There the ones who will now get record breaking ratings from NY/BOS

So it was NBC that rigged the score board.

This wouldn't be the first time in the NFL and long before NBC covered it.

Back in 65 Unitas and his backup went down. Everyone knows the story
about Tom Matte, backup RB to Lenny moore inserted in as the instant
QB who led Colts to victory after victory until the fatal game in GB.

That game came down to a botched FG, or should I say botched FG call
by officials also, and put GB into the championship game. Even their kicker kicked the dirt knowing he missed it.
He couldn't believe it when he heard the crowd yelling and screaming. It
was good and he won the game.

John Steadman's book, FROM COLTS TO RAVENS has a pic of the ball about 10 ft wide with the REf under it with his arms raised. He was going to print the pic in the paper but Pete Rozelle, the Comish asked him not to so he didn't.

Shuia was convinced the NFL didn't want Matte, a 2d RB as one of the
featured QBs in their showcase game of the year. So they got Bart Star
in. Just like they got Brady in instead of Flacco.

They used to have a game called the playoff bowl. They stopped it because
the players hated it. It was for losers but the Colts played the Cowboys that
year. The team was shocked when Shula announced he was going to let
Matte open it up and open it up he did.

Matte beat Tom Landry's complex flex defense by 30 points. Shula laughed
all the way home that Matte didn't even know what a flex defense was.
Shula took a lot of heat from the media and the NFL for running up the score vs America's Team but he didn't give a damn.

He made his point.

I knew then that these games are scripted and it came home once again
in SB 3 and still lives, this time with broken score boards just during
the final drive of the game, just like the phony FG GB kicked in 65.

THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM. ROBERT REDFORD - SPY GAME.