I picked the Giants to go to the Superbowl btw. holllla

Then I'd expect it to be Pats hosting Colts if the Pats win it all.

I know one thought was the Colts didn't like playing the Pats game #1 because if they lose it could decide home field for the playoffs, the flip side is... it's better for a dome team to play in NE in Sept then nov/dec due to weather.

Anyway, Colts are done... bring on the Giants...

Who the hell would have thought Kelly Washington would still be on the team never mind a Special Team star making huge plays.

and Kevin Faulk, talk about a guy that always steps up...

wtf

http://nfl.imageg.net/graphics/produ...p4423283dt.jpg
still rokc my 2000 NFC champions shirt not gonna lie, but I dont remember that year at all really. gotta get that now :love:

2 weeks of build up! unbearable! but thats what i thought about this week and it came mad fast! hoo ha!

<font color=goldenrod>Holy SHIT.....that was one of the most fucking amazing games I've ever seen.

Seriously wish I could just skip to the Super Bowl, I really believe in this team. :love:

My emotions were going crazy...jumping up and down at the Bradshaw TD till I saw there was a flag...depressed when Tynes missed...depressed when the Pack won the coin toss...marking out when Webster picked Favre off...marking the FUCK out when the Giants won.</font> :cool:

I love my Giants, but seriously just give the Pats' the trophy already.

I mean against an inexperienced team like the Packers, the Giants defense looked great but thats just not going to happen against New England on the biggest stage there is. My only concern at this point is how well Eli will play. Will he keep up the outstanding game management or crumble like bleu cheese?

By the way I ate like 30 wings tonight :cool:

<font color=goldenrod>:| Are you serious?

The Giants took it to the Pats Week 17 and the Pats have yet to experience Ahmad Bradshaw cause he didn't play that game. There's absolutely no reason to think the Pats have it locked up, especially given how they played today against a banged up Chargers team while the Giants played great against the Pack.

Seriously psyched, no matter what happens, this has been an amazing season. And there's no doubt in my mind that this is gonna be the best Super Bowl in years.</font>

lol at all these Giants bandwagoners. calm down

damn 2 upsets yesterday................:shifty:

Who the hell is bandwagoning? Anyone in here singing praises for 'em has always been doing that on here.

Anyways, bring on the fucking Pats man. Should be a hell of a game. We played them tough in week 17, and it shouldn't be any different. That game for us, even though it was a loss, was such an emotional lift its not even funny. That game righted the ship for the New York Giants.

if the Giants WR's caught 1/2 the balls they dropped that hit them in the hands the game never would have made OT.

The Giants played a great game.

That being said, w/ 2 weeks to focus on the Giants and the game being played in perfect weather (dome), I don't see how the Giants find a way to beat the Pats...

but nothing would suprise me.

Someone compared this to 1986, the Giants are the under-dog pats winning all 3 on the road only to get spanked by the Bears in the super bowl.

the Giants remind me of the 1985/86 Pats... good defense, solid running game... of course I'd take Eli over the QB's the Pats had then.

ok, time for 2 weeks of hype...

So, who's going to say somethig stupid or get pissed off by the press?

I think both teams are pretty well coached at being quiet...

I'll say it's Harrison who gets pissed off by the Press and slips...

Was coughlin the coach in Jax when they lost to the pats in 1996 AFC Championship?

I hope Harrison gets arrested for propositioning an undercover cop.

I just want this to be over, I want to watch one sportscenter without 20 mins of Pats coverage.

I get it, they are fucking awesome.....I just want them to leave me alone!!!!!!!!

Vel and RP, I thought the superbowl winner played the other championship loser at home and vice versa..

Like, if the Pats win, they'll play Greenbay in Foxboro while the Chargers will have to open the season at the Giants..

I thought that's how it worked..

Also, the Superbowl will not be a blowout.. As an analyst said yesterday about the Chargers, if they can get TDs in the redzone and not settle for FGs, any team has a shot at beating the Pats.. The Chargers got 3 FGs in the redzone and lost.. If those three had been TDs, it would've been 24-21 Chargers..

Just saying..

<font color=goldenrod>Nah, the way the NFL's scheduling is, you already know at least 14 games before the schedules are even announced.

You play:

-6 games against the teams in your division
-4 games against a division from the other conference, it rotates (ie: the Giants played the AFC North in 2004 so they'll meet again in 2008 with the home/away alignments opposite of what it was 4 years ago)
-4 games against one of the other 3 divisions in your conference, this also rotates (Giants played the NFC West teams in 2005, gonna happen again).

The other 2 games are the only ones decided by the previous year's standings...you basically play two other teams in your conference with similar records or something, not sure how that works exactly.</font>

Yeah, I guess it was just coincidence that we opened against the Colts..

http://www.johnnyroadtrip.com/schedu...uture_nfcs.htm

That site has the schedule as far as it's planned as of right now..

Is Tedy Bruschi going to murder someone at a night club? Will there be pics of Eli Manning partying with girls who look like feet?

http://www.newsamericanow.com/archiv...ysuperbowl.jpg

LIKE A CHAMPION

That's a big "IF" the Pats have always had a bend don't break style... get in the 20 is one thing, getting in the endzone is different.

yeah, the NFL loves that stuff if the schedule works... such as when Indy or Pittsburg or Oakland would open in NE after the super bowl win.

The Pats go to Indy again in 08 and 09 (Indy came here 04-05-06, so it looks like a 3 year trade off).

But, I'm not going to worry about opening day...

The Pats still have one more to go.

Well, for the next 2 weeks it's only going to be Pats and Giants, just like every superbowl..

might I suggest you join Oprahs book club?

I know..

There has been a few teams that played y'all close this year and if those FGs had been TDs, there would have been a different outcome.. Eli can not turn the ball over and the Giants D needs some picks..

I think it'll be a great game.. Not as good as Favre beating the Pats, but it'll be entertaining none the less.. I am happy for Eli..

Giants have not beaten any top teams this year therefore they are not good

Not even gonna watch the SB. Just check up on it while playing Call of Duty 4. Boring.

That is the gayest thing I've ever heard, Diesel Mac..

I'll watch the Super Bowl no matter who's in it..

Even the Falcons vs the Chiefs..

:nono:

GIANTS

Are you a Vikings or Cowboys fan or what, like you were always blowing Daunte Culpepper and then you stopped posting and now you are all over Tony Romo

Doubt it..

If Moss has a good game, that means Brady has a good game and he spreads it out alot.. No way Moss wins it..

He was always a Vikes fan..

Maroney is gonna win Superbowl MVP

Doubt that too..

If anyone other than Brady gets it, it'll be a defensive player who cause some turnovers etc..

IF the Pats win of course..

Deion Branch won it when I went

Steve Smith for Superbowl MVP

I know..

I'm saying this year, if the Pats win, Brady will get it..

Every team I have rooted for has lost.

I am discounting the wildcard because I dont watch the wildcard games (unless the Cowboys were playing obv.).

I went for Dallas... lost.
I went for Seattle... lost.
I went for Colts... lost.
I went for Jacksonville... lost.
I went for Chargers... lost.
I went for Green Bay... lost.

And its funny because now I am rooting for the Patriots because I dont want the Giants to win.

Giants have chance to tilt Boston/NY rivalry

By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
January 21, 2008





Oct. 20, 2004, was a cold, dark night in the South Bronx even before Johnny Damon started hitting home runs and changing everything. The Boston Red Sox would defeat the New York Yankees that night 10-3, marking one of the most painful losses in the long sports history of New York City.

It wasn't just to whom New York lost (the mouthy little brother up the road) and it wasn't just how they lost (in a spectacular collapse that saw them become the first baseball team to ever blow a 3-0 postseason series lead).

It was the sea change the event turned out to represent.

Boston was suddenly sporting gold, cemented as a modern-day title town. The Red Sox were now keeping up with the suddenly dynastic New England Patriots in ringing up championships. New York, the city that forever had kicked sand in the face of Bostonians, was a fading superpower struggling to find any serious success.

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Since 2001, Boston's three major professional sports teams (NFL, MLB, NBA) have won five championships, with the Patriots locked in on another and the basketball Celtics a rebuilt contender again.

Meanwhile, the New York metro region, despite having more than twice the number of franchises (six), has done nothing but lose – everything from regular season games to playoff series to sexual harassment lawsuits.

Ultimately, just a couple hundred miles of mostly Connecticut speed traps away, Boston has become a cottage industry to remind New Yorkers of this reversal of fortunes.

But there is a simple way for New York to return the favor, perhaps return to the old days and certainly have something just as vicious and painful to hang over every Bostonian's head as that historic baseball comeback in the fall of 2004.

The Giants just have to ruin the Patriots' perfect season in the Super Bowl on Feb. 3.

New York is everyone's rival in virtually every way (sporting or not). Boston, its colonial neighbor in the Northeast, is no different. But there are significant ties that bind.

New York kids go to Boston for college, Boston kids go to New York for jobs (and vice versa). There are mixed marriages, family feuds and forever bragging rights over rankings ranging from designated hitters to hospitals.

There is no lack of hubris, either. New York likes to refer to itself as the "Capital of the World." Boston goes one better as "The Hub of the Universe."

In sports, with the exception of the mighty Boston Celtics, the winners have mostly resided in Gotham. At least until this decade, until, truly, that night in the Bronx the Red Sox finished off the Yankees.

Since then, the two cities haven't had a direct competition as meaningful as the upcoming Super Bowl.

A return playoff engagement between the Yankees (or the Mets) and the Red Sox has not emerged. In basketball, the Celtics are back, and the Knicks won't be as long as James Dolan runs the organization.

The Patriots did beat the New York Jets in the playoffs last year – part of a heated rivalry between New England coach Bill Belichick and his former assistant, Jets coach Eric Mangini. That battle grew even more intense when New England was caught illegally filming the Jets' sideline during an opening week game and believed the Jets snitched them out to NFL security about the crime.

But as the Jets sunk back into losing play, that rivalry has faded into the kind of relationship that for so long characterized the Yankees and Red Sox – that of hammer and nail. New England has kept churning (even completing its 16-0 regular season in a come-from-behind victory over the Giants, 38-35) and stands one victory away from the first undefeated NFL season in 35 years and the first 19-0 one ever.

Which is why this isn't just a Super Bowl clash but something bigger. Fair or not, New England's quest for perfection changes the stakes for this game. The Patriots either win and enjoy immortality or lose and suffer infamy.

This is either the crowning of arguably the greatest team in league history or the springing of arguably its greatest upset.

New England is now the old Yankees, an immoveable juggernaut that expects dominance and demands championships. The Giants are the new Red Sox, a loose franchise of why-not dreamers that needed three road victories just to reach the Super Bowl.

But the Giants, like the Red Sox when they trailed 3-0, have nothing to lose now. They're two-touchdown underdogs with a puncher's chance and a world of gumption.

For Boston, it seems history goes through New York, and for New York, glory goes through New England. Just as it always has, just as it always will.


Dan Wetzel is Yahoo! Sports' national columnist. Send Dan a question or comment for potential use in a future column or webcast.

Gonna say Pats by 3. Giants should give em a good fight.