Thank You, Sports

by PB @ BON on Feb 3, 2008 9:08 PM CST in Football

There are two sides to sports, and anyone who says otherwise is lying. There's rooting for your team. And there's rooting against teams you hate.

To the Boston Globe, to every talk radio host who's wasted my time on "Best Ever," to the college football hating chowderheads of New England, to the win-at-all-costs sourpuss Machiavellian piece of sh*t Bill Bellichik, to Tom Brady.... and most of all, to you-know-who:

HA-HA!

And on the other side... to you, Tom Kenny: congratu-frackin-lations!

WAY TO GO NEW YORK!!!!!!

--PB--

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AMEN

by burntorangenance on Feb 3, 2008 9:11 PM CST 0 recs

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by abcdmetrius on Feb 3, 2008 9:16 PM CST 0 recs

cheaters never win

...except ou sometimes

"This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators."

by hornshoops on Feb 3, 2008 9:19 PM CST 0 recs

I equate this entire Pats Perfection bullshit

the the ESPiN USC Condoms perfection season...

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS!

by horndude on Feb 3, 2008 9:24 PM CST 0 recs

I guess defense does win championships

by the1austin on Feb 3, 2008 9:24 PM CST 0 recs

Quoth ESPN:

All season, the talk around the NFL was about whether the Patriots were the greatest team of all time. Turns out they weren't even the best team Sunday.

Gee, I've heard something similar to that before...

So take that.

by Kahuna on Feb 3, 2008 9:25 PM CST 0 recs

They won't learn

We will hear about another greatest ever team within 5 months.

Currently Roger Federer and Tiger Woods are the only people or teams who should be considered.

by JohnsonUT on Feb 3, 2008 9:43 PM CST 0 recs

Bill Simmons

Wow, I hadn't read that article before. What a douche.

by hornbone on Feb 3, 2008 9:45 PM CST 0 recs

I was rooting NY all the way.

Have no love for Pats; don't hate NY like the Eagles or 'Skins.

The line was just way too high considering their prior meeting; even the bookmakers bit into the hype. I hope you betting types took the points.

Great ending; you like to see a real champions earn it, with time running out and down in the score - just like VY in the Rose Bowl.

I even think NE blew their chance for a field goal; they had time; they just blew it. Couldn't happen to any better assholes. They cracked...

by whills on Feb 3, 2008 9:58 PM CST 0 recs

You would think

with all of the crow ESPN has had to eat in the past couple of years, they would quit hyping the "best" team ever stuff. I guess, since there is no accountability for it, they'll continue to do it.

by afaeguy on Feb 3, 2008 10:13 PM CST 0 recs

They're merely salespeople hawking a product. nt

by whills on Feb 3, 2008 10:45 PM CST up 0 recs

I agree, but if there's only one downside...

It's that those obnoxious dolphins will now still have their "precious" undefeated season and even use this to show how "incredibly tough" it is to go all the way. I want to throw up every time I hafta hear Shula talk about that ancient history. As if you could compare the two. Shut up and go away, for the love of pete. Anyway, enuf rant. That last drive was amazing. Play of the year: Manning escapes certain sack and tosses the ball to an incredible helmet catch.

by UT92 on Feb 3, 2008 10:24 PM CST 0 recs

That was it.

If there was a luck factor, that escape and Sportscenter #1 catch was it. I knew they'd win then. Didn't know how, but the force was with them.

by whills on Feb 3, 2008 10:47 PM CST up 0 recs

Amen, I hate the 72 'fins.

God, thats why I was rooting for the Pats because i despise those old geesers who can't go on into the sunset. The worst part is Mercury Morris. That guy is such a clown.

I bleed burnt orange!!!!

by FNJ on Feb 3, 2008 10:48 PM CST up 0 recs

True. But....

What's worse? A bunch of old guys in Miami popping champagne, who really only get a chunk of TV time once the last undefeated team falls, or Patriots fans faced with 19-0 and rolling in smugness like pigs in shit and never shutting up about it, ever? I'll take the Fins.

by Holly on Feb 4, 2008 1:46 PM CST up 0 recs

Exactly

The people crying about the '72 Phins don't seem to comprehend how much more horrible it'd be if they were freaking Bostoners doing the same thing.

by Meekrob on Feb 4, 2008 2:54 PM CST up 0 recs

perfect season

I believe a perfect season in 72 would be a hell of alot easier than one in 07. To me it seems the athletes are far more superior, and the speed of the game is alot faster. I was kinda neutral in this super bowl for two reasons. One I kinda wanted to see the Patriots pull it off and shut up the dolphins, and two I wanted Aaron Ross to win a superbowl. So I guess I win either way. Ross now has two rings, and I love seeing horns win championships.....

by vivalonghorns on Feb 3, 2008 10:42 PM CST 0 recs

I can understand the Pats hating.

I wanted the pats to win because of 19-0. I don't think people relize just what the patriots almost accomplished. We may never see another team like that ever again.

Do you know what this Eli victory means next? It means that the mannings will be on every single commercial conceivable. People won't stop talking about how great the mannings are. I can't believe that Eli won the super bowl. No body relizes that he is not that good of a qb.

I still can not believe that they did not sack him on that heave to Tyree. That was the play of the Super Bowl. They sack him pats win the Super Bowl.

I bleed burnt orange!!!!

by FNJ on Feb 3, 2008 10:52 PM CST 0 recs

There will always be a lot of 'iffing'

but realize that Eli delivered in the clutch for the whole playoff, including the final drive. You can knock him but you can't take that away.

Tight games always key on a few plays. He made 'em against the 'almost greatest team ever.' heh

by whills on Feb 3, 2008 10:56 PM CST up 0 recs

So, who'll suffer the Warner meltdown?

Not on NY, but on the Pats, but, hell, take your shots.

Will it be the whole team scattering to the winds with age and that "end of the era feeling?" Or for the cash?

Even Moss seem to feel something, saying 'you never know when you'll get back.'

by whills on Feb 3, 2008 10:53 PM CST 0 recs

The LBs

Seau is probably gone and I'd venture to guess the Pats will need to replace 3 LBs in the off season. Samuels is going to be a free agent, he'll be gone. I think we'll see another team of nobodies, that continue to win. Its not the athletes when it comes to the Pats, its the in-game adjustments. Maybe Mack should take a class from BB on adjustments.

by afaeguy on Feb 3, 2008 11:22 PM CST up 0 recs

Now that's a hell of a suggestion, afaeguy.

And take the OC and DC with him.

You're right, it's a well-developed system which shows little sign of deteriorating. And Seau and Brewski aren't spring chickens. However, the Pats have also been very judicious in their draft choices and free agent selections; they get what they specifically need.

Would love to see them trade Thomas to the Titans, but I doubt that is in the cards.

by whills on Feb 3, 2008 11:28 PM CST up 0 recs

the scene in NYC

just walked home from a friend's apartment tonight and the streets are alive, my friends. but i hesitate to say that they're in any way what austin must have been in january of '06 (i was here, sadly).

new york always has been and will always remain a baseball town. and beyond that, the town is split between jets and giants fans. the most palpable joy i felt here was that certain schadenfreude new yorkers have when boston teams fail. i heard a lot of "woos" and car horns, but the "giants" chants were second to the "boston sucks" chants. if anything, for these fans, this was merely payback for the 2004 ALCS.

regardless, it's always a magical thing to be in a town that has just won a championship - i was smiling the entire way home even though i couldn't care less about the giants - and i'm lucky to have that chance for the first time since '95. go giants.

by billyzane on Feb 3, 2008 11:29 PM CST 0 recs

Thanks!

for the shout out. Beat a team ESPN had already annointed the greatest of all time. QB makes himself an immortal with an amazing game-winning drive. Probably sounds familiar around here. I never thought I'd be excited for a Simmons column, but I can't wait to read him tomorrow.

by tk on Feb 3, 2008 11:37 PM CST 0 recs

Here ya go:

Bill gags on crow

I'm sure we'll each have our favorite quote; mine is:

First entry in my notebook right after the game ended: "Eli Manning just gave me the Eli Manning Face." And he did.

Eli Manning really wanted to give him the Eli Manning Finger...

by horndude on Feb 4, 2008 7:36 AM CST up 0 recs

and...

Aaron Ross got another ring to go with his....well, you know.

by whackamole on Feb 4, 2008 7:51 AM CST 0 recs

Congrats A. Ross!

I guess he can retire now at 23 yrs old or however old he is. What a run over the past few years.

Being a part of the team that upsets "the greatest college football team ever" and a couple years later destroying the sore loser Patriots "perfect season."

Cry me a river Bill Bellydouche.

"I asked Darrell Royal, why he didn't recruit me and he said: "Well, Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good." W Garrison Oklahoma State

by 512 on Feb 4, 2008 7:58 AM CST 0 recs