Giants Are Going To The Super Bowl!!!!!!!

[thetrailboss]

YYYYEEEEEEEHHHHAAAAAAWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I know that we have some Pat's fans here, but I have always been a Giants fan and always will be...I cringed when they brought Tynes out AGAIN, but he pulled it off. What a game!!!!

 

[andyzee]

Why good morning mr. tb, and yes, the giants are going to the superbowl, not a dream.

 

[Marc]

 

[bigbog]

....Tynes

That was great so see, but the guy that really gets me, when watching the Giants...is Manning!..:roll:, nice arm & touch but does he have any killer instinct in him??? A great bunch of receivers, running backs, and a good defense...and the guy goes for the endzone like he's gonna get spanked by his Daddy if he misses...!
Maybe it's just that thru the 60s-80s there were so many great ones.....;-)...I found myself sitting there almost talking to the tv..."Throw the damn ball down the field man...!" ;-) ..Guess I was a little impatient...

 

[andyzee]

 

[thetrailboss]

How can you not like "America's team????" :wink:

 

[deadheadskier]

How can you not like "America's team????" :wink:

I know you're being tounge in cheek with 'America's team'.....but....



.....that's something I've never understood. In my mind, people should like teams that are closest geographically to where they were born and raised. If you're from New England, then you should support the Sox, Pats, Celtics, Bruins. Specifcally during Baseball season, it would bother me seeing the Red Sox roll into town and have more fans there than the home town teams.

Perhaps its always been that way. Lots of Bandwagon fans all over the country. The only places this doesn't seem to be true are Boston, NY and Chicago.

 

[Marc]

I would be that way, dhs, but unfortunately, there are no sports teams on any of the moons of Jupiter.

 

[Paul]

I know you're being tounge in cheek with 'America's team'.....but....



.....that's something I've never understood. In my mind, people should like teams that are closest geographically to where they were born and raised. If you're from New England, then you should support the Sox, Pats, Celtics, Bruins. Specifcally during Baseball season, it would bother me seeing the Red Sox roll into town and have more fans there than the home town teams.

Perhaps its always been that way. Lots of Bandwagon fans all over the country. The only places this doesn't seem to be true are Boston, NY and Chicago.

Funny you mention this...

We have this discussion (well, heated discussion...) all the time on the Philly Eagles MB. It just isn't that cut and dried. Some people are fans of teams from other areas because their families are from different locales. I know people here in NE that are fans of the Steelers because that's where their parents are from and Dad was a hardcore fan. Some (like myself) just never settled on a team until later. I never really cared for the Pats, 'cos they stunk on ice back in the 70's. I liked various teams for various reasons (usually a coach or franchise player that was exceptional or fun to watch) It wasn't until I went to College that I settled on becoming an Eagles fan. They had an exciting coach in Buddy Ryan, an electric QB in Cunningham, players like Mike Quick and Harold Carmichael, Keith Byers, and Keith Jackson. The D was scary good with Jerome Brown, Reggie White, Seth Joyner Eric Allen and Andre "Dirty" Waters. An awesome team that never went anywhere, but they were enough for me to decide on an allegiance, and stick with them. Even through the Richie "the K" Kotex years.

Yeah, for the most part people should cheer for their hometown team (I am a diehard Sox fan, since the days of Bucky effin' Dent) however, don't discount the reasons for supporting a team miles away as well.
;-)
/soapbox

 

[andyzee]

I know you're being tounge in cheek with 'America's team'.....but....



.....that's something I've never understood. In my mind, people should like teams that are closest geographically to where they were born and raised. If you're from New England, then you should support the Sox, Pats, Celtics, Bruins. Specifcally during Baseball season, it would bother me seeing the Red Sox roll into town and have more fans there than the home town teams.

Perhaps its always been that way. Lots of Bandwagon fans all over the country. The only places this doesn't seem to be true are Boston, NY and Chicago.

I've always said this. Could never understand how folks from the NYC area would cheer Dallas or Steelers. On the flip side, their was a team from the left coast I used to cheer, but I think that was understandable, the SF 49ers with Montana. I mean come on Montana was quarterback that all other QBs dreamt they could be. However, when the Niners played the Giants, I would cheer the Giants all the way.

Now that being said, the VT residents should cheer the Giant and not NE, since in effect they are a colony of the NYC metro area :lol: :wink: In return, I'll be happy to give NE CT.

 

[bvibert]

Now that being said, the VT residents should cheer the Giant and not NE, since in effect they are a colony of the NYC metro area :lol: :wink: In return, I'll be happy to give NE CT.

Umm.... That's some screwed up logic right there... :roll:

 

[ckofer]

Second place is cool too.

 

[andyzee]

Second place is cool too.

Especially with an 18-1 record.

 

[AMAC2233]

The best part was when Tynes came over to the bench after his first miss, and Coughlin gives an encouraging "come on!" to Tynes, with an angry look on his face. I know it was the NFC championship, but it was -4 degrees with whipping wind, and a tough kick. A simple "you'll get it next time," or "nice try," or even nothing would have been a better solution. What's the kid going to do, run back out to the field and kick the ball over?

 

[Paul]

The best part was when Tynes came over to the bench after his first miss, and Coughlin gives an encouraging "come on!" to Tynes, with an angry look on his face. I know it was the NFC championship, but it was -4 degrees with whipping wind, and a tough kick. A simple "you'll get it next time," or "nice try," or even nothing would have been a better solution. What's the kid going to do, run back out to the field and kick the ball over?

Yeah, twice in fact. And the last one actually made it. Interesting that he missed two chip shots, then made the 47 yarder.

 

[Dr Skimeister]

Saw the early line has the Pats as 12 1/2 pt favorites.

 

[Marc]

In return, I'll be happy to give NE CT.

Listen you greasy kielbasa lovin New Jerseyan, you can only fantasize in the wettest of wet dreams NE CT was yours to give up. We're the only swath of real civilization left in the utter hell that is BosWash.

 

[andyzee]

Listen you greasy kielbasa lovin New Jerseyan, you can only fantasize in the wettest of wet dreams NE CT was yours to give up. We're the only swath of real civilization left in the utter hell that is BosWash.

You goat lovin crappyan, you can only fanasize in you wettest of wet dreams that you are civilized. But you do have a good point, it isn't ours to give up, nor would we want a state that I like to refer to as the Twighlight Zone. Please do us all a favor and cheer for NE, just don't post any pics of yourself in a cheer leading uniform. :smash:

 

[JimG.]

I'm still a little bit in shock about all this.

That was a great football game last night, the 4th good performance in a row by the Giants.

Winning 10 straight road games is an NFL record.

Toomer dropped 2 passes and it didn't adversely affect Eli. Again, the QB didn't make any bad mistakes.

Frankly, the game never should have gone to OT...the Giants blew several chances to put the game away before that.

This is a Cinderella story, a story of some kind of weird destiny.

Maybe it's just to be victim #19, but I know that all you Pats fans would have rather played any of the other NFC teams but the Giants.

Strange how NY and NE seem to be joined at the hip in these cases.

 

[deadheadskier]

Funny you mention this...

We have this discussion (well, heated discussion...) all the time on the Philly Eagles MB. It just isn't that cut and dried. Some people are fans of teams from other areas because their families are from different locales. I know people here in NE that are fans of the Steelers because that's where their parents are from and Dad was a hardcore fan. Some (like myself) just never settled on a team until later. I never really cared for the Pats, 'cos they stunk on ice back in the 70's. I liked various teams for various reasons (usually a coach or franchise player that was exceptional or fun to watch) It wasn't until I went to College that I settled on becoming an Eagles fan. They had an exciting coach in Buddy Ryan, an electric QB in Cunningham, players like Mike Quick and Harold Carmichael, Keith Byers, and Keith Jackson. The D was scary good with Jerome Brown, Reggie White, Seth Joyner Eric Allen and Andre "Dirty" Waters. An awesome team that never went anywhere, but they were enough for me to decide on an allegiance, and stick with them. Even through the Richie "the K" Kotex years.

Yeah, for the most part people should cheer for their hometown team (I am a diehard Sox fan, since the days of Bucky effin' Dent) however, don't discount the reasons for supporting a team miles away as well.
;-)
/soapbox

For sure, I understand there are exceptions. Definitely understand if you are born into a family that is rabid fans of a particular team, you more than likely will be one yourself. I was born 30 miles west of Boston, but had my father been a Yankee (thank god he's not) I'd probably have grown up one as well.

I certainly caried my Boston loyalty to sports when I lived in Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Florida.

It's the whole context of 'America's' team that never made sense to me and the fair weather band wagon fans you see for particular teams around the nation.

As far as I'm concerned, 'America's team' is the Olympic team and that's it.