It's time to put in your predictions for the winner of the Super Bowl.
I think I am going to go with the Patriots.
Larryj
Well, I predict that before the game ever starts...the score will be 0-0. ;D
I am and always have been for the Broncos (lost a few years when Elway left...but I believe in them)
ready
Chiefs vs Cardinals!
Oh, wait. That could only happen in some different dimension far far away. :P
I absolutely hate Brady, so I'll take the Ravens over the Pat's.
If GB wiins today, I take them all the way, if not the 49'ers beat the Giants and then the Ravens to be Super Bowl champs.
NY Giants!!!!!! Go Manning
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Nobody but the Giants.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!! GO PATS!
Although I think my heart stopped a few times there at the end.
Larryj
GIANTS all the way.
NYGiants 37 - NEPats 31
MVP - Eli Manning
Here are five records already held by those involved... NYGiants & the NEPatriots in Super Bowl XLVI:
1. Patriots receivers Deion Branch and Wes Welker are tied with Dan Ross and Jerry Rice for the most receptions in a Super Bowl game (11). It's not inconceivable for either (or both) to break this record.
2. Tom Brady has completed 100 passes in previous Super Bowl games, more than any other quarterback in NFL history. He's also tied with Drew Brees for the most completions in a single Super Bowl (32).
3. The New York Giants scored a record 30 points in the second half of Super Bowl XXI.
4. In Super Bowl XX, the New England Patriots managed only 7 yards rushing the entire game, a record low.
5. Time is important to the New York Giants, who hold Super Bowl records for time of possession (40:33 in Super Bowl XXV) and drive length (9:59 in Super Bowl XLII).
Now that we know where we stand, let's examine 10 records that could be tied or broken in Super Bowl XLVI:
1. Should New England lose the game, the Patriots will become the fourth team in history to lose the Super Bowl four times. (The others who have done so are Minnesota, Denver, and Buffalo).
2. No team has ever scored more than 14 points in the first quarter of any Super Bowl game (The Patriots scored 14 in the first quarter of Super Bowl XXXI).
3. In this "Year of the QB," both Eli Manning and Tom Brady have a chance to better Kurt Warner's record of 414 yards passing in a Super Bowl game.
4. If Deion Branch catches 12 passes, he'll tie Jerry Rice's record for career Super Bowl receptions (33).
5. Hall-of-Famer Jerry Rice is the only player to score 3 receiving touchdowns in a single Super Bowl game. He actually did this trick twice, in Super Bowls XXIV and XXIX.
6. No field goal attempt of 55 yards or longer has ever been made in a Super Bowl game.
7. If New England's Bill Belichick wins this game, he'll tie Chuck Noll's NFL record by winning his fourth Super Bowl game as head coach.
8. No Super Bowl team has ever been shut out, and no Super Bowl game has ever gone into overtime.
9. The Patriots and Giants have each allowed a safety in previous Super Bowls. If either team scores one in Sunday's game, its opponent will set a new record for most safeties allowed in Super Bowl games.
10. While kickoffs have been returned for touchdowns 8 times in previous Super Bowls, there's never been a punt returned for a touchdown in a Super Bowl game. Ever. The longest punt return in Super Bowl history was a 45-yard effort by the 49ers' John Taylor in Super Bowl XXIII.
Finally, here's one NFL record that definitely, absolutely, positively will NOT be broken in Sunday's game:
Jim Turner and Mike Clark kicked record-short field goals of only 9 yards in Super Bowls III and VI, respectively. The goal posts were right on the goal line in those days. They were set back 10 yards into the end zone in 1974, rendering this record impossible to break today.
Okay, watching the Super Bowl with two sixty plus women who don't know nothing about football.
Wife says, "I'm only staying until the first guy falls down........" (actually stayed for half the first quarter.)
Wife: "Why are they playing in Indianapolis if they teams are from New York and New England?" (answer: cities bid for the game.)
Wife's cousin: "Is there no snow in Indianapolis?" (answer: domed stadium.)
Wife: "So on that play the quarterback did the play himself?" (answer: No, he handed it off.) (Response: Oh I didn't see that.)
Wife's cousin left the room.
Wife: "Why are they booing that guy?" (answer: they are not booing. His name is Cruz......Cruuuuuuzzz. Response: Oh.
Wife: "What is a safety?" (answer; complete explanation of a safety.)
Wife left the room to take a nap. Response: Yeah!
All this and still 4 minutes to go in the first quarter!
Whew!
Larryj
Attempting to watch the Super Bowl..........
Five minutes after wife left the room.............
Larry, my TV guide thingie isn't working.
Checked all wiring connections. Okay.
My TV is working and so is the one in the family room.
Checking connectivity to set top box. No connectivity.
Searched on how to reboot STB. Finally found that.
Rebooted STB.
It works now.
Wife: Sorry to take you away from your game.........
Me: TOO LATE FOR THAT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me: I'm sorry, shouldn't have been mean.
Missed the last three minutes of the first quarter and ten minutes of the second.
ARRRRRRRRRRRGG..
Larryj
AWWWWWWWWW :(
Well, that's it. Congrats to the Giants. At least the game wasn't boring.
Larryj
Just as predicted.
Quote from: Warph on January 23, 2012, 09:09:13 PM
NYGiants 37 - NEPats 31
MVP - Eli Manning
Well... I got the Giants win right... the MVP (Manning) correct.... but blew the score. Lost $40 bucks on the pool at the 19th Hole. Iggy Stevanoski was the big winner of $3000 and the guy can barely speak english.
Poor Tom.... poor Tommy Brady. Tom failed again? Blame Gisele!
http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story/_/id/7546795/tom-brady-wife-gisele-bundchen-blasts-new-england-patriots-receivers
And this from Sarah Spain: http://espn.go.com/espnw/commentary/7548053/tom-failed-again-blame-gisele
Since the beginning of time, ladies have been mucking things up for their men.
Eve was the first reported offender, causing the fall of man and spoiling the innocent fun of no-pants parties for generations to come. Her meddling eventually led to Susan B. Anthony's incessant yapping about giving women the right to vote, then Gloria Steinem started harping about women's lib and, yada yada yada, you have today's woman, who is always sticking her nose in something.
If it weren't for the devious and tempting ways of women, the world's favorite politicians, musicians, actors and athletes would never falter or fail. As everyone knows, Yoko Ono broke up the Beatles, Bridgette Wilson destroyed Pete Sampras' career and if Elin Woods had just been a little more understanding, we wouldn't have had to endure two years of a title-less Tiger.
The latest man to lose his edge because of a woman? Two-time Super Bowl loser Tom Brady.
Gisele Bundchen (or should I say Yoko Bundchen?) has not only stripped Brady of his talent, now she's gone and opened up her big ol' supermodel mouth, commenting on him and the game of football! The nerve.
After the Patriots' 21-17 loss to the Giants in Sunday's Super Bowl, a heckler at Lucas Oil Stadium yelled to Bundchen, "Eli Rules!" and "Eli owns your husband!" Instead of accepting her role as a wordless, thoughtless thing of beauty to be admired and evaluated, she responded.
"You [have] to catch the ball when you're supposed to catch the ball," she said quietly to a fellow Patriots wife. Then, a little louder, "My husband cannot f---ing throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can't believe they dropped the ball so many times." (OOooooo... the "F" word)
First Bundchen swoops in, seduces and marries Brady. Then, she saps him of his Super Bowl-winning powers (three rings before the marriage and none since!). And, now, she's getting testy with a disrespectful fan and defending her husband after his heartbreaking second loss in the Super Bowl to the Giants in five years.
It's no wonder fans everywhere are blaming her for Brady's failed last drive, the Patriots' Super Bowl losses, the BP oil spill and eight seasons of "The Bad Girls Club." Even in moments of great disappointment, sadness and frustration, women should never be allowed to express an opinion.
Some might argue that Bundchen's outburst isn't worth getting our Body by Victoria supersoft, lace-trim, hiphugger panties in a bunch over. After all, she's just the a wife of a player reacting to a mean-spirited heckler in the charged moments after weeks of built-up stress, worry and anticipation about a game that will be used to argue about the historical importance and lifelong reputation of her husband.
One might point out that NBC broadcast analysts, football fans and even casual observers also criticized the butterfingers of a few of the Pats' receivers. They may even say that Bundchen was just talking to a friend and not holding a news conference to express her carefully crafted thoughts on the game's finish.
Never mind those enablers. They're likely the same people who argue that the Patriots have lost their past two Super Bowls because of personnel, coaching and strength of the opposition, and not because of Bundchen's shrewd, calculated dismantling of the franchise.
Well, I'm not buying it.
Next they're gonna tell me sports fans are gullible enough to read a satirical column blaming women for everything wrong with the world and actually believe it. Ha ha ha, no way, Jose.
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