Super, Super rematch: Giants, Patriots II

[Montag]

Super, Super rematch: Giants, Patriots II
by Tom Rock

January 22, 2012
http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/g...-1.3471622

excerpt:

It's Super Bowl XLII, Part II.

After spending most of this postseason beating teams that had beaten them, with Charles Bronson-like vengeance, the Giants will have to get used to a new role as they prepare to face the Patriots in Indianapolis in two weeks.

Instead of being the wronged party looking for revenge, the Giants will find themselves facing a team that is trying to even a score.

It was four years ago that the Giants somehow defeated the unbeaten (and believed to be unbeatable) Patriots, 17-14, in Super Bowl XLII. That scarred what would have been a perfect season for the Patriots, who were 18-0 at the time and looking to become football immortals.

How deflating was that loss for the Patriots? The current postseason is the first in which they have won a game since the AFC Championship Game victory that put them in Super Bowl XLII.

Now they're back, after Sunday's 23-20 win over the Ravens. And they get to face the team that crushed their dreams the last time they made it this far.

[Blackpool]

It's should be a killer game. Neither team intimidated by the other, with a history that has been front and center. Look forward to this one.

[Montag]

As a Giants fan the Patriots are never a welcome sight -- I don't think to anyone who is not a fan of theirs... But the Giants actually beat them this season (and, of course, last they faced in the Super Bowl), they lost to the 49ers and the Packers during the regular season.

[waiting for hope]

Oh God - do I have to listen to the announcers about Tom Brady's hair? It's like Tim Tebow - enough of it already!

[Blackpool]

(01-22-2012 11:36 PM)waiting for hope Wrote:  Oh God - do I have to listen to the announcers about Tom Brady's hair? It's like Tim Tebow - enough of it already!

He's Tom Terrific! How can you not love Tom Terrific?

[waiting for hope]

(01-22-2012 11:41 PM)Blackpool Wrote:  

(01-22-2012 11:36 PM)waiting for hope Wrote:  Oh God - do I have to listen to the announcers about Tom Brady's hair? It's like Tim Tebow - enough of it already!

He's Tom Terrific! How can you not love Tom Terrific?

They will probably change the rules to favor Tom Terrific, they have done it before. Brady should stop complaining .. "Maybe Rodney Harrison said it best, "Tom Brady, if you're listening, take off the skirt and put on some slacks."

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/26692...-to-change

[villager]

Feh.

49er fan here. Would have rather lost to the Packers at Green Bay rather than giving the game away to the puffed up self-inflated Giants, so they can go off and play the even more self-entitled Patriots.

When's baseball season start!?

[waiting for hope]

(01-23-2012 12:53 AM)villager Wrote:  Feh.

49er fan here. Would have rather lost to the Packers at Green Bay rather than giving the game away to the puffed up self-inflated Giants, so they can go off and play the even more self-entitled Patriots.

When's baseball season start!?

I would like to see the Saints in the superbowl - maybe next year.

[villager]

(01-23-2012 01:06 AM)waiting for hope Wrote:  

(01-23-2012 12:53 AM)villager Wrote:  Feh.

49er fan here. Would have rather lost to the Packers at Green Bay rather than giving the game away to the puffed up self-inflated Giants, so they can go off and play the even more self-entitled Patriots.

When's baseball season start!?

I would like to see the Saints in the superbowl - maybe next year.

I'd rather have the Saints there, too. Though that Niners/Saints game was quite fantastic. Though I guess we Niner fans are feeling what Saints fans did a week ago.

Still -- all that, just for a Giants/ Patriots Super Bowl? Seems like a pitiful waste of a football season.

[Bryn]

Too bad it wasn't Niners/Saints in Super Bowl game. It was great!

I am ready for Baseball season!