added: Stefan Fatsis explains how a few extra seconds without panic might have improved Billy Cundiff's field goal attempt.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
added: Stefan Fatsis explains how a few extra seconds without panic might have improved Billy Cundiff's field goal attempt.
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I don't think I can do this. I did NOT handle the last Pats/Giants Super Bowl well. Not at all.
ReplyDeleteSo, Dan, you don't agree with Simmons? "<span>Here's a newsflash: If the Patriots make it to the Super Bowl, we ALL want the Giants. Don't you realize that would be the best possible way to extinguish every awful memory from Super Bowl 42? And that we'd have a chance to do it in Indianapolis, the scene of the other Super Bowl that got away, when the Pats blew a 20-point lead to the 2006 Colts and gakked a third-and-3 that could have ended the game (and led to a trouncing over Rex Grossman and the Bears two weeks later)?" I WANT to agree with him, but I'm nervous as hell.</span>
ReplyDeleteNot a great year for the Kenny Williams family.
ReplyDeleteAnd I enjoy the heck out of Bill Simmons, but that quote makes me want to start buying Giants-wear right now.
Oh, I've heard what Simmons has to say. If we win, it's phenomenal. Absolutely batshit bonkers joy. If we lose, my spirits will be crush in a way they never have been. I'll be worse than I was after the last Super Bowl loss to the Giants, because the next fortnight is going to dredge up all those demons and losing would simply create more.
ReplyDeleteI'm really, really bummed out.
In the words of the noted philosopher Livia Soprano, POOR YOU. Your team is in the SB. Again. God forbid Brady-Belicheck don't win their fourth SB in a decade. Oh, the heartbreak.
ReplyDeleteDan, given how the Sox have done over the past decade I think it is important that New England have a team that can bring you to the brink of success and then crush your soul. If that becomes the football team as opposed to the baseball team, I'm cool with that.
ReplyDeleteSimmons is a doofus, and he's also really the most annoying/worst kind of fan.
ReplyDeleteAs a Ravens fan, at least this Joe Flacco nonsense can be put to rest. He did more than enough, unless outplaying Tom Brady doesn't count because of a dropped pass and a missed FG.
For me, it's not so much bummed out as intense anxiety. During the last few minutes of the AFC game yesterday I was standing on my coffee table (like a superstitious nutbar), rocking back and forth, literally chewing on my knuckles because otherwise my teeth were chattering uncontrollably from nerves. And that's pretty much going to be my baseline for the next two weeks.
ReplyDeleteIt's not that I'm not happy they won and are going to the Super Bowl; I 100% am. But it's like getting a Faberge egg as a gift and then handing it to a tight-rope walker to tuck beneath his chin. If he makes it to the other side, AMAZING WONDERFUL GREAT, but watching that walk is a killer.
This post is a little weird for me, as someone who grew up in Boston and witnessed year after year after year of crushing defeat by the Pats, Bruins and Sox. On the one hand, I know that Boston fans have had an unbelievable decade and have been lucky enough to see all four teams win championships, but on the other hand... all those years.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I'm pretty zen about the whole thing. BECAUSE I've been able to see my teams win, it's not as important to me if they win again. My husband, on the other hand? Whole nother story.
This is one of those playoff seasons where I've pretty much just hoped for meteors to strike various stadia at the appropriate times.
ReplyDeleteKenny Williams should be happy he has a job. Not to go off on a White Sox rant, but shouldn't he have been fired for the underachieving team he put together last year? I felt bad for his kid--they looked like really stupid mental mistakes, but those will cost you the game.
ReplyDeleteThis was a case of two Championship Games being loss rather than being won.
ReplyDelete"Eli's Coming."
ReplyDelete"Eli?"
"Eli is something bad, a darkness."
Who would have though this was the view of Patriots' fans and not giants fans before this year?
I love Stefan Fatsis. Maybe next he'll write a book about trying to make it in Hollywood and he can come to LA and hang out with me all the time. (Also: GIANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
ReplyDeleteEli is an inveterate womanizer. You've totally misinterpreted the song.
ReplyDeleteOr the product of multiple concussions as seems to be going around today.
ReplyDeleteTo paraphrase The Police, winning is like anything you take to....it's a habit-forming need for more and more....
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