Super Bowl XLII: Giants vs. Patriots(-11.5)

[osucollegebuck]

What a great game. The Berlin Wall of the NFL has finally fell down!!!

 

[OSUsushichic]

Has anyone heard that Bush called Belichick to congratulate him on a win? My friend is at the NY Giants parade today, and he said everyone is talking about it. Can't find any verification.

 

[zincfinger]

Yes. They were the best team that night. Just as OSU was in 02, and UF in 06

Just as Stanford was better than USC on one night. And just as Kentucky was better than LSU on one night. On a different night, the Patriots were the better team, in the Giants home stadium. Over the course of the season, the Cowboys were a better team than the Giants. The point being that one night is an inferior indicator of consistently best team.

Then why even have rankings and a champion at all?

I don't see the sense in this question. Arguing, as I do, that a season-long series of rankings, culminating in bowls or a championship, is as good as or preferable to a playoff, does not in any way suggest that there should be no rankings or no champion. Quite the opposite, in fact. But taking your question seriously, why have a champion? For fun, basically. But there is no method of determining the champion that is sure-fire to make the best choice. My contention is that both the old bowl system and the current BCS system are every bit as good at producing best-choice champion as a playoff is. And given that a playoff has other downsides, the former is preferable. Nothing in that argument suggests there should be no rankings or no champion.

 

[sandgk]

Has anyone heard that Bush called Belichick to congratulate him on a win? My friend is at the NY Giants parade today, and he said everyone is talking about it. Can't find any verification.

There was a satirical piece on the Serious Sports Network.

Could it be that which they are talking about?

 

[OSUsushichic]

There was a satirical piece on the Serious Sports Network.

Could it be that which they are talking about?

Could be. Or else they saw an article from 2005 when Bush DID congratulate Belichick after the win.

I finally talked to two of my coworkers who are huge Patriots fans.

Fan #1: The officials were TERRIBLE! They were going after Brady's HEAD!

Fan #2: The game was fixed! The Giants were on speed! There was no way they could be that winded and then all of a sudden have so much energy!

 

[Big Papa]

 

[shetuck]

i always wondered where this type of stuff went to... think the 2007 ohio state buckeyes BCS championship apparel went there too?

Reuters: "Winning" Super Bowl shirts end up in Nicaragua

"Winning" Super Bowl shirts end up in Nicaragua
15 Feb 2008

Shirts and caps proclaiming the victory of the New England Patriots -- when the American football team actually lost the latest Super Bowl -- have ended up in the hands of poor Nicaraguan children.

Hundreds of shirts and caps, which had been manufactured in advance to celebrate the Patriots' expected victory over the New York Giants, were handed over to children in the southern city of Diriamba.

"The children are the winners," said Miriam Diaz, of World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization.

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