actually i was rooting for the giants ! just for the mere fact that the patriots are too cocky.....they acted like they have the whole super bowl thing down after they beat san diego.. ...yay giants!!..go ELI !!
My sister feels the same way cos she used to live in NYC. My feeling is its much better than the pats. At least the Giants don't look like they will be going on a 3 super bowl run. The pats looked like they could have won 2 more after this.
I am only happy when the Texans win. I have little to no emotion for anything else. It's all about the Texans winning, period. Nothing- absolutely nothing else- matters to me in football. Rockets, Astros, Texans rule!
a complete no-win situation. Eli whining his way out of San Diego to get to the Giants in the first place...entitling him to get the same success as his brother isnt anything I'd happily support. I hated the Patriots back when they won their third Super Bowl cuz everyone thought they "played the right way" with class, though I saw them as in-your-face and showboating as the rest of the league. When people finally starting seeing they were the most arrogant and not the most humbled "well coached" team then I loosened up the hate... This is the first time I watched a Super Bowl start to finish in a while. Part of that was probably motivated to witness history, so maybe I'm a bit disappointed....I dont like Philip Rivers either but I'da much rather seen him, Tomlinson and the Chargers whoop up on Eli.
I think that probably is, but what about losing to the expansion Diamondbacks who only had two awesome pictures and almost over the hill power hitter and bunch of cast-offs and nobodies.
I was rooting for the Patriots -- partly because I'm a fan of Tom Brady, and partly because I wanted so badly to see those annoying 72 Dolphins finally get their mouths shut for good. Oh well. Maybe in another 25 years we'll see a run at perfection...
For everyone that has said "I wanted to witness history" - WAKE UP! You just did. That was a great game... and the other history is back-to-back Mannings win and get SB MVP's...
It was history but I wanted to see undefeated history. My hat is off to the Giants though. They brought the heat today.
John Elway did not want to play for Colts after they drafted him.......can you honestly blame him? Steve Francis wanted nothing to do with Vancouver .... one of the worst franchises in history.
Mavs is a bigger choke, easily. But both were equally satisfying. "Scrumptious," in fact. That's my word for this game... the look on Belichick's face was "scrumptious."
Well, I understand that attitude when the person going for history is a good guy, or the team going for history is comprised of good guys. Aleksandr Karelin losing to Rulon Gardner, for example. Karelin was the greatest ever, was undefeated up to that point in a 13-year international career, hadn't given up a point for 6 straight years, and he was a nice guy. It killed me to see him lose to some random upstart. It didn't matter that that upstart was an American... it still made me unbelievably sad. I still remember Karelin with tears in his eyes upon receiving the silver. The only other time I've felt as sorry for an athlete was when gymnast Svetlana Khorkina fell on a vault in the all-around final, and they later found out that the vault was erroneously set too low. She was the best in the world for a solid 5 years, but she never won that all-around. Both of those were tragic, as far as I'm concerned. The Patriots? Not tragic. Because they're cheating jerks. Belichick's early exit says it all.
But I think in terms of impact, this just could be the biggest choke. Basketball and baseball don't have the impact when it comes to choke jobs, because the "choking" spreads throughout a 7 game series. In football, you can see the entirety of the choke in a few hours. Not to mention that the super bowl has a lot more viewers than the other sports.
I really think the fact that it happened over a 7-game series made it a much bigger choke. That's the idea of a series... it tries to guarantee that the better team will always win. Anybody can win one game... but a 7-game series? A team that basically starts 4 guards taking out a #1 seed that won close to 70 games? Are you kidding me? I dunno. Maybe it's just because I'm more into basketball than football, but that's my take.
If you're talking about the 2004 playoffs against the Red Sox then that does not even come close. This was the last game of the year. It all came down to the last minute. The Yankees were going for a clean sweep of the Red Sox while the Patriots were going for an UNDEFEATED season...big difference I'm actually a big Patriots fan so this was pretty devastating to take in
