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Bill Simmons looks in to our future (New Stadiums)

queler — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:52:54 -0000

Simmons column today talks about the diminishing home field advantage teams have because of the new stadiums that slight the die-hard fan.

From ESPN

The bad news is that, with just a few exceptions, it's now more entertaining to invite your friends over, tailgate in your backyard and watch your favorite team on TV. You get the replays. You get HD. You have your own bathroom. You're saving money. You can stand up if you want. You don't have a commute. If you have the NFL package, you can flip around to other games during commercials. What's the downside? You got me. I had 10 times more fun watching the Pats-Jets game at a New York City bar last week than I would have had at the actual game. And the sad thing was, I knew that would be the case.

That seems to the way we will be heading soon with the new stadium and PSLs. It's a shame too because after witnessing the massivbe home-field advantage at Seattle two years in a row, it seemed like Coughlin was determined to spread the word to the fans that it mattered. The few Giants games I've been to in the last few years, I've been disapointed at the level of crowd involvment. Coming the chaos at Penn State, I imagine any NFL game would be a disapointment to me. But it's clear that when you can get an entire stadium of people who know when to be loud, it makes a huge differnce. Sadly, I've never had as much fun at a Giants game as I've had at a Penn State game, but really between the price, the "wine and cheese crowd" as Simmons said, and the TV timeouts, I guess it's not that suprising.

ESPN Page 2 - Page 2: The Glory Game changes everything

queler — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:09:26 -0000

ESPN Page 2 - Page 2: The Glory Game changes everything

Excerpt from Giff's book about the 1958 Championship game

1950 New York Giants??

queler — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:40:44 -0000

Ok, so my wife just bought what I think is a pretty sweet looking Giants hat. I prefer to have the NY logo myself. Interestingly, enough I finally a Lids in DC that had a ton of Giants hats. I wondered why, until I walked in, and saw an employee dressed head-to-toe in Giant's gear. (In case anyone in the area is wondering, it was the Lids in Tyson's Corner).

via lf.hatworld.com

What I don't get, is why the logo says "1950" on it. As far as I know Mara bought the franchise in 1925. Every other hat I have says "Est. 1925". Can anyone shine any significance on this?

Even the great Vince Lombardi was scared of a possible single-wing resurrection. "What would happen...

queler — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:20:03 -0000

Even the great Vince Lombardi was scared of a possible single-wing resurrection. "What would happen if someone came out with the single-wing offense?" he once asked. "It would embarrass the hell out of us."

Scout.com: Chalk Talk: the Single-Wing

Miami Violins

queler — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:32:47 -0000

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/65893

Ex-Canes star Warren Sapp, on a Showtime conference call Tuesday for Inside the NFL, called UF coach Urban Meyer ''a classless dirtbag'' for kicking a field goal late in Florida's 26-3 win against UM. ''But it's coming back in a big way'' when the teams meet in 2013, he said.

A Hurricane is complaining about someone running up the score on them? HAHAHAHA, let me find my tiny violin. You gotta be kidding me.

However, the most classless running up the score I can think of is OSU not just taking a knee after Taliaferro went down.

They just won a Super Bowl in which they toppled an 18-0 team after its quarterback, who famously...

queler — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:03:12 -0000

They just won a Super Bowl in which they toppled an 18-0 team after its quarterback, who famously turtled any time he felt pressure during his entire career, somehow broke away from two potential sacks, bought himself two extra seconds while his offensive line committed a variety of holding infractions that the NFL keeps forgetting to digitally erase from the replay, then heaved a pseudo-Hail Mary to his fourth-string receiver, who had four catches in the regular season, only for this one play, that same receiver somehow found the strength to haul in the game-saving catch even though it was three feet over his head, trap the football against his helmet as he fell backward with a safety molesting him from behind, maintain control of the football even as he was crashing on his back, and somehow avoid ever having the football touch the turf. I think the Giants fans will be fine.

ESPN Page 2 - Simmons: NFL reshuffles the deck for 2008

ESPN wants to know "Who is the greatest in Giants history?"

queler — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:05:36 -0000

ESPN has a poll wanting to know who is the greatest Giant of all time. Obviously this would be a much more interesting question if it were the Greatest Player Not LT.

Difference from our All-Time Team, Banks instead of Van Pelt, who just missed out making our team, and Robustelli over Marshall, whom I voted for but probably wouldn't again after George's protest.

I voted LT, because frankly I think anything else would be ridiculous (except maybe Mel Hein, who just sounded one of kind, he is not on ESPN's list by the way). If I were going to go for the non-LT GOAT, I'd have to go either with Strahan or Tiki.

via www.newsday.com It's important to keep perspective, don't forget why Favre needs to come back,...

queler — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:31:29 -0000

via www.newsday.com

It's important to keep perspective, don't forget why Favre needs to come back, he may have a had a great year, but it ended with a game killing pick to the WorldChampion Giants.

Bop Papa calling the playoffs

queler — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:01:30 -0000

Bop Papa calling the playoffs

from NFL.com,

I am an idiot... Super Bowl Confessions

queler — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:56:24 -0000

So let me start this off by saying, I have a problem. I like alcohol a lot. To myself like a lot of degenerates, the Super Bowl is great day as an avid drinker and as an avid football fan. I get drunk and I yell at the people who showed up to watch the commercials. (OMG did you see the squirrels... they are sooooo cute... grr) Obviously, it meant a bit more to me this year. This year I got drunk and I yelled at the people who showed up to watch the commercials and... you know what... I didn't even know anyone else was there... all I cared about was the game. And I'll tell you, I've never felt better down in a game then I did after the first half of that game.

So here's the thing, I'm sure you all remember the Johnny Lynn days. We'd be up in the third quarter only to play Prevent for the next 15 minutes and lose the game. I rarely relax anymore when the game is on the line. So obviously, with the ball in Brady's hands with two minutes left... I was a nervous wreck. I refused to sit down. I almost had a heart attack when Brady threw 70 yards down field, probably more like 80 when you take into account he threw across the field.... only to be deflected by the finger tips of Corey Webster, who had been relegated to the bench 4 weeks ago.

So after that, Brady throws incomplete with 2 secs on the clock. I see clearly that there are two seconds left. I see the Gatorade bath, I see everyone else freaking out. I start screaming at everyone.... "IT'S NOT OVER.... THERE ARE TWO SECONDS LEFT!!!!! IT'S TOM BRADY!!!!" My wife ( a philly fan by birth, Giant fan by my force of nature) starts yelling at me.... "What the hell are you talking about!" Because while I've been refusing to sit and pulling out my hair for the last ten minutes, my drunk ass did not realize it was fourth down, and stopped myself from celebrating on the play that clinched the game.

I can never forgive myself for missing that moment of adulaton. Fortunately the next 2 weeks I spent doing nothing but reading and watching Giant's highlights made up for it.

This is my confession....