Oh, man
Oh, darn, darn, darn. Giants: 17, Patriots: 14.
Angela: To say I'm crushed would be an understatement.
Dan Kennedy: Good grief:
... The Pats - and especially the offensive linemen - were thoroughly outplayed from beginning to end. What a game. ...
Mats Tolander: Give the Giants their due:
... The Patriots have shown this season that they aren’t just bunch of pretty-boy touchdown-makers but also tough guys who can grind it out in close games. But the Giants beat them anyway. ...
KC: That was the most excruciating loss ever.
Kat Powers: Anybody got a time machine? I can go back 10 years and stop Plaxico Burress.
Timothy Haroutunian: I don't even know how to explain Superbowl XVII.
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Ouch
to the recently disbanded patriots bandwagon....
LETS GO BRUINS!! plenty of room, hop on board!
Did you misspell 'Celtics' ?
I blame Menino
and his parade planning.
Bloomberg also planned a parade in advance
and (stupidly) also coinciding with Super Tuesday.
How do you spell hubris?
I forget ... ah. Right. HUBRIS.
Blame the media for that!
They never guaranteed a win.
Hubris is for teams that guarantee a win and talk trash and so forth. Coach doesn't let them do that.
If it is hubris, I blame the media.
But the numbers ...
Looking at the numbers, we were all right to be confident. The numbers were on our side. The Patriots, for whatever reason, just blew it at the end.
Easiest game to analyze
Easiest game to analyze ever. That was lost on the line, simply put. Their defensive line disrupted the entire Pats offense and owned the o-line.
I'm not sad like when the Sox lost in 2003. I'm more just angry that we now have to listen to the rest of the country trash us and the Pats, and that they squandered the perfect season against such a beatable team. Ugh.
I 've been asking all night.
Did anyone notice Tom Brady looked a yellow/green in the face, or were we just imagining things?
I'm not making an excuse. To be clear, the Pats missed plenty of opportunities on both sides of the ball and could have won if they executed certain plays.
I was wondering all night
Why they kept showing Peyton Manning's face.
BabyFace
They wanted to show off Manning's "Super Bowl Beard" that he began growing for good luck two weeks ago.
Roman numerals are hard
Someone should tell Mr. Haroutunian that this was Super Bowl XLII, not XVII. That's a difference of XVII years.
Check again
42 - 17 = 25 or in Roman numerals: XLII - XVII = XXV not XVII. I guess Roman numerals *are* hard.
Cracking under Pressure
The giants played better. Menino didn't jinx it, and really neither did the idiotic hubris - come on, look at some of the stars; you have a QB whose flinging sperm left and right and hurting his foot in the process, and a stroke victim in the starting line; and a coach fined for spying on other teams. It's all like some sort of obscene joke.
What happened? The giants played better, had better defense. People will piss and moan about jinxes or this but it has nothing to do with any of it.
There goes that Patriots Mall. ;)
God got quite irate?
Every sperm is sacred ... so the Pats lost?
BTW, anonymous, your physiologic ignorance and bigotry is rather impressive. Tedy's stroke was the result of a clot which derived from a congenital cardiac malformation which was subsequently repaired with few if any lingering consequences. In other words, no longer any big deal whatsoever. Your cognitive deficits, on the other hand, likely have a far less positive prognosis.
No joy in Mudville
Ryan Freebern updates the poem, ending with:
More disbelief the morning after
A Touch of Insanity: Next up: Britney Spears wins Mother of the Year award, hell freezes over, pigs fly, etc. etc. etc.
Jimmy: I must say, getting out of bed this morning was a pretty Goddamn difficult task.
Susan H.: We got gob-smacked. It hurts.
Jim Sullivan: In a stunning turn of events, Wile. E. Coyote yesterday caught the Roadrunner and ate him.
Berryjooks says the team remains the best Patriots team he's ever seen, but, I still feel like puking though.
Beth: I really, really wish we'd gone for the field goal instead of the end zone on that 4th and 13.
Emily Gouillart reports from New York City: Oh my God, New York City, shut the fuck up, it's just football!
Jay Fitzgerald: The better team won.
Pax Arcana: Mercury Morris can choke on it.
Jon Dyer explains how he made the Pats lose - by making the Super Bowl the first game he watched all season. Fox in Detox explains why it's all her fault for taking her Brady T-shirt off before the game was over:
Adam Reilly lists every possible Patriots jinx.
Jules Crittenden: The Curse of the Bundchen.
Chad Finn: Never would have thought before this season that 18-1 could feel so empty.
Richard Howe: You can explain it anyway you want, but I am going to explain it this way - the Patriots stunk last night.
Anne: I can ask no more of the Patriots than to play their hearts out every time they step on the field and I believe that they did that.
Ian: Yeah, I'm disappointed that the Patriots lost, but, damn, what a great game.
Kristen is at peace:
We blame the hoodie!
Red like the color of HELL! Horrible Hoodie!
My Quote Error
In case anyone was confused by my quote, it should have been Superbowl XLII not XVII....I was in such shock that I forgot was Superbowl we were in :)
Thanks for the link love...