Friday Afternoon Super Bowl Prediction Thread
Because let's face it, we all need a break
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It's Super Bowl XLII week. Two years ago, I was in the hospital for surgery, and had the doctors change the time so I could come out in time to see the Steelers win one for the thumb. After this karma-killing year, I am the least excited for any Super Bowl in my lifetime. But here's hoping for a game that's at least fun to watch, even if it means more TV-time for those attention-starved, starless teams from New England and New York.
Shane Ryan has collected the predictions of famous authors here. Read them, and then offer your own. Mine:
Metrosexual Man-purse Carriers - 30
Three Dog Night References - 24
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The forces of good 31
Not perfect anymore 27
I don't expect to be right, but I would have to say if I am it might be the best night of my life.
"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." - Bill Shankly
I won't favor either one, but I do like Eli Manning cuz he went to high school in Louisiana and played college in Mississippi.
So, Go Giants.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
I'll take the Pats 41-14 and sell tickets to next season's home opener for great money.
Before you get to heaven, you must go through hell, which in my case is the People's Republic of Massachusetts.
Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Tom Brady will be singing "It's Good To Be King."
Tom Coughlin will be singing "Don't Do Me Like That."
Patriots 42-24
The minutemen of the northeast 32
The tall men from New Amsterdam 31
Too good to be true.
Patriots 35
Giants 10
The guy we all hate, but would like to be, is crowned the best ever. And deservedly so. Joe Montana who?
"I believe in grace, because I have seen it. In peace, because I have felt it. In forgiveness, because I needed it."
-George W. Bush
That this game will even be close is hoping - nigh on delusional.
The 5th best team is representing the NFC. Granted, they were able to beat the 4th, then 1st, then 2nd seed in order to get to the big game. But that ride ended on the frozen tundra.
Two weeks have gone by and all momentum is lost. Mortgage the house and lay the 12 1/2.
Cheating Pats 62
Unqualified G-men 17
At least we won't ever have to listen to how the '72 dolphins were meeting to "pop the cork" when the last undefeated team goes down. That has it's own level of gratification.
Disclosure: Life long Packer fan who had 20 years shaved off his life watching that championship game.
Boy, every week a new hater.
"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." - Bill Shankly
Both teams played for real just over a month ago and it ended 38-35. The Pats didn't sit their starters.
So, "5th best" or not - you take seeding as coequal with strengthy even though the Giants record was better than the "4th best" Bucs, and the same as the "3rd best" Seahawks - this will be a game. Nobody's rolling over - the Giants are playing better today than they were in week 17, so it should be a good game yet again. And the playoffs are the mechanism to determine the best team - so, in fact, the "1st best" team is representing the NFC.
I'd love to see the Patriots lose, and lose big. I'm talking a Brady-throws-five-interceptions and Brady-gets-sacked-12-times kind of game.
But I also don't want to see Eli Manning get the kind of prestige that would come with beating this year's Patriots.
...
Ah hell, go Giants.
They are determining the outcome of the game by text message poll, aren't they? I'd like to see them both lose if it were somehow possible.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman
cheaters pffft. YA because every other teams has SO much more talent...uh huh..
Pats become best team EVER!!
42-17
What I want:
Giants 55
Cheaters 9
Just to beat one of the (bad) records that the Broncos hold.
What will probably happen:
Cheaters 24
Giants 21
The Cheaters beat the Jags and Chargers (both superior to the Giants) will much less than their best effort.
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Two thirds of the world is covered by water,
the other third is covered by Champ Bailey.
We're better than the Phil Rivers on a torn ACL, LDT sulking on the sidelines Chargers.
"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." - Bill Shankly
Patriots 52
Giants 17
Game will be close for a while but after the patriots will forge ahead and the real Eli Manning will show up and turn it over many times to provide the blow out.
... as the least interesting in my lifetime (and that's most of them, as Super Bowl X was played the day after I was born...). A team I despised knocking the tar out of an incredibly uninteresting Giants team in a year when the Packers missed the playoffs on a tiebreaker or lost a wild card game (can't remember which) and the hated Vikings had the best record in the NFC (again, IIRC).
Anyway, Pats 31, Giants 21 seems a safe enough guess.
They got knocked out in OT in the NFC Championship game when Favre made a really bad pass that was picked off. The Super Bowl is so boring this year I probably won't even watch it.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman
He knows how his Packers lost.
Though they didn't deserve OT, so there's that.
"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." - Bill Shankly
I've been a Packer fan since Lombardi (not hard as a Wisconsinite) but they were outplayed by the Giants. It was amazing that it even got to overtime.
Still, I won't be surprised if the NFC championship is Giants vs. Packers again next year, whether Favre retires or not.
The Packers should be back.
But the Giants have a much tougher division to get through (the Cowboys nearly for sure, the Eagles if they're healthy, and even coming off a botched coaching transition the Redskins were a playoff team).
The Saints and Seahawks are probably the scariest out of the South and West, though each team has their issues (the Saints secondary; the Seahawks running backs and offensive line), but NFC East champ vs. Packers is a safe enough pick.
Giants had home field that year in the playoffs. I know because I was there as we laid the smack down on Minny 41-0 in the NFC Championship game. Freaking sweet afternoon that was. We beat the Hated Eagles the week before, which I was also in the house for. Ron Dixon ran back the opening kick, and Jason Seahorn made the most spectacular interception returned for a TD maybe I've ever seen.
The, uh, Super Bowl? Um...well, I wish I had been old enough to drink for it. That was a miserable day.
"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." - Bill Shankly
for at least 1 day, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
So turn those 18-0 cheaters into 18-1 crybabies!
Kill the terrorists
Protect the borders
Punch the hippies -- Frank J
I doubt it will happen, but oh man if it does! The post game press conference with Brady trying to explain away losing to a 10-6 squad in the Super Bowl would have to be saved for posterity.
"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that." - Bill Shankly
The Patriots better win! I am so sick and tired of people calling them cheaters.
Manning looks like Keebler Elf
that still doesn't negate the fact that they cheated, got caught cheating and were punished for cheating.
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Two thirds of the world is covered by water,
the other third is covered by Champ Bailey.
The Cheating Cheaters from Cheatsboro, Cheatachussetts, coached by Bill Bilicheat.
18-1 sounds like a great year to me!
Kill the terrorists
Protect the borders
Punch the hippies -- Frank J
East Rutherford 27
Foxborough 24
more likely East Rutherford loses by 9, but they beat the Pack, so I'll cheer for them until the game gets boring.
see the new episode of "House" following the game..
Giants 28
NFL Cheaters 21
" Got to love the Lord for making things like that."
Morally Compromised