https://www.theringer.com/nfl-playo...-bowl-52-patriots-eagles-mailbag-bill-simmons Q: Outside of the Giants, my second favorite thing about football is the Patriots continuing to succeed. The greater the GOAT evolves into THE GOAT (all caps = all sports), the more improbable the story: Best team ever vs. Backfoot + helmet. The biggest reason those Super Bowls were special? They played the Patriots! The more they win, the sweeter it gets!! How does this vicious cycle make you feel??! — Will, Brooklyn BS: Nice try. Will was just trying to rattle me because his team hasn’t won a playoff game in six years. Very funny. Q: Just curious — how do you feel knowing that Giants fans will be rooting for the Pats in the Super Bowl? — Ned, Clark, N.J. BS: You mean, because you hate the Eagles so much? That’s the reason, right? Q: I’m 21 years old and I’ve been a Giants fan all my life. Should I just be rooting for Brady and Belichick to win as many Super Bowls as possible? Every ring they get boosts Eli’s legacy even further no matter how many more deep balls he underthrows? — Jamie Magone, Rochester, N.Y. BS: Wait a second … Q: As a Giants fan, I’ve taken great joy in watching the Patriots machine continue to stack wins and rings. As you know, Eli Manning and the boys are the only team to have defeated Brady and Belichick in a Super Bowl. Every trophy they hoist and ring they add makes those two victories that much sweeter. Go Pats! — Victor, Hoboken, N.J. BS: What the hell? Giants fans are ROOTING for the Patriots? I asked a few Giants fan friends and they confirmed that — thanks to Eli’s legacy, their last two Super Bowl wins, some residual affection for Belichick shutting down Montana’s Niners and Kelly’s Bills in back-to-back weeks in 1990, and, of course, their unabashed hatred for the Eagles — nearly all of them are rooting against Philly. Well, unless I can talk them out of it. This is pathetic! Eli’s Hall of Fame résumé is THAT flimsy? You have to support America’s biggest 21st-century sports villain to feel more secure about your two pulled-it-out-of-your-sphincter Super Bowl wins? You have to support a BOSTON TEAM to feel better about your franchise QB having a worse career passer rating than Jay Cutler, Sam Bradford, David Garrard, and Marc Bulger? In 2001, I remember Boston fans (myself included) hitting rock bottom after 15 years of bad sports luck that started with Mookie’s grounder and turned into something of a sports-depression free fall. What was rock bottom? When the entire area rooted for Ray Bourque to win a Stanley Cup in Colorado. I watched the deciding game in a crowded bar of cheering fans in Cambridge; you would have thought no. 77 were still playing for a Boston team. It’s the closest we could come to winning. It was bringing an escort to a wedding because we couldn’t find a date. And trust me — we KNEW it was pathetic. But that’s what rock bottom feels like. The New York Football Giants won two of the past 10 Super Bowls; they have the second overall pick, a new coach and Odell coming back next season. And they’re rooting for a Boston dynasty to keep going? It’s almost like they know Eli isn’t even remotely a Hall of Famer or something. Even the beaten-down, self-loathing Jets fans would never sink this low — and they’re the proverbial 110-pound inmates in the NFL’s maximum security prison right now. If you’re rooting for the Pats and you’re not a Pats fan, the only acceptable reasons are “I bet on the Pats,” “I’m married to a Pats fan,” or “I want 1960 to hang over Eagles fans like a dangling noose.” Q: Also — did you know the Pats are 28–9 against the spread since the start of 2016? 28–9!!! — Victor, Hoboken, N.J. BS: Don’t suck up to me, Victor. We’re pulling the bandwagon over. Get off.
Considering what a monumental tool Bill Simmons is, I don't believe for a second that these are actual messages from Giants fans. This is just another attempt for him to mask his pathetic inferiority complex towards New York with arrogant bullshit. The gratuitous slap at Jets fans makes this all blatantly obvious. By the way, I don't deny in any way that Giants fans are rooting for the Patriots, but the ones I know are doing so because they hate the Eagles, not because of the Giants wins over the Patriots.
How did Belichick shut down Kelly's bills when Buffalo had the ball for 19 minutes and gained 371 yards of total offense. Belichick's D was annihilated that game. Outright annihilated. Giants won with ball control The Celtics won championships. The Bruins had a few in the 70's and made some Cup Finals after. Boston wasn't that woeful a sports town. It wasn't Cleveland. The Red Sox were competitive and would make the playoffs. They didn't even WANT the Patriots around. They were pretty much ignored. The entire New England region...that's baseball and was for decades Honestly you know what's more impressive than Eli Manning lucking in to two Super Bowl wins over New England? Mark Sanchez beating the Patriots IN Foxboro...outright. Without any miracles
Giants fans are really phonies. They play up the classy elite angle but they're trash. It's been a miserable year for them and Philly winning the Super Bowl would be the cherry on top. It won't happen though. That would be too perfect
