I don't know how it looked on tv but being there, the stadium looked pretty packed. But yes Bob Papa SUCKS. And more then a few people laughed in the box when I heard Carl Banks call Bryan Thomas a "very good up and coming linebacker" and I immediately screamed NO!
Unfortunatly the stadium will always be known as Giants stadium until we give them a reason to look at it otherwise. Winning cures everything.
I couldn't stand them, but to their credit they did mention that Kerry Rhodes should have made the pro bowl a a few years ago, a couple times.
Wasn't that Bob Papa last night? Sorry dude, but Bob Papa is great. One of the few good guys left in sports.....
I doubt that. We once won a SB and the very next preseason, we played the Giants in the Yale Bowl and they were favored! That is the way it is and it is a shame. But we have 800 million reasons why it should be called a Shared stadium or the home of the Jets & giaints. Just say NO to the New Giaints stadium nonsense!
I think Carl Banks is great, always liked him, would trade him for Buttle any day. I thought the director was awful,replays were late and showed the field at the last minute, damm close ups kill me. Bob Poppa is a bore.
The new stadium will not be Giants Stadium, so stop worrying about it. And get over the shared stadium concept. It's a done deal and the Jets are not moving back to chop shop row in Queens. By the time this stadium is obsolete 30 years from now, the Jets will have played in New Jersey for 55 years and in Queens for 20 years. As for the announcers, they were and have always been awful. I never heard so many compliments for 2 or 3 yard plays by the Giants and so little compliments being shown any of the Jets. A two yard reception on 3rd and 6 was termed a great play by Giant receivers. If you listened to the announcers, the Giants won that game by 30 points.
The homerism was annoying but they did give some credit to the Jets and they weren't quite as bad in the second half. Either way, they were better than Buttle and Ian Eagle.
I'm shocked that the knowledgeable Bob Papa reduces himself to a homer the way he did last night. On NFLN and on national games he comes across as a very talented broadcaster, and then he sits with harry carson and its two fans commenting on the game. Carson has taken way to many hits to the head, because I can have the same points that he wants to make and articulate them a lot better. I miss the days when broadcasting was an artform.
Im pretty sure its part of their job to be a homer when you are calling games for that team. I have always liked Bob Papa, and yes he was a homer last night, but he also pointed us out as well. I remember him saying alot about Jenkins and the pro bowl last season, he told us Kerry Rhodes should have made the pro bowl over John Lynch more than once, and he pointed out solid play (when there was some) by our offensive line (the first drive) a few times. Bob Papa is solid, try listening to the Dolphins guys, Bob Greise is horrible....
"Just short of the goal line! Leon Washington is short!" I didn't have a problem with it but I thought it was funny.
It's what Tom Coughlin calls the red zone. I guess when you win a superbowl you can call it whatever you want.
They were repeating much of the same stuff over and over, and when they talked about Bryan Thomas I almost threw up, wow they talked about him like he was a 2nd year player
Bob Papa is a big Giant fan, and learned broadcasting at Fordham University, where Marty Glickman helped in his tutoring. Does anyone remember the old Fordham University sports talk show "One on One". It was late night a few hours every Saturday and Sunday for fans to call in and vent. No commercials or giant egos, just college kids talking sports. Bob Papa used to be a host, and it was more enjoyable than the sports talk radio on the air today.
No, the best was Carl Banks on the Giants receivers: "Without Plaxico Burress, they need to step up and do the job. They need to execute. They need to be executioners." I can't be the only one who heard that.
