Hating a local team because of excessive contact with their obnoxious fans is the most natural thing in the world. Also it gives me a reason to pay attention to the NFC on a weekly basis.
I guess I just happen to happen to have Giants fan friends that aren't assholes about it. We generally pull for one another.
You must be a young kid, I grew up in a time when the Giants were a dominant team under Parcells and the Jets struggled to win games. I had to deal with Giant fans rubbing in how the Jets sucked, to this day one my greatest football memories was being at The Meadowlands in 88 and our average Jet team knocked the Giants out of the playoffs in the last game of the season.
Hah I guess the defintion of a kid is subjective as I would categorize someone who grew up when you did as a young kid. But then again I would consider anyone under 40 as a kid. But in regards to the Jets and Giants. For many years (the 70's) the biggest game of the year for both the Jets and Giants was the pre-season game between the two. Both teams were pretty awful during the 70's and this game was the only thing we could look forward to as fans. I recall Dave Jennings being the Giants best offensive weapon for years. The first pre-season game was played the year after the Jets won the SB and there was a ton of hype for the game. The two teams reflected different political climates and young vs. old. The Jets were the young peoples team, cool, brash and full of energy while the Giants were the more conservative, traditionalists, older persons team. The fans simply did not get along. Considering all the politics of the time and the social upheavel the clash of these two different cultures created a lot of fireworks. Playing the Giants was always more than a game. Jet fans hated the Giants and vice versa. The other team simply stood for all the things in the society that the other person was against in so many ways from politics, to style, to attitude and so much more. Beating the Giants was always personal. The Jet-Giant pre-season games of the 70's may not have been OSU-Muchigan or Nebraska-Oklahoma type rivalry but to many fans it was pretty close. Not having lived in the NY area since 1980 my dislike of the Giants has waned. But I still have a hard time cheering for them.
I wish the Jets had a DE as athletic and naturally gifted as JPP. Dude is a monster and will go to many pro-bowls. One of the best things about the Jets winning a Superbowl thats not a bedtime story told by people in their 50's and up will be hopefully the erosion of the silly inferiority complex most Jets fans have towards the Giants.
No, I will always hate the Giants. When the Giants are down I will root for them to be kicked. When they are winning I want them to fall, theres just no love for them. I don't know why some people seek harmony between the two teams, I hate all the other New York teams that I don't root for, it just works that way.
Good for him. Doesn't change the fact that the Giants defense is the sole reason for their collapse this year and that they were humiliated for the 3rd week straight and what should've been their 2nd straight collapse in the last minute of a game.
Wasn't really his fault this time though. Doesn't help when they let an opposing player get through like that (something you almost never see on a FG). On a side note, Eli is a beast. I hate how Giants fans talk so much crap about him (and then of course praise him when he has a game like last night). He's probably one of the few players on that team that I like.
Tirico just said Seattle fans don't know how many wins the Seahawks have. Maybe he meant to say it doesn't matter to them.
Horrible job of selecting games for MNF this season. Chargers Jaguars, now Seahawks Rams? You gotta be kidding me; their ratings might be only slightly higher than baseball if the season wasn't over.
gruden playing up browner the whole game, then espn flashes a stat about him being the most penalized corner in the NFL, and Gruden claims he's being unfairly targeted or something ridiculous. yes, teams target him a lot because he's not that good. And he gets a lot of penalties for the same reason, not because there's a league-wide conspiracy against him. Gruden, you are brutal.
