Don't the Giants already own the media spotlight? Even last years playoff season we hardly gathered any back page headlines and usually were reduced to a green striped headline found underneath a Giant game photo with a huge NYG headline.
Win games and grab the NY headlines. That's the way it is. There's only one way to get back our pride... START WINNING GAMES!
Personally, I don't feel like the Giants-Jets rivalry is anything close to Yankees-Mets in terms of hating the other team. I am a die hard Yankee fan, and I would never root for the Mets in any situation, except maybe against the Red Sox. However, I root for both football teams. I am a bigger Jet fan, but I root for the Giants to win, too. The only situation where I wouldn't root for the Giants is when they play the Jets. So therefore, I am ecstatic that the Giants won the super bowl, and it is even better that they did it against the Pats. New York takes down Boston once again, couldn't be better.
You have to remember that the Yankees-Mets rivalry actually started with the NY Yankees-Brooklyn Dodgers rivalry of the 1950's. There has been nothing since that can compare, believe me. If you think the Yankees-Mets is a rivalry, it's childsplay compared to those days. Then the Dodgers moved to LA. It tore the heart out of the town. I know, because I was just a kid and a die-hard Dodgers fan. The Mets came along and everybody said, "Root for the Mets as a replacement." I never could... just wasn't in me and I in fact lost interst in rooting for ANY baseball team at that point. But be that as it may, that's how strong the rivalry was. So no, today's "rivalry" between the Yankees and Mets or even the Jets and the Giants is nothing compared to those days, Subway Series and all. Now....IF the Giants and the Jets were ever to play in a Superbowl... and of course one team would win.... well..... look out, because the sparks are really going to fly!
Seriously guys... this is the bottom line: If seeing Eli Manning get knocked on his ass is more appealing than seeing Tom Brady getting knocked on his ass, you're simply not a Jets fan. I am telling you that NOTHING is more rewarding to a true Jets fan than seeing Brady being pounced on and thrown around like a rag doll while throwing incompletions. I could sit and watch that for hours...
Come on. First, even though the Giants victory was very good in terms of the underdog beating the supposed unbeatable team, it still pales in comparison to what the Jets did in 1969. 1969 was a different era in football and until that date no AFL team ever won a Super Bowl. Second, nothing could be better than watching the Pats lose. It wouldn't have mattered who beat them. Rubbing Spygate in their face would never been nearly enough ammo. They would have still laughed at us all the way to the Lombardi Trophy. Now, their perfect season is ruined; it now really becomes quite a bit more ordinary. They had a great season; that can not be taken away, but they blew the big one. If you are a Trekie I would like to remind you of the episode where there was this floating robot who claimed to be perfect. When Kirk convinced the robot that it was imperfect, it started talking weird, and exploded. Hopefully, the same will happen for the Pats.
I agree, but in NFL.com they just changed the poll to which SB is the biggest upset, and the people are overwhelmingly voting for SB42. We know which SB is the biggest upset, but apperantly the public doesn't.
Negative. I could care less about the Giants. Now I don't have to hear about 19-0 for the rest of my life. All is good.
Trust me when I say I was NOT enamored of the matchup in that pukefest. The whole week preceding I was so annoyed, part of me didn't care at all. The thing is, it became much more about rooting for NE to lose, not so much for the Giants to win (although technically....). It was a pyrrhic choice, no question, but the prospect of a choke was the far more attractive result when I threw it all on the scale. And it took me until the night before to seriously commit and ignore my own apathy. Haha, all the crying that's going on, 90% of Patriots fans can't accept that they got beat fair and square. It makes it even better that they EXPECTED to win, and really thought it was going to be a cakewalk. I actually felt gleeful when I woke up the next day, and my cousin is very happy. I don't begrudge him that. Don't worry, though. The Giants will be back on my hate-o-meter come September.
It makes me ill hearing and reading all these so called jet fans rooting hard for the Giants and congratulating them on a Jet forum. Are you kidding me???? You want to root against the Pats, well that's your business but you guys sound like closet Giant fans. I can not even attend any school functions because I am sick of kissing giants fans asses 5 days after. I don't want to look like a sore loser ( Iam not, they deserved it) so you have to say great game, you guys deserved it, greatest catch, Eli was awesome, you beat all the good teams...etc. Then you get the, I am glad I am not a Jets fan smirk, you must be dying (fucks) If the Pats won would you be doing any of that? Nope
I was curious to which team would Jets fan root for. I know some of my friends who are Jets fan despise the Pats so were rooting for the giants. Either way good that the Pats couldn't make history.:beer:
Now that the parade and all that bullshit has died down, it's probably better we don't have to hear about Bellichick, Brady and 19-0 until the end of time. The Giants winning isn't good because we'll hear about this one forever too, but probably better than that.
This whole thing boils down to two (2) choices. #1. Having to listen to Giants fans for the entire off season until the Giants finish back in the middle of the pack (and Eli reverts back to his regular form) next season. Or... #2. Having to listen to New England fans (and the Media whores that LOVE them) hammer us from now until the day we die that this New England team was the Greatest Ever. Sorry but it's a no brainer for me. F N.E.* Give me a Giants Victory anytime.
It's clearer now that it all happened, but going in nobody wanted to see either happen and we had to see one. But the more I think about it, we've seen the Giants win it before, we don't need Miami and New England both now with their undefeated bullshit. One is enough, so yeah, good. Fuck New England and their coach.
Seeing Sean Salisbury shamelessly prostrate himself on the ESPN wrap-up show two Sundays ago was almost worth the Giants making him do it. He is rapidly transforming into Joe Theismann.
Joe Theismann could actually play QB. If they had as many teams as they have networks, the Sean Salisburys of the world might have gotten in some games.
Celtics fans are even worse than Patriots fans. At least the Patriots fans never had the opportunity to ditch their team(but they will) like the Celtics did. I mean, we pulled off the Kobe MVP chant on THEIR court(I was at that game). That would never happen in LA if the sides were reversed.
