Super Bowl XLII Open Thread

Are the Pats recording this game walk-thru like the others?

~Bill Belichick doesn't lose when he gets 2 weeks to prepare for a team~

I guess he doesn't lose when he tapes the other teams walk-thru and knows everything they are gonna do.

I say the G-Men pull the upset of the century and really punch the Pats in the gut, having come 1 game short of the perfect season. Thats gotta hurt more than losing the last game of the regular season.

The G-Men played them strong in NY with everybody hurt and nothing to play for, while the Pats had everything on the line. Except for a couple of big plays for the Pats offense by Brady and Moss, NY controlled most of that game.

Giants are well rested and ready to go. Remember it was the last game that got the G-Men going. It showed them they could play with the best of them. They went Tampa, Dallas, and Green Bay (in GB weather at that) and won. Hopefully they have a destiny to fulfill like the Steelers did a couple years a go.

G-Men win 34-31.

Thats right you heard it here first. For the love of GOd, please o please let the Patriots lose this game.

A dream about this game last night and the score was Giants 24 and the Pats 21. :) 18-1 and DONE!

If willing a team to win worked every Dolphin fan rooting for the Giants would tip the scales. I really hope the Pats lose, but somehow, I doubt it.

but I agree with Matty.  If you give Belichick 2 weeks to prepare for a game, he will most likely win.  Plus, I feel that the Pats want it much more than the Giants.  The Giants are just glad to be in the Super Bowl.

In week 17, the Giants played one of there best games of their season and STILL lost to the Pats, in there own stadium.  Eli had 4 tds and one turnover.  That lonely turnover cost the Giants the game.  That's what the Pats do to you.  You make a mistake and they make you pay for it.  I cannot see the Pats coming this far just to lose in the Super Bowl.  Unfortunately, I don't see this game being close.  

My prediction: Pats Win  42 - 17
MVP: Welker <--- soften the blow a little

with you Neo, Eli have a lot to prove. He has an statement to say. He needs more this win than the Pats. To tell you the true, we will see, how much Randy wants that ring.

have a chance to win? Abso-freakin-lutely!! The Giants have Corners to make the plays because the Giants have a front-line that will make the Patsies loose their timing.

They kept up with the Cowboys - Romo & their receivers. They kept up with the Packers - Favre & their receivers, and they'll do it again today!

I'm saying, four to six sacks on Brady, with two of them on critical downs -- and two to three interceptions. I'm with the dreamer, gafinfan, a Giants win and a big slap to the Patriots.

Giants 28, Patriots 21..........

I whole-heartedly agree that two weeks is simply too much preparation to give a Belichick-coached team, except........

These last two weeks have gone perfectly for the Giants.  We've had Brady's boot, destroyed Spygate tapes, and now an entirely new accusation that the Pats illegaly filmed pre-game walk-throughs before their 2002 SB upset victory over the Rams.  The timing is exquisite, and it comes from a Patriots source!  This is a very tough team to distract, but this is as close as you can possibly hope to come.  Also, Goodell is being openly questioned by a U.S. Senator about the destruction of this season's Spygate tapes, thus putting him on the hotseat and forcing him to make extra-certain that this game is played on the level.

This might make it a little tougher for the Pats' LBs and DBs to grab, clutch, push, and shove the Giants' WRs, TE, and RBs down the field.  This is their favorite defensive strategy for post-season football as they know the refs are more likely to let the players play and not have the game too-heavily influenced by yellow flags.  It's not much, but could be just enough to keep the Giants in the game.

My sober prediction (subject to change hourly):  Giants 31, Patriots 30.  It smells an awful lot like the 1983 Miami/Nebraska Orange Bowl to me.  We've got one indestructible team being hailed as the greatest ever, versus the little engine that could but shouldn't really do it.

Go Dolphins.

Can anybody here put there neck on the cutter for this guy? He has been cheating his entire NFL carreir. He should not be inducted in th HOF at all. What a pathetic losser he and his team is.

that theres a god chance of 'distraction' playing into this, especially since it seems evident that they have a guilty concience, and have for yrs. At least, it seems to me,that this thing is bubbling like a cualdron and may blow up anyday implicating god-only-knows-who. So,if the
patriots win today or not, i'll gladly take my dolphins 1-15 record along w/ my integrity any day over spygate,as bad as it was. i just dont think i could continue to be a fin fan if the same were true....at least not without a coaching staff exodus much like we've just experienced 1st. sheesh if ya think i dislike cam cam...hey maybe we can work it out somehow that cam cam can take over the pats....yeah i know i know, only in a perfect world.  so anyway, go giants : )

But I'm not holding my breath.

Of course i wouldn't have picked the Giants to win the past two rounds either- so who the hell knows... I am gonna say it's close through three quarters, and the Pats pull away late.

Here's to being wrong!

Tuck, Umenyiora, etc., are playing great, but I still think Eli is going to have to get the ball into the endzone at least once in the second half for the G-men to win.

u gotta believe
-matty

just 35 seconds more.

: D

Try again Pats, maybe you'll get that perfect season next year. But ummm, you gonna have to start all over. Ya fell 1 short, the last one. How does feel?

It feels better d@mn good in South Beach.

do come true...........

everone, but I was pulling out all the stops. I wanted the Pats to lose more than, well I can't put it into words.

Happy B-day Neo.

Our Fins are on the clock, my friends.

Never seen Brady eat so much Dirt....he has to be hurting.

Fins are still yhe only PERFECT team!

Well wonders never cease

Belichik wasn't a gaping @sshole in the post-game interview.