Die Hard Giants Fan

Isn’t it great that we can say the New York Football Giants are World Champions for the next 51 weeks?  It was 17 long years since the Giants won a Super Bowl.  At least Coach Coughlin didn’t walk out on the team with the entire coaching staff (what was that about Tuna?).  The Giants were able to hold onto T.C. and Spags.  Tom Coughlin is the only Giants Head Coach to win a Super Bowl for Big Blue other than Parcells so it really is special.  For a while, it kind of seemed like Parcells put a hex on the Jints.  Not anymore…we can all boast about the G-MEN being crowned king for another year.

The Giants went to the Super Bowl twice this decade.  The 2000-2001 team got smoked by the nasty defense of the Ravens led by the murderer.  Since 2000, the AFC has won every Super Bowl except for the 2002-2003 Bucs team and the 2007-2008 Giants team.  Dexter Jackson was the MVP of Super Bowl XXXVII, and his quote was “I did what I do, I did what I do, I did what I do” in the most incoherent way possible.  Good times.  The Bucs traded Jackson away in the offseason, and probably because Jon Gruden couldn’t understand what Jackson was saying.  So Big Blue is only the second team to take down an AFC team in this decade that has been dominated by the AFC.

Newsday:

Super catch gets a name - Newsday allowed their readers to choose from their 10 best names about the catch.  Then Newsday got it down to two finalists which were ‘Destiny’s Catch’ and ‘The Hail Mara’, and the winner is ’Destiny’s Catch’ (submitted by Josh from NYC).

New York Daily News:

Adrian Peterson & Terrell Owens lead NFC’s rally in Pro Bowl - Don’t worry Giants fans.  T.O. had a big game in the Pro Bowl, but Demarcus Ware fumbled a kick off return and Tony Romo threw a pick.  Why would Ware be returning kicks?  It’s a great question.  The AFC was trying to kick the ball away from Hester so it ended up near Ware.  The Cowboys tried to give the game away when they were in there.

New York Post:

WHAT’S IN A NAME? MILLION$ - Janet Frankston Lorin wrote an article about corporations paying millions of dollars to get their name on a stadium.  Janet primarily focuses on the New York/New Jersey franchises that have just moved into a new stadium or the franchises that will move into a new stadium very soon.  I hate the fact that corporations are even allowed to do this because the owners will pocket the cash if it is available.  So there is no incentive for the Owners to create names for stadiums that become have a chance to become a legendary stadium like Yankee Stadium, Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, Ebbotts Field, and all of the others that have been closed down already.  And then you have the corporations that put their name on stadiums and subsequently went belly up so the stadium had to get a new name.  It’s pathetic.

New York Times:

The Super Bowl Spotlight Shines on a Changed Man - Greg Bishop and Pete Thamel relive the hard times that David Tyree lived through before transforming into a superstar in Super Bowl XLII.

Highlights Showed a Hard Worker - Pete Thamel takes you through David Tyree’s path to the NFL.

Peterson and Owens Put on Show in Pro Bowl

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NFL.com released the 2008 Pro Bowl Roster.  Again, Osi Umenyiora is the only Giant on the NFC team.  Umenyiora is a reserve at Defensive End.  So we will have to see if he gets any minutes, and how well he plays.

At the Quarterback position for the NFC, Brett Favre was named the starter but will not play.  The reserves are Matt Hasslebeck, Tony Romo, and Jeff Garcia.  Jeff Garcia was replaced due to an injury.  So what do 3 of these Quarterbacks have in common?  Right…they lost to the Giants.

To see the 2008 Pro Bowl Roster, click here.

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The Pro Bowl is tomorrow and Osi is still sick, but he’s feeling good enough to play in it.  I’m not a fan of the Pro Bowl because I believe the selection process stinks, the game is held after the season, and it is meaningless.  I’ve been trying to think of ways to improve upon the game, but I haven’t had much success.  The NFL can change the schedule and give everybody a bye week in Week 9 and have the Pro Bowl then.  That would make the game more interesting because it’s in the middle of the season just like the other 3 major sports, but it would still serve no purpose.  I complained about the MLB All-Star game not serving a purpose so they changed it so the winner is the league that gets home-field advantage in the World Series.  That decision made the All-Star game and the World Series so much worse.  So it’s hard to make the Pro Bowl mean anything, yet not screw up other things.  But what do I know?

 GM Reese looks back - Michael Eisen sits down with GM Jerry Reese to recap the 2007 season.

New York Daily News:

Giants to open wallet for Tom Coughlin

Man turns City Hall pass into golden ticket to locker room, field festivities - Leo Standora stated that a Giants fan was able to get himself onto the floats with the players during the victory parade, and he took a seat on the stage with the team at City Hall Park while millions of Giants fans cheered for them.  The Giants fan simply said that nobody stopped him.  Fans were asking for his autograph.

Osi Umenyiora plans to play in Pro Bowl - Ralph Vacchiano reported that Osi Umenyiora was able to get through practice yesterday, and he will be able to play in the Pro Bowl tomorrow.

New York Post:

A GIANT SUCCESS - Paul Schwartz also wrote about first-year GM Jerry Reese.

The Star-Ledger:

Sign of the times: NY Giants are one hot ticket - Matthew Futterman covered the amount of Giants merchandise flying off the shelves.

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