Monday’s Giants News
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
