Jet Moses Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Because I always root for the underdog in the SB. Always have, always will. I rooted for the Giants against the Bills, I rooted for the Pats against the Rams, etc. It's just my nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVM Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Because I always root for the underdog in the SB. Always have, always will. I rooted for the Giants against the Bills, I rooted for the Pats against the Rams, etc. It's just my nature. This seems eerily like that game. The Rams(much like the Pats) were supposed to walk away with the trophie. They were the greatest offense we had ever seen(much like the Pats). They had been there before(again, much like the Pats), and the Pats then had a QB who had never been there before, and a HC that had never won anything--at least as a HC(hmm...sounds a lot like the Giants). The Rams were supposed to be unstoppable. They were great, amazing even. Just like the Pats are today. Just sayin.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Moses Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 This seems eerily like that game. The Rams(much like the Pats) were supposed to walk away with the trophie. They were the greatest offense we had ever seen(much like the Pats). They had been there before(again, much like the Pats), and the Pats then had a QB who had never been there before, and a HC that had never won anything--at least as a HC(hmm...sounds a lot like the Giants). The Rams were supposed to be unstoppable. They were great, amazing even. Just like the Pats are today. Just sayin.... Seems like it was yesterday, but that was almost a decade ago. Time flies. Look-- it comes down to this, if Eli can keep playing the way he did agains the Bucs, the Cowboys, and the Packers, the Giants defense and running game will take care of the rest. I just hope the refs call a fair game, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVM Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Seems like it was yesterday, but that was almost a decade ago. Time flies. Look-- it comes down to this, if Eli can keep playing the way he did agains the Bucs, the Cowboys, and the Packers, the Giants defense and running game will take care of the rest. I just hope the refs call a fair game, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that. I would say I hope the same, but honestly, I dont care, lol. Pats win, and this season sucked. But at least the Dolphins cant brag about being the greatest anymore. Giants win, and this season sucked. But at least the Pats didn't go undefeated. You see, for me, either way it sucks. I'm just trying to find something positive to take out of the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Moses Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 I would say I hope the same, but honestly, I dont care, lol. Pats win, and this season sucked. But at least the Dolphins cant brag about being the greatest anymore. Giants win, and this season sucked. But at least the Pats didn't go undefeated. You see, for me, either way it sucks. I'm just trying to find something positive to take out of the end. I don't think it sucks if the Giants win, not at all. Look--- '86 was the worst. Losing to Cleveland who then went on to lose to Denver who got their *sses kicked by the Giants was bad. Beating the Giants in '89 and kocking them out of the playoffs was great. The Giants vs Bills SB was a great game. The Giants were humiliated against the Ravens. This time? Means nothing one way or the other. There is nothing left for the Pat's to do that is going to make me go "wow". They're a good team, Brady is a great QB, but anybody who doesn't acknowledge they have had alot of calls go there way and alot of non-calls when they were blatantly holding or cheap shotting somebody isn't being honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETSFAN5180 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Beer is made for occasions like this one.Super Bowl Sunday the beer will be flowing. I will be rooting for the Giants but I dont think anything is stopping New England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVM Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I don't think it sucks if the Giants win, not at all. Look--- '86 was the worst. Losing to Cleveland who then went on to lose to Denver who got their *sses kicked by the Giants was bad. Beating the Giants in '89 and kocking them out of the playoffs was great. The Giants vs Bills SB was a great game. The Giants were humiliated against the Ravens. This time? Means nothing one way or the other. There is nothing left for the Pat's to do that is going to make me go "wow". They're a good team, Brady is a great QB, but anybody who doesn't acknowledge they have had alot of calls go there way and alot of non-calls when they were blatantly holding or cheap shotting somebody isn't being honest. Eh, I dunno. Like 124, I've had the displeasure of meeting a few Giants fans while here at college. I've heard just about enough of it, and really dont wish to hear anymore. I honestly don't know how some of you guys who have been born and bred in NYC and Jersey can stand it. I've just got a handful down here, and they annoy the heck outta me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 For the most part, I like this team, it's coach and it's players. I like 51% of the ownership, that part of which employs a close relative and seem like decent folks, even if they pretend the lace curtain Irish Mara family fortune wasn't started in bookmaking. Though Steven Tisch(the 49% part of ownershsip that doesn't employ the relative) could be the ugliest human ever to appear on American television; the pixels of my plasma need rehab. I also suspect that Tisch is the main mover&shaker pushing PSLs on their end, and that means money out of our pockets. It was very sensible for the Giants to agree to a shared stadium, given building 2 new football stadiums on either side of the Lincoln Tunnel would have been collosally wasteful. But understand that it's about money, pure and simple. There's a lot to like about the old school Maras, a lot to dislike about greedy Tisch and a lot to wonder about where Woody Johnson's true feelings lie in all this. Problem is Giants fans. They treat us and our team like complete crap. They always have, they always will. Living in this area, I can feel for friends and family who like the Giants. But so many more of their fans are know nothing arrogant buffoons. I really hate all that scorn we've had heaped in our faces since we moved to the Meadowlands, those BS temporary signs always under GIANTS STADIUM, the denigration by comparison we get in the press, the nonsense superior attitude, the idea you hear on FAN that Jets fans are Giants fans who couldn't get Giants tickets. I hope one day we get to throw all that back in their faces in spades, that we could have a run like the Pats are having now, to obliterate that nonsense forever. So far it's a forlorn hope. I dunno-its a really tough choice. I'm gonna watch the game, and may bet it(not sure who yet, of at all) , and will root for my boxes and hope for a good game like we saw last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 go giants Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybroome Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 [quote name='Blackout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsrule128 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 i am rooting for danny ware to get a ring he deserves it for being on a bad team most of the year then doing nothing to get to the superbowl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 who doesn't wanna see rodney harrison and all the classy patriots win another ring? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetophile Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Is it possible to be apathetic yet disgusted at the same time? The Giants vs. NE, it's like choosing between death by hanging or death by drowning. The only thing that could worse would be if Miami was in it. I honestly can't root for either team on this one. If I didn't commit last week to go to a friend's house for the game, I'd probably just ignore the whole thing and not read the newspaper for a year. Maybe longer. vs. . No matter who wins, the final score is still . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 This seems eerily like that game. The Rams(much like the Pats) were supposed to walk away with the trophie. They were the greatest offense we had ever seen(much like the Pats). They had been there before(again, much like the Pats), and the Pats then had a QB who had never been there before, and a HC that had never won anything--at least as a HC(hmm...sounds a lot like the Giants). The Rams were supposed to be unstoppable. They were great, amazing even. Just like the Pats are today. Just sayin.... I remember before that game Conan had a "preview". It consisted of a Patriot - a guy dressed like the old style logo, complete with musket, saying "I don't see how I could lose, I've got this gun here..." Close up to the hood ornament of a Dodge Ram truck which proceeds to run him down. I guess I will root for the Giants, but I can't imagine being happy about that grinning doofus hoisting the Lombardi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFlaJets Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 We'll all be rooting for the Giants in this house too-what's weird (and I've talked about this before) is when you no longer live in the Metropolitan area how the in-fighting between NY teams subsides. On our school bus it would be Jets fans on one side Giants fans on the other-when it was baseball season some of the guys you argued with might be on YOUR side of the bus-me? I've always been a Yankees/Jets fan-even though Mets/Jets Yanks/Giants seemed more logical Go Giants-go Jersey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rillo Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I would NEVER EVER root for the Pats.....I'm silently rooting for the Giants. Like this season couldn't get any worse for JETS fans. Giants/Pats Superbowl SUCKS!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowmoe57 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 go giants eod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsMan57 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I wont be rooting for the Giants, I just hope they win. Belly took a million bucks from our dying owner to coach us then never honored it and never gave the money back to the HEss family. No way can I root for that guy. No doubt if the Giants win we'll get it rubbed in our face, but we're going to get it either way, and it will be extremely enjoyable to watch the Pats crash and burn on the last game of the year. In another 10 years, Giants fans will be extinct anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewilly Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 We'll all be rooting for the Giants in this house too-what's weird (and I've talked about this before) is when you no longer live in the Metropolitan area how the in-fighting between NY teams subsides. On our school bus it would be Jets fans on one side Giants fans on the other-when it was baseball season some of the guys you argued with might be on YOUR side of the bus-me? I've always been a Yankees/Jets fan-even though Mets/Jets Yanks/Giants seemed more logical Go Giants-go Jersey my sentiments exactly. jets/yanks and don't feel the infighting at all from here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I'm never going to be a Giants fan. Still, this speaks very well of them honoring this hero. Lieutenant colonel Greg Gadson is Giants' inspirational co-captain Tuesday, January 22nd 2008, 4:00 AM Squire/Getty Eli Manning celebrates NFC title with U.S. Army Lt. Col Greg Gadson, who lost both legs to a roadside bomb in Iraq but, as honorary co-captain, has become part of the Super Bowl-bound team. Pinkus/AP Gadson speaks to Tom Coughlin and the Giants in the locker room before the Giants started their 10-game road win streak at the Redskins on Sept. 23. His name is Lt. Col. Greg Gadson and he used to wear No. 98 for the Army football team and was with the Second Battalion and 32nd Field Artillery, on his way back from a memorial service for two soldiers from his brigade when he lost both his legs to a roadside bomb in Bahgdad. It was the night of May 7, 2007, and Lt. Col. Gadson didn't know it at the time because he couldn't possibly have known, but it was the beginning of a journey that brought him to Lambeau Field Sunday night. He was there as an honorary co-captain of the Giants, there on the sideline at Lambeau because this Giants' season has become his season now and he wasn't going to watch from some box. This is a Giant at the Super Bowl worth knowing about, as much as any of them. "Me being a part of this team," Gadson was saying Monday night from his home in Virginia, having made it back there from Green Bay, "really starts with the team I played on at West Point." He played at West Point between 1985 and 1988, and one of his teammates was Mike Sullivan, who played cornerback and some safety and is now one of Tom Coughlin's assistants with the Giants. When Sullivan and so many other of Gadson's teammates found out what had happened on the night of May 7, found that Gadson had first lost his left leg to arterial infections and then his right, it brought that old Army team back together. "My injury turned out to be a catalyst event," Gadson said. "These were guys who hadn't talked in years, but now were rallying around me, and my family. Some of us had stayed in contact, but not to any great degree. But now an incident in a war reminded us that we were still brothers." Sullivan visited Gadson at Walter Reed, came back in June, this time with a No. 98 Giants jersey, Gadson's own name on the back, signed by several Giants players. When Sullivan left that day in June, he said to Gadson, "What else can we do?" Greg Gadson said he'd love to take his family to a Giants game. It was the Giants-Redskins game, in Washington, third Sunday of the season, Giants 0-2 by then. The tickets were arranged and then the Friday before the game Mike Sullivan called and asked if Gadson would be interested in addressing the team on Saturday night. Gadson's wife Kim drove him to the Giants' hotel. Lt. Col. Greg Gadson, Second Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery, old outside linebacker from Army, spoke to the Giants. And just as no one knew that the Giants would begin a 10-game road winning streak the next day, just as no one knew this could ever become a Super Bowl season, no one in that room including Gadson himself knew that the soldier in the wheelchair was joining the season that night. (Page 2 of 2) "I just spoke from the heart, as a soldier and as a former football player," he said, "for about 10 or 15 minutes. I talked to them about appreciating the opportunities in their lives, how special and privileged they were, how everybody needs to understand what they truly have. And I talked to them about the power of sports in people's lives, especially soldiers' lives, how many times I'd watched soldiers get up in the middle of the night after a 12-hour shift if there is a chance to watch a game, or how soldiers would do anything to watch a game before they went on that kind of shift. "I told them that of course after all the exteriors had been stripped away, they played the game for themselves. But that they had to play the game for each other. Then I talked about myself, how my old teammates came to my need, and how I was reminded again the power of a team, the emotional commitment teammates have for each other, that when a team finds a way to do things greater than they thought they could do, that they couldn't have done individually, that a bond is formed that can live forever. "I told them that truly great teams usually form that bond by going through something together, and how whatever they were going through at that point in the season that no success ever came easy. And finally I reminded them that nothing is promised to anybody in this life, starting with tomorrow." The Giants won the next day against the Redskins, and began a six-game winning streak, and began that road winning streak that now takes them on the road to Super Bowl XLII. It began Greg Gadson's road to Lambeau, and being wheeled out by his 13-year old son Jaelen as an honorary co-captain of the Giants along with the great Harry Carson. "I can't even remember the last time I was actually out on the field," he said. "Maybe when I played." Gadson had been on the sidelines when the Giants won their first playoff game against the Bucs. The team wanted him in Dallas, but he was having more surgery, on what is left of his right leg, and his right arm, which had also been damaged by the IED. But he was well enough to travel to Green Bay, and strong enough to spend the whole game on the sideline with his son, the players calling him what they have all along: Sir. "I wouldn't say I was warm," he said. "But I was comfortable enough not to be hugging one of those heaters all day." He watched from the sidelines at Lambeau as the team he met at 0-2 played the way it played against the Packers and played itself to the Super Bowl, watched as the Giants came back from that missed field goal at the end of regulation, finally saw Lawrence Tynes kick it through from 47 yards out. "When the ball went through, you could feel the elation on our sidelines, and hear the stadium go quiet at the same time," Gadson said. "It was like the air being let out of a whole state's soul. And then the next thing I saw was my son jumping in the air and running on that field." The boy ran for both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irish Jet Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Giants all the way!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Moses Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 I'm never going to be a Giants fan. Still, this speaks very well of them honoring this hero. Lieutenant colonel Greg Gadson is Giants' inspirational co-captain Tuesday, January 22nd 2008, 4:00 AM Wow. Go Giants. 'Nuff said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikefrancesarocks Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 i am rooting for danny ware to get a ring he deserves it for being on a bad team most of the year then doing nothing to get to the superbowl That makes no sense at all. Danny Ware deserves the ring because he is a budding star, and the future of two differernt new york area football (american-style) teams. The Giants already have two good running backs, though. Maybe they should sell danny ware for a lot of money to a lesser team, or a good team that lacks a strong running game. In 3 short seasons, I believe that he will be in the pro bowl. Either way, he was probably the best player on the Jets's practice squad and now easily the finest inactive on the Giants. Danny Ware is the Imus in the Morning of practice squads. The new york jets are the Bob Saget of NFL teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny green balls Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 i'm rooting for the giants so i don't have to watch teddy brushi and junior seau drinking cheap champagne for the next 30 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serphnx Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I see way more Giants-Mets and Yanks-Jets fans than the other way around. I also see more Jets fans than Giants fans in general. I know the popular thought is the opposite on all of that, but even my friends from out of state that have moved into NYC tell me the same thing. I still think more people bandwagon on the Giants or are casual fans, whereas Jets fans tend to be real fans. So when the Giants are doing good it's pretty much all bandwagon, when the Jets do well it's the real fans plus the bandwagon fans, but even when the Jets aren't doing well or are only mediocre the Jets fans are still supporting the team. That being said...I hate the Giants, I hate the Pats. I root for neither of these teams. It is like Brady said a few years ago, I'm rooting for both teams to lose somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.