88

Almost four years ago to the day something very bad happened in the Arizona desert.  Every yard the Giants gained in the final two minutes was like the thread of a stitch of my life unraveling.  When the Giants scored the whole thing just fell apart. Failure in life comes easy and quickly almost anyone can do it.  Success takes painstaking years of trudgery and drudgery.  Bill Belicheck is the greatest coach to ever patrol the sidelines and Tom Brady is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But since that day many in the Boston media have been quick to criticize.  (In the interests of full disclosure I am a BB intravenous Kool-Aid user).  Boston columnists Ron Borges, Tony Massoratti and Micheal Felger have been declaring the emperor (Belicheck) really has no clothes for the last four years.  Borges actually apologized in a column this week.  Massoratti is a baseball guy.  Felger doesn't know his ass from a football (or anything else from that matter).

Like Tom and BB or maybe because of Tom and BB I never stopped believing.  They represent that age old lesson that all of us were taught.  When you get knocked down you crawl to your knees, stagger to your feet, and keep your mouth shut.  You keep that loss and more importantly that feeling in your right, front, pant's pocket.  Every time you stick your hand in you can feel it, roll it around, and let the sensation take you back.

New York represents everything that is wrong with this country: greed, selfish and self centeredness.  Eli Manning, an above average quarterback, has been anointed the second coming after Assante Samuel and Merriweather dropped two interceptions in that Superbowl.  His decision making under pressure is horrendous and like all New Yorkers he epitomizes the saying rather be lucky then good. (Tom Coughlin is also one of the greatest coaches of all time.  The fact that the dimwits in New York have wanted to fire him since he arrived proves it.)

I have watched enough sports to know that in big games it is often a big play made by a not so big name that turns the tide.  BB has been roundly criticized for signing Chad Johnson aka Chad Ochocinco.  BB knows that the point of a team is that all 65 players at some point contribute.  I look for Chad to contribute to the Patriots victory tomorrow.

In fact I am guaranteeing redemption in the form of a Patriot's victory.  How do I know you ask?  I don't see any way the Giants can lose.

KOKO