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I think the fact that two brothers are playing back to back Super Bowl's belongs in the category of "stranger than fiction." If the Giants won, it would just be so cool and bizarre. I would LOVE to see it happen. Go Giants! (and yes, Go Eli!)


But hopefully there will be some good ads.


About six years ago I was with some girlfriends in a Del Taco late one night. Two guys stumbled in from the dance club on the other side of the street and somehow or another they ended up giving me and my friends money to buy stuff from the quarter machines. I ended up with a Patriots keychain, which I tossed in my car and forgot all about until a few months later when I heard that the Patriots were going to be in the Super Bowl. I miraculously found the keychain and reminded my friends of that night in Del Taco and we decided to throw a Super Bowl in support of "Our Team." It was great; we even had a giant Corona pinata! So the Patriots won that year and ever since they have been "My Team," and I root for them every time they make it to the Super Bowl.



But I'm totally with you on the cheating part. If you get fined and suspended for steroid abuse how can Bellichek not be fined and suspended for obvious misconduct?! It doesn't matter if it "helped" or not, it's still wrong!
Robbie - Amen to the green and white!

I don't disagree with the arrogance Sera mentions, but if I were on a streak like them you'd smell my arrogance states away too.
My boyfriend and I are going to his godparents' to watch the Superbowl. I've been threatened with pig's knuckles as a football food snack--I'm thinking I'd rather lick the fur off the back of my dachshund.

I grew up about 40 minutes from Philly in South Jersey so I root for what I know, except for the Phillies. Until about a year ago, I had a 20+ year grudge against them, of which I finally let go. So I don't root against them anymore, but I'm still a diehard Yankees fan.
Football became a foundation in which my father and I grew our early relationship. We talk sports all the time, and since moving back to the NE, each year we have gone to one Eagles game together, compliments of my former company. Now, that I have switched jobs, it looks like that gravy train is over. Well, I'll just have to shell out some funds to keep the tradition going, since it is one of our favorite days of the year.
SB Sunday is always a bittersweet day for me, because the football season comes to a close. However, on the bright side, I get my Sundays back, and it means that Spring is just around the corner. I so look forward to warmer weather. Plus, I am eager to see whether the bulbs that I had planted in the fall bloom.

But yes, other than your misguided (albeit sweet) affection for this team (who shall remain nameless), I think you're pretty darn fab-u-lous!
Now please pass me some chicken wings!

I like hockey or lacrosse or soccer better. But i'll also watch men's diving/swimming/gymnastics (but only for purely drooling reasons)

Ah, well, I love ya anyway.



I went to school there and one year the Patriots won the Superbowl that I was there (I think it was 2003) I couldn't get home cause the morons set bonfires up right by the train tracks of the T, so I had to hoof it the rest of the way! Another time a guy that was stupid enough to wear a Yankees hat the night of the last Yankee/Red Sox match one year, got killed, for wearing the damn hat! This is a fact published in the paper. And every year that they win anything cars get overturned and all kinds of crazy mess. Boston has proven to me that they are not mature enough to handle and thus deserve a win!
Although this year I am worried that they might go nuts and kill someone for wearing a Giants shirt whether they win or lose since losing will piss them off for losing on a perfect season. I am sooo torn, which way means saving more lives??



Maybe it is just that it happens more often because New England teams win big events more often (?), I don't know. I also have been in the bars around the times of these games, and on the streets, and the T. I have seen people be told that if they value their life they would be smart NOT to wear a Yankees hat. I have seen some pretty darn obnoxious behavior by New England sports fans, while I know many sports fans can be obnoxious about it, the examples I have seen were just on another level. I know it isn't EVERY Bostonian but I am still AntiPatriots because of this. Sorry, my experience and my opinion.
I'm watching hockey.
LOL, okay really I am but it will be over before the Superbowl starts... and then I don't know what to do. (FANTASTIC game, though!)
When I WAS still a fan of football, Sarah, Niners were my HATED team. Sorry, but I was first an LA Ram fan, and there is no way on earth I could be that sort of traitor! I loved the sport so much, I did actually work for the 49ers, though, in DeBartolo's day. After seeing how those players act and live, then having them go on strike... THEN having my team move, I truly had nothing left to cheer for. I was over the sport for which I wanted to be the first female to play professionally.
What's great, though, was that my brother and dad both have become huge hockey fans, something my passion ignited, so we still talk sports constantly and even all actually root for the same team! (My brother chose random football teams growing up and I stuck with my first love while Dad was a "traitor" and became a local boy Niner fan when we moved north.)
I did used to like the Seahawks and the Patriots on a lesser level obviously, but I don't know if I'd be cheering for them now. I'd be torn between the record and being one of "my" teams, and as a typical American, loving the underdog and the Manning story.
But I don't care. I don't watch.
Go hockey! Hee!
LOL, okay really I am but it will be over before the Superbowl starts... and then I don't know what to do. (FANTASTIC game, though!)
When I WAS still a fan of football, Sarah, Niners were my HATED team. Sorry, but I was first an LA Ram fan, and there is no way on earth I could be that sort of traitor! I loved the sport so much, I did actually work for the 49ers, though, in DeBartolo's day. After seeing how those players act and live, then having them go on strike... THEN having my team move, I truly had nothing left to cheer for. I was over the sport for which I wanted to be the first female to play professionally.
What's great, though, was that my brother and dad both have become huge hockey fans, something my passion ignited, so we still talk sports constantly and even all actually root for the same team! (My brother chose random football teams growing up and I stuck with my first love while Dad was a "traitor" and became a local boy Niner fan when we moved north.)
I did used to like the Seahawks and the Patriots on a lesser level obviously, but I don't know if I'd be cheering for them now. I'd be torn between the record and being one of "my" teams, and as a typical American, loving the underdog and the Manning story.
But I don't care. I don't watch.
Go hockey! Hee!
But Sarah, I'm with you on loathing the Yankees with all in my being. For me it's more than any other team in sports! And that's saying something when baseball isn't very high on my list of sports!
Joanie, I don't get that arrogant vibe from them either - and they're not my home team. I was surprised to hear that. To me it just seems like a quiet confidence, if that makes sense.
Joanie, I don't get that arrogant vibe from them either - and they're not my home team. I was surprised to hear that. To me it just seems like a quiet confidence, if that makes sense.

I was getting dressed for work, and I heard the first couple of notes of the national anthem. And I could tell right away it was Jordin. I love that girl. She's so freakin precocious and cute. She's like 16, yet 40 at the same time. And I love her voice. She's sparkly.
I am now at work and have no idea what's going on with the game. I did see a shot on my way out the door of big brother Peyton looking a little dismayed from the box. Anybody notice his wife is never with him? I wonder if he wants to keep her out of the limelight, or she wants to stay out of the limelight. Think about how many pictures you've seen of Tom Brady & Gisele vs. how many pictures you've seen of a Manning & their significant other. Makes you think you CAN avoid a media frenzy if you choose to.
I am now at work and have no idea what's going on with the game. I did see a shot on my way out the door of big brother Peyton looking a little dismayed from the box. Anybody notice his wife is never with him? I wonder if he wants to keep her out of the limelight, or she wants to stay out of the limelight. Think about how many pictures you've seen of Tom Brady & Gisele vs. how many pictures you've seen of a Manning & their significant other. Makes you think you CAN avoid a media frenzy if you choose to.

But I think the most exciting Superbowl in my memory was in '89. Of course I'm not at all biased. :)
I feel so sorry for Cooper Manning.


Now, on a different note--I REALLY enjoyed the halftime show. This worries me as I think it indicates I'm getting old. The NFL *never* puts on a decent "hip" halftime show! (Do you love that word 'hip'?)
Heeheehee!
Tom


Okay, sorry to get so far away from the topic of books!
Tiffany I enjoyed your serendipitous football team choice.
This is the first year in I don't know how many years I could have cared less about the super bowl. We didn't even go anywhere. We recorded the game and skipped through it to watch the commercials - lol!
This is the first year in I don't know how many years I could have cared less about the super bowl. We didn't even go anywhere. We recorded the game and skipped through it to watch the commercials - lol!

I do have to say that I was fairly disappointed with the commercials this year! Not that many new ones and a lot of borings ones. Although the LifeWater with Naomi Campbell and the lizards was great. And I did enjoy the Justin Timberlake Pepsi one. Oh, and the Budweiser Draft horse with the Dalmation training him was cute. But that was about it that impressed me. Kinda sad, guess they are just getting too expensive these days!
I didn't watch... well except the last few seconds because my TV was trying to record House which didn't start for nearly 45 minutes. However, I did want to say that I heartily agree with Joanie - that it is most certainly NOT limited to New England fans. I mean, I went to a hockey game in Philly wearing a jersey of the opposing team (which is why I drove half the day to be there) and just walking in I was nearly killed. Big burly men nearly beat me to a pulp - and I was literally just walking into the arena. I think they caved because I was a girl and there were so many people around, but only just. (I am the opposite of a mocking fan... in fact, even though my team pummeled them, by the third period, the people in my section actually - begrudgingly at first - LIKED me!)
I think the WORST fans are Yankees fans and Raiders fans. As a kid I had beer dumped on me by Raiders fans, and that wasn't the worst of it. Having worked for two years for the 49ers, I have experienced NFL fans from many places... whether in LA or Oakland or Timbuktu, their fans SUCK.
Now, in saying that I'm not saying every single fan of these two teams are that way. My cousin, for instance... or perhaps someone reading this. But when it comes to rude, unkind, and/or unsportsmanlike behavior in fans, Yankee and Raider fans have a MUCH higher percentage.
Phew! That was a tall soapbox, wasn't it?? Hee!
I think the WORST fans are Yankees fans and Raiders fans. As a kid I had beer dumped on me by Raiders fans, and that wasn't the worst of it. Having worked for two years for the 49ers, I have experienced NFL fans from many places... whether in LA or Oakland or Timbuktu, their fans SUCK.
Now, in saying that I'm not saying every single fan of these two teams are that way. My cousin, for instance... or perhaps someone reading this. But when it comes to rude, unkind, and/or unsportsmanlike behavior in fans, Yankee and Raider fans have a MUCH higher percentage.
Phew! That was a tall soapbox, wasn't it?? Hee!

I'm rooting for the Patriots myself. Though really I have no reason to love or hate either team. Alaska doesn't even have a team. Seattle is as close as it gets to a home team for me, and they're out of the picture.