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Superbowl XLVI

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  • #1052
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    That_Guy wrote: »
    tumblr_lbnbh5N9Ej1qdoghio1_500.png

    Do you come with the car?

    Oh you!


  • #1053
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,747 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Well done to the giants and as an eagles fan I don't like saying it. But what an amazing catch from manningham and it appears you can't spell elite without Eli.


  • #1054
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,923 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    amacachi wrote: »
    Noone does, he'll never get out of Peyton's shadow.
    I'm sure the shadow of Eli's 2 rings will make up for it...


  • #1055
    Charlie Haughy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,855 ✭✭✭Charlie Haughy


    New England Patriots
    That_Guy wrote: »
    World champions of America.
    Kilkenny. World Hurling Champions of Ireland.


  • #1056
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Liam O wrote: »
    I'm sure the shadow of Eli's 2 rings will make up for it...

    I definitely wasn't being sarcastic.


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  • #1057
    kmart6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,173 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    amacachi wrote: »
    Noone does, he'll never get out of Peyton's shadow.
    I'm talking about this game which has nothing to do with Peyton!


  • #1058
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Nice set of wheels there for the Man of the Match.

    I reckon Stephen Cluxton is looking at the lump af Waterford Crystal on his mantlepiece right now and thinking - fúck that for a laugh.


  • #1059
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    kmart6 wrote: »
    I'm talking about this game which has nothing to do with Peyton!

    Yeah I know, just irks me. :pac:


  • #1060
    skeleton_boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭skeleton_boy


    The Giants become the first sub 10 win team to win a superbowl. Fantastic underdogs, hard not to love them.


  • #1061
    Syferus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,966 ✭✭✭Syferus


    New England Patriots
    [Jackass] wrote: »
    I hate the way the trophy is presented to the franchise owner and not the coach and / or MVP / nominated squad captain.

    One of the most incongruous aspects of the sport for non-Americans. Visually it sends out the wrong message - putting the money man out front - even if they happen to have been doing trojan work for the team.


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  • #1062
    snow scorpion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Lapin wrote: »
    'World Champions'

    WTF :confused::confused::confused:

    That started in 1903 with the World Series. It was just a name to help generate interest with the public.

    Nobody dreamed back then that all this would still be going on more than a century later -- or that people would be taking the title "World Champions" so literally. It's just a tradition thing.


  • #1063
    spiralism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,299 ✭✭✭spiralism


    Syferus wrote: »
    One of the most incongruous aspects of the sport for non-Americans. Visually it sends out the wrong message - putting the money man out front - even if they happen to have been doing trojan work for the team.

    Dead right. MVP should get it, or at least the coach. I was personally hoping for a tearjerker moment where Peyton presented Eli the trophy.


  • #1064
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,200 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    New England Patriots
    I thought Nicks was up for MVP: 10 good catches, not all of them spectacular, but that was what kept the Giants drives moving. Oh well. :cool:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #1065
    Chucky the tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,341 ✭✭✭✭Chucky the tree


    Without the owner, their is no team. I like it, the players and coach always get enough attention and love but people a lot of people really under-rate how important a good owner is, without it's difficult to ever win the big one.


  • #1066
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    snow scorpion wrote: »
    That started in 1903 with the World Series. It was just a name to help generate interest with the public.

    Nobody dreamed back then that all this would still be going on more than a century later -- or that people would be taking the title "World Champions" so literally. It's just a tradition thing.

    I thought the World Series in Baseball was called that because it was once sponsored by the Chicago World newspaper. And the moniker stuck.


  • #1067
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    New England Patriots
    Some man.

    422547_10150659191838455_286845273454_11507831_1678211310_n.jpg


  • #1068
    Havermeyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Havermeyer


    johnmcdnl wrote: »
    Any first time fans tonight reading here - you just seen a hell of a game :D

    I was just thinking that. :D

    Tonight was the first time I've properly sat down to watch a full Super Bowl. Never had much time for American Football, but that was some game.

    I think it's time to pick a team. :P


  • #1069
    spiralism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,299 ✭✭✭spiralism


    The awkward moment when Eli is showing off his two rings at the Manning family dinner table...


  • #1070
    SantryRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭SantryRed


    New England Patriots
    Reckon Coughlin will and should retire on that note. Two SBs in 4 seasons is a fantastic achievement. Epic, epic game.


  • #1071
    spiralism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,299 ✭✭✭spiralism


    SantryRed wrote: »
    Reckon Coughlin will and should retire on that note. Two SBs in 4 seasons is a fantastic achievement. Epic, epic game.

    Was suggesting as much at the start of this thread a couple of weeks back. Think he may take the John Elway ending and retire on a high.


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  • #1072
    SantryRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭SantryRed


    New England Patriots
    He has nothing to gain from staying on. Sure the Giants fans wanted him gone 10 weeks ago!


  • #1073
    Brain Stroking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭Brain Stroking


    Have to say it was a brilliant season all round. Thoroughly enjoyable viewing every Sunday night. Looking forward to next season already


  • #1074
    markfla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭markfla


    some craic watching it over here in the states. Fúckers high fiving all round in the bar. Good laugh.


  • #1075
    kmart6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,173 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    tallaghtoutlaws wrote: »
    giants_nfl-655x431.jpg

    Looks like someone in the Giants IT Dept. knows more than the rest of us!


  • #1076
    skeleton_boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,611 ✭✭✭skeleton_boy


    As the euphoria of another great superbowl wears off, it's that time of year again where you realise no football for 7 months :(


  • #1077
    kryogen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25,953 ✭✭✭✭kryogen


    New England Patriots
    kryogen wrote: »
    Gonna have to have a bet on the Giants in this I think, will bring me some comfort if they win

    It hasnt brought me any comfort in reality


  • #1078
    SantryRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭SantryRed


    New England Patriots
    Had money on Woodhead 25/1, Hernandez 15/2 and Bradshaw 15/2 as first TD scorers. They were 2nd, 3rd and 4th. :(


  • #1079
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    New England Patriots
    Steve Weatherford had some ****ing game too.


  • #1080
    spiralism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,299 ✭✭✭spiralism


    iMuse wrote: »
    May have to follow NFL next season after that match

    I strongly, STRONGLY suggest you do. Come back here in September, maybe even follow the draft. You will not regret it. Got into it after Superbowl 42 between the very same two teams and never looked back. :D


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  • #1081
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    New England Patriots
    spiralism wrote: »
    I strongly, STRONGLY suggest you do. Come back here in September, maybe even follow the draft. You will not regret it. Got into it after Superbowl 42 between the very same two teams and never looked back. :D

    Same :P


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