SUMWUN AKSED 4 A SOOPER BOLL THRED SO HEERS A SOOPER BOLL THRED!
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So, who’s everyone taking?
I’m going with Daa Bears, 24-21.
MVP: Thomas Jones
Nice of Danny to give us a game thread…
I’m going with the Colts, 31-21.
MVP: Peyton Manning
Dan Klob for president!
Colts win. Manning suffers career ending injury.
Yesterday was Fan Day at Turner Field. I didn’t go, talked to some who went .. what prompts any guy over the age of 14 to go is a mystery to me.
Anyway, some went – I was told team jerseys were on sale. Blank jerseys went for $40. Others with names went for as little as $30. My friend bought a Mike Hessman jersey for $30.
I just found that funny. Hey, Hessman was part of that triple-play we pulled…and that’s about all he ever did.
I just played the Super Bowl on Tecmo Super Bowl (I know it’s been done before) and the results are…
Colts 35 – 17 Bears
Peyton throws 3 INTs, but Harrison gets MVP with 141 receiving yards. Thomas Jones also rushes for 182 yards. Rexy throws 1 pick and fumbles twice en route to a rout. haha. im hilarious.
Every year a friend and I pore over the silly Super Bowl prop bets and pick out a few for friendly wagers. It’s a fun way to watch the game when you don’t give a hoot about the outcome (as I don’t). So here’s what I’ll be rooting for this year:
– One team will score three straight times over the other at some point during the game
– No scoring in the last 2 minutes of the first half
– Bears will rush for 132+ yards
– No field goal of 41 yards or longer
– Fewer than 4 total field goals
– First punt will be 44+ yards
– 8 or fewer total punts
– One team will have a 15+ point lead at some point
– There will be a defensive or special teams TD
– Over 650 yards of total offense
– 22+ first downs for the Colts
Go, most of the above!!!
@5
Yeah I know what you mean. And what prompts people to like go to games and actually like cheer and make noise even when the scoreboard isn’t telling them to? Man those people need to grow up. I mean all the really smart fans like us are watching games on TV at home for free.
I’ve missed Danny boy and his impeccable grammar.
I guess I’ll root for Da Bears. I’m a Niners fan and really don’t care one way or another (although here in Louisville, things would be happier if the Colts won). But my party host is a Chicago die-hard and I think the party will go much better if they win.
So there you have it. Bears 31 – Colts 24
Now that’s the way a Super Bowl should start!
Yessir…I’m willing to discard the fact that he’s a cane. What a start!!!
I like the Bears okay now that I’ve gotten past the hatred the middle and late 80s Bears. But, I’m going to say that Indy takes the game 38 to 24 (another game that begins close and becomes a runaway only to end looking less like the blow out that it actually was).
DAAAAAAAAAA BEARS!!!!!!!
I did the same thing as Josh, on a different game. I got Bears 28 to 24. Manning throws three picks and on TDs (but runs it in twice). MVP Rex Grossman goes 23-28.
Ok, that would be the definition of “WIDE OPEN”.
Wow…
Note that that is a fumble by LSU and a fumble recovery by Alabama. Just saying.
I can’t believe I’m rooting for a Gator. Strange days indeed.
On the other hand, I’m rooting against a Vol, so that much makes sense. Why can’t Georgia ever develop a good quarterback?
Well, you had Quincy Carter.
And David Greene…
Atleast the Miami boys are representing…
Virginia
Techis representing with Thomas Jones.There’s the Manning face…
In an unusual twist, the game has outperformed the commercials.
Thanks to fumbles. 🙂
Wow! Vinateiri missed it!
Beats the hell out of me why he kicked it bad.
Never would’ve thought i’d see that…but then again I wasn’t expecting to see Manning run an option.
Oh, and if you’re rooting for the Bears, you’re rooting for four Gators. And as far as I can tell, Florida is the most represented college.
Well, Devin Aromashodu is on the Colts practice squad. I guess that’s good, given the rest of those WR’s are amazing.
My prediction was Bears 27-17. I dunno. I thought they knew to not get beat on the deep ball.
right now, i am rooting for blanco to blow the braves away take the leadoff and left field position.
Wouldn’t mind seeing someone take LF and run with it, but Blanco’s lack of power seems really unsuited to left field. I still think Diaz is the best bet.
Well that was awkward….I don’t believe I have ever seen a quarterback attempt to hike it to himself and then do a cart-wheel. Sexy Rexy?…yeah not so much.
You suck, Rex.
Wouldn’t mind seeing Chicago stop Indy on offense….
Oh damn…
Penalties within the five really should be automatic first downs.
Honestly, were I Dungy, I’d have gone for it. At worst, the Colts give the ball to the immobile Bears offense at their 2 or 3.
Yeah, the FG surprised me as well…
Even if they miss, Chicago gets it on the 2, Rex fumbles..and it’s a safety
Federline’s commercial really has been the best of a sorry lot.
I liked the careerbuilder ones…
Ok, I admit it. I predict scores about as well as Sylvia Brown
22 is not a typical score to predict, you know. You’re still pretty close.
The best commercial was actually a CBS promo, Letterman and Oprah.
Why did he even throw that pass…
Oops…messed up on the Link .
Finally…Rex did something right.
Can I take that back??? Please
Federline’s commercial was really funny. The national restaurant’s association or something was boycotting the commercial because it “demeaned fast food employees” or something.
The CareerBuilders.com ones I think are the best, especially the one where they jump off the cliff.
Oprah-Letterman one was like 5 seconds. I think it was too short. These commercials are better than the football national championship ones though. All I can remember is that robot punching the truck commercial that they played atleast a dozen times.
Really, Rex sucks.
Ok…this thing is over…
I saw a game once where two walk-ons picked him in a college game once. He sucked then. He sucks now.
Yeah the career building commercials are the most entertaining.
….. This can’t be any worse
I dunno, Wryn. He wasn’t a Danny Wuerffel-Chris Leak-Steve Spurrier mold of successful Florida quarterbacks, but he didn’t suck in college. His sophomore year, yeah, but that’s it.
Dominic Rhodes deserves the MVP…although Manning is probably going to get…but Rhodes and Addai won this game….
that’s it for me….. I’m done…..
🙁
Congrats to Dungy though…he’s the classiest coach in all of Football.
……………………………….
“Rex Grossman… You’ve just lost the Super Bowl almost singlehandedly, what are you going to do next?”
“I’m going to go party all night and make love to beautiful women!”
“Oh, right.”
i think there should be a 3 position platoon with kj/aybar at 2nd, thorman/wilson/ at 1st, and blanco/diaz in left. that would be very interesting altering between the leadoff of blanco, and the leadoff of diaz.
I didn’t pick the score correctly, but I got the winner. That’s the first right call in years… Now I can be a weatherman (I’ve been right at least once)!
……%#$^#$^@^@!!@!$@%#$^#&
well, if had to choose, I’d rather the Gaytor be a complete and total failure. especially with the year those jerks have had sportswise. I would have pulled Rex on that last drive and dumped cooler on Orton to get him half sober. That would have been a good “right back at you” from Lovie to Rex.
Brian J,
I dont understand this quote needs some explaining,”Why can’t Georgia ever develop a good quarterback?” Georgia just graduated the winninest QB in the history of Division 1-A football 2 years ago. Shockley won an SEC title in his first/only year as starter. If david greene had quincy’s arm, he’d be an NFL starter right now. But when it comes to developing a player to his best potential, Greene sure as hell meets that standard. If shockley had Greene’s playing time, he might be even better. Now, if Stafford and his buckets of potential go nowhere, start complaining, but QB has not been GA’s weakness for at least a decade.
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I would have had to give a Co-MVP between Rhodes and Manning if I could have. But what would they have done, cut the Caddy in half? 🙂
I kinda feel for Rex Grossman. Perhaps he had no business being there in the first place (I have to say Drew Brees and the Saints may have done better), but his running game sucked, his defense couldn’t stop the run, and he just couldn’t get a feel for the wet football. I don’t think he “lost the Super Bowl almost singlehandedly” like Mac said. Was it Rex who let the Colts run for 191 yards?
And this also is a fair question around here: Does the resentment of Rex Grossman have anything to do with the fact that he’s a former Gator player and this board is full of fans Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Auburn, etc.?
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No, the resentment comes in because he just won a Super Bowl for Peyton Manning, who is who we actually hate.
As an Alabama fan, I don’t care about Florida one way or the other.
It’s not resentment — that gives him too much credit. It’s the recognition that he’s more famous than his play warrants. Tonight being a prime example.
Yes. Why else would anyone (other than a Bears fan) have a reason to dislike a mediocre NFL QB who’s teamates at every level think he’s a d-bag.
Also, I now have to deal with an irritable girlfriend, already mad that her dad and brother went down to miami, and now twice as mad that the bears lost. If she showed 1/4 of that interest in UGA football, I’d start ring shopping. But, alas, she comes from the northern lands where football is played on sundays and any item of official NFL merchandise is suitable attire for dinner out.
Maybe I should have meant, “Why can’t Georgia develop an NFL-quality quarterback?”
Greene won by being a “game manager,” handing the ball off to good running backs and letting them do the hard work. He’s buried deep on the Seattle bench and in two years has never taken a regular season snap; he will probably never start. Quincy Carter, even in Athens, was generally regarded as XFL bait (remember them?), and has proven it by bombing out of the NFL and CFL. DJ Shockley is a third-stringer with one season’s starting experience and, again, mostly won games by not losing them. And this year was just torture.
let’s face it, the bears were the best of a weak NFC. yes the saints would have matched up better, but Tom Brady wouldn’t have kept that team in the game with the defense giving up 190 rushing yards .
Rex is a nice guy, and it’s pretty impressive that he made it to the big show in what was really his first full season as a pro.
Doubledawg,
Do you have any proof that his teammates at all levels think he’s a d-bag? I live in the heart of Gator Country and I heard nothing about that, and with all the Super Bowl coverage, that’s one thing that never came up.
Rob Cope,
You make an excellent point about the rushing yards, but you have to take into count, the Bears defense was on the field for 40+ minutes. They were dead tired, most likely the #1 reason why there were so many broken tackles. Majority of the rushing yards by Rhodes/Addai came after contact.I don’t know exactly how many broken tackles there were in the game, but I can tell you there was a helluva lot more than the Bears are used to.
Peyton Manning was voted the MVP for one reason…he’s Peyton Manning. This game was won by running the ball and eating up the clock. Also the turnovers and the horrible play of Rex. But the Colts ran the ball 42 times.
Rhodes: 21 car 113 yds 1 TD, 1 rec 8 yds
Addai: 19 car 77 yds, 10 rec 66 yds
Come on…there’s your MVP’s. Plain and simple.
And please don’t take this as more “Manning bashing”, because it’s not. I’ve said once before, that I think he is the best QB in the NFL, he just wasn’t the Most Valuable Player of the Super Bowl….in my opinion of course.
Maybe I should have meant, “Why can’t Georgia develop an NFL-quality quarterback?”
Probably because it isn’t the job of the Georgia coaching staff to develop NFL quarterbacks — it’s their job to win college football games.
I have an idea…any team wanting to win the super bowl should sign Adam Vinatieri…
Well anyways, it’s been fun fellas…see everyone tomorrow…with football officially over….IT’S BASEBALL MODE NOW!! 😀
well…I still got college basketball…
What a great night for Peyton. He can win the big game. He is one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game.
And what an incredible trophy-acceptance speech by Tony Dungy.
Rob,
I know people who went to high school with Grossman and couldn’t stand him. In fact, I’ve never heard anyone affirmatively state that he does like Rex. That said, I wasn’t really cheering against him, just for Peyton.
The only downside of this game is that Hunter Hillenmeyer doesn’t get a ring, but I think he’ll manage, what with his 3.9 4-year g.p.a., majoring in Economics at Vanderbilt.
Ehh. Rex didn’t have a great game, but he’s not what lost it. The Bears weren’t able to generate any sort of running game. Grossman did fine moving the ball with the short passing game, and I’m disappointed they didn’t try to go for that more. The defense did okay (about as good as you could ask), but it was obvious that they were tiring towards the end. Grossman will probably get tons of blame for the Bears loss, but IMO the worst you can say of him is that, when he was asked to win it by himself, he was unable to.
Seriously. His passing stats were very good until those picks. His completion percentage was something like 60 or 70%; he just didn’t have many opportunities because the Bears kept trying futily to run the ball.
Speaking of which, HUGE props to the Indy defense. I thought it would break down against a team devouted to the run, but the Bears certainly couldn’t beat them. They forced the Bears to throw it deep, and Rexy just wasn’t up to it.
It feels too weird watching this football game over 6 months after I did PBP of a football game back in August on radio. Football season’s long been over. *Yawn* I can’t get into football in February. Tonight’s game had no bearing on my life. I was more pumped up for the Egg Bowl. Seriously. And I’m not from nor have I ever lived in the Magnolia State.
Jay10,
Is the dad Jim Donnan?
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Never thought I’d say it, but the NBA game I went to today (Hawks @ Nets in OT) was more exciting than the Super Bowl.
All those early turnovers sort of numbed me out to the game. I got to the point where I didn’t care what happened (beyond my playoff pool numbers). I took a nap at halftime & flipped off the TV in the middle of the trophy presentation. I was so done with football at that point.
I love my NHL Devils & I’ll follow that out until the end, but right now all I’m thinking about are pitchers, catchers & spring training…bring it on, baby.
Mraver, I guess you don’t consider the fumble he lost. Or the one he didn’t lose that killed a drive. Or the time he tripped and fell over his own feet, turning a second and two into third and eleven. Or that his first interception was one of the worst passes thrown in a Super Bowl since Garo Ypremian. Grossman threw a bunch of dinky passes and had a nice completion percentage, but he was awful. I think this was the worst Super Bowl performance since Earl Morrall in III.
I’m glad Peyton won his Super Bowl. He is a great quarterback and, other than the fact that he is from UT and is all over TV, I don’t understand the resentment, especially considering the run of assholes that populate professional (and college) sports. I’m not a particular UT fan anymore but Peyton seems like a decent guy and I am tired of this stupidity of ranking quarterbacks by how many Super Bowls they win. (So that, by that measure, Trent Dilfer is better than Dan Marino.) I’m glad that is off his back. He is fun to watch and the SEC was lucky to have him (as opposed to all those Gator quarterbacks before Rex that embarrassed themselves in the NFL such as Danny Wuerffel and Shane Mathews). Maybe now we realize that, in college, the system matters an awful lot.