2011 N.F.L. Whipping Post

Post by **wayfriend** » Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:51 pm

Go Pats! I think Myra will be happy tonite.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 4:48 am

Yup! That was fun!

Strange that I started watching when the Giants played the Jets. I usually check out the Yankees vs Mets, too. I had a feeling about the Giants, and was right. Didn't have that same feeling the next week, against Dallas. It's been a fun last several weeks.

Post by **Obi-Wan Nihilo** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:31 am

Probably the most dramatic SB with the least surprising ending.

Post by **danlo** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:42 am

dramatic? Bored me to tears...

Post by **Cybrweez** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:27 pm

Anti-climatic ending. Pats receivers dropping passes. Way to step up.

I think the 2 missed fumbles, and Brady's poor 4th quarter play was the difference. Is it time to realize Brady is no longer big game performer? Played poorly in AFC title game, last Super Bowl against Giants, and did well thru 3 quarters, but the 4th was terrible. A pick, and missing Welker (tho he had a chance to make great catch) that may have ended it. Then missed Branch on the next play, and they punt. Upsetting. I'm a Brady fan from Michigan.

Post by **wayfriend** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 4:11 pm

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA....

Post by **Obi-Wan Nihilo** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 4:39 pm

I saw dropped passes rather than bad passes, with the exception of the first Welker drop. Brady played a great game, Manning as well. The catch by Manningham was truly great.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:39 pm

I thought Brady played great. The Giant's D deserves credit for his difficulties.

Post by **Obi-Wan Nihilo** » Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:38 pm

The Pats are young, and hungry. They aren't going anywhere.

Post by **MsMary** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:20 am

dANdeLION wrote:I thought Brady played great. The Giant's D deserves credit for his difficulties.

Indeed.

Post by **Damelon** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:43 am

I thought it was a good game. Not the best Super Bowl, but it was competitive. Which, after all of those blowouts in the '80's and '90's is all I like to see in the game. For all the talk about how the rules have tilted the game towards the offense, it didn't show last night. The Giants D was good and the Patriots D played better than I thought they would.

Both quarterbacks had good games, but that hit on Brady seemed to take a toll on his accuracy. After being red-hot early I read he was 7 for 17 afterwards.

Post by **Cybrweez** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:17 pm

7 for 17 with a pick. And the miss to Welker was huge.

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:40 pm

Pats need a big receiver on the other side - someone like Colston. superbowl sucked.

Post by **wayfriend** » Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:35 pm

wayfriend wrote:To be succinct: in 2007, the Patriots went undefeated in the regular season, reaching the superbowl with a perfect 18-0 record for the year. They played the :ack: :spit: Giants. The Pats got an early lead, and sustained it until about 1 minute left in the fourth quarter. It was fourth down, Manning the Giants quarterback took the snap, and then was deluged by Pats defense. It looked like the Pats would sack the quarterback, get the ball on downs, take a knee, and win the game. Then something which can only be explained by a deal with Satan, telekenesis, and time travel COMBINED happened, such that Manning popped out from underneath the rush, did two sommersaults in the air, landed on one hand, and threw a pass with the other. The ball didn't go near anyone with a Giants jersey, but a receiver floated over the heads of eight other guys, threw out something resembling a lasso, snatched the ball out of the air, which was way out over the stands by this point, realed it in, floated back to the other side of the field, landed on one hand, stretched out the other hand while the goal line grew a bulge that went out about four feet towards him, and then he touched the tip of the ball into the now morphed end-zone. Giants :ack: :spit: win by 3.

Well, that's how I remember it. And, believe me, there was a long period of time where I couldn't, I had just blacked out the whole thing.

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Post by **SoulBiter** » Sun Feb 04, 2018 10:36 pm

Say what you like, nothing could be worse as aFalcons fan than last year. That last 15 mins if football had play after play like the one you described. t was a once-in-a-lifetime collapse. There's a reason we had a 99% chance of a Lombardi in hand. Every single thing (EVERY SINGLE THING) had to go wrong for a quarter. The Freeman missed block. The inane decision not to run it. The impossible Pats catch that coulda, shoulda been Alford's second INT. Two two-point conversions. H*ll, we were a shoestring tackle from taking an onside kick to the house even BEFORE all the above.

Change any single one of these things (and many more, those are just the most egregious) and we win.

As long as I live and watch sports, I'll never get over that game.

It was ours. It was over.

Until it just ... wasn't.

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2011 N.F.L. Whipping Post