Category: Super Bowl (Page 29 of 36)

      The Packers should bring back Brett Favre

      July 9, 2008 /

      I know Brett Favre’s “will he or won’t he” act is getting tiresome.

      I know it’s not fair to Aaron Rodgers.

      I know this might make the Packers worse off in two or three years.

      But if Brett Favre really wants to return to football, the Packers should take him back. There’s no other reasonable choice. Favre holds the keys. He can un-retire whenever he wants to. If/when he does, then the Packers either have to play him, trade him or release him, and those last two options aren’t really options.

      This is a guy who threw for 4155 yards and 28 touchdowns, and had a quarterback rating of 95.7, which was the sixth best in the league last season. If not for Tom Brady’s insane year, Favre probably would have been the front runner to win the MVP award, which would have been the fourth of his career. Despite the fact that his interception in overtime against the Giants ended the Packers season, Favre had the highest QB rating of any signal caller in the playoffs (99.0).

      Clearly, the guy can still play. I was absolutely stunned when he decided to hang ’em up with the Packers this close to the Super Bowl.

      He gives the Packers the best chance to win now. Rodgers may or may not be a good quarterback. Favre proved in 2007 that he’s still a great one. Life isn’t fair, and Rodgers hasn’t been dealt the best hand. If I’m Mike McCarthy, I just shrug my shoulders and say, “Them’s the breaks, kid. Keep your dobber up.”

      I don’t buy the secondhand reports that Green Bay GM Ted Thompson forced Favre out. Everything he said after the season implied that it was Favre’s decision, and with the way he played all year, there was no reason for Thompson to force him out. And there was no reason for Favre to allow himself to be forced out. The entire Packer Nation wanted him to return for another season and I’d bet that a majority would love to see #4 under center come September.

      But only if he’s wearing the green and gold.

      And, assuming he actually wants to play, that’s why the Packers have to take him back.

      Update: I changed my mind later that season when I found out that Favre actually unretired twice in the spring/summer of 2008.

      Fantasy Football, NFL, Rumors & Gossip, Super Bowl

      Correcting Bill Simmons, Part 2

      May 23, 2008 /

      Welcome to the second part of my infinite-part series, Correcting Bill Simmons. To find out why I started this series, feel free to read the first part. Simply stated – Bill Simmons is an entertaining writer, but sometimes he goes off the reservation and says something absurd.

      This week, in his Ramblings column, he defends his Patriots over the whole Spygate fiasco.

      If you have a national column in which you’re excoriating a sports team for cheating even though it already paid a severe penalty for what it did, and you’re hinting more revelations are coming down the road, and then it’s proven you were barking up the wrong tree … you need to admit defeat and quit blowing the situation out of proportion. No, really.

      What gets me is that he thinks that the Patriots “already paid a severe penalty” for what they did. This is why Boston fans annoy me. Let’s see, the Patriots were caught videotaping the Jets sideline in a game last season and Matt Walsh produced more videotapes from 2000-2003, so it’s pretty clear to anyone that’s objective about the situation that the team has been videotaping their opponents’ sidelines during Bill Belichick’s entire run. And the “severe penalty” is losing a single first round pick and paying a fine? Is he serious?

      If you took a poll of all NFL fans, I think the overwhelming majority would say that the Pats got off with a slap on the wrist. Their “punishment” was a joke considering that they knowingly broke the rules by stealing signals for at least seven years. If this were the Giants, Boston fans would be foaming at the mouth, bitching and complaining that the penalty wasn’t stiff enough.

      Bill, take the Patriot Glasses off for a minute and look at this situation objectively.

      Fantasy Football, NFL, NFL Draft, Super Bowl

      The ultimate dream for a Giants’ fan

      February 8, 2008 /

      Deadspin.com has an amazing story that any football fan (especially a Giants fan) could appreciate. During the Giants’ Super Bowl celebration in New York City earlier this week, one fan snuck through several security checkpoints to get on to the field during the trophy ceremony, as well as in the locker room with the players.

      As we are pulling away from City Hall, the streets are lined with Giants fans cheering for “us” and we had a police escort the entire way to Giants Stadium. That’s where things got interesting. We got off the bus and were escorted directly into the Stadium tunnel. This is where I thought I was going to get caught. I had no idea what to do next. All of the players went in the locker room and all the Mara’s said they were going up to the owner’s box for the ceremony. I had to make a decision. I then saw David Tyree walking in with his little son and decided I would act like I was with them. I walked right behind him and got right into the locker room. So now the real fun starts. I’m hanging out as if I’m a player while all the guys in the locker room are just getting each other’s autographs on the game balls and on their jerseys. This was my time to shine. I walked around and took some pictures of some of the lockers and then I got to Eli’s. I asked Eli if he could sign my ticket stub from the Super Bowl, which he did. I then asked him to sign my Super Bowl jersey, which he did. I was then ecstatic and didn’t know what to do. I even had people coming up to me asking me for my autograph. They must have thought I was Lawrence Tynes or something.

      Click here to read the entire story, as well as view the pics. His bit about people thinking he was Lawrence Tynes is funny.

      NFL, Super Bowl

      Whack job plotted to shoot up Super Bowl

      February 8, 2008 /

      SPORTSbyBROOKS.com has a story about a would-be bar owner who plotted to shoot people at the Super Bowl because he was angry at being denied a liquor license.

      The crazy guy behind the plot is named ****, and he “recently purchased an AR-15 assault rifle from the Scottsdale Gun Club (and) mailed to media outlets eight copies of a manifesto. In it he explained why he was planning to kill people at the Super Bowl.”

      What is wrong with people? He was denied a liquor license so he decided to take innocent people’s lives? I refuse to print this ass clown’s name so that he doesn’t get any more national recognition for being a selfish prick.

      NFL, Super Bowl

      Belichick’s boneheaded decision

      February 5, 2008 /

      When football fans reminisce about Super Bowl XLII, they’re likely going to talk about Eli Manning and the Giants’ final drive to beat the previously undefeated Patriots. Or David Tyree’s catch. Or Will Ferrell’s, “Bud Light – suck one” commercial.

      But one small facet that is currently being overlooked is the decision Bill Belichick made in the third quarter to go for it on 4th and 13 instead of attempting a 48-yard field goal. FOXSports writer Mark Kriegel talks about that play in one of his latest columns. (As well as how Belichick has decided to hide in a hole following the game.)

      Recall Belichick’s decision to go for it on fourth down with the ball on the Giants’ 31-yard line. With a chance for a 48-yard field goal, Belichick keeps his kicker on the sideline. It was the third quarter. Points were precious and few on Sunday. The kicker, Stephen Gostkowski was 21-of-24 this year, three-of-five from a distance of 40-to-49 yards. The longest field goal of his career was a 52-yarder he made last season as a rookie. He’d been kicking them from the 50 in practice. And it’s not as if there was any interference from the elements. University of Phoenix Stadium was a dome Sunday night with its roof closed. All that, and Belichick goes for it. As it happened, Tom Brady — having his problems all night with the Giants defense — would throw an incomplete pass to Jabar Gaffney.

      The field goal was no guarantee, but Kriegel’s right for calling Belichick out. The odds of the Patriots scooping up a first down on 4th and 13 were slim compared to Gostkowski making a 48-yarder. It was a dumb decision and considering the media’s infatuation with Belichick the genius, one would think that they would call him out more for arrogant decisions like that one.

      NFL, Super Bowl

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