The Big Game

27 hours until kickoff, and usually I'm hyped up in regards to the Super Bowl, even if my team isn't in it. This year however, if I miss the opening kickoff or a few highly priced commercials, I'm not so upset. News reports these past few weeks state that this might be the most highly viewed Super Bowl in league history. I'm not suprised, the population grows every year, and the expanse of technology allows more and more access to media outlets every year. The league is really trying to hype up this game, but making remarks about the highest viewership in SuperBowl history is akin to saying the latest presidential election will be the most costly in election history. It ALWAYS is.
Albeit, this might possibly be historic in the fact that the Patriots might be the first team in league history to go 19-0. There's a good chance they do that. But enough already from the league office, which BTW is located in NYC. Fox has got to be overjoyed that the largest television market in America is playing their arch enemy in the Big Game. Viewers, viewers, viewers. Revenue, revenue, revenue. I'll watch the game, but mainly in the second half to see if New York can pull off the upset. But just to let you know, alot of America is tired of the I-95 rivalry. Boston v NewYork, Bosox v Yankees, Romney v Guliani (how'd that work out?) and now Patriots v G-Men. I hate to break it to the main stream media who operates in these two cities, there are 48 other states in the country, and as we will watch the game, we root for other teams, so quit trying to wrap us up into the I-95 cooridor feud, we're not interested. We are watching the Super Bowl because we are fans of the game and this is the LAST football game we get to see live until August. We are not enamored with the elitist media views about how wonderful all of your sports teams are. As you've read here at this site, I'm a Buccaneer fan, not a Miami Dolphins fan, but I hope tomorrow night to pop the top on a leftover bottle of champagne from New Years along with the 72 Dolphins as the Giants roll to a victory.

My prediction:
Manning 20-38 264yds 2td 2 ints
B Jacobs 22-89 yds 1td
P Burress 5-89yds 1 td

Brady 26-43 341 yds 3 tds 1 int
Moss 3-69 yds 1 td
Welker 14-123 yards 1 td
Maroney 16-46yds 1 td

Final score- Giants 37 Patriots 36 Tynes kicks a last second field goal to win, and a New York kicker finally doesn't go wide right.

Scandal surfaces the day before the Big Game

Well well, the past two weeks leading up to the Big Game have been filled with a scant few sub-stories. No arrests of players.............so far. Nothing but a story regarding Michael Strahan out late with Eddie Murphie's former wife of two weeks, the disturbing(if true) reports about Osi Umenyiora and his sexual practices, and of course, Mr fertile All-Amercian, Tom Brady, and does he or doesn't he have an ankle injury.
The potential BIG news regarding the Super Bowl, could be the reports surfacing now regarding a New York Times story and a gentleman named Matt Walsh. Mr Walsh had worked for the Patriots for many years and is now a golf pro in Hawaii. Profootballtalk.com has been all over this story, and it seems that Walsh knows something, but is scared to say what he knows. This afternoon however, a new report at the same website states it's believed that the Patriots filmed the Rams walk through prior to Super Bowl XXVI. For those of you in the Patriot Nation, who defended the Spygate scandal in week one, things might become a bit uncomfortable it appears in the coming days and weeks. The defense that everyone cheats, doesn't hold much water with me. I'll be back to give my predictions for the Big Game tomorrow, later today.