Hey, New England?

[bruce]

This is your mom calling.

She said you can suck it.

Bruce

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I was just hoping for a good game. And it was a good game!

[gsdgsd]

Hell of a game indeed. I will admit I was rooting for the Pats (history, 72 Dolphins hate > desire to see Bill Simmons suffer) but the girlfriend put money down on the Giants in an attempt to get into this whole "football" thing, so I'm glad to see her win (and presumably, embrace the sport). Manning's scramble/pass to Tyree goes down as one of the most memorable plays I've seen in 30 years of this stuff.

Dr. Z is the one sportswriter I admire, but I thought he was full of contrarian shit in picking the Giants. Wrong again.

[Vitriola]

You have a girlfriend? Do tell!

Obviously, you've had one for a long enough time that the diminutive/insulting phrase 'the girlfriend' was used.

[gsdgsd]

You have a girlfriend? Do tell!

It's the girl I was dating a little over a year ago -- we got back together, and it's going far better second time 'round.

Obviously, you've had one for a long enough time that the diminutive/insulting phrase 'the girlfriend' was used.

That was just me being really, really drunk.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

girlfriend put money down on the Giants in an attempt to get into this whole "football" thing, so I'm glad to see her win (and presumably, embrace the sport).

I would absolutely like to see what would happen if Dayna and I picked games for next season. I bet she would completely punish me and be thirty games up on me by mid-season.

Twice I've tried to pick games for a season - once in a Yahoo on-line league with Mike Sousa that quickly turned into a debacle (on my part) because I wouldn't wake up in time to pick all the games.

The second was a simple win/lose thing, not against any spread, at "Woody's," a bar in Fort Collins that was within walking distance of our place. I was routinely getting 6 out of 15 games correct (this was before the Texans and Browns entered the league). Just straight-up, I couldn't pick them.

The number of common sense upsets were ASTOUNDING this year, in the playoffs. I mean:

- Seahawks beating Redskins. Yeah, I could see that.

- Giants beating Bucs. I could see that, although that site "FootballOutsiders.com" should be shut down for how badly they bashed NY. But from there:

- Chargers beating Colts? Nobody expected that.

- Giants beating the Cowboys, Packers and Pats?

- Jags beating Steelers?

There is NO WAY TO WIN betting against the NFL. I'll tell you what - the Saints dominated the Seahawks in the regular season. I guarantee you the Hawks would have been up by 40 if they met in the playoffs. Nothing seems to matter, week from week.

With that in mind, I am very curious to see how the 2008 season goes. I want to know what happens to a team that ran up the score, when they are no longer completely dominant. It may not happen in 2008, and that's fine. But I will be completely disappointed if, when the Patriots ARE on the decline, other teams don't completely mash them. I think one of the reasons the Cowboys went 1-15 when Jimmy Johnson first took over was because the rest of the NFC was extracting revenge for getting their heads caved in for twenty years.

Of course, what probably will happen instead is that the AFC will be filled with new coaches who weren't around during the beatdowns (already the case with the Dolphins and Ravens and the season hadn't ended yet) and therefore not give a shit.

[Worm]

Obviously, you've had one for a long enough time that the diminutive/insulting phrase 'the girlfriend' was used.

That was just me being really, really drunk.

Don't get too down on yourself. Most guys beat the girlfriend when they're plastered. Apparently you only make subtlety sexist message board posts? That puts you right into the "good person" area I think.