Now I’m not normally a big sports fan, especially football, but I couldn’t help but watch the end of the Super Bowl tonight (I was out and about running errands for most of the game because I really didn’t care and was really only watching while waiting for my laundry). When I am a sports fan, I tend to be a New York sports fan, having grown up in Southern CT, much closer to NY than Boston or Foxboro as is the case of the Patriots. Sure, the Patriots had a historic season going into the Super Bowl completely undefeated. However, every good thing must come to an end, and tonight, that end was the New York Giants with an unlikely ending to an otherwise perfect season.
Personally, I can’t stand the obnoxiousness of Boston-area sports fans, generally being Red Sox fans, but that extends a bit to Patriots fans as well, as they have become quite cocky with their team’s perfect regular season. The only good thing (other than being the first football team to go 19-0) that would have come of the Patriots winning tonight would be the possibility of it being cool to hate them (much like it’s become cool to hate the Yankees, the most decorated team in the history of professional sports, all sports). But the only thing better than the Patriots making history with a 19-0 season is the Patriots going 18-1 to a very unlikely opponent who barely made it to the post season. If I enjoyed watching any Super Bowls in the past 28 years, this was the best. It was a good game and anyone who says otherwise is just being a crybaby (Boston-area sports fans love to blame the refs or the umpires when their teams lose, even when it’s a legit loss). Both teams played tough. When the Patriots’ offense pushed, the Giants’ defense pushed right back. In the end, it seems as though the Giants’ defense got the best of the Patriots and Eli Manning made some incredible plays (especially in the run to the game winning touchdown breaking loose of the Patriots’ defense and making an incredible throw that was almost incomplete, which was probably the play of the game in my opinion).
Anyway, I’m happy it’s over and I am thrilled the Giants won.
EDIT: I saw this post a post that no longer exists on Beer Advocate because it was unrelated to beer and had to share it. It basically sums up how I feel about Belichick and his reaction to losing. He didn’t once say in his interview that the Giants played one hell of a game. Instead, he just said he was disappointed in his own team. That’s pretty classless if you ask me. Basically, the BA post called Belichick a sore loser, which is pretty accurate if you ask me.
It was one hell of a game. I’m not surprised at Belichick’s response, but at least the Patriot players said the other team played well (in the responses I saw anyway). Since I’m from Cleveland, he wasn’t exactly a favorite there due to his tenure with the team, so it was nice to see him lose. I don’t think he should have gotten the Coach of the Year aware, mainly because of Spygate, but because of his attitude. The only thing you didn’t mention was how he left the field with one second left and didn’t come back out to do his job as coach, and even though it was the last play, he should have, well, coached.