18 and d’oh: Now I Can watch Bill Simmons Die in peace

It is crazy but the Patriots built the gameplan that beat them last night. Last night the 07 Pats lost to the 2001 pats. The similarities between 2002 Super Bowl and last night’s was scary.

 

There are the cosmetic similarties, the score, 17-14, both were double digit underdogs, both underdog lost at home to the favorites at home by a single score, both had retread coaches the favorites were record setting offenses, both teams played in a game that was  defined by weather but it went deeper.

 

That night I heard ESPN’s Tom Jackson say how the Giants reminded him of how the pats were a team in every sense of the world. Then I looked at the Giants and realized they had no superstar who piled up crazy stats, Just a whole bunch of the player playing for one another and having fun, with a underdog quarterback.

Both team relied on their defenses to dominate the game and shutdown the unstoppable force. They forced the favorites to throw the ball over 75 percent of the time. Then they pinned their ears back and dropped the quarterback like he Brady drops his baby’s mama. The favorite also insisted on ignoring what was successful that night, wide receiver were picking up ten yards a clip, and tried to win with style, which allowed the quarterback to be beat into the carpet.

But at the end the supposedly superior team scored late in the fourth quarter and the underdogs were doomed to come up short. But Eli was able to distinguish himself from Brady, by actually scoring the game winning touchdown, instead of playing for the field goal.

There is also one small difference, the Giants did not have to use night vision goggles to watch Brady hump Gisele the day before the game, hoping to figure out what he was going to run on second and five at the 50 yard line in the third quarter.

And more importantly this has hurt the mythic power of Boston sports. Like always said the worst thing Boston could do is win the World Series. they lost the lovable loser tag now they are the Yankees with out 27 championships. Sure that 3-0 comeback was historic,  but a New york team stopped a New England team from becoming the greats team ever. A hundred years from now they would have still bean talking about this Patriot team but now they are just another great.  As I said at kickoff, I don’t know what was more important to me the giants wining the Super Bowl or the Pats Losing.

The weirdest part is I think I am starting to get that QB man crush, thinking that Eli would have been the only quarterback who could have won a Super Bowl. Here is how I place Eli in the QB Hierarchy, Peyton and Brady are the living legends,untouchable, then there is the Mcnabb Hasselbeck who have turned losing franchises in to perennial contenders, but then there is Eli. I think his play is much more similar to Brady’s when he won Super Bowl 2 and three, where is not running a offensive juggernaut, but rather taking his team down the field when it matters. I think you have to put Eli ahead of number guys Like Brees and Palmer because he has always shown the ability to win the game in the fourth quarter, and he has been to the playoffs more times than both of them. And as far as Big Ben and Phillip “Ryan Leaf with LT” Rivers, both of those run the third most important par of their team, defense and running game being a higher priorities, and all they were suppose to do s not screw it up.

P.S. Did any body else notice that Brady had a drinking till sunrise voice on Media day, watch the clip when he talks the Bride reporter.