Giants 34 . Patriots 24

Giants 31-19

The Super Bowl doesn't matter. Nothing matters as long as Nutter still own the Pirates.

Giants 31 Patriots 23, the Giants are the better team. I expect to see a couple of Victor Cruz salsa dances tonight!!

Bob, I agree it's mystifying that their picks overwhelmingly favor New England when in reality each team has an excellent chance to win.

But I do agree with Byrne that the Giants are being worshiped as the second coming of the '85 Bears. I'm not discounting the fabulous run New York has had the second part of the season, and their journey to Indianapolis reminds me of the Cowher-led Steelers squad that won for the thumb. However, the Giants needed two special teams miscues by the 49ers to make the Super Bowl, and the Pats' offense is better.

Also, while the G-men are lauded for their late-season improvement, the progress the Pats' defense made in the latter half of the season mostly is being ignored. But the Pats needed a missed field goal to make the big game.

All in all, it should be a great game with NE winning 31-27.

I like the Giants because I think they are better defensively and can stop Brady occasionally and on offense they can grind it out.
Giants -30
Patriots-27

Giants 27 Patriots 20

Giants 24 Pats. 20

Giants 30 Patriots 20 (I need 0 and 0 in my block pool)

Bob:

Giants 31.....Pats 20.....MVP Cruz

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...I'll take the Cardinals in 7...

Ooops! I like the Giants but Brady is, well Brady. I am calling this a tossup but it will be close either way.

Jose

Giants 27 Pats 24 .............wishful thinking.

MVP -- Nicks

Eli Manning is a tough, tough quarterback and IMO the Giants have played much tougher teams in the playoffs but for some reason I think that the Patriots will win.

Patriots 35 Giants 21

Only 3 things can keep the Giants from winning:

--Eli gets hurt in the first half

--Coughlin goes ultra conservative on offense

--the ref's tilt the game to the patriots.

The Patriots are the worst AFC team in the Super Bowl since either the Raiders in 2003 or Parcell's Pat's back in the '90's.

Giants 39, Pats 16t

Btw:

--Where's Bob's pick?

--The Curtis Martin quotes in the PG today were outstanding. Any one looking for a role model? His mother would be a great one.

--Loved the Pirates story in today's PG, too. Is there a beat writer yet or will it still be a coverage by committee, which worked so well last year.

Bring on the pre-game, I've a hankerin' for some hoopla!

Giants 31 Pats 24

This Super Bowl will further prove that momentum in the final third of the season and the healthiness of a team are more important to winning a Super Bowl than playoff seed.

This is why God had Tebow do his bidding and eliminate the Steelers, we had no chance of winning number 7.

Giants 45 Patriots 21

There's a Sex and the City marathon on E! today.

Giants 29 - Patriots 27

MVP- Eli Manng

I think the law firm of Ben Jarvis Green Ellis will merit MVP votes with a 100+ yrd game. Eli throws 2 key picks. Cruz isn't a big factor because the Pats don't miss tackles that turn 7 yards into 70.

Pats 24 Giants 20.

NE 38 NY 17

I like Byrnes' reasoning. Plus, not a lot has been said or written about it but Tom Brady's play in the post season has been sub par for the most part the past several years. He was especially bad against Baltimore in this year's AFCCG. He played well against the Broncos but what were the Broncos doing in their secondary? The Broncos put no rush on Brady and seemed to be playing loose zone defense in the secondary...a lethal cocktail against Brady and the Pats passing game. Plus Gronkowski will be a non factor...even if he plays....so:

Giants 27 Pats 20

Oh what a surprise overwelmingly Pittsburghers don't want the Pats to win. Take that Belicheat.

Giants win 42-26. One of the Giant running backs will be MVP.

The Patriots are 2.5 point favorites and the over/under is 54, so, I'll go with the real experts:

New England 28 - New York 26.

Hi Bob:

I hope the Giants win otherwise it will be a moribund office tomorrow.

Giants 24, NE 20

Marnie in NYC

Let's see what NE can do without the spygate edge. NE has always been overrated because of the built in bias.p

I forgot to add Brady MVP.

Patriots 24, Giants 20.

MVP: Tom Brady.

Giants 27 - Pats 21

Cruz MVP

First, I will pick with my heart.

Giants 38-28 or 31-27. I have 8 and 8, and 1 and 7 squares in the block poll at work, and would much rather the Giants (and their similar to the Rooney's family owned NFL team roots) have 4 Lombardi's than Bellichek's Patriots.

Head pick. Patriots 31-20. Brady is very good at football.

pats 27 giants 24. the pats simply have more weapons than the giants. they've also seen plenty of good defenses. should be a good game.

I agree with Curmudgeon, Meathead, and heartbeatsings - this game won't be very close. The Giants dominated a much better team at Green Bay already, and soundly thrashed an Atlanta Falcons team that looked every bit the equal of the Pats on both sides of the ball. The only team that kept it close was the 49ers, and the Pats defense is nowhere near as sophisticated and hard hitting as San Francisco's.

Giants 41, Pats 10

I predict a 34-24 victory for the Giants. I do not see this game being close. Forget the overall records. This Giants team, like the Packers last year, is the hottest team in pro football.

Most people believe Brady had a bad game against the Ravens. I believe the Ravens front four had a good game. Brady is not mobile. He can only work his magic if he has time in the pocket. The Patriots scored more points than the Ravens not because they were the better team, the Ravens gave away the game with a dropped touchdown pass and a missed chip shot field goal.

At this point in their careers, Eli manning is a better quarterback than Brady. Eli is a mobile quarterback. If his offensive line is having a bad day, he can move and make plays outside of the pocket. That is how he made the throw to Tyree in the previous Super Bowl.

Also, the Pats have the 31st ranked defense for a reason. The Giants will possess the ball and keep Brady on the bench. They will follow the same game plan the Steelers did.

The Pats do not have a deep threat. The Giants will take advantage of a wide receiver playing defensive back. In view of the above, the Giants can only lose if they give the game away as the Ravens did. Without careless Giants interceptions and fumbles, the Pats cannot beat the Giants.

NE 44 NYG 27. The defense disappears

I pray I' wrong, but I think NE wins:

NE 28 NY 24

Between the breaks via refball and the in-house researching of Ernie Adams, I just don't think the Giants can do it again.

By the way.....Superb article by Ed Bouchette today on the Cheatriots.

NY Football Giants 27-24

I see the Giants wideouts with Giant smiles on their faces. Running all over the porous New England D. Giants by 10.
Cruz as MVP

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Max wants NY to win, but Brady and Belichick have too much incentive to avenge last Super Bowl loss, and show cheating thing was not that much of an advantage.

NE 35 NY 20, Brady MVP

Giants - 34
Patriots - 30

MVP - Pierre-Paul

Maybe I'm the only one, but I couldn't care less who wins. I won't be watching a second of the game.

Normal football games are unwatchable because there are too many commercials and not enough action. The Superbowl takes the stoppages to a whole new level.

BBBBOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRIIIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!

Game Pick

Giants 38
Scumbags who should've been banned from the NFL 17

Rationale

Giants dominated a similar pass happy with lousy defense Green Bay squad three weeks ago. Meanwhile, the Patriots got a second round bye with Denver.

Patriots have beaten one, repeat, one team with a winning record this year.

Giants are peaking at the right time. Sure, they squeaked by the 49ers -- but the Patriots squeaked by the Ravens -- and San Francisco is a far superior team.

The Patriots, especially Tom Brady, were sloppy against the Ravens -- yet people expect Brady to step up and have a miracle game -- even though he's been downright awful in most of his recent post-season performances. Nice logic there.

I hate the Patriots guts and everything associated with them.

Bottom Line

Today the Patriots have met their match -- and no longer have the ability to cheat their way to a narrow win.

Side Note

Can't wait to see Giselle Bundchen try to perform the Heimlich Maneuver on Robert Kraft when he starts choking on his spam and spray can cheese Triscuits.

Calling the Pats "CHEATERS" is SOUR GRAPES. Steelers lost to Pats because they were outcoached by a better QB and Head Coach.

Pats 31
Gmen 17

My hope is the Giants, better balance, better D

However this is the National Fix League where tapes of Patriot cheating are destroyed by the Commisar. MVP for the Patriots will be the refs .

A lot of folks appear to be picking who they "want" to win. These are the people who make bookies rich men. I couldn't care less who wins...the Steelers aren't in this game.

Perloff said it best...the Patriots don't have near as much pressure on them as was the case the last time these two teams met in the SB.

Pats - 38 Giants - 21

written by Scott421, February 05, 2012 - 01:05 PM
Calling the Pats "CHEATERS" is SOUR GRAPES. Steelers lost to Pats because they were outcoached by a better QB and Head Coach.

Go read Bouchette's article today -- then tell the players quoted in the article who said cheating mattered to them what you just said.

Giants 31
Patriots 21

Giants 24 Patriots 16

MVP: Madonna

Pats 22 Giants 21.......in a thriller

G-Men 27-17

Patriots 30
Giants 28

MVP - Brady

What I hope today:
Good, clean game.
Giants 27,
Chetriots 17.




What I hope DOESNT happen:
a real-life version of the Buffalo Wild Wings commercial, where Goodell phones someone and random sprinklers go off to help Goodell's best friend Robert Kraft win.

What I hope DOESNT happen:
a real-life version of the Buffalo Wild Wings commercial, where Goodell phones someone and random sprinklers go off to help Goodell's best friend Robert Kraft win.

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As I understand it, it was Dan Rooney leading the way for Goodell to become the next commisioner

I refuse to make a prediction and here is why...

Like the significant majority of the Steeler Nation, the idea of Brady and Belicheat winning another SB sickens me. I'm no Giant's fan but I'll be 1000% behind them tonight.

HOWEVER...

I have a very hard time seeing New England losing. In fact, expect them to win by at least a TD. This is a team that was 13-3 during the season; 27-5 the last two years. The Giants were a 9-7 team that was lucky to make the playoffs and then got hot.

I realize the Giants are a lot healthier than they were earlier in the season and that makes a huge difference in today's NFL. Still, I'm amazed at how many are sure they are going to win. I wonder if people's views are being colored by the upset four years ago.

I expect New England to be fired up and focused regardless...but given a chance to avenge one of the biggest upsets in the history of sports, they go to another level. At least that's what I fear.

I won't predict a victory for a team I hate and fervantly hope will lose...but admittedly I think they are the better team.

Patriot scum CAN'T WIN WITHOUT CHEATING.

PERIOD.

Ok, I was slightly off in my prediction, score-wise.

But I am so glad the CHEATRIOTS lost.

I know Goodell is mad at this.

Poor Bobby Kraft.
Poor Marcia Brady.
Poor Billy Bellicheat.

Cheaters never win in the end.

written by roger roger, February 05, 2012 - 10:28 PM

I know Goodell is mad at this.

You know it. No holding calls on New England. Two grotesque pass interference calls not made. And the phantom holding call. What a joke.

Absolutely thrilled that my prediction above was wrong !!! Thanks Giants for giving us something from this football season...no 4th SB for Brady and the Hoodie.