NFL 2011/2012

[Pepe990]

any NFL Fans here??

[AElf]

any NFL Fans here??

Nudist Flagellation League?  Sure! 

[Pepe990]

yeah man. but tbh I thought they'll win! Even had money on them :p YEAH BUDDAY

do you reckon Raiders will make the playoffs??

its all bout the best d! Go Niners!

[Pepe990]

its simply the best D. they said yesterday in what they are leading! and imagine when Willis is back! and we saw that the Packers aint unbeatable so im faithful!! but we'll see what happens! don't know if Tebow time is over yet...

[gamez]

My Raiders may need some help on Sunday, but this is the closest they've been to the playoffs in such a long time.

[Pepe990]

come on man! denver was shit last week especially Tebow...  just depends on ravens

[AElf]

My Raiders may need some help on Sunday, but this is the closest they've been to the playoffs in such a long time.

My condolences on the Raiders' loss.  It was a very odd game, they didn't seem to be playing with any sort of urgency.  It was almost as though they'd decided against going to the playoffs.  Major bummer!

[Pepe990]

GO NINERS!!

Who's got it better than us??

NO buuudaaaaayy

[gamez]

My Raiders may need some help on Sunday, but this is the closest they've been to the playoffs in such a long time.

My condolences on the Raiders' loss.  It was a very odd game, they didn't seem to be playing with any sort of urgency.  It was almost as though they'd decided against going to the playoffs.  Major bummer!

They pretty much had the playoffs handed to them, only to bat it away like a cat. They screwed up and gave away too many games this year to really be a serious contender. It also doesn't help living with two Niners fans.......

[bulletpr00f_m0nk]

Eli vs Tom

This looks like it's going to be epic.

[Pepe990]

Eli vs Tom

This looks like it's going to be epic.

Patriots will win it! Simply because Giants didn't play good against the 49ers...

[AElf]

Eli vs Tom

This looks like it's going to be epic.

Patriots will win it!

Maybe, maybe not.  Consider what happened the last time they played the Tom & Eli show.  This year might be a re-run.

Simply because Giants didn't play good against the 49ers...

If you truly believe that you have much to learn about American football.  The play I watched in Sunday's games was some of the best I saw this year, by all four teams.  The better two teams won in the end but the margin in both games was a single field goal.

I think that bulletproofmonk has the right characterization for the Superbowl.

Go G-men!  All hail the New York Giants!

[Pepe990]

but if williams would have held on to both balls SF would have won it and if the Giants had played the best they could they would have not needed to profit of those two mistakes

[AElf]

but if williams would have held on to both balls SF would have won it and if the Giants had played the best they could they would have not needed to profit of those two mistakes

If wishes were horses then beggars might ride.  It is another one of those cases of would've, could've, should've . . . but didn't.

Williams dropped his balls and the G-men capitalized on the mistakes.  That is the essence of football, the ability to convert turnovers into points on the board.  If you want to win you play both to your own strengths and to the opponents' weaknesses. 

Look at the Pats vs the Crows in the AFC game . . . the Crows all but shut down the Brady offense and still lost because the Pats played on Baltimore's weakness.  Baltimore came prepared to defend against an air attack and got beaten on the ground because they didn't dare slack off on the pass defence.  That and the Pats' much-disrespected defence played at an all-Pro level. 

In the SF game the Giants got as many points as they needed and stayed healthy for the Superbowl.  It was one of those games that might have gone either way but SF is just rising up from years in the cellar and they didn't have the poise that comes from experience in winning big games.  Maybe they'll do better next year.

Both conference title games were excellent and both winning teams deserve their wins. 

All hail the New York Giants!

[AElf]

 

and,

once again,

All hail the New York Giants!

Congrats to Coach Coughlin, Eli, Brandon, Justin, Victor, Jason, Ahmad, Corey, Hakeem, Mario and all of the other guys.  It was a hard fought and cleanly played game between two teams who both deserved to be in the game.  It is unfortunate that there can be only one winner.  For the team that lost there is no consolation prize and there is no consolation.