No time for reasoned analysis – there are still too many household chores and tasks to be completed before I can settle in front of the big screen and watch me some Super Bowl, but here’s my prediction, for what it’s worth:<\/p>\n
Patriots 27 Giants 19.<\/font><\/p>\n Chicken wings consumed by me: 18<\/p>\n Pretzels (stick form): .5 bags<\/p>\n Fizzy drinks: 5<\/p>\n Blood-curdling screams directed at repetitious advertising: 14<\/p>\n Update:<\/strong>\u00a0 In case you’ve been under a considerably large rock somewhere, the Giants beat the Pats 17-14 on the strength of a very memorable catch by David Tyree (even if there probably was at least a Giant or two holding during the sequence in which Eli Manning escaped the Patriots offensive linemen) and an incredible performance by the Giants defensive line.\u00a0 For my money, the MVP of that game has to be Jason Tuck, the guy who had an all-world history first half and managed to sack Tom Brady twice in addition to hurrying him and knocking him down countless times (well, okay, somebody\u00a0has counted them somewhere).\u00a0\u00a0 Midway through the fourth quarter, Eli’s quarterback rating was a mediocre seventy-something and he was firing at something like a 10 for 28 clip with 1 TD and 1 interception – not exactly the stuff of legend.\u00a0 Granted, he\u00a0led one of the more memorable drives in\u00a0Super Bowl history for that final touchdown, but no way that drive happens unless Tuck (and his d-line buddies)\u00a0lays it down like he did in the first half.\u00a0 There should be a rule that lines, be they offensive or defensive,\u00a0are automatically eligible as a group for consideration as MVP – let\u00a0those big, beefy corn-fed lads figure out for themselves how to share the truck later.\u00a0 The award too often goes to a quarterback simply because no other individual has a notable standout performance and the\u00a0QB\u00a0just happens to touch the ball\u00a0most every play, so we remember his name.\u00a0 What was the deal with the conservative offensive\u00a0play-calling from\u00a0New England’s coaching staff?\u00a0 No shotgun, no hurry-up offence until late in the fourth quarter and very few attempts at a five-wide spread the field set even though the Giants were absolutely murdering them at\u00a0what they were doing.\u00a0 I understand being confident in an offence that scored the kind of points the Patriots did this year, but it was way obvious to everyone watching that significant adjustments had to be made to the Bostonians’\u00a0attack plans in the second half, but\u00a0no significant changes were forthcoming until the last series or two of the game.\u00a0 Too little, too late.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I had this argument with a fellow in my office, but I think that despite the lack of scoring in the game (especially early) and despite some of the questionable coaching (see the lack of adjustments previously discussed), this was a game\u00a0to remember.\u00a0 Did.\u00a0 You. See.\u00a0 That.\u00a0 Guy.\u00a0 Catch.\u00a0 The.\u00a0 Ball.\u00a0 With.\u00a0 His.\u00a0 H E L M E T\u00a0! ! !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n I miss football already.\u00a0 Something tells me that this year’s\u00a0“pitchers and catchers report to spring training” will be even less\u00a0satisfactory\u00a0to me than ever this year, and I seriously doubt that my Leafs will be playing any meaningful games for the rest of this season.\u00a0 Am I supposed to get excited about golf?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No time for reasoned analysis – there are still too many household chores and tasks to be completed before I can settle in front of the big screen and watch me some Super Bowl, but here’s my prediction, for what it’s worth:<\/p>\n Patriots 27 Giants 19.<\/p>\n Chicken wings consumed by me: 18<\/p>\n Pretzels (stick form): […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}