Posted on 01/26/2008 4:16:13 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Nah. NFL Marketing, Inc. has decided to let the Super Bowl chips fall where they may. I'd take the Giants and the points in a New York minute. Anyone following the regular season knows full well, New England didn't get here by talent alone.
Testimony to the unrelenting mediocrity of the NFL today. I can name half a dozen teams from seasons past ho would eat the parriots' lunc without breaking a sweat. Most of them start with G, P, or D.
So, you think a discussion took place in Manhattan that goes along these lines then, eh?
GOODELL: Look folks, football has taken a hit in the last few years. The league is mediocre...people find it difficult to really love or really hate a team, there is no emotion in it.
NFL MARKETING PEON 1: Sir, I have an idea. Why don’t we figure out a way to get people involved emotionally....play on their baser emotions?
GOODELL: How do we do that? Weekly stories about the players, their personal lives or such?
NFL MARKETING PEON 1: No, we already do that.
NFL MARKETING PEON 2: How about this? We pump up one team, make them unbeatable, really polarize things. Those who love the winning team will really love them, and the others will really hate them.
GOODELL: We already have that. Is that the best you can do? Christ, they send me these people fresh out of Harvard Business School, and I get tripe like this. I could have thought of that myself.
NFL MARKETING PEON 3: Excuse me...why don’t we make it UNFAIR? Americans LOVE underdogs, especially when they think that those underdogs are being unfairly held down because the playing field is not level.
GOODELL: Hmm...interesting...tell me more.
MARKETING PEON 3: We FIX it. We make it blatant! We put the power of the league squarely behind the winners...pile it on...make it OBVIOUS! We can have the officials make all the calls in favor of the Top Dog! Think of it! I can hear the howls of outrage at the officials! Fans will be on their feet! Everyone will have an opinion...even little old grannies who never watched a football game in their life!
GOODELL: YES! We can make the team appear to people like Darth Vader and the Imperial Storm Troopers! Great idea! What team do we choose?
MARKETING PEON 1: Sir, I suggest the New England Patriots.
GOODALL: Really? Oh, come on. How can we do that? Tom Brady is a nice guy, has a great smile and good skills. How are we going to turn him into Darth Vader for God’s sake?
MARKETING PEON 3: Not Tom Brady. We can just say he is a fag...not the poster boy they make him out to be. We have to make BELECHICK the bad guy! Think Tom Landry with his hat and his stuffy demeanor, while his teams pounded the competition. Sure, they hated Staubach, but...who did they REALLY hate? Tom Landry! And look at Belechick...he is RIPE for the picking! He even LOOKS like Richard Nixon!
GOODALL: YOU’RE PROMOTED! YOU...(points at MARKETING PEON 2)...clean out your office...you’re out of here. Get me Mike Pereira on the phone! He can get those squeaky clean officials to toe the line on this. (Points at MARKETING PEON 3) You’re a sneaky bastard...you do it.
Testimony to the unrelenting mediocrity of the NFL today. I can name half a dozen teams from seasons past who would eat the patriots' lunch without breaking a sweat. Most of them start with G, P, or D.
How do you feel about the Kennedy assassination?
Nothing very special? You say you have been watching football for 40 years?
I would like to know how you can say that a 5’9” 185 lb guy like Welker who gets 11 catches for 122 yards in NFL competition is “nothing special”.
I really want to know. Nothing personal, but unless you are only saying that because you don’t like the Patriots, it doesn’t say much about your football IQ.
If you are saying it just because you don’t like the Patriots, just say so. I can accept that.
Disagreed. Stallworth and Moss draw heavy coverage and still make plays. If they can’t make plays, they at least free Welker up to exploit a mismatch with a linebacker. The 2006 corps was nothing special.
And Matt Light is the worst “good” left tackle I have ever seen.
Yeah...I know what you mean. Nowadays it only takes until Tuesday for me to get over a Giants loss; it used to take til Wednesday.
Well, first the SB, then pitchers and catchers very soon.
Burress is acting like a freaking moron. All the talk that he ans Osi have done is worth at least one turnover for the Giants. If you don’t have a superbowl ring you don’t shoot your mouth off. You don’t talk trash.
Rodney is cheater. Dirty and he uses hgh. Good thing for the Giants is that he hits late, possibility of picking up a couple of free first downs. And he’s slow, very slow. Burress is a n idiot for shooting his mouth off but he, Toomer, Bradshaw, Smith and Boss will be open all day against a very slow new england coverage team.
If you hit hard and are in the right place, you don’t have to be as fast...:)
I’ve gotta ask you if you are familiar with the LLABTOOF club?
Greg
Nope...can’t say that I am.
A group of Giants fans that travel as a group/club to one away game per year. I crossed paths with them I think back in 91 when they came to Dallas. A good group of guys. GO GIANTS!!!
greg
Even worse is waiting around on Super Bowl Sunday for the game. I usually go to a movie.
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