[Senator Pardek]

Diamondbacks beat the Yanks - the snakes will beat the Americans?

[sinkspur]

Cornball!

[mass55th]

"Symbolic of Our Struggle Today?"

You bet! My 5th great-grandfather, Patriot Francis B. Way was up there cheering them on!

[alisasny]

I would consider it odd that the Patriots or any other underdog team would win in this manner in prior years but this is 2002 and well...divine.

[DallasMike]

but also that they would defeat the "Rams", a symbol of the Medo-Persian (Iran) empire.

Very interesting thought!

[Arkinsaw]

What does it mean when the Cheeseheads win? Is it Gouda or Badda?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

St Louis, Missouri's team is 'symbol of the Medo-Persian (Iran) empire'? The Gateway Arch on the Mississippi is a symbol of militant Islam? I don't get it!!

[tubebender]

My thing with the Patriots was the vindication of John Gruden and the Raiders...nothing more. The team that beat the Raiders won the Super Bowl.

[Sabramerican]

But the Stock Market is screwed.

[LoneGreenEyeshade]

Don't know about symbolism but I bet they (The Patriots) will be able to make a fortune on promotions with their red, white and blue colors and name!!!!

[dalebert]

You might be right.

[StriperSniper]

Minutemen beat the Sheeple!

[cinFLA]

What is Madden symbolic of as he recommended that the Pats should run out the clock.

[ez]

It was a lot more symbolic when the Patriots beat the Raiders.

[ramstud]

Oh puleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese!!!!!!

[timydnuc]

Being an old football player, and a former college player, I can tell you this: I love being the underdog, the "under" the better.

In high school we won a state championship 2-0. Now you think, how do you get 2.............SAFETY! The papers dubbed it a "boring" game. The reporters didn't play the damned game. I was middle linebacker on a 43 defense. I dropped that quarterback with the help of my line. We dropped him in the endzone....SAFETY! 2 points, the only way that the defense can score, and we did it! I won all-state for that game, and an athletic scholorship. My short college time was rather uneventful. But there was that one time that I stopped the top running back in the league for 8 consecutive losses in one game.

Then I fluncked out of college and went to VietNam as a 101st Airborne Ranger. I graduated to a better team! I'm proud of every step along the way. After all the serious education I recieved from the VA, for services rendered to my country, I really believe in fate, and God. All I ever wanted to be was the man in the middle....Sam Huff, my hero. I wanted to play professional football for the New York Giants, or the Chicago Bears. Maybe I could have done that if I would have studied harder in college (the first time). But then, God stepped in....and all bets were off.

Now I am a man of medicine, and I love it so. If you let God take hold of your life, good things happen.

[Gordian Blade]

I almost called this game perfectly. I predicted 17 points for the Rams. I just didn't expect the Patriots to get any points.

[Keeper of the Turf]

Time for some crow-eating...

Yep, I don't see anything but a total RAMS victory.
14 posted on 2/3/02 12:45 AM Pacific by 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
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The PATS will be blown out in the first 15 minutes....and then the only think to watch will be the commercials.
18 posted on 2/3/02 6:53 AM Pacific by SkyPilot
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The best thing the 'Patriots' have going for them tomorrow is their name. But, in the wake of 911, we need ALL of the 'patriot' wins we can get - this would be one more, but I am cheering for the Rams, Warner, and Faulk - 'simply the best', IMHO.
21 posted on 2/2/02 8:25 PM Pacific by d14truth
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Sorry, the Rams already have this game won. It's sad that they have to beat a team called the "Patriots".
3 posted on 1/30/02 7:32 PM Pacific by RamsNo1
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Rams by 28. Bledsloe comes in relief but its too late. Games on turf and the Patsies won't be able to key on the run like they did against the Squealers. Rams do have a passing game, you know. Nice sentiment starting Brady but the Pat's fans I know say their only chance in this high scoring contest would be with Bledsloe.
8 posted on 1/30/02 7:50 PM Pacific by mcenedo
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The Greatest Show on Turf will demonstrate why on Sunday...Rams 38...Patriots 17.........
10 posted on 1/30/02 8:15 PM Pacific by X-Servative
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Sorry--but it will be another freakin BLOWOUT! After 8 1/2 hours of hype--the Superbowl game will be all but over in 15 minutes, and the people at the parties will start discussing how the commercials last year were so much better. RAMS 52........................PATS 17
42 posted on 1/28/02 4:26 AM Pacific by SkyPilot
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This will be another in a long line of boring Superbowls. The Pats shot their wads beating the Steelers. When they face the Rams they will be spanked badly by a very superior team. Count on it!

GO RAMS!
59 posted on 1/28/02 5:51 AM Pacific by Walkin Man
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The guys that fumbled the ball, enjoyed a really bad call from the refs, and won vs. the Raiders. The Rams will destroy the Pats by 17.
75 posted on 1/28/02 6:36 AM Pacific by Paulus Invictus
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Classic NFC blowout comin' up.... Rams 48 Pats 10 You Pat fans are riding high on emotion and intangibles, but the matchups are lopsided: QB: Warner vs. Brady: Rams RB: Faulk vs. Smith: Huge Rams advantage WRs: Bruce, Holt, Hakim, ...you get the idea. Plus: Game's in a dome, Pats 0-2 in Supes, inexperienced QB, Favre and McNabb couldn't solve Rams, and so on.
131 posted on 1/28/02 12:39 PM Pacific by Jhensy
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[Jefferson Adams]

Something else that was symbolic of where we are today was seeing Irish communist "Bono" prancing around on the stage at halftime for everyone to admire him and then at the end opening his jacket to reveal stars and stripes in the lining. That foul excuse for a human being hates the United States and everything it stands for, and he had the gall to do that? I almost threw up.

[constans]

Let me give my take on the symbolism. St. Louis used to have a football team which left the city for green pa$ture$. The mayor, like too many mayors of small cities, lamented that St. Louis couldn't be a "first class city" without a big, new stadium and bilked the taxpayers for $300 million. Mind you, this is St. Louis where the lack of a stadium was probably the least of their infrastructure problems. So they built a new stadium and coaxed the Rams away from San Diego.

Compare this to the Patriots. A couple of years ago, there was talk that the Patriots would move to Hartford, lured by a sweetheart deal from Hartfort's mayor, who clearly felt that his city couldn't be "first class" (how come you never heard Giuliani declaring that NYC needed a new stadium to be a "first class city"?). Ultimately, in a showdown with MA, the owner of the Patriots blinked, and a plan for a new stadium was drawn up so that the Patriots would stay in Foxboro with mostly private money building the stadium. The public money for the stadium was devoted mostly to highway, water, and electricity infrastructure to support the new stadium-- something, I believe, that amounted to less than 10% of the total cost of the stadium.

In the end, a well-managed team that could finance its own way won out over a city that sent lots of money down a hole in pursuit of "first class" status.