Poll time: Whom do you hate less, Giants or Patriots?
Tom Brady (3 Super Bowl rings). Eli Manning (one Super Bowl ring, better guy).
The fact the New York Giants and New England Patriots will meet in the Super Bowl has one obvious bright side for the rest of the sports world: In two weeks, either New York or Boston sports fans are going to be miserable.
Giants vs. Patriots. Really? We have to pick?
Is there a sentimental favorite here?
OK, here’s my list of factors. And there’s a poll to the left and space below for you to weigh in on your choice.
Loading ...• Fans: New York is tied for having the most obnoxious pro sports fans in the nation. It is tied with Boston. But for some reason when Boston teams go down, it’s just funnier. I mean, not that the Red Sox going down in flames last season made up for the Braves doing the same. But it was close. Likeability edge: Giants.
• Falcons’ postseason nightmares: Last season, the Falcons and Patriots each were No. 1 seeds and got bounced in their first playoff game. Arthur Blank and Robert Kraft commiserated over a bowl of soup. This year, the Falcons were pounded by New York in the first round. The Patriots figured out their problems and won. More soup for Arthur — this time alone. Likability edge: Patriots.
• Celebrity element: Actresses Kate and Rooney Mara are in the family tree of the Mara family, longtime owners of the New York Giants. Patriots owner Bob Kraft has four sons. Big time likability edge: Giants.
• Coaches: Tom Coughlin isn’t Mr. Cuddles. But the guy has t0 meet with the New York media every day, which would drive anybody crazy, and I think he has been fired like 57 times in the tabloids. Bill Belichick never has been on the verge of being fired. The dark side of The Force is more powerful than you can imagine, Luke. Likeability edge: Giants.
• Cinematography: Belichick’s camera angles are superior to any other coaches. Finding the camera is the problem. Likability edge: Giants.
• Quarterbacks: Eli Manning isn’t supposed to be as good as his older brother, Peyton. but he may be on the verge of passing him in Super Bowl wins. Eli also just seems like a good guy. Tom Brady has won more Super Bowls (three) than both Manning brothers together. But he also left his pregnant girlfriend (Bridget Moynahan) for a super model (Gisele Bundchen). You lose serious good-guy points for that, no matter what Gisele looks like. Likeability edge: Giants.
• History: The Giants are 3-1 in Super Bowls. They seem to know how to win these things. The Patriots are 3-3 in Super Bowls, having lost to the Giants four years ago after going 18-0 (regular season and playoffs). That was kind of funny. Worth seeing again? Likeability edge: Giants.
By my criteria, it’s overwhelming. Do you have a pick? Or do you hate both?
The cyber floor is yours.
By Jeff Schultz
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152 comments Add your comment
JesusHChristo
January 23rd, 2012
12:14 pm
first?
Black Coffee & Bourbon
January 23rd, 2012
12:15 pm
Go Pats!
jtb
January 23rd, 2012
12:16 pm
Is it just me or has Coughlin become oddly root-for-able?
JesusHChristo
January 23rd, 2012
12:17 pm
Tom Brady is going to kill it. Eli looks and talks like he was dropped on his head as a kid a time or two…
JesusHChristo
January 23rd, 2012
12:18 pm
jtb – It’s just you.
Rightwing
January 23rd, 2012
12:25 pm
Schultzie, why don’t you see if the ajc political page can use this style poll to decide which Republican presidential candidate we hate the least? The Super Bowl of politics!
zgoldatl
January 23rd, 2012
12:25 pm
Will not be watching. Hate Boston, hate New York. I’d rather watch the Atlanta Dream play.
PMC
January 23rd, 2012
12:26 pm
I can’t vote in this poll. Indifference.
Kantspell
January 23rd, 2012
12:26 pm
I’m not excited about this game whatsoever.
Dawg_Mike
January 23rd, 2012
12:29 pm
I’m just glad we avoided the Harbaugh Bowl.
oldmike
January 23rd, 2012
12:32 pm
Like the Giants. As a former resident and thus former fan at these times I am obligated to root for Big Blue.
High horse Jeff
January 23rd, 2012
12:32 pm
Hate ‘em both mainly for two reasons, one of which you already mentioned. Some of the most obnoxious sports fans ever exceeded only by the philly jerks. The other reason, the boys in Bristol ram northeastern teams down your throat ad nauseum and God forbid if a northeastern team in ANY sport is doing well. 30 minutes of that team on Sportscenter and 30 minutes spread out for the remainder of the non existent teams from elsewhere
steve bartkowski
January 23rd, 2012
12:34 pm
being from Atlanta, I’m having a hard time rooting for a team from New York or Boston…although, it seems impossible to not love the way Tom Brady plays football and his ability to make those around him better…
neil marlowe
January 23rd, 2012
12:40 pm
what’s the problem? I like them both – always have. no doubt you are just trying’
to stir up controversy.
George Stein
January 23rd, 2012
12:42 pm
I, like the Giants, also seem to know how to win Super Bowls. SCORE MORE POINTS!
Fred Macmurray
January 23rd, 2012
12:42 pm
As far as who wins,, I could care less,,, just hope its a good game.
Dr. Phil
January 23rd, 2012
12:46 pm
Manning had grass sticking out of his helmet from body slams, and his commercials are pretty funny. Go Giants.
Tom
January 23rd, 2012
12:48 pm
Not sure why this would matter in a non-NFL city like Atlanta. Didn’t the Falcons move somewhere or get contracted a couple years ago?
Doug
January 23rd, 2012
12:48 pm
I know Boston and New York have a rivalry (Red Sox-Yankess , Patriots-Giants) but to my ignorance I had no idea the rest of the country hated us so much. Is it posible that the author (Atlanta based) of this article is so disgrunted at the fact that the Giants flattoned the Falcons? Im a Giant fan and have a ton of respect for the Patriots and wish them luck, as i did for the Falcons, Packers and 49rs. Better luck next year Mr. Jeff Schultz!
NCBravesFan
January 23rd, 2012
12:48 pm
I have to break in favor of the Giants, if for no other reason because they have this nice little habit of making the pinheads on ESPN look like fools.
heartofdarkness
January 23rd, 2012
12:48 pm
Both teams have strong organizations that use the talent available to them exceedingly well. They don’t spend a great deal of time fantasizing on the superior athletic abilities of their receivers, because they realize if you don’t have the ball, you can save the speed and power argument for track season. Both teams focus on getting receivers open in areas of the field where crowds aren’t gathering, which is remarkably helpful to those whose job it is to catch the ball. Even when their offensive lines are getting pressured by the pass rush, passing lanes seem to emerge in areas that are predictable for the quarterbacks. If they need 5 yards for a first down, their receivers make their break at 6 yards where they often find the ball hitting them in the hands. The quarterbacks don’t seem to mind the general public thinking they aren’t strong enough to launch the 70 yard bomb. Both teams have players who play their assignments most of the time, on both sides of the ball. It is impressive that both have young players who are able to fit into the game plan, play significant roles and rarely look like the guest host on Saturday Night Live trying to keep up with the regular cast.
And while the Patriots seem to be able to get a yard on third or fourth down with the run, using angles and options, the Giants seem to recognize the odds are against them on the ground, and elect to make the yardage with quick passes to open receivers in space using deception and reads.
I love these teams and think it could be a great game to watch.
DC
January 23rd, 2012
12:49 pm
I will be cheering on for the Pats…dont care for Eli or Coughlin…your article is little inaccurate on the owner stand point…a lot of people have respect for Kraft..his wife died and he is the main reason there is a football season.
Londonman
January 23rd, 2012
12:52 pm
Who cares about the game! Once Falcons were eliminated, my NFL watching ceased and moved to European Football.
Najeh Davenpoop
January 23rd, 2012
12:55 pm
I don’t like either team, but I will probably root for the Giants to lose just because watching Tom Coughlin change colors is funny.
D man
January 23rd, 2012
12:56 pm
Every team in the NFC now wants to play the Falcons in the playoffs so they can go to the Superbowl. Wow, this stinks…
George Honduran Falcon
January 23rd, 2012
12:56 pm
Goota love it that the Giants are in the Superbowl. At least it is consolation for a Falcons fan to know that the three teams that beat us in the playoffs in the past 4 years all went to the superbowl. However, now that the Giants are in, I am all for Patriots!!! Go Brady!
MommaHanna
January 23rd, 2012
12:59 pm
There go my plans for any type of Super Bowl party. Maybe we can rent a movie instead.
George Honduran Falcon
January 23rd, 2012
1:01 pm
My brother lives in Rhode Island, Big PATS Fan. GO PATRIOTS!!
True Dawg
January 23rd, 2012
1:08 pm
GO PATS! Tom Brady is the best qb ever!
DawgDad
January 23rd, 2012
1:09 pm
Ditto the consolation to the Falcons. It is pretty amazing they’ve lost each time to the eventual Super Bowl representative, but when watching the games it was obvious WHY they lost.
The problem I have with the Falcons was their expressed belief they were only a player away from being a Championship team. Hogwash. It’s harder to make that next step than they let on, and they are far more than a player or two away. They had no answer for letting go of Harvey Dahl, for injuries to Baker, Jerry, Abraham, Mughelli, Moore, McClure, and Grimes, no answer for the punter and long kicker (though he did improve marginally). They are lacking toughness in the trenches on both sides of the ball and they have to deal with a number of key free agents with a depleted cache of draft picks. Good luck.
5150 UOAD
January 23rd, 2012
1:13 pm
G-men. The Falcons ALWAYS lose to the eventual Super Bowl Champs.
BillS
January 23rd, 2012
1:13 pm
Can’t imagine anyone who calls himself a football fan wouldn’t be interested in this game. Two first=rate franchises, terrific city/term rivalries, a pair of the NFL’s top QBs. What’s not to like? Should be a good game. I’m pulling for the Pats.
Peadawg
January 23rd, 2012
1:14 pm
Taliban vs. Bill Bellicheat = Taliban
Does that answer your question?
Stinger2
January 23rd, 2012
1:15 pm
No hate for either team. If I was really interested, I would pull for the Giants because they made what could have been a losing season a trip to the Super Bowl. They won when they had to win.
Pissed Off New Yorker
January 23rd, 2012
1:23 pm
Hey “Peadawg” after what New York and this country went thru 10 years ago, to make a statement like that shows your a F*#$king A#&hole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
italian_29
January 23rd, 2012
1:25 pm
I have to go with the underdog Giants, who would have thought that a team that was barely 500 after 14 games, 7-7 would be able to pull it off? None of the “experts” are giving the Giants a chance, which is another good reason to pull for the, kinda like 08.
Pissed Off New Yorker
January 23rd, 2012
1:25 pm
This is about football, I know dozens of people that died a horrible death.
Nate
January 23rd, 2012
1:26 pm
Strong dislike for both teams. I’ll probably just refrain from watching the Super Bowl this year.
italian_29
January 23rd, 2012
1:27 pm
I have to go with the underdog Giants, who would have thought that a team that was barely 500 after 14 games, 7-7 would be able to pull it off? None of the “experts” are giving the Giants a chance, which is another good reason to pull for them, kinda like 08.
italian_29
January 23rd, 2012
1:29 pm
Stupid servers, sorry about the double post.
Gorilla Biscuit
January 23rd, 2012
1:31 pm
I’d just as soon watch two chimps mate.
extremus
January 23rd, 2012
1:31 pm
I could care less about any playoffs where my Atlanta sports teams are no longer in the hunt, period.
I think it’s interesting to note that all three Falcons playoff losses during the Mike Smith era have come against eventual Superbowl participants, teams who happened to “get hot” at the right time and against the wrong team, sadly.
Will the Falcons (or Braves) ever have another one of those magical runs? Hard to say, honestly, but while I continue to root for them I’m not holding my breath.
blue
January 23rd, 2012
1:34 pm
Jeff, I don’t know how you can just summarily dismiss the Philadelphia fans from “the most obnoxious” award and just randomly give it to the other two. I demand a recount…
Delbert D.
January 23rd, 2012
1:36 pm
Sorry…I like them both. I’ve lived in both areas.
King Peter
January 23rd, 2012
1:40 pm
Can’t beleive the falcons got as far as they did with the personel they have,give them some credit!
JJ
January 23rd, 2012
1:46 pm
Can’t stand either team. Certainly can’t stand Tom Brady. One of the MOST overrated qb’s in NFL history. I’m tired of him and Romo.
I won’t watch the Superbowl this year. I will record it so I can see the commercials.
GO FALCONS 2012!!!
FalconFan
January 23rd, 2012
1:47 pm
I don’t hate either. I am just glad New Orleans isn’t in.
Arno
January 23rd, 2012
1:48 pm
Cardinals, Packers, Giants– meet the Falcons in the first round and you are guaranteed a Super Bowl appearance. Shouldn’t that be worth an extra draft pick for the Falcons or something?
tim
January 23rd, 2012
1:51 pm
49ers/Giants game = 22 punts.
they both stunk…………
FalconFan
January 23rd, 2012
1:52 pm
JJ, Brady? One of the most overrated QB’s? Seriously? With these stats?
Career
Rating
96.4
Yards
39,979
TD’s
300
Besides Wes Welker and TO, name his receivers over the years that helped him win 3 Super Bowls and probably a 4th in 2 weeks.
For comparison here is Drew Brees stats for the same period of time:
Career
Rating
94.0
Yards
40,742
TD’s
281
VinnyD
January 23rd, 2012
2:01 pm
Rootin for the Pats. I have a serious man crush on Gronkowski and Wes Welker. I openly admit it. I think the world of those 2 guys. I also like when the Pats play “where will we line them up next” with Edelman playing corner, Hernandez at RB, Wilfork at FB, Bruschi (back in the day) at TE. Plus, if i wasn’t me, I would probably wanna be Tom Brady. Al the guy does is win games and supermodels.
Bobby Walden
January 23rd, 2012
2:05 pm
The bright side: both obnoxious harbaws lost.
Heisenberg
January 23rd, 2012
2:08 pm
Arthur Blank can have soup with Green Bay & Pittsburgh contingent.
Gorilla Biscuit
January 23rd, 2012
2:12 pm
Doesn’t the Soup Nazi live in New York?
bucket
January 23rd, 2012
2:12 pm
I respect both teams and I think it will be a great game, but I can’t pull for a team with Brandon Spikes on the roster.
Silly Bloggers
January 23rd, 2012
2:15 pm
For whatever reason, I am pulling for the Pats. I don’t like Eli…don’t have any good reason, I just don’t care for him, the Giants, or anything New York. New York and Philadelphia are simply two cities I love to see lose. Unfortunately, those two cities tend to own us in pretty much all sports so that may play a role in it as well.
Buford T. Justice
January 23rd, 2012
2:17 pm
I HATE THE GIANTS…. ALL NY TEAMS FOR THAT MATTER… I can stomach New England though…
Ned
January 23rd, 2012
2:17 pm
Sorry, but I think a 9-7 team scraping to the end of the season (or a 90-win team in baseball) just doesn’t deserve to get in the playoffs. To me it’s not right that getting hot in the last few weeks of a season while stinking up the joint for the first 75% of the season puts you on equal footing with teams that were consistently good.
If the old format of best all year put you in the World Series, or just the league championship, the Braves would have been in the WS 10 or more times in the 90s, but they lost out to the hot–and lucky–teams. The same can be said for football–or any major sport–the regular season doesn’t much matter, except for selling tickets.
Spider29
January 23rd, 2012
2:20 pm
I don’t care for either team, but I do like Eli. In just this instance, “go Giants!”
UGA Insider
January 23rd, 2012
2:23 pm
How would you have liked to go back to the locker room and have to answer to Ray Lewis about missing that field goal? That would have really stunk.
Jon
January 23rd, 2012
2:23 pm
Eli looks like pouty boy… don’t care for him…
Hillbilly D
January 23rd, 2012
2:24 pm
Just because of Eli, I’ll be pulling for the Giants. Seems like just the other day that people were saying Eli didn’t have what it takes and would never be a winning NFL QB.
Robert
January 23rd, 2012
2:24 pm
Bobby Cox has been a busy man this winter. The Giants were so impressed with the way he directed the Falcons offense during their playoff game that they hired him to be a special teams coach for the 49ers. When Ted Ginn was declared out for Sunday’s NFC Championship Game, the Giants had Cox work with 49ers backup return man Kyle Williams on the fundamentals of fielding punts. In between, Cox found time to give Ravens kicker Billy Cundiff some pointers about kicking short field goals.
Robert
January 23rd, 2012
2:28 pm
“If the old format of best all year put you in the World Series, or just the league championship, the Braves would have been in the WS 10 or more times in the 90s”
As cynical as I can be at times, I wouldve been impressed had the Braves made it to the World Series more than 10 times in the 90’s. 11 times in 9 years (remember, no Series in 1994) wouldve been awesome.
However, even if they had made the World Series three times every year, they had Cox managing, so they wouldve still ebded up screwed
Leftwing
January 23rd, 2012
2:33 pm
Don’t care who gets the GOP nomination as long as he beats that lefty in the White House.
Bobo for Attorney General
January 23rd, 2012
2:34 pm
Go Pats, I hope to see Manning sacked so hard he’s looking out of his earhole.
DP
January 23rd, 2012
2:35 pm
I hate ugly columns like this one more than I hate either of these teams. They’ve both shown toughness, resilience and clutch play that I’ve rarely seen out of the Falcons in the entire history of the franchise.
bradybunch
January 23rd, 2012
2:38 pm
GO PATS
briley parkway
January 23rd, 2012
2:39 pm
I think I’d rather see the Pats win, but just happy it’s not Packers, Saints or Ravens
Jon
January 23rd, 2012
2:40 pm
Don’t care for any of the righty social-hyper religious nuts… who love to talk about government being too involved in your life… yet these knee-jerkers are dying to get into your house to tell you what you can and can’t do… IDIOTS
briley parkway
January 23rd, 2012
2:43 pm
Yeah UGA Insider, I half expected to see a story this morning that said Billy Cundiff had been stabbed
DP
January 23rd, 2012
2:44 pm
Hey look, it’s Robert, the Bobby Cox obsessed moron who guaranteed the Braves would win a World Series as soon as Cox moved on. How did that work out Robert? Let me guess, Cox was somehow responsible for the Braves’ late season collapse in 2011? And in the deranged world you live in Bobby Cox is probably also responsible for the financial crisis.
Jo Mama
January 23rd, 2012
2:44 pm
I agree… I love people who say they want less government intrusion… yet they’re the same folks who rant about what people do in their own homes and want to tell you what’s right and wrong. They even want to change the constitution to make sure their “morals” (yyyeah… and the KKK said they did what they did on “moral grounds”) are pushed on the rest. The ironic thing is that these same zealots are the ones who scream when others want to change the constitution, calling themselves “strickt constitutionalists” LOL
Big Crimson 75
January 23rd, 2012
2:48 pm
I wonder what Arthur thought watching the MOST UN-ATHLETIC QB in the NFL go over the top on fourth & 1 yesterday????
just proves you can’t coach DESIRE.
Phil McCrackin
January 23rd, 2012
2:49 pm
I thought it was time for COx to go too… but eh, Robert really needs to get a clue!
Vic
January 23rd, 2012
2:54 pm
GO GIANTS!!!! LET’S DO IT TO ‘EM AGAIN!!!!!
zgoldatl
January 23rd, 2012
2:55 pm
The northeast is the armpit of America. Couldn’t care less about two yankee teams playing. Won’t be watching until the falcons pre season opener
Missy Bumpkin, UGA Scholar
January 23rd, 2012
2:58 pm
Can’t there be some way where both teams could lose in the Super Bowl? I mean, I hate ‘em both equally.
zgoldatl
January 23rd, 2012
3:01 pm
Jo mamma & others- Let’s keep this on sports. Nobody on here wants to hear your overtly leftwing opinions. They are not only out of place, but are also blatantly incorrect.
Andrew
January 23rd, 2012
3:02 pm
I hate JEFF SCHULTZ more
Walker, Texas Ranger
January 23rd, 2012
3:03 pm
Don’t care as long as Ray Lewis isnt’t in the game. Now Indy better step up security around town since he will be there as a spectator.
Ted M
January 23rd, 2012
3:05 pm
I’ve got 20 bucks on the Pats minus 3.
Walker, Texas Ranger
January 23rd, 2012
3:07 pm
Im pulling for a power outage at halftime. Otherwise, send the kids out of the room, there is going to be some perversion on the 50 yard line.
atlswag
January 23rd, 2012
3:09 pm
just got back from lifetime fitness in duluth and was playing basketball with matt ryan and old man finneran..ryan is slow for a athlete but shouldnt he not be playing basketball what if her gets hurt? violation of contract?
Ned
January 23rd, 2012
3:20 pm
oops, meant “10 times in the 90s” not “10 or more” and forgot about ‘94
but I still think FULL regular season records should be the measure of getting in the playoffs
JOHN PEAVY
January 23rd, 2012
3:25 pm
HOW COULD YOU NOT LIKE THE PASSION OF THESE TEAMS
IF YOUR A FALCONS FAN GET A LIFE ENJOY REAL GOOD FOOTBALL.
ViningDawg
January 23rd, 2012
3:26 pm
Manning…U of M (Mississippi)
Brady… U of M (Meeeeechigan)
Grove vs. Big House/Hail to the Victors?
Slight edge to Eli (SEC)
Walker, Texas Ranger
January 23rd, 2012
3:30 pm
Grove rules
SilentCC
January 23rd, 2012
3:37 pm
Pulling for Giants — BUT — didn’t want EITHER ONE in the game. Do you think anyone on the East Coast (sorry, the Northeast) would have even been interested to see Denver-San Fran? ‘Course not — unless it was to see Tebow implode on a grand scale.
Very few outside of a small northern stretch of I-95 is liking this Super Bowl.
PMC
January 23rd, 2012
3:45 pm
We can hem and haw about the rest of the rosters all we want, the two QB’s are two of the best in Football without whom neither squad would be in the game.
todd - Lawrenceville
January 23rd, 2012
3:46 pm
Neither… dislike both of the teams and a few plays about the same, which is a lot. Bill Belichick, Tom Coughlin, Tom Brady and Eli Manning are at teh top of my dislike list. But I am a fair fan. I an a hugh Flacons Fan and Mike Smith, Matt Ryan and ‘Tip Toes Turner the Turtle’ are not that far behind them…
gc1986
January 23rd, 2012
3:46 pm
Yeah SilentCC, a small stretch of I-95, where about 45 million people live.
just sayin'
January 23rd, 2012
3:46 pm
pulling for Eli…like some of the others, glad neither of the harbaugh’s are in the game…both of them spoiled a.$$’s….
Michael
January 23rd, 2012
3:52 pm
Y’know what? I don’t really hate either of these teams. I reserve hate for college football. I hate Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Boise State, most of the ACC, etc. The list is endless.
KCRWreck
January 23rd, 2012
3:55 pm
I disagree with your quarterback assessment. I’ve considered Eli unlikable since the bs that he and his father pulled in his draft.
supahj
January 23rd, 2012
4:01 pm
we just hate YOU jeff…
Robert
January 23rd, 2012
4:18 pm
“Cox was somehow responsible for the Braves’ late season collapse in 2011? ”
Indeed he was. For it was Cox who let Chipper Jones get by with the work ethic that had him taking personal days off in the midts of a playoff race. It was Cox who never made them take infield practice. And it was Cox who got inot Jason Heyward’s head and totally messed him up. So yes, Cox had a role in that collapse
Of course, if Cox had been managing, they wouldve finished eleven games out instead of one game out
Robert
January 23rd, 2012
4:24 pm
Anyway, cant hate either of these two teams. Would rather the Giants win, but I think the Patriots are going to give them some payback for ruining their run at perfection in 2007-08.
Patriots 27- Giants 24
crusher
January 23rd, 2012
4:54 pm
It’s time for some new blood in the super bowl. This game doesn’t create any excitement. We definitely won’t watch.
bamaguy
January 23rd, 2012
4:55 pm
This is a no brainer for me. Eli was a SEC quarterback from a prominent SEC family who married his college girlfriend. Brady is a Michigan quarterback who dumped one pregnant model girlfriend for a new one. No contest.
gtne80
January 23rd, 2012
4:59 pm
As a true Atlanta native, I despise New York City and anything associated with New York.
recently moved from Sandy springs to boston
January 23rd, 2012
5:02 pm
been here for about 15 months now. there is no mention whatsoever of NCAA athletics up here. Boston College is a complete afterthought. Ga Southern and Wofford probably get better press coverage and sports talk radio than BC.
That being said, the pro teams are followed – with vigor. Pats fans are rabid. Same as Bruins, Red Sox, and Celtics. the sports radio is filled with caller after caller after caller ranting about one of these pro teams. Yes, I’ve learned to hate them, but for a pro franchise – the passion in their fanbase is tremendous.
G
January 23rd, 2012
5:06 pm
It’s going to be a great superbowl. Why? Because the Aints ain’t in it!
David
January 23rd, 2012
5:09 pm
I just hope they have good Super Bowl commercials this year…….But do agree that the Aints not being in it makes it tolerable.
Justsaying
January 23rd, 2012
5:17 pm
Ochocico’s first Super Bowl. WOW!! Get Your popcorn ready. Go Pats!!
Justsaying
January 23rd, 2012
5:18 pm
Ochocinco’s First SB. Go Pats!!
juice sourcer
January 23rd, 2012
5:45 pm
New York and Boston…Winnersville, USA…Atlanta…Losersville, USA….as people who live in Atlanta should we not hate Atlanta’s pro sports teams?
dave
January 23rd, 2012
5:46 pm
I will root for the Giants. That way, when people talk about the Falcons losing to the Giants in the playoffs, I can say, “Well, everybody lost to the Giants in the playoffs.”
And besides that, I like the Giants brand of football.
ReeseinDade
January 23rd, 2012
5:51 pm
I can only hope they both lose.
Felix
January 23rd, 2012
5:51 pm
Can’t believe that so many want a New York team to win. Half the reason I can’t stand the Mets is because they are from New York. The other half goes all the way back to the 1980s.
Go Pats!
oldbird
January 23rd, 2012
5:59 pm
May the earth open up and swallow them all. Seriously, I will root against New England.
Carolina DAWG
January 23rd, 2012
6:05 pm
My peopole ACROSS THE RIVER are for the GIANTS ONLY because of ELI – he’s one of ours SEC!!!!!!!!!!!
William Coxworth Whiteman
January 23rd, 2012
6:31 pm
I sir, shall pull for the Patriots! They do more with white athletes than any other sports franchise!
Boston Dawg
January 23rd, 2012
6:54 pm
I’m from Georgia but now live in Boston. Patriots fans are as obnoxious and arrogant as they come. I can’t think of anything more satisfying than a Patriots loss in the Super Bowl.
CGD..
January 23rd, 2012
7:53 pm
dawg tired
January 23rd, 2012
2:45 pm
“Watching the wins by the 9-7 Giants were depressing as a Falcons fan. Eli Manning can hit players in stride, Nicks and Cruz can catch a pass without dropping it, the Giants O-line can get a push to get short yardage for a first down and the Giants D can put pressure on the opposing quarterback to get a 3 and out. Even Jacobs can out run defenders once he breaks free.
I feel like I have been sold a bill of goods on Ryan and the Falcons.”
Your onto something Sir!
Matt Ryan is one of the most overrated Throw Back Obsolete QB’ in the league today!Cant win the money game cause he does not have the talent…
Giants will git’er done!
Flacco> Ryan for less than half the price!
30 million vs. 72 million… We have been sold a “bill of Goods”
Blank still shooting Blanks!
dawg4u
January 23rd, 2012
8:09 pm
I grew up as a huge NY Yankee fan even though born in Georgia. I loved listening to Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese doing Yankee games in the early sixties on the “game of the week.” I am now a Braves and Falcons fan but always root for New York teams unless playing Atlanta. I really root hard for NY teams especially when playing Boston (New England) or Philly.
Amanda
January 23rd, 2012
8:55 pm
The only thing better than the Giants beating the Patriots before would be if they did it again….GO GIANTS!!!!!
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
January 23rd, 2012
10:32 pm
Spoke like “True” LOSERS, hating on another team because your qb is a CHOKE.
HA HA HA
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
January 23rd, 2012
10:33 pm
Yet another team using the Falcants as a Practice squad to prep for the real playoffs…………
HA HA HA
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
January 23rd, 2012
10:41 pm
3 Straight teams going to superbowl after PUNKING CHOKE………….
That could be some sort of world record……………..
HA HA HA
Once Recent Reader
January 23rd, 2012
11:23 pm
Well as a long-time Pats fan (who likes the Falcons) I’m going with the NE. Funny, never had any hatred towards the Giants. Actually still don’t even after their stopping the perfect season for the Pats in the SB. I guess most NE fans would not like the Jets at this point. It used to be the Dolphins in the 80’s as we never could beat them . . . .and of course the Raiders in the 70’s due to Jack Tatum hit on Stingley, the play-off game where Raiders were saved by roughing the passer . . .I think Steve Grogan was a rookie or 2nd year QB at that time . . . .I was a teen! Then again – just about everyone outside of Oakland disliked the Raiders back then due to their questionable style of play. But “hating” a team . . . . my Mom always said when you hate you have no room for love in your heart:) Good old Mom!
sports
January 23rd, 2012
11:55 pm
compared to the Giants and Patriots the sucking Falcons are a merebump in the road. Alabama would beat the falcons by 20 in the Georgia Dome and everybody knows it. I doubt that bunch would cross mid-field.
Russ555
January 24th, 2012
12:32 am
Got to pull for Eli. That means the Giants so be it.
tom richmond
January 24th, 2012
4:03 am
I’m a lifelong Giants fan, and a cinematographer. My brother is a journalist and co-hosts a weekly radio show based on the premise of Giants miserable-ism; basically the idea that being a Giants fan is pure torture. I really really like this little article.
comment: Tom Coughlin is not a terrible coach, nor is he a great coach. I’ve concluded that he isn’t actually a coach at all. He’s the best Mascot in the NFL. Go Giants !
William
January 24th, 2012
4:35 am
Got to go with the NFC Giants since they beat the Falcons. Eli seems to be a nice guy. Too bad the Falcons are not in it. Maybe one day they will be. Let’s hope for a good game. Hate to watch two other teams play a bad game.
legionaire
January 24th, 2012
5:36 am
Went to a spring training game in Sarasota one year Yanks-White Sox. The NY “fans” made it so miserable yelling, cursing , and ragging on the players, we left. The same morons are Giants fans. That does not let the know it all, smarter than you, condescending screwballs who elect Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank over and over off the hook. It is a push as far as I am concerned. Don’t care.
Doctor Dawg
January 24th, 2012
8:14 am
This is an easy one. The Patriots all the way. I can not stand anything New York that is sports related. I bet if the Falcons were as successful as the Patriots no one around here would mind. Anytime any team can beat a team from New York is a good thing. So yeah, definitely the Patriots are the team that I want to win.
Doctor Dawg
January 24th, 2012
8:16 am
Oh yeah, BTW…..trust me, I’m a doctor,
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61 year Braves Fan
January 24th, 2012
8:45 am
Patriots season ticket holder for 43 years. They have the greatest owner, coach, and quarterback in
football history. Respect the Giants but we are going to win this one. Also wish the Braves had an owner like Bob Kraft.
Cecil34
January 24th, 2012
8:46 am
Belichick is about the closest thing to Lombardi or Walsh that the NFL has.
He is way ahead in terms of intellect than any other NFL head coach.
That is not to say that he is not weird – when he pulls up that hoodie, I swear he looks like the Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars. He gets uglier looking every year.
I would say the Patriots will win – I am not excited about this SB one iota.
Taxi Smith
January 24th, 2012
8:56 am
Don’t hate the Giants at all! I’ve been a Giants fan since the Sam Huff/Charley Connerly days. The Pats? Latecomers. I predict a close game, NY by 6.
SawThat1nce
January 24th, 2012
9:36 am
Shultz, you’re poll should have included a 4th choice of –
O I wish there was some way that they could both lose.
SawThat1nce
January 24th, 2012
9:38 am
I’m just proud that the Falcons were once again eliminated in the playoffs by another SB team.
SawThat1nce
January 24th, 2012
9:38 am
Not really. It sux.
TD has no clue!
January 24th, 2012
9:51 am
I HATE ALL NY TEAMS.
Mr. Thomas Anthony Jones, SR
January 24th, 2012
11:46 am
The Giants wipe the field up that two-timing Brady and his cheating lying Head Coach. God is on the Giants side because the Patriots have no morals what so ever.
SawThat1nce
January 24th, 2012
12:29 pm
I thought that Bridgett was prettier than Gisele. Gisele must be more bendy.
SawThat1nce
January 24th, 2012
12:31 pm
Coughlin is a pretty good coach.
native New Yorker
January 24th, 2012
12:37 pm
GO GIANTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! beat the Bake Bean Patriots.
BloodthirstyPatterson
January 24th, 2012
5:13 pm
I probably hate the giants less than the patriots. What bothers me about this matchup is that I believe there are two teams playing in this game that shouldnt be playing in it. Granted they both advanced past the competition put in front of them, but I think the patriots were LUCKY to beat the Ravens because the Ravens kicker missed a chip shot FG to lose the game for his team. Meanwhile, I believe the Giants were fortunate that when they played the packers that the packers Wide Receivers were dropping so many balls. Had those receivers caught those passes–clearly the momentum for the DEFENDING CHAMPION packers would STRONG AND FAST and I feel tht the Packers would have blown out the giants by at least 30 points. packers would have then repeated as champions because most of the hall of fame quarterbacks feel that Aaron Rogers is the greatest quarterback in NFL history. I totally agree with that myself. Also, if bill belechek and the patriots win the title, it still wont be respected as much as former Steelers coach Chuck Noll’s four titles because the Steelers have never been involved in a SPY-GATE scandal, and more importantly the Patriots have been suspected of even cheating in some of their previous superbowl wins. There will always be scandal associated with Bill Belechek and his Patriots regardless of how many titles they get.
1danielbell
January 24th, 2012
5:23 pm
Bump Tom Brady and his Uggs.
Dirtybirdsin12
January 24th, 2012
5:29 pm
I’d much rather see the Patriots win after watching Hakeem Nicks mock the Dirty Bird. No need to insult my 13 year old self after scoring a TD 14 years later. I also have a lot more respect for Brady than Eli. I would like to see Brady win another one so we can put the best QB of this generation argument to rest. Brees and Peyton have been great, but Brady is easily the most accomplished QB of my lifetime.
Deb
January 25th, 2012
12:18 am
“The worst fans in sports world” this from a bunch of ATL hacks! LMAO!!!
Braves never sell out playoff games & the Falcons, who cares. Stick to what ur good at, strip clubs and the SEC.
Jax Falcon/Dog Fan
January 25th, 2012
10:01 am
Ouch, Deb – that hurt. Sometimes the truth does that.
I’m pulling for the Giants mainly because of Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning. As far as obnoxious fans in New York – don’t mistake Yankee and Giant fans for those of the hated Mets and Jets. Met/Jet fans have to be the loudest, most obnoxious fans this side of Philly.
Brian Friel
January 25th, 2012
11:44 am
The Giants weren’t nearly as good 3 years ago as they are now, since they’re healthy. This is a coaches matchup. Coughlin got the best of Brady last time with lesser talent. And the Patsies defense is not as good. As for Bellichick, he hasn’t won a Super Bowl since he strayed from defensive drafts.
Giants 27
Patsies 17
Boston Fan
January 25th, 2012
4:38 pm
Atlanta has a football team?
diane
January 26th, 2012
2:22 am
Lmao you are such an idiot..if you ever watch tv neews talk shows ect you would know that tom and bridgit had a mutual breakup..and tom was single for quite a while before gisselle. Are u really that bitter that u need to say such stupid bs? And people believe this? You are a moron..I hope the patriots kick ny assssss..I’m so sick and tires of hearing negative things about the patriots wtf does his personal lifee have to do with football anyways..lmao you shouldn’t exist..
diane
January 26th, 2012
2:29 am
Also other teams were in on the spygate crap..the things you people say are so stupid..I hkope you doont have children I feel vsorry for them wow
No SuperBowl
January 27th, 2012
11:32 am
Unless you live or you’re from New York / Boston…the rest of the country could CARE LESS, it’s just an excuss to party! Crap game first time and crap game the second time as well!!! But the NFL process is still better than BCS process!!!
The Mannings Have Funny Necks
January 27th, 2012
1:11 pm
One minor clarification, Brady TECHNICALLY left his pregnant girlfriend for a super model. However, she didn’t know she was pregnant when he left her. So I don’t think it make him a bad guy for breaking up with a girlfriend.
Derek
January 27th, 2012
8:34 pm
I agree Brady is most overrated QB in history. Over 90% of his passes are within 5 yards and 85% of his passing yards are after the catch! Enough said!
anthony
January 28th, 2012
11:18 am
i am a big giants fan and i am going giants all the way. eli manning best qb ever! let’s go giants<3