2011 NFL Season

[naiwf]

They are the best American rules football team in the world. Thus they are the "World Champions" in the sport until next year. Stop trying to kill my buzz with this crap

[Summers]

They're not though. They are the best team in the world - I'm not arguing that at all. Superbowl winners, and best team in the world. But they're not World Champions. They haven't won a world championship. Not intending to kill your buzz, at all. Party on.

[Guest mr. potato head]

Great game last night. Feel kinda spoiled in that four of the past five Super Bowls have been excellent from an entertainment standpoint. Two excellent quarterbacks who could command their offenses to the point where you expected them to find an open receiver on every play, two offensive lines that protected their quarterbacks and allowed them time to find said open receiver, and two defences that weren't particularly amazing but who cares about defence anyhow?

That's gotta be the final blow for the Patriots' dynasty though.

[Guest mr. potato head]

Also, NBC apologized for the MIA thing. Hopefully now they can apologize for putting Community on hiatus!

[Colly]

I see as usual, the English guys keep up their rep of being the worst sports fans ever. I get it, they're not world champions. Starts to grate after hearing it, oh, every year. No one cares.

Discussion is bad? And Dukes has already claimed that accolade for his country. For life.

I don't think any (not including obvious troll) body meant it negatively. More of just a general statement. They're the Superbowls winners. And yes, they're clearly the best team around.. but nothing they've won is a world championship.. I don't see how people saying that - when they're being called world champs - is an issue. If people can come in and here and shout "WORLD CHAMPIONS!" then people can come in and say "Wait, what, really?". There's nothing wrong with being the Superbowl winners and the best team in the world. I don't see why a faux-world champs accolade needs to be stuck on.

Taking the 'obvious troll' reference to mean myself, you've then pretty much copied and pasted my own point...

It was a throwaway comment, I'm a fan of the sport and enjoy pretty much everything about it, including the overblown commercialism and all the rest. I posted a four word comment querying the absurdity of national league winners being described as world champs, and it generated some discussion (after a full page of 'OMG, Madonnas miming!'), the best point made being that the NHL and NBA are moving away from the term. If it does come up every year I apologise, I generally fall asleep at the final whistle if I last that long, but I'm not apologising for saying its silly, because it is.

Tempted to drop it again next year mind just for the amusing shitstorm that followed. Touchy bastards.

Edited February 6, 2012 by Colly

[Maxx]

The NHL and NBA are moving away from the term because their sport is being played all over the world, at a high level. This is not the case with the NFL, not even close.

[Guest mr. potato head]

The NHL and NBA are moving away from the term because their sport is being played all over the world, at a high level. This is not the case with the NFL, not even close.

This entire argument is dumb but the NHL is a lot stronger on a global basis now than it was any time before the fall of communism.

[mystikz]

I'm not going to feel sorry for the Patriots or their owner. they've won them before .... but haven't won one since spygate of course. the right team won again.

[DYSI]

GGGGGGGGGG-MEEEENNNN!

Great game. If Gronk would've caught that hail mary I would've seriously considered killing someone.

[The Buscher]

Reading reactions on Patriots message boards is hilarious. So much unnecessary blame on Brady when it was the receivers who dropped the ball when it mattered most. Brady played his balls off last night, and I certainly can't pin this loss on him like some in the Boston media want to do.

Also one guy made a long post congratulating Eli and finally admitting that he is, in fact, an elite quarterback. This was of course met with hundreds of posts along the lines of "No he's not and he never will be!" "It's all luck!" etc. Haters gonna hate.

[naiwf]

Elite Manning has 2 GW TD drives in 2 Super Bowls.

Tom Brady has 0 GW TD drives in 5 Super Bowls.

'nuff said.

[Summers]

I see as usual, the English guys keep up their rep of being the worst sports fans ever. I get it, they're not world champions. Starts to grate after hearing it, oh, every year. No one cares.

Discussion is bad? And Dukes has already claimed that accolade for his country. For life.

I don't think any (not including obvious troll) body meant it negatively. More of just a general statement. They're the Superbowls winners. And yes, they're clearly the best team around.. but nothing they've won is a world championship.. I don't see how people saying that - when they're being called world champs - is an issue. If people can come in and here and shout "WORLD CHAMPIONS!" then people can come in and say "Wait, what, really?". There's nothing wrong with being the Superbowl winners and the best team in the world. I don't see why a faux-world champs accolade needs to be stuck on.

Taking the 'obvious troll' reference to mean myself, you've then pretty much copied and pasted my own point...

It was a throwaway comment, I'm a fan of the sport and enjoy pretty much everything about it, including the overblown commercialism and all the rest. I posted a four word comment querying the absurdity of national league winners being described as world champs, and it generated some discussion (after a full page of 'OMG, Madonnas miming!'), the best point made being that the NHL and NBA are moving away from the term. If it does come up every year I apologise, I generally fall asleep at the final whistle if I last that long, but I'm not apologising for saying its silly, because it is.

Tempted to drop it again next year mind just for the amusing shitstorm that followed. Touchy bastards.

Nah, not you at all. You're not being a troll.

[Colly]

Sarcasm detector currently wavering.

[mikevandam]

wouldnt it have been the same way around if Eli have played poorly and (god forbid) the giants had lost?

[Lowerdeck]

Reading reactions on Patriots message boards is hilarious. So much unnecessary blame on Brady when it was the receivers who dropped the ball when it mattered most. Brady played his balls off last night, and I certainly can't pin this loss on him like some in the Boston media want to do.

Also one guy made a long post congratulating Eli and finally admitting that he is, in fact, an elite quarterback. This was of course met with hundreds of posts along the lines of "No he's not and he never will be!" "It's all luck!" etc. Haters gonna hate.

You should of seen my Facebook news feed last night and this morning. I think they were more happy with beating the Patriots than their own goddamn team winning. Acting like Jets fans for fuck sake.

And then the Chargers fan started laughing at me and said "go Giants" ... as if he really had any right to talk.

[Universal]

The Patriots should be satisfied they got so far on such a mediocre team. Tom Brady, IMO, is in the league of John Elway as far as bringing such weak teams (in terms of talent) to the Superbowl, especially on the defensive front (who really stepped up in the game). However, Brady did make mistakes in the game but the Welker non-catch was clearly on Welker. The Safety and that interception though was him, as well as a couple of other little mistakes.

The Giants were the better and more complete team going in though and it's crazy it was as close as it was. The Giants made plenty of mistakes that easily could have been heart-breakers. Letting Bradshaw run in that TD could have been known as one of the more poorly timed touchdowns of all time if that Patriots drive ended differently. Eli was yelling at him to go down and he just didn't. I am baffled why they just didn't take a knee there.

Edited February 6, 2012 by Universal

[munky]

Tom Elway?

[Meacon Keaton]

There's so much shit that can go wrong if you take that knee. It gets blocked, the snap is botched, the holder mishandles it, etc. Ahmad Bradshaw would be dead right now if he took a knee and New York lost that game. Absolutely nothing wrong taking a touchdown when you're losing a game.

[Maxx]

There's so much shit that can go wrong if you take that knee. It gets blocked, the snap is botched, the holder mishandles it, etc. Ahmad Bradshaw would be dead right now if he took a knee and New York lost that game. Absolutely nothing wrong taking a touchdown when you're losing a game.

Yeah see Romo, Tony for evidence of what can go wrong on a game winning field goal.

[Universal]

There's so much shit that can go wrong if you take that knee. It gets blocked, the snap is botched, the holder mishandles it, etc. Ahmad Bradshaw would be dead right now if he took a knee and New York lost that game. Absolutely nothing wrong taking a touchdown when you're losing a game.

Not Bradshaw. Eli should have taken the knee. They knew they were going field goal because Eli yelled at Brashaw to go down, hence the hesitation in the end zone. Bradshaw never should have been handed the ball if the goal was running down the clock and field goal. That's all I'm saying.

Edited February 7, 2012 by Universal