Vastly Overrated Media Day – It’s Here!
NFL January 29th. 2008, 11:04am
Anyone still having trouble getting worked up about the Super Bowl? This almost has the feel of the college football National Championship. It’s been too damn long. When was the last time you saw Randy Moss score a touchdown? Like a month ago? Tom Brady practiced on his aching ankle. Junior Seau was a bust on Howard Stern Monday. There is no news. Fortunately, today is the shitshow known as media day, so something idiotic (and unimportant) will happen, and it’ll be written about as if Coach K were abducted by aliens.
First up on our Super Bowl docket: Before boarding the team flight to Phoenix, Plaxico Burress of the Giants was cornered at his car by a New York Post reporter. The lanky receiver predicted the Giants would defeat the Patriots 23-17. There’s your “news” for the day, folks. We sort of wish that the reporter had been armed with this nugget – in the last 10 games Bill Belichick and Tom Brady have played following a bye-week, the Patriots are 10-0 – to find out Plax’s take on the subject.
We still don’t have a prediction on the game, but a lot of the early money has been on the Giants.
34 Responses to “Vastly Overrated Media Day – It’s Here!”
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January 29th, 2008 at 11:06 am
I didnt know Lil Wayne was a Yankees fan.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Are Plaxico and Darius Miles the same person?
January 29th, 2008 at 11:10 am
It will have been 14 days since these two teams last took the field.
Didn’t tOSU wait like 50 days before playing in the past two college NC games?
NFL > CFB every time.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Fun fact: the Patriots have won all three of their Super Bowls by a margain of three points.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:12 am
It’s Weezy F-Baby
January 29th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Minor deviation from the topic. You folks hear about Bob Ryan’s son committing suicide in Pakistan?
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2008/01/28/keith_ryan_37_globe_sportswriters_son_found_dead/
January 29th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Devang – it was in the roundup.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Football is boring. I have never been so bored as I was watching that NC game and I will expect nothing but the same this Sunday. Brady is lame and sounds retarted. Bellichick is a horse’s ass. Coughlin is my grandpa. Strahan is an Ameichi. Eli is a dumb redneck. Moss is as likable as Bonds. I hate both of these teams and I would estimate the rest of the country feels the same. Maybe if there really was parity in this shit bag sport I could love it again. Until then, I will hoep for Pryor to go to Michigan in seven days. Fuck the NFL.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Looks like he got on a championship ring.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Sorry TBL, a little late to the game.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Maggs- Pryor will go to TOSU, and “Strahan is an Ameichi” was classic.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:20 am
TBL not at the Super Bowl?
What’s next? Proposition Joe gets killed?
January 29th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Maggs, football is boring, so do you like Michigan for their basketball team? For your sake I hope not.
I think there is too much time between the game but I am looking forward to it. I think the game will be close and entertaining. The NFL does everything in their power to ensure parity, making the Patriots run even more incredible.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:23 am
I dont know about “retarted,” but Brady is just as annoying, scripted and phony as ARod. Dude was delivering cheesy, PR-savvy lines through a fake, bleached-teeth smile. It was unbearable for any hetero male who’s not a Patriots fan.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:28 am
The only thing I like about the NFL is “The Detroit Lions Super Bowl” known to most of you as the draft. I guess I don’t hate the NFL as much as I hate the fucking reporting on it. When did sports become a fucking daytime soap? Do I really give a bag of shit about Brady delivering flowers to his GF? FUCK NO! Why in the name of fuck do I have to see this shit everyday of my life? I am having a bad day. It is a shame because I just shaved my beard into a glorious mustache this morning. Now I have to see that Wilbon had a heart attack and Jerramy Stevens is making $600,000. Killer Tuesday.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Just to throw this out there… I think this Super Bowl has a bit of a St. Louis/New England-in-2001 feel to it. Unstoppable heavy favorite vs. team that’s not supposed to be there with a ton of momentum. For that reason alone, I’m tempted to pick the Giants. But then again, I’m kind of an idiot.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:29 am
@Magglio – Don’t know if you saw this, but Pryor has crossed LSU and Oregon (he’s not visiting–so it’s unlikely he’d go there) off his list. So that leaves–no great surprise–OSU and UM as the likely finalists, with PSU as something of a dark horse.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:34 am
@412
I see all in the world of Pryor my friend. The only thing that is worrisome is that Rich Rod is looking at another dual threat QB from Florida right now, which kind of makes me feel he is worried about landing Pryor. If Pryor goes to osu I will just shit. i don’t see any reason for him to go there. It just doesn’t make any sense to me why he would do that.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Haha Mags, your rant reminded me of the Nerd Video Game guy on YouTube.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dpVHp0MdgL8
January 29th, 2008 at 11:39 am
the super bowl is significantly better with no bye week between championship sunday and the super bowl. i understand why the nfl wants the super bowl in january (tv sweeps month = more cash in tv contracts). but the nfl could have a second bye week during the season (which may prevent some injuries as players get needed rest), not have a bye week between championship sunday and the super bowl and still have the super bowl in sweeps month.
the ncaa survives if not flourishes quite nicely with no bye week between the region finals and the final four.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:41 am
He wants to play in a BCS bowl, he won’t get that at Michigan
January 29th, 2008 at 11:41 am
@cbh49er
Can’t get sound here, but anything with Tourettes Guy is an instant classic in my book. RIP TG.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:42 am
@jibble
Eat my knob osu faithful. You won’t see a BSC bowls ass end for the next five years with your powerhouse showings as of late.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:44 am
’sniff sniff’ i smell TP talk.
you dont see a reason for TP to go to OSU? howabout not having to deal with a rebuilding offense learning an entirely new system? or there’s always the ’spread option QB’s don’t make it in the NFL’ card that he’d avoid at OSU. or there’s the ‘all my buddies at the Army AA game are going to OSU and the only UM guy was an undersized whiteboy.’
im partial to that last one.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Maggs, the guy in those videos is dead? My friends showed me these last night.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:48 am
With the Big 10 as of late all we have to do is beat Michigan, and that hasn’t been all that difficult.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:52 am
@cbh49er
Oh totally, TG = U dead dog. That is sad, it could be a massive interwebs rumor, but I am pretty sure TG is done.
@spencer 096
Fuck this entire argument. Wait seven days. On eof teo things will happen 1) I will laugh in your face as he comes to UM and you will tell me he is overrated and you are btter off without him and BSBSBSBS. 2) You will laugh at me when he goes to C-Bus and I will send the alledged recruiting violations (yeah there is two) to anyone who will print it.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:52 am
@maggs
OSU will be back in the bcs again this coming season
January 29th, 2008 at 11:54 am
pryor going to tOSU or tSUN means different things for both those schools
January 29th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Gosh it is like a greasy fat osu line man’s butt crack in here, just oozing with redneck buckeye faithful and thier love for all things Holley Mangold.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:57 am
@s1Rweeze: The media is definitely playing it up as a game similar to the Patriots/Rams in 2001. Even though the ‘01 Rams and the ‘07 Pats both have high scoring offenses, the Pats won becuase they were able to take away Marshall Faulk and exploit the Rams offense’s tendency for turn overs, which it committed 44 of during the regular season.
January 29th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Mags…we’ve gone in this circle a million times before.
TP to UM = sucks ass, but I’ll live. we wont be better off without him tho, thats for sure.
TP to OSU = pray to god that we dont get fucked by the NCAA.
January 29th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
its called “fan enthusiasm.”
then again, as a UM fan, you’d probably just shake your keys at me and be quiet.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:24 am
GIANTS!!!!!!!!!