The big game is this Sunday and features two of the leagues best quarterbacks (both were set to be the starters for their respective conferences). Both teams feature offensive juggernauts, and should provide some pretty entertaining fireworks.
Who are you picking and why? Anybody heading down to Florida to see the game live? How big do you think Dwight Freeny’s injury really is?
This is one of the biggest man holidays of the year, I thought it was only appropriate to have an open thread to talk about it.
We’ll so far we have more people picking teams that aren’t even playing, a bookie could do well here.
I’m not sure I have the same dislike of the newer pass happy league as some of you. I do agree that busting a 30 yard run is much more entertaining than a 50 yard bomb, but football is football and both the pass and the run are part of the game now.
The precision and intelligence that both QB’s bring is pretty impressive, and I am perfectly fine with a 42-35 final score. Peyton Manning is arguable one of the best QB’s to ever play the game, and love him or hate him, he does amazing work on the field. I think he has just done it on such a consistent basis that people have gotten bored. He has turned a waiter and a dog into fine NFL receivers, a true sign of an amazing QB.
I have no rooting interest, but watching Peyton run the offense is about as awesome as offensive football gets. Sure the Greatest Show on Turf may have scored more and been more explosive, and even these Saints probably have more potential to score… but god do I enjoy watching Manning do work. Dude is like some super elite football robot.
Colts 30-24 or something like that… these defenses will give up points, but also make a few stands and force some field goals. I can only hope the game is as good as the past few have been, this has been a fantastic decade for super bowls(TB raping Oakland not included).
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
We’ll so far we have more people picking teams that aren’t even playing, a bookie could do well here.
I’m not sure I have the same dislike of the newer pass happy league as some of you. I do agree that busting a 30 yard run is much more entertaining than a 50 yard bomb, but football is football and both the pass and the run are part of the game now.
The precision and intelligence that both QB’s bring is pretty impressive, and I am perfectly fine with a 42-35 final score. Peyton Manning is arguable one of the best QB’s to ever play the game, and love him or hate him, he does amazing work on the field. I think he has just done it on such a consistent basis that people have gotten bored. He has turned a waiter and a dog into fine NFL receivers, a true sign of an amazing QB.
My pick? 49ers by 7[/quote]
right, I’m not knocking the greatness they bring. My stance comes from my own sports career where I played defensive line for my whole life. I hate everything about scoring unless its a fumble recovery, pick 6, or special teams. I text or call someone when my team is on an offensive drive. lol its that bad. Offensive players are not people.
I’m gonna have to go with the Colts.
Seeing the Vikings make as many mistakes as they did, the Saints should have had an easy victory. That fact that the Vikings still managed to take it to OT leads me to believe the Saints won’t be able to stand up against the Colts.
[quote]red04 wrote:
I have no rooting interest, but watching Peyton run the offense is about as awesome as offensive football gets. Sure the Greatest Show on Turf may have scored more and been more explosive, and even these Saints probably have more potential to score… but god do I enjoy watching Manning do work. Dude is like some super elite football robot.
Colts 30-24 or something like that… these defenses will give up points, but also make a few stands and force some field goals. I can only hope the game is as good as the past few have been, this has been a fantastic decade for super bowls(TB raping Oakland not included).[/quote]
Bullshit! The TB-Oak Super Bowl was awesome. A great Defense carried that TB team to victory. Defense wins championships!
[quote]red04 wrote:
I have no rooting interest, but watching Peyton run the offense is about as awesome as offensive football gets. Sure the Greatest Show on Turf may have scored more and been more explosive, and even these Saints probably have more potential to score… but god do I enjoy watching Manning do work. Dude is like some super elite football robot.
Colts 30-24 or something like that… these defenses will give up points, but also make a few stands and force some field goals. I can only hope the game is as good as the past few have been, this has been a fantastic decade for super bowls(TB raping Oakland not included).[/quote]
[quote]red04 wrote:
I have no rooting interest, but watching Peyton run the offense is about as awesome as offensive football gets. Sure the Greatest Show on Turf may have scored more and been more explosive, and even these Saints probably have more potential to score… but god do I enjoy watching Manning do work. Dude is like some super elite football robot.
Colts 30-24 or something like that… these defenses will give up points, but also make a few stands and force some field goals. I can only hope the game is as good as the past few have been, this has been a fantastic decade for super bowls(TB raping Oakland not included).[/quote]
Bullshit! The TB-Oak Super Bowl was awesome. A great Defense carried that TB team to victory. Defense wins championships![/quote]
It was a stout performance, and I enjoyed watching it, but I meant as far as late game drama goes it was pretty much the outlier of the decade(although some could argue that until Brooks pick 6 that stopped Oak’s little 14 point run and put it back to a 3 score game, that it was getting tense in that stadium).
[quote]red04 wrote:
I have no rooting interest, but watching Peyton run the offense is about as awesome as offensive football gets. Sure the Greatest Show on Turf may have scored more and been more explosive, and even these Saints probably have more potential to score… but god do I enjoy watching Manning do work. Dude is like some super elite football robot.
Colts 30-24 or something like that… these defenses will give up points, but also make a few stands and force some field goals. I can only hope the game is as good as the past few have been, this has been a fantastic decade for super bowls(TB raping Oakland not included).[/quote]
Bullshit! The TB-Oak Super Bowl was awesome. A great Defense carried that TB team to victory. Defense wins championships![/quote]
It was a stout performance, and I enjoyed watching it, but I meant as far as late game drama goes it was pretty much the outlier of the decade(although some could argue that until Brooks pick 6 that stopped Oak’s little 14 point run and put it back to a 3 score game, that it was getting tense in that stadium).[/quote]
Cool beans.
Personally, the Bears-Colts super bowl. That and the Patriots-Eagles super bowl.
[quote]red04 wrote:
I have no rooting interest, but watching Peyton run the offense is about as awesome as offensive football gets. Sure the Greatest Show on Turf may have scored more and been more explosive, and even these Saints probably have more potential to score… but god do I enjoy watching Manning do work. Dude is like some super elite football robot.
Colts 30-24 or something like that… these defenses will give up points, but also make a few stands and force some field goals. I can only hope the game is as good as the past few have been, this has been a fantastic decade for super bowls(TB raping Oakland not included).[/quote]
Bullshit! The TB-Oak Super Bowl was awesome. A great Defense carried that TB team to victory. Defense wins championships![/quote]
It was a stout performance, and I enjoyed watching it, but I meant as far as late game drama goes it was pretty much the outlier of the decade(although some could argue that until Brooks pick 6 that stopped Oak’s little 14 point run and put it back to a 3 score game, that it was getting tense in that stadium).[/quote]
Cool beans.
Personally, the Bears-Colts super bowl. That and the Patriots-Eagles super bowl.[/quote]
My most memorable SB was the chargers in the early 90’s. ('93? '94?) I was in jail and my cell buddie was from San Diego. That muther fucker was happy as shit! I remember a bunch of doods got stabbed over bets on that game. Good times!