Ah well…I’ve decided to look at this optimistically – the Giants will get payback in their rematch next month.
Against the couches they’ll be sitting on? Or against the pizza delivery guy who brings their food while they watch the other teams in the playoffs?
LOL. Don’t you have a department store Santa somewhere in a Philadelphia mall to throw batteries at?
It was a painfully ugly game to watch last night and sadly the Giants wanted to lose more. Both teams played sloppy.
The Giants aren’t getting any payback.
Do you know that is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone attempt to insult a Philadelphia fan by referencing Santa Claus? Is there a story there that I haven’t heard any times, let alone I don’t know like a hundred thousand?
The pizza guy thing. That’s exactly what I meant, you bastion of witticism, you.
Gotta say, I agree with Jimmy. Sports fans as a whole really need to give the “booing Santa” thing a rest. It was ages ago, it was blown out of proportion, and it wasn’t wholly undeserved. Especially when there really can be no greater insult than “You’re an Eagles fan”.
It’s a fair cop.
“You’re an Eagles fan”
“You’re a Cowboys fan”
I have to give the edge to the second, only because of Jerry Jones and the whole America’s Team shtick. Tough call though, and I wouldn’t argue that hard against the former.
Disappointing season. No ball control, leaky defense, inadequate special teams. And we were still in the game up until the final minutes.
Eagles fans are the worst. Sure, the Cowboys have that arrogance, America’s team, hole in the roof thing but Eagles fans?
Michael Irvin suffers a career-ending neck injury, which prompts cheers form the crowd. This was not some “got your bell rung for a few moments” injury, but neck injury lying motionless on the field for 20 minutes while the ambulance comes for you and you never play another down injury. How can you cheer an injury situation where they guy might be paralyzed?
From a Sports Illustrated Article
I guess they even booed Donovan McNabb and Jawarski:
But wait! There’s more!
So maybe its not just Eagles fans, but Philly sports fans in general.
Can we put the whole “Tony Homo” thing to rest, too? It doesn’t happen in here, but out there.
Ironically, as long as the Eagles don’t completely collapse the next two weeks (hosting SF and DEN – not a lot of worry) there’s a pretty damn good chance that they will be in a position to decide which other NFC East team makes the playoffs (bear with me – it all comes together in the end).
If you study the standings in the NFC, a couple of things stick out:
–In all likelyhood, the Packers will be the #5 seed.
–There are only four teams in realistic competition for the #6 seed – the Cowboys, Giants, Falcons and 49ers (scratch that last one if they lose tonight).
So lets say neither the Falcons nor 49ers go on crazy winning streaks, and fall by the wayside. That leaves the Cowboys and Giants fighting for that last spot. The Giants have the tiebreaker over the Cowboys, so Dallas needs to finish with an overall better record than New York.
On the remaining schedule, the Giants have @Washington, Carolina and @Minnesota. I’d expect two wins there, giving them a 9-7 season.
The next two games for the Cowboys are @New Orleans and @Washington. Let’s say they split them – they’ll be 9-6 heading into Week 17. Against the Eagles.
If the Eagles already have the division wrapped up, then it’ll be up to them – do they play hard and beat the Cowboys, thereby giving the Giants a postseason berth; or do they “rest their starters”, lay down, and invite the Cowboys in for another spectacular playoff disaster?
Give me a break, divemaster. You’re citing the bullshit sensationalist sports media as proof of a phenomenon that was invented by the sports media.
And really, 41 years and that’s the most impressive catalog you can come up with? Drunken-ass replacement Santa was treated poorly when my dad was 16? Michael Irvin, the most hateable guy on the most hateable team of the last 25 years was injured and there was cheering? Some star players got booed?
Jesus, just off the top of my head, let’s see. White Sox fans run onto the field and assault people involved in the game twice in seven months. Browns fans throw bottles at the referee until he and the Browns coaching staff flees in terror and the NFL has to make a rule change so fans can’t have access to such artillery anymore. Dodgers fans and Giants fans kill each other in the parking lot. In Detroit, fans pelt Ron Artest with beers and then rush the court to trade blows with the rest of his team. Oakland fans hit Carl Everett in the head with a cellphone and each other’s children with cherry bombs. Ravens fans cheer their own quarterback getting hurt. 58 people get arrested at a single Bills game. Red Sox fans get arrested for pissing off the upper deck. A drunken Cardinals fans pushes a wheelchair-bound usher onto the ground.
How much of that do you hear about even two weeks later? Yet imagine one of those stories taking place in Philadelphia - it would immediately become part of Philly fan lore to be regurgitated by lazy 70 year old sports reporters the next time a deadline loomed. Jesus, with the response you could get by doing so, it’s a wonder that the drunken jackasses in Philadelphia don’t take the field every game. The drunken fucks in Buffalo and Chicago wish they could get as much attention as Philadelphia fans get.
Oh come on guys, it was a tired joke, to be sure, but it was still just a damn joke. Lighten up.
This is looking likely, and it’s a real no-brainer. Try reasonably hard to humiliate the Cowboys just like last year, thereby knocking them out and forcing your whipping boy Giants to travel to Philadelphia to lose in the Wildcard round for the THIRD time in four years. Ouch!
sigh
Remember when the Iggles were the whipping boys. Those were happier times indeed.
C’mon, Dallas will beat the Saints and will make the playoffs.
And in my fantasy scenario, the Giants:
- Smack the taste out of the Eagles’ mouths in the Wild Card round,
- Hand the Saints their first loss of the season in the Divisionals,
- Go to Lambeau and beat the Packers in a 17-below-zero NFC Championship,
- And finish it off pulling a 2007 repeat, handing the Colts an 18-1 season as the Giants win their second Super Bowl championship in three years!
If we’re living in la-la land, both the undefeated Colts and undefeated Saints get knocked out of the conference championship games by the two New York teams, who go on to play a subway superbowl with the Giants eeking out a hard faught 23-17 victory in the last minute of overtime.
EDIT: Though knocking out the undefeated Saints in the conference championship and undefeated Colts in the superbowl would probably be better.
While I’d prefer to wait until the conference championship to knock off the Saints, the #1 and #6 seeds can’t meet in that game. The only way we’d see a Giants/Saints NFC title game would be for the Giants to win out, and either the Packers collapse or both the Eagles and Cowboys collapse. The Cowboys, I expect. The others, not as much.
But hey, I’m not going to be greedy. I don’t need the NFC East title – a simple Super Bowl win will do.