Letters to the Editor
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barthelme
While I appreciate a nod to the pomo greats like Barthelme or Barth, I must concur that this is a pretty poor effort from my boy KK.
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Best Super Bowl column ever
Just saying.
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What they get away with on the field....
Let me state right up front that I have been mildly annoyed with the Patriots since the "tuck rule" incident. I mean what a load of bullshit. That first Superbowl never would have happened. And this isn't coming from a Raider fan - quite the contrary. In fact, my team is as far away from being affected in any way by the Pasties as can be - the now lowly 49ers. Heck, they don't even have a perfect season or even any records that I'm aware of in jeopardy.
But this year, as in most years, I watch a lot of football due to the fact that I'm in 4 fantasy leagues. And given their run for the records, the Patriots have gotten the majority of the air time in my rather large city without an NFL team, so I've seen many of their games.
This year's rather heinous cheating situation aside, as a mostly unbiased observer, I have seen the Pats get away with everything from egregious holding right in front of the officials to blatant offensive and defensive pass interference to chop blocks, all with no yellow flags. As a result, I simply can't stand this team any more.
This team is obviously very talented and can execute better than most any team they play as a result of great coaching. This is precisely why its time for the NFL to start penalizing the Patriots for the things they've been getting away with ON the field. Let's have a fairly officiated Superbowl.
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Old Tom
Grumpy ole Tom Coughlin is going to the super bowl to win. The most underated and misunderstood Cough maybe of all time. Watch him do to the Pats what he did to my homeboys the fightin' Irish back when he coached BC. That 12 point spread is easy money.
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officials
Do people really think that a team gets special treatment from a rotating cast of referees -- dozens of different men -- over a period of almost a decade? do we really think that?
i'm certain there is somewhat of a Michael Jordan/Bret Farve thing that you could maybe apply to Brady and co... meaning if the call looks like it could either way, the official might let it slide in their mind because they assume greatness from the player at hand, but to think there is a conspiracy? just weird.
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I'd just like to apologize to everyone...
..for instigating Lynx. I mean its just so easy sometimes. But 90+ letters, seemingly half of them from the L-man, was never my intention. Guess they have to get it out of their system - the seasons almost over!
Also, a little love for my Com-Patriots in N.E. fan-dom. We've gone through a tough season what with the cheating thing and the perfect thing and the running-it-up thing – honestly, I'm emotionally spent. Our team now stands at the precipice of either 19-0 (which is whisper thin less awesome than the 2004 Red Sox) or the biggest ha-ha-your-team-are-the-biggest-chokers-of-all-time-and-its-what-they-deserve-for-cheating (which is whisper thin from either Dent or Buckner - I can't decide which one)!
I know I'm gonna get alot of boos (if anyone's still paying attention) about its just another Boston fan bitching because that's what we do, not knowing how good we have it, or just being another annoying fan-boy. But I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to my peeps: the fans who are still surprised out of our god forsaken minds whenever Boston wins or does something meaningful. Cause that's what it means to be a Boston fan - never taking the successes as preordained. WE hate being the favorites. Honestly.
Go Pats!
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Here'$ What the $eriou$ Profe$$ional$ Think
I heard on ESPN radio today an interview with the head of the Sports Book at the MGM Grand in Vegas.
He's got the Pats favored by 12 points; 70% of the betting money so far is on the Giants +12. He said he expected that as the game got closer, and maybe the spread narrowed, big bettor money ("six, seven figure types," he said) would come in on the Pats.
But the most interesting thing he said was that the MGM was offering a straight-up, no points bet that was attracting a TON of money on the Giants. The MGM was giving 30-1 odds(!!!) on a Giants outright, no point victory. Meaning, you bet the Giants, they win the game, you get paid 30x your bet.
Aren't those Vegas guys something?
[Before you NY-types rush out to drop a grand or two on your home team, please independently verify what I have written above. But, I rarely mis-hear things, esp. numbers.]
Note1-When then-Cassius Clay, now Muhammed Ali, fought Sonny Liston in Ali's first shot at the heavyweight title, the odds were 30-1 AGAINST Ali.
Note2-I don't bet on sports events, period.
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Jonathan
Yeah, it's funny, I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop all season. It's been tense. I have taken nothing for granted this year.
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Tsuper Name Tuesday
Knowing you, which I don't: the Line is set at 42-27 both win. So you play the over-and-under on 69, because that's your style.
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The Truth is ...
... trying to figure ways in which the Giants win/Pats lose is like doing calculus without a calculator. It can be done, but it takes time ... and your brain hurts.
The Pats won't lose.
Unlike the G-Men they play to win. Every time.
As their season-ending clash in Jints Stadium showed, the G-Men will settle for keeping it close. They think: If it's not a blowout, we didn't really lose. They took four minutes to complete a two-minute drill in that game and make the score look respectable. AND, they gave up a lead that any real champion would've sat on, especially at home.
Pats win, not 'cos they cheat, but 'cos they play to win. Every time.
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Love it
Brilliant, incisive, funny column. Well, no, not really but what's there really to write about in this match up besides that Patriots are far superior to the Giants in every aspect from the coach on down, by which I mean no disrespect to Tom Coughlin and I figure he'd say none taken. Kaufman nonetheless managed two pages.
C'mon people. This game has the powerful whiff of a blowout of epic proportions. What a great cap to the season if the mighty Pats run up 50 on the Giants, with Belichick still going for it on 4th down to score more and more and a bajillion of us viewers cheering him on like Romans at a gladiator match.