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Was this the best Super Bowl ever? (1 Viewer)
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boubucarow
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Unfortunately, most still think that a defensive battle is boring. The first three quarters were as tense as any Super Bowl I have seen. It was one of the best Super Bowls ever to witness.
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It's up there with Giants / Bills, Titans / Rams, Patriots/Rams, and Steelers / Cowboys (Super Bowl X).
Maybe the best 4th quarter ever, but not the best superbowl (just like the fact that the last 4 minutes of the first and second half were awesome doesn't make up for the fact that the first 26 minutes of each half were terrible in the NE/Car superbowl).This was definitely one of the best, but I don't think it's the best. It lost a little bit of its shine to me because I feel like it wasn't as crisp of a game as it could have been. There were a lot of terrible throws to wide-open receivers in the game. I'd still take Denver/Green Bay, which was tense to the very end but was also an example of two teams at the top of their games just trading punches and seeing who would be the last team standing.
Good point! I couldn't even sit during the 4th quarter of that game. I was doing the John Ralston pace back and forth behind the sofa in my friends living room. I think I wore a rut in his carpet. I didn't mention that superbowl because although it was my favorite superbowl, I think my homerism to the Broncos has a lot to do with it.
I would call it an upset. It wasn't as if the Pats beat themselves. Personally, I think they were upset by a more dominant team tonight. A team that executed when they needed too. One of the top 10 upsets in NFL history IMO.
We can all say it belongs in the conversation, and that alone is pretty amazing. Being such a huge upset (only Colts-Jets rivals it in Super Bowl lore), and ending the first bid at a 19-0 season at the finish line - well that's a good argument for SB XLII as the greatest in the history of the game. Definitely the best 4th quarter.
Another great thing about this game as opposed to others is that even casual NFL fans took a rooting interest in this one. The Pats became Goliath somewhere around week 7 or 8, and the Giants didn't just play David - they looked the Pats in the eye, took their best punch, and still outlasted them in the end.
So many memorable plays and images - whether or not you think it deserves #1, Super Bowl XLII was a shining example of so many things that are great about football.
Another great thing about this game as opposed to others is that even casual NFL fans took a rooting interest in this one. The Pats became Goliath somewhere around week 7 or 8, and the Giants didn't just play David - they looked the Pats in the eye, took their best punch, and still outlasted them in the end.
So many memorable plays and images - whether or not you think it deserves #1, Super Bowl XLII was a shining example of so many things that are great about football.
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Reality Football
Footballguy
Agreed. Brady actually had a decent statistical game. The Pats didn't have a bad game; they just got outplayed.
Liquid Tension
Footballguy
I don't get why people don;t like good defensive games??? I don't like poor offense or low scoring, but I like good defensive games where every offensive play is heavily challenged. That was going on a lot. When you watch a lot of plays some subtle things come out. On Maroney's TD Kawika Mitchell, took the wrong angle and should have made the tackle, but he did manage to get a good hit on the ball and caused Maroney to double clutch at the ball and run into his lineman for righting himself. if he didn't have a good handle on the ball he would have lost the ball. The Tyree non catch, we great defended as the ball was tipped, then knocked free not only once, but after Tyree kind of regained control was knocked out again...great defense. Those are good defensive plays and I love great defense.
Patriots/Rams was a bigger upset in terms of point spread. Whether you want to use point spread as the sole determining factor in the size of an upset is up to you, but at the very least you have to say that it's in the same conversation. It's also quite an interesting role-reversal for the Pats.
Not the best but up there, I'd say my top 10 looks like
1. Buffalo-NYG
2. GB-Denver
3. Dallas-Pittsburgh part 1
4. NE-Carolina(people really forget about this one)
5. Dallas-Pittsburgh part 2
6. SF-Cincy part 2
7. Baltimore-Dallas
8. NE-NYG
9. Pittsburgh-LA Rams
10. NE-Chicago(not a close game, but it was amazing to see a team dominate the way they did in a super bowl, people forget Chicago played there backups for almost the entire fourth quarter)
I forgot NE-STL that should be 5th and TENN-STL should be about 8th
1. Buffalo-NYG
2. GB-Denver
3. Dallas-Pittsburgh part 1
4. NE-Carolina(people really forget about this one)
5. Dallas-Pittsburgh part 2
6. SF-Cincy part 2
7. Baltimore-Dallas
8. NE-NYG
9. Pittsburgh-LA Rams
10. NE-Chicago(not a close game, but it was amazing to see a team dominate the way they did in a super bowl, people forget Chicago played there backups for almost the entire fourth quarter)
I forgot NE-STL that should be 5th and TENN-STL should be about 8th
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valhallan
Footballguy
I definitely don't feel like I saw as big of an upset tonight as I did in '02 or '91. It was an impressive win, no doubt. But the '07 Pats seemed much less invincible than the '90 Bills and '01 Rams, to me.
It was like watching collage players take on a pop warner team
Pats-Rams is a strong third, but the Rams did not have the air of invincibility that the Colts and Pats brought into the Super Bowl. Still, you're right to bring it up - and it was also another great Super Bowl.
See, I feel differently. I feel like after watching the 2001 Rams, any upset is possible, so I felt the Patriots this year were LESS invincible. Vegas agreed- I think that if this year's SB had been played before the Patriots/Rams, the line would have been a lot bigger. You're right, this year's Patriots were a better team than the '01 Rams, and this year's Giants were a worse team than the '01 Patriots, but the line was smaller in large part (at least in my opinion) because Vegas had seen this game before (not just in the '01 superbowl, but in the college game a lot recently, too).Sigmund Bloom said:
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travdogg said:
How did this happen?
Big Dumb Ape
Footballguy
Either way, this was a fantastic game. One for the ages.
NorvilleBarnes
Footballguy
Up there among the best upsets. I put it with the Denver-Green Bay game and the NE-St Loius game.
The Denver game was a little better because the story with Elway was so awesome and he played so freaking great in that game. Eli has taken a lot of garbage but not as much as Elway and much of it deserved. Still, with all the story lines being played out from NE being undefeated to Peyton winning MVP last year to a dozen other minor stories this was a GREAT win. I'm actually happy for the Giants fans and I don't have any connection fan-wise to the team.
The Denver game was a little better because the story with Elway was so awesome and he played so freaking great in that game. Eli has taken a lot of garbage but not as much as Elway and much of it deserved. Still, with all the story lines being played out from NE being undefeated to Peyton winning MVP last year to a dozen other minor stories this was a GREAT win. I'm actually happy for the Giants fans and I don't have any connection fan-wise to the team.
