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It is rare in the world of sports to find a moment when two revelatory, unifying moments converge into something that stuns us all, from every direction. Around 10:20 p.m. ET last night, the sports planet's tectonic plates shifted so dramatically that we thought our heads would never stop spinning. Eli Manning changed every thought anyone had ever had about him, but we talked about that last night and will talk more about that later. Let's talk about the Patriots for a moment ... shall we?
Of all the great wallow-in-the-Patriots'-misery moments from last night, we still think nothing's gonna beat bringing back Tom Brady's own words to haunt him. To remind:
"We're only going to score 17 points? OK," a surprised Brady said.
At a certain level, all mockery directed at Brady and the Patriots can only sting so much: After all, they still have three rings, the Boston area still has a chance to add an NBA championship to their ridiculous resume and Brady still, at the very least, enjoyed manual manipulation from a supermodel to climax last night. But for one night, they were beneath all of us, losers not just to the Giants, but to all of us. They may win Super Bowls and date supermodels, but they are still human beings who can fail. And fail gloriously.
It is not that they did not play to the top of their capabilities. It is not that they were too cocky. (Probably.) It is just that they lost, despite doing their absolute best. We all know that feeling. Today, so do they.
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Fuck. Boston.
Did you hear about Gisele?
She's fucking Matt Damon.
Even the losers get lucky sometimes.
You know what, we just choked so I'm going to leave the field with 1 second left and not stick around until the game is actually over. Suck it, Belicheat.
Shoulda been you Belichek.
Oh wait, it was.
No wonder the Patriots lost - they've never played on a field with bendy lines before.
There needs to be an "Immaculate Reception" type name for the Eli/Tyree play. Maybe some journalist has already come up with one, but it probably sucks.
NBA Championship? Really?
are the Boston Lobsters the favorites for the WTT crown?
Will we look back on David Tyree's catch the way we look at Luis Gonzalez's bloop hit in the bottom of the ninth of Game 7 of the 2001 World Series as the moment when a sports dynasty began to crumble?
If I was a drug dealer, I would have bent space and time to get Mercury Morris' phone # last night.
As a New Yorker who recently moved to Boston, I'll say just this: thank God I didn't get my ass kicked last night.
Thank God for the emergency banana delivery during the game, or the Giants would have had no chance.
Only downside to the Pats loss - the scumbag ' 72 Dolphins thinking this is about them. Mercury Morris found time out of his busy schedule to call into SportsCenter last night.
@Gourmet Spud:
The Grape Escape?
It seems childish enough for the fetus.
@UkraineNotWeak:
David Tyree, Syracuse University.
I was quite proud of him last night.
Getting to watch Tiki Barber talk about the game on The Today Show this morning was priceless.
@MeSoHornsby: Couldn't the Giants have afforded ripe bananas?
Not to mention the play was very Favre-esque by Eli.
Except Favre would have thrown a pick.
/cries
/shits pants
@Gourmet Spud: $1US to anyone who can work "Mantiquing" into it.
@UkraineNotWeak:
Depends on whether or not Troy Brown, Junior Seau, and Tedy Bruschi all retire. Troy probably will, but Junior and Seau might have enough to go one more round. Rosie Colvin's injury was finally felt last night (not making excuses--the Giants ripped that game away).
Why all the long faces, Beantown?
I assume Tyree had some mad sex with Katie last night.
/Mad Real World
Yeah, ESPN's gonna dine out on this one for a while.
@Afino:
Don't forget Tom Coughlin. Boeheim was his RA when he was a freshman at Syracuse.
@Gourmet Spud:
After that game and catch, Tyree should emulate his namesake from Chappelle's "Mad Real World" sketch.
Who's going to stop him? Certainly not Rodney Harrison.
@Slothrop:
Brown is probably gone. Seau and Bruschi will probably go again. If they can keep Moss, they got as good as chance as anyone to get back to the game.
@Hustler of Culture: I ain't fallin' for no banana up no tailpipe. GapToothDL
I'm also thrilled that we are all one day closer to having Rodney Harrison out of our lives forever.
@Tobias Funke: Well played, sir. Well played.
@Hustler of Culture: Coughlin was planning on baking some banana bread for his team but then realized there might be a better use for them.
@Afino:
Tyree or the Giant's Defensive Line should've won the MVP.
I get get the image of Hobbs blowing his coverage on Burress out of my head. I think I woke up in a cold sweat four or five times last night.
It's going to be a long week.
@Libertariot:
I'm glad that you could somehow see I meant Junior and Tedy in my retarded post.
Brady > all of us.
@UkraineNotWeak: Agree. And I still think one of the Colts RBs should've won last year instead of Peyton.
@Tobias Funke:
Least Valuable: Pat's OC. Waited too long to give up on the Rex Grossman game plan.
@Slothrop: Welcome. We non-obnoxious Pats fans have to stick together, because I have a feeling we are about to get the "Star of Belichick" branded on us.
@UkraineNotWeak: Don't call it the OC
/Michael Bluth
@UkraineNotWeak:
Awesome. I did know that Coughlin was from Waterloo and that he's quite big here in the Rochester area, but I didn't know the Jimmy B connection.
And yeah, if I could, I'd have taken the whole defensive line as co-MVP's until Tyree made that catch.
@Doyle McPoyle: Once we Boston fans start feeling our fingers and toes and this catatonic look comes off our faces, that'll be the point when "shock" turns to "anger" and I'd start looking for safehouses if I were you.
Anyone other than MJD gonna pick at Belichick's departure from the field before the final play?
Pussy.
Mercury Morris would like the Patriots to get off his front porch, drive down his street, and leave his town.
And try to look at the bright side Pats fans. Pitchers and catchers report in 11 days.
Ummm, Boom goes the Dynamite?
@Tobias Funke:
2nd least valuable: Pat's Offensive Line.
It was like they never confronted the idea of blitz pick up before. Twice, Mitchell came up the middle on a delay blitz and no one touched him.
For once the team I was cheering for actually won. I think that might be more shocking than the Pats not winning...
@Jews For Purple Jesus:
Dude, I live in St. Louis. The only thing that makes me feel is that I have to watch the Cardinals drag ass through another season because we can't make any moves to bring in anyone young.
@LingeringBursitis:
It was small.
Anyone gonna pick up this book?
@LingeringBursitis: He had a bus transfer that was only good for another 10 minutes.
Oh what a BEAUTIFUL MORNING!!!! Altford should have been MVP for the sack of Brady that killed any potential comeback. Hell of a game and I picked the winnah.
@LingeringBursitis:
That moment revealed all you need to know about Belichick.
@UkraineNotWeak: Yeah, and his postgame interview was hilar