•"Maybe two years ago, that was in vogue. But he's a made man now, a Super Bowl winner. You can only say he had a disappointing game and that Eli Manning is not quite - here we go again - his brother." [NY Daily News]

• "After this," center Shaun O'Hara confessed, inside the funeral-parlor still of the Giants locker room, "you almost wonder if it isn't better to not make the playoffs than to play the way we did out there today." [NY Post]

• "The magic, or well-timed competence, so evident in the Giants’ run through the playoffs last season seemed absent. Over and over, the Giants made a succession of adept plays only to stumble on third down, converting 3 of 13 attempts." [NY Times]

• "This is not the end of the world. The Giants won the Super Bowl last year, after all, in the most inspiring fashion possible. Yesterday didn’t eradicate that. And the Giants should still be considered one of the best teams in the NFC next year as well. But that feeling of invincibility, that notion of New York superiority that the Giants were the lone local team to provide us with over the last year … that’s gone. Blame Eli, blame Coughlin, blame Carney, blame Plaxico, blame whomever you would like. All that matters is that there are only four teams who have the opportunity to experience what the Giants did last year, and none of them are the Giants." [NY Mag]

•" 'It’s terrible,” said Eddie Nunez, 29, a Giants fan from Flushing, after watching his team go down 23-11 to the rival Philadelphia Eagles in the divisional round of the playoffs. “I was nothing but confident. I put a lot of money on this game.' " [AM New York]

• "The Giants were like that a year ago. We wondered how much they would miss Plaxico Burress Sunday, and Michael Strahan and Osi Umenyiora. They missed them all, mightily. It turned out they were never the same on offense after Burress shot himself in the leg and tried to shoot his team out of a cannon at the same time." [NY Daily News]

• "The Giants will never admit it packing their bags on Blue Monday, but their chance for a repeat championship was shot dead the night Plaxico Burress shot himself in the leg inside a nightclub at the end of November." [NY Post]

PHOTO: Philly.com

Since the Eagles will be playing the Big Blue Babyfuckers this weekend, I've generously given her the floor. Enjoy.

Well, well, well, if it isn’t Donovan McSoupcans, prime candidate for Ryan Seacrest’s new reality show, Momma’s Boys , and connoisseur of chunky stew. Ain’t he kicky? At the risk of beating a dead shitbird, I’ll only mention it briefly that Donovan, the quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles – a professional football team, by some standards – gleefully acknowledged earlier in the season that he was unaware of the overtime rules of a game that he has ostensibly been playing professionally for a decade. I’m sorry, but I have a fucking VAGINA and even I knew the overtime rules. But wasn’t it precious how simply he admitted his dimwitted confusion to the press? And then was summarily benched a few weeks later. It was a goddamned inspiration for all of us.

In other news, Andy Reid is coaching from the sidelines with what appears to be a furry ginger snatch on his face. I’m all for superstition, but I’m not sure that looking like a fat homeless guy who just got his chin vomited on by Lindsay Lohan’s cooter is exactly going to secure the win.

But, you know, as we used to say in Jersey, to each his own.

Look, I’m not going to go over every detail of why the Eagles have no chance this Sunday. Suffice it to say, the Giants were pretty much a shoe-in to make the play-offs for most of the season, whereas the Eagles sneaked into the postseason mostly thanks to a couple of other teams shitting the bed at the last minute (I’m looking at you, Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Tony Romo, personally). Also, we have home field advantage, an oversized hamhead of a running back who will smash right through your sad little Eagle faces, and an impenetrable defense that sets my girly heart aflutter. Also, we beat the freaking Patriots in the Super Bowl last year. And we’re even better now than we were then.

What do you have? You have one wide receiver who is engaged to Kendra Wilkinson (congrats on that grab), and another wide receiver who, during Monday Night Football, dropped the ball while celebrating a touchdown…before crossing the goal line. And let’s not forget Donovan McSleepypants who gets sooooo tired in the fourth quarter (poor big, dumb baby!). And, well, a major tendency to choke.

Anyway, comfort yourselves, Philly fans, at least you know that your pretty birdies will give it their best shot. And that’s all that really matters, isn’t it?

Oh, Jesus. What are you gonna do, throw a battery at me?

Ed. Note: Nope. Just show the world how much of a drunken slut you are. Go Birds!