You have a good memory....
I bet it looks sharp inperson based on the quality of the suit. He is big dude and it suits him.
I guess that's how they do it now. Last year, Terrell Davis started off, and then handed to Namath and Swann. I guess maybe they are going to have a hall of famer for the winning team start it off and then hand off to another hall of famer to bring up to the podium?
Well, they do not have the 6th yet...
Frankly, the 2006 AFCCG and the 2011 SB are water under the bridge for me too - both were winnable games but against teams that were our peers in quality, and you don't win all of those. SB49 helped enormously with both.
Great post.
I can't recall a game of the same magnitude in which a team appeared so dead in the water then managed to right itself. Usually, this kind of start leads to a downward spiral and fatal crash.
But neither of those guys won a super bowl against the Broncos or the Panthers.
On that note, the Pats have played half the NFC teams in their nine SBs. Should they make it again against a ninth team, who's most likely?
The Saints? You could probably get 50/50 that the Saints make the playoffs before the Patriots win another SB. They've gone 7-9 three of the last four years, their QB isn't getting any younger, and of the teams above, only SF has longer SB odds according to the bookies.
Dallas. I think they are real close to breaking through especially if they load up on defense.
Yah. I'm out to lunch on NO I guess - didn't realize they had fallen off that much...but struck me as a team with some components that could be a faster turnaround than others.
But it was an odd kind of dead in the water, considering the number of plays they ran, yards gained and TOP in the 1st half. More like very alive in the water, but really far from land.
Yeah, may not have been a SB but 2001/2004 AFCCG have to rate very high on the Steelers' list.
The fact that teams always have to wait 2-5 weeks after the reg season to hire them is a factor. Plus you can't discount the lack of success of the BB coaching tree also. Great for us fans, maybe not so much for the coordinators.
Yeah, that's an item I've often used whenever someone gives me shit for being a Patriots fan.
The Steelers should be on that list for one or both of the AFCCG losses, although their loss in the Super Bowl to Dallas is probably worse for them.
Speaking of not mentioning it, could someone Roethlisberger me for a sec and explain why we're now calling it The Scottish Game? I have this vague sense that it's a Macbeth reference (because of SimplyEric's post earlier in this thread) but even if so, the connection just isn't clicking.
Yeah, that's nuts. It was a different time, but Fouts numbers aren't off the charts great. In the 80s he had a QB rating of 84.4, and a 172/141 TD/INT ratio and after 1981 never won more than 7 games in a season. He was 53-45 in the 80s. He did lead the NFL yards/game 5 times, and TDs twice.
WTF? Montana: 94.0 rating, 215/107 TD/INT, 86-37 W/L record.
In the theater, there is a superstition that you never say the word Macbeth inside a theater as its bad luck. So instead people simply call it "The Scottish Play."
That may or may not be true; but regardless of why it happens, it's still a net positive for the Pats. Continuity is good.
Correct. Dan Quinn got hired 2 years ago. Shanahan was hired this year. And yet the Pats coordinators remain in place.
The woman reporter Jenny Vrentas made a lot more sense there than Peter King. He asked her why the Falcons ran out of gas and the Pats didn't. He then completely ignored her answer. By the way, Phil Simms mentioned on inside the NFL that the Pats were conditioning hard in Houston, running a LOT; she said they were running up hills in Foxboro late in the year, same kind of thing. Pats didn't hire Jerry Rice, did they? He was supposed to be a fiend at conditioning.
