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As a Manning loyalist, I am rooting hard for Eli and the Giants. But my prediction is for the Pats to win, by 11 or more points.
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Christopher C| 2.5.12 @ 6:53PM
Think you're probably right, Mr Hillyer. But it's irritating. I don't know what it is about the Pats, but I really don't mind when they lose. Still, we'll know for sure in a couple of hours.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 2.5.12 @ 9:58PM
Wrong Quin!! 21-17!! Good game!! I've got no finger nails left now!! Now it's on to baseball again, Let's Go Yankees!!
Windy City Commentary| 2.5.12 @ 10:12PM
Quin's wrong about a lot of things.
RJ| 2.6.12 @ 2:21AM
Glad to learn that you are a Manning loyalist. The Giants won the game the way they were supposed to win it - rising to the occasion late in the fourth quarter. Eli has done very well for himself.
Robert S| 2.6.12 @ 6:53AM
I think that the Giants defense deserves the "giant" share of the credit for this win, holding the Pats to 17 points. And the NY offense only scores 21 on a Pat's D that has been a sieve for most games this season. I marvel at how we focus on QB's with doubtful stats. Consider the praise that Brady is getting for completing 16 passes in a row. Hello, his offense only scored 17 points!
Conserdude| 2.6.12 @ 7:02AM
Oh ye of little faith. We now know how that turned out!
astorian| 2.6.12 @ 7:11AM
I'm a Yankees fan in baseball and a Giants fan in football... and the result is a sort of schizophrenia.
See, we Yankee fans have a smug confidence, a feeling that no matter how bad things may look, our team is going to pull it off. "They're the Yankees, man, and they always find a way to win!"
On the other hand, we Giants fans have a sense of warped fatalism. We learned from Joe Pisarcik (among others) that no lead is safe and disaster lurks behind every corner. "They're the GIANTS, man, and if anyone can find a way to blow this game, THEY will." Back in the 70s, even when the Giants had a big lead with over the Cowboys with 2 minutes to go, we KNEW Roger Staubach would pull it out... and he always did.
Hence, even now, I can't help thinking that, any moment now, Belichick, Brady and the Commissioner will jump out and tell us it was all a big practical joke, and the Pats really won both Super Bowls.
teflon93| 2.6.12 @ 7:53AM
We keep trying to warn you, Quin---you think way too much of Massachusetts in making your predictions.
LarryK| 2.6.12 @ 8:16AM
just like your political predictions
JimH| 2.6.12 @ 8:38AM
At least Quin was man enough to commit his prediction to paper (electrons?)
R Martin| 2.6.12 @ 8:51AM
Q, does this mean you will spare us a Masters pick this year?
Quin| 2.6.12 @ 11:01AM
I am SO glad I was wrong. I hope it means that EVERYBODY ELSE's predictions about Massachusetts' inevitable victories are wrong as well. I continue to insistt that the GOP nomination is not a done deal.
Anyway, congrats to Eli and the Giants -- with a special hat tip to a truly superb defense.
Oldefarte| 2.6.12 @ 2:51PM
Quin, I could have told you otherwise. Don't know why the Vegas gamblers were giving three points to the G-men [other than the Pats having a better record, although against weaker opponents]. The sports writers mostly and the former players/TV analysts all seemed to pick the Giants, whose D-line is awsome and Eli is playing his best ball thi year. As an aside, NYT reported that in last year's offseason, Eli was counseled again by David Cutcliff of Tennessee, Ole Miss and now Duke fame [as a QB coach] to fine tune his QB footwork technique, and apparently same has paid off. Also the Pats didn't seem to have a great running attack, and a very weak defense, so I don't know why the money men were giving 3 to the G's, but they and their takers lost big time no doubt. Pats could have won if the ball had bounced into Gront's arms in the endzone at the end, but it didn't. Still the G's should have won and did win. Hope you didn't bet the house note on the Pats and if so, my condolences. As a kid, I was a huge fan of Eli's dad Archie with his college fame at Ole Miss [but sadly had to endure his near death many times with the awful Saints of that era....talk about the bottom of the NFL barrell]. Thankfully neither Manning boy has had to suffer Archie's fate of having the Falcons' Claude Humprey forearm his chin into a broken jaw. Its also appears we may have seen the last of Payton in a football uniform but if so, he certainly won't starve to death due to his huge accumulated earning from 13 years in the NFL!!!!!!!