Go Giants :)

[tmcg]

We're a big Giants household here, so today is a day of celebration. Me, I still can't believe we got into the Super Bowl. It's going to take me a couple of days to believe we won. One of the biggest upsets in NFL history, and it was our team! Not to mention that it was a fantastic game. We reserved a table for dinner at our local sports bar and went kitted out in our Giants gear (well, with me kitted out in K's spare Giants gear, since I couldn't turn up my jersey, which given the power of sports paraphernalia voodoo may have been for the best, since IIRC the last time I wore it was for the Giants-Ravens game that it's best not to speak of) and watched with a crowd of enthusiastic fans. It's a pretty wild experience--the massive TV screens, the sensory overload, the voices chanting "DEfense!" in unison, the primal roar of the clapping and pounding hands and feet, the strange temporary community of strangers--and on the way home we had what K called Pavlov's car horn: beep at any corner and a cheer would go up from all the people out on the streets. We could still hear the horns and revelry from the strip when we got back to the house. It was as if all of New York had gotten married.

Yeah, ultimately it's just entertainment and just a game, but there's an awful lot of suckage going around these days, and when glee comes to revel in, I'm reveling in it. Go Giants!!! :) :)

Comments

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

Ah, of course! Cause for celebration down there too. That's nice to hear. :)

One small but enjoyable vindication for me is that I've been defending poor Eli Manning's face for years, and we may finally hear the end of the complaints up here about how he looks stupid, or dazed, or diffident, etc. He had the same expression on his face when he won the Super Bowl as he had through all the ups and down preceding it. Dammit, Jim, he's a quarterback, not a dramatic actor, and not everybody looks the way you think they should look when they're concentrating, and faceomancy is futile. Petty of me, but: Hah. *g*

[webfarmer.livejournal.com]

That's pretty hard when you have to defend a guy's face. Sheesh. Good thing Larry Bird never got drafted by the Knicks.

Frankly, it's a good thing that Eli's looking the same before or after the game. Like you note, it shows he's not getting too high or too low. He's in a balanced zone.

Personally, I think one of the defensive guys should have got MVP for that game. The "skill" players always get the glory when without the "unskilled" folks, they wouldn't have any. I'll take a team with a great line and mediocre backs over a team with great backs and a mediocre line.

Barry Sanders and the Detroit Lions comes to mind here.