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Anyone Watching the Giant Game?

TheOldMole Sep 17 2006 03:15 PM

Could they be any worse?

OlerudOwned Sep 17 2006 03:26 PM

I'd rather not imagine that.

Valadius Sep 17 2006 03:40 PM

Is it bad?

OlerudOwned Sep 17 2006 03:44 PM

Valadius wrote: Is it bad? Is Russia big?

Valadius Sep 17 2006 03:49 PM

Shit.

metirish Sep 17 2006 04:01 PM

I have to laugh,all the fucking talk from the Giants was how good they would be this season especially on offence...what a joke.

Zvon Sep 17 2006 04:20 PM

15 seconds to go.

Zvon Sep 17 2006 04:20 PM

BIG foul by da Birds.

Zvon Sep 17 2006 04:22 PM

And Feely ties it with 7 seconds left!

OlerudOwned Sep 17 2006 04:23 PM

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Zvon Sep 17 2006 04:25 PM

OlerudOwned wrote: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA-ya bastage. OVERTIME!

Valadius Sep 17 2006 04:29 PM

Sweet!!!

Zvon Sep 17 2006 04:32 PM

Manning is stripped but the Giants recover!

Zvon Sep 17 2006 04:37 PM

Damn- Eagles sack Manning for the 8th time today but it looks like Kearse got hurt bad.

Zvon Sep 17 2006 04:58 PM

WOW--he threw. TOUCHDOWN GIANTS! What a game.

OlerudOwned Sep 17 2006 05:00 PM

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Elster88 Sep 17 2006 05:26 PM

WHAT A SICK FUCKING GAME!!!!! Eli is the EXACT OPPOSITE of Peyton. He looks like garbage until crunch time, and then he's the fucking man. He deserves a different last name. From now on he shall be known as Eli Smith.

metirish Sep 17 2006 05:27 PM

]I have to laugh,all the fucking talk from the Giants was how good they would be this season especially on offence...what a joke. I'll gladly eat my words....what a game.

Edgy DC Sep 17 2006 05:43 PM

all the fucking talk from metirish

Valadius Sep 17 2006 06:13 PM

Awesome. Simply awesome.

TheOldMole Sep 17 2006 08:29 PM

Eating mine too. Defense stiffened, Manning is the real thing,

Johnny Dickshot Sep 17 2006 10:32 PM

Watcherd this one with my father in law the Eagles fan. I'd have preferred to see the Mets but maybe not. The Eagles should have scored 40 of 50 in the first half. Not for nothing but the drive to tie it had so much garbage not associated with the actual playing of football -- a lengthy review, a dumb away from the play penalty, advantage taken of the silly rule that you can stop the clock by purposefully throwing the football on the ground (if that's the case, why even snap it?) that nearly all the drama was stripped from it. I wish they'd just play football to decide these games.

Frayed Knot Sep 17 2006 10:49 PM

I saw almost nothing fo this except for the tail-end of the game. - The "spike" rule isn't so bad. It used to be every year they'd try to tweak the intentional grounding rule and they'd never get it right. At least allowing them to spike it to stop the clock gets away from the, 'whoops I threw it out of bounds' travesties that used to go on all the time while the refs would decide whether it was "intentional" or not.. - But that replay call was ridiculous. First of all he was out of bounds and the clock should have stopped. But even then, they decide a play after the play in question to review it (supposedly not allowed), go WAY over the amount of time alloted, then don't overturn the play which causes them to pretend that the play after it didn't occur but then don't reset the game clock which implies it DID occur. And that'll always be the problem with replay rules; you can say that it'll only be used in certain cases and with strict time limits and all sorts of other restrictions, but trying to stick with those guidelines is like trying to stay only somewhat pregnant.

Edgy DC Sep 17 2006 10:53 PM

Why not just let the center call timeout? As soon as the ball is spotted, the center can grab it, ask for a timeout that the team doesn't have, and get penallized a down. It beats a game of "See How Fast We Can Lineup for a Farcical Play."

Johnny Dickshot Sep 17 2006 10:57 PM

Why not freakin try for the score you have to get in the time you have left? Maybe the clock should run continuously, as in soccer.

Frayed Knot Sep 17 2006 10:57 PM

I assume that a called time-out when you don't have any wouldn't stop the clock. The refs w/should just ignore him.

Edgy DC Sep 17 2006 10:59 PM

Sure, I know the rules. But change the rule to allow them to exchange a down for a timeout, which is essentially what a spike does, and it spares everybody a stupid farcical play.

Frayed Knot Sep 17 2006 11:09 PM

There are too many timeouts as it is. That game was over 3-1/2 hours before it got to overtime.

Edgy DC Sep 17 2006 11:19 PM

You're missing the point. A spike is an effective time-out. Such a rule would not add clock stoppages. It would subtract farcical plays.

TheOldMole Sep 18 2006 01:45 AM

Here's another thought. Football ain't baseball, but it's still a good game pretty much the way it is. Trying to cheat the clock at the end of it is one of the ways it's interesting. And you can do a fake spike, like Dan Marino.

Edgy DC Sep 18 2006 08:59 AM

Well, it's just a suggestion. It's not like the intentional walk isn't a farcical play, that could be more easily accomplished by the catcher telling the ump, "We're going to send this guy to first."

Frayed Knot Sep 18 2006 09:09 AM

I don't view the spike OR the IW as farcical plays, precisely because other things can happen during them. Allowing timeouts to stop the clock even after the team is out of timeouts however ...

Edgy DC Sep 18 2006 09:19 AM

...accomplishes what a spike accomplishes.

Edgy DC Sep 18 2006 09:21 AM

Frayed Knot wrote: I don't view the spike OR the IW as farcical plays, precisely because other things can happen during them. Allowing timeouts to stop the clock even after the team is out of timeouts however ... Sure, once every few thousand times, but if it's worth keeping, it's worth keeping.

Elster88 Sep 24 2006 02:23 PM

Interesting game today. They would've won Seattle last year if Feely could've made a kick.

Rockin' Doc Sep 24 2006 04:57 PM

The Seahawks are having their way with the Giants. They lead by a score of 21-0 with 4 minutes still left in the 1st quarter. The only good is that it's early, so there is time for a possible comeback. Of course, the flip side is that there is plenty of time for further ass kickin' and humiliation at the hands of the Seahawks.

KC Sep 24 2006 05:55 PM

35 - 3 at the half ... what the hell happened? I always miss the good stuff.

metirish Sep 24 2006 06:54 PM

No way they can do it again,right?Giant are back in the game at least...42 - 24.

KC Sep 24 2006 07:19 PM

Have to applauded for making the score less lopsided ... Seahawks got sloppy.

metirish Sep 24 2006 07:24 PM

Questions have to be asked here about the coaching and why the Giants are starting games so slowly.

Frayed Knot Sep 24 2006 09:24 PM

And why a team with a "disciplinarian" coach takes so many stupid penalties.

MFS62 Sep 25 2006 10:17 AM

Frayed Knot wrote: And why a team with a "disciplinarian" coach takes so many stupid penalties. Because he's just a football coach. Last time I looked, nobody has ever performed a brain transplant. Maybe there's something to be said for the Pats/ Jets philosophy of drafting based on mental as well as physical skills. Later

Frayed Knot Sep 25 2006 10:30 AM

Yeah, but you know that if a "law and order" type coach were brought in and penalties went dramatically [u:403e3aff2c]down[/u:403e3aff2c] that the cause-and-effect link would be immediately credited. But now, between the increasinly long-term penalty problems on this team plus stuff like Shockey and/or Buress's constant yapping and habit of blowing off off-season team workouts, at some point someone's got to question whether this emperor has any clothes and whether the 'drill-sargeant' mentality is really all it's cracked up to be.

Elster88 Oct 02 2006 12:27 PM

Bump. My guess is that the Giants aboslutely murder the Skins next week.

SteveJRogers Oct 08 2006 08:51 AM

Bumpage for the 1pm start against the 'Skins! The rest of the season begins TODAY! LETS GET THIS SHIP RIGHTED GUYS! [url=http://www.ultimatemets.com/metannual.php?ThisYear=2004]2004 71-91 4th NL East[/url]

TheOldMole Oct 08 2006 10:36 AM

I'll be off at a production of Waiting for Godot. Let's hope the Giants do better than Vladimir and Estragon.

SteveJRogers Oct 08 2006 10:49 AM

TheOldMole wrote: I'll be off at a production of Waiting for Godot. Let's hope the Giants do better than Vladimir and Estragon. Mis...ster Godot said he...won't come today...but...will surely be here to...morrow.

TheOldMole Oct 08 2006 01:04 PM

Nothing to be done.

KC Oct 08 2006 02:37 PM

Giants 6-3 at the half ... pretty boring game. I'd much rather be watching Cards/Pads which was supposed to be on at 1:00 but FOX greed prevails. I wish someone would buy Tony a six foot combo sub and give him something to do that doesn't require speaking. If I here about T O's return one more fucking time this week, I may go out- side and start shooting at stuff. Where did I put those shells?

Elster88 Oct 08 2006 07:03 PM

KC wrote: Giants 6-3 at the half ... pretty boring game. I'd much rather be watching Cards/Pads which was supposed to be on at 1:00 but FOX greed prevails. I wish someone would buy Tony a six foot combo sub and give him something to do that doesn't require speaking. If I here about T O's return one more fucking time this week, I may go out- side and start shooting at stuff. Where did I put those shells? Wasn't the baseball game on ESPN?

KC Oct 08 2006 09:30 PM

It was supposed to be, until it was the only game left and FOX scapped it up. Whores. Jeannie, Kevin, Timmy ... the whole lot of 'em. T O returning to Philly just wasn't enough.