This Sunday's two football games will decide the two teams who will meet in Indianapolis in two weeks for the biggest and best sporting event of the year: THE SUPERBOWL!!!!! Although, once again, my team, the Raiders, have provided me with another miserable season, with no playoff berth. None-the-less, the Superbowl is still exciting, and this year, it's going to be a great one.
The most anticipated game of the entire year, however, is not yet the Superbowl. It's the NFC Championship game between the SF 49ers and the NY Giants. The big story of the season is of course the complete 180 turnaround of San Francisco, who have had dismal season after dismal season for the past 10 years, with a very disappointing record of 6-10 just last year under QB Alex Smith, who at the time appeared to be an NFL draft bust, and under the coaching of the ninja turtle lookalike Mike Singletary.
After the terrible performance of last season and the firing of Singletary, Alex Smith looked as though he wouldn't be in a red and gold #11 jersey for much longer. All that changed with the induction of Jim Harbaugh, former head coach of Stanford, as the new head coach of San Francisco. Amazing how things can change with the hiring of a single person. Jim Harbaugh's energy and experience as a former NFL QB has more than improved the teams game, it's turned them back into a force to be reckoned with, ending the regular season at an amazing 13-3 record, landing them the number 2 seed in the NFC behind Green Bay, who has now been eliminated. Their team is fired up, as well as the fans, as the NFC game is to be held at Candlestick Park, and a date with the Superbowl within their grasp for the first time in many, many years.
Although I am an Oakland fan, and I despise the 49ers, but as a lover of the game of football, I have the utmost respect for both the teams outstanding effort and performance this season, and in Jim Harbaugh, who in my opinion, is destined for the Hall of Fame.
Then you have their opponent, the NY Giants, a team that struggled through the season, and barely made the playoffs as a wildcard with an unimpressive 9-7 record under Eli Manning as QB of course. However, we've seen this scenario play out before in a similar fashion. As I recall, just a few years ago, this same Giants team made the playoffs with a 9-7 record, during a year that Tom Brady and the Patriots were attempting to make history as the first team to go completely undefeated since the Miami Dolphins did it back in the 70's. The seasons now consist of more games than back then, so the Patriots would have the record for themselves.
However, the playoff underdogs the Giants, who started the playoffs as a wildcard, made it to the Superbowl to face what was considered would be inevitable defeat at the hands of the powerhouse dynasty of New England. However, as true uplifting underdog sports movies would end, Eli Manning throws the game winning touchdown with less than 40 seconds left in the game, when it appeared the Patriots had it. The look on Tom Brady's face was priceless, one that I'll never forget, because I can't stand that asshole, any Raider fans who saw the playoff game in 2001 with the now infamous "Tuck Rule" call, which ranks in the top 10 most controversial ref calls in NFL History, knows exactly why.
So we should be ready to see the game of the year tomorrow. After the Giants stomped the 15-1 Packers last week in Green Bay, and the more than impressive win over the Saints for San Francisco, this one will be hard to call, and could go down to the wire. Of course, I will be rooting for the Giants, but it pains me to say, that the 49ers deserve it based on the years performance. So I have to unfortunately pick the Niners to win it. Damn it!!
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