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No surprises: Super Bowl XLII will be Pack vs. Pats
By Rich Cimini on January 19, 2008 10:39 PM
Prediction time: I’m taking the Patriots, 31-10. Too much Brady, too many injuries for the Chargers. Watch for a big game from Randy Moss.
Here’s a take from my buddy, Doug, a diehard Patriots fan who just schmoozed with the muckety mucks at the AFC media party: “Vincent Jackson catches a TD because he didn’t catch one all year on my fantasy team. It’ll be a lot closer than people think, 28-17. Also, that shrimp and mussel pasta was really good.”
Doug doesn’t get out too often. Let me just say, after mingling with Pats fans, they are one confident bunch. There will be utter devastation if this team loses.
Hmm, wonder who the Jets are rooting for. NFC prediction: Packers 20, Giants 17.
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My heart wishes for Giants and Chargers, but my mind and my wallet predicts two anti-clactic blowouts.
NE 34, SD 6 - SD just too beat up, could not run on NE when healthy and home, first cold weather game of year with banged up rookie or back up journeyman QB vs. Brady? Think not.
GB 30, NYG 3 - third road game in a row, Eli struggled down the stretch in cold weather and is long overdue for a 4INT game. Plus, most importantly, Dad and Big Brother are in the house, which is worse than Jessika showing up for a Cowboy game. Eli’s Qb rating with them in attendance apporoximates todays projected high temperature at Lambea. PS- forget the glove, imagine the uproar after the first fumbled snap! Where is BJ Askew when you need him ;o)
Posted by Wayne80 on January 20, 2008 10:40 AM
I predict Favre has the bad game, not Eli. Giants +7 is a reasonable bet. Wayne, hope you didn’t lay big $ on Pack laying the TD.
Kevin is in dreamland. Schoebel is a speed rusher but he destroys Brick every time they play unless they keep the TE in to help. The babysitting alibi about no guard is absurd. Joe thomas has nobody next to him in cleveland, he dominates people. gave up 1 sack. I dismiss kevin as ignorant.
ira on other had knows what he’s talkin about so surprised. even if brick could pass protect vs speed rushers, which he cant, he can’t run block. he cant move his guy 2 yards off the line in short yardage. he sucks in run blocking and pass blocking. other than that, he’s just fine. the guys waiting for brick to come around are still waiting for dave cadigan to develop.
cmartin please come back.
Posted by jerryc on January 20, 2008 2:18 PM
OH NO , the nasty boys are coming back! Well I enjoyed it for a while!
Posted by scott p on January 20, 2008 2:44 PM
the reason norv turner will always be a loser……YOU DON’T PUNT ON 4TH DOWN FROM THE PATS 36
Posted by Bob from garfield on January 20, 2008 6:07 PM
d’brick allowed 10 sacks when kendall was by his side, and 13.5 with clarke (mostly). both are not ideal for the 4th overall selection. his upside was his pass protection abilities, and obviously when you evalute based upon those numbers, he is far from even average. his run blocking was the huge knock against him, which is the very reason why he cant be a RT. all teams run to their strong side, or to the right. if he cant live up to what he was drafted for (protecting the QBs blindside), why should we believe he can become proficient what he was criticized most for?
as a side note, joe thomas plays with eric steinbach by his side. steinbach is a very solid player, and has started nearly every game since he came into the league (missed one, 78 of 79). almost all running backs have gained over 1000 yards rushing behind lines he played on, and has been a pro-bowl alternate (last three with cincinnati, and first with clevelend). he isnt regarded as highly as a hutchinson, but he is certainly well above average.
Posted by sigma on January 20, 2008 10:03 PM
sigma, good post, I agree. brick is lost cause.
great win by giants. sign me up for a big wideout as first draft choice. Giant oLine didn’t open up holes (Jacobs only 3 yrds/carry) or protect Eli well, but plaxico looked like he was a foot taller than anyone in the GB secondary and they had no answer for him. I want some of that.
Posted by spitmania on January 20, 2008 10:32 PM
Great win by the Giants. They build their team by concentrating on the lines. Even average talent skill players will shine when your lines are solid. Eli was well protected. Plaxico would not be even close to as effective with the jets oline, for the same reason TJ and both qbs struggled- a terrible oline. First thing is first.
We should take a page out of the giants organization and focus on the grunt positions for a solid foundation. Only then can you evaluate talent and add the other pieces succesfully.All these playoff teams have one thing in common -solid lines.
No doubt ,solid wr would be big, but he needs the line to hold up so he can have time to do his thing.The same for the qb and rb. It is a ripple effect that starts with a solid foundation. In other words ,before the cherry lets have the cake!
Lets face it, we are starting at step one,but as long as we head in the right direction and have the support of management we will get it done.
The giants and pats in the SB. Now I know we are cursed! Anyway, go Giants!
Posted by scott p on January 20, 2008 11:24 PM
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GEORGIA FRONTIERE: 1927-2008
Rams owner had a lot of memories
Richard Goldstein, New York Times
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Georgia Frontiere, the owner of the NFL's Rams for nearly three decades and the first woman to take control of a league franchise, died Friday. She was 80.
Her death was announced by the Rams on their Web site. She had been hospitalized with breast cancer for several months, her children said in a statement posted there.
Frontiere, an occasional night-club singer and chorus line performer who hoped to become an opera star, was thrust into the pro football world in April 1979 when her husband, Carroll Rosenbloom, the owner of the Los Angeles Rams, drowned in the ocean while swimming near his Florida home.
Rosenbloom had groomed his son from a previous marriage, Steve, as his successor, but he left 70 percent of the Rams' ownership to his wife, evidently to minimize estate taxes. She quickly asserted control, firing Steve Rosenbloom and replacing him as the team's top executive with Don Klosterman, the general manager.
She bristled at what she apparently perceived to be snickering from the news media and the football world at a woman running an NFL team. "There are some who feel there are two different kinds of people - human beings and women," she said at her first news conference.
The Rams went to the 1980 Super Bowl, losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Frontiere was in the spotlight, appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated kicking a football and with Rams players in an American Express commercial, "Do You Know Me?"
In July 1980, she married her seventh husband, Dominic Frontiere, an award-winning composer. Then came troubling times. Her husband was indicted in 1986 on tax charges relating to his involvement in the scalping of more than 2,500 tickets to the 1980 Super Bowl. Georgia Frontiere said she had given the tickets to her husband to be given away, and she was not charged in the scheme. She divorced Frontiere in 1988, a year after he was released from prison.
Georgia Frontiere put her stamp on the Rams' franchise when she moved the team to her hometown of St. Louis in 1995, obtaining a lucrative deal for a domed stadium.
The Rams won the Super Bowl in 2000, defeating the Tennessee Titans 23-16, and appeared in the 2002 Super Bowl, losing to the New England Patriots 20-17.
Frontiere became a prominent figure in St. Louis; she made extensive charitable donations and was a patron of the arts.
But she had a reputation as something of an eccentric. She was often on the sideline during games and planted kisses on players who had turned in an outstanding effort. When Cabbage Patch dolls first came on the market and proved hard to get, she bought one for each of her players. She pursued astrology and drew up charts for some of the Rams' stars.
Frontiere, as a youngster, appeared with her mother, Lucia Pamela Irwin, a blues performer, and her brother, Ken, in a singing group, the Pamela Trio, performing at state fairs and ballrooms. In the late 1950s, she was a talk-show host in Miami and she made appearances as part of NBC's "Today" show cast when Dave Garroway was the host.
She met Carroll Rosenbloom, then the owner of the Baltimore Colts, in 1957 at a dinner given by Joseph P. Kennedy at his Palm Beach, Fla., estate. They were married in 1966, a month after Rosenbloom was divorced from his wife, Velma. At the time, Georgia and Carroll had had two children together.
Carroll Rosenbloom became the owner of the Los Angeles Rams in 1972, in a franchise swap, and Georgia became a part of the Hollywood social scene as a hostess in their Bel-Air mansion.
She is survived by a son, Dale; a daughter, Lucia Rodriguez, from her marriage to Rosenbloom; six grandchildren; and her companion, Earle Weatherwax.
As a woman in the NFL, Frontiere expressed a determination to succeed. On the eve of the Rams' appearance in the 1980 Super Bowl, she told USA Today: "From the time my late husband died, it has been a constant effort to do what he expected me to be able to do. He said: 'If anybody can, you can. You always stick to your ideas. And nobody pushes you around.' "
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