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Someone in the media finally uses a little common sense in looking at the match up between the Pats and the Dwarfs. He can't understand the hype about the Giants.
"I’m surprised that so many people (here, anyway) are picking the Giants — if only for this reason. No team like the 2011 Giants has ever won a Super Bowl.
"Point is: The Giants were very ordinary, until the end of the season, when they were suddenly terrific. There’s no real precedent for any team like these Giants winning a Super Bowl."
But I do think it means that if the Giants win on Sunday, they will become — by the numbers, anyway — the worst team to ever win the Super Bowl.
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And so on. But usually when you go into the Super Bowl, you can look back through the years and find a team that matches up pretty well. The 2011 Patriots, for instance, match up almost precisely to the 2009 Saints. Look:
Joe Posnanski » Posts An Unusual Super Bowl «
The Giants are trying to become the first team to be outscored during the season and win the Super Bowl.
• The Giants are trying to become the first 9-7 team to win the Super Bowl. The only teams with nine or fewer victories to win the Super Bowl are the 1967 Packers (9-4-1), who played only 14 games, and the 1982 Redskins (8-1), who played only nine games because of the strike.
• The Giants are trying to become the first team to give up 400 points (25 points a game) and win the Super Bowl.
• The Giants are trying to become the first team to lose four games in a row and win the Super Bowl.*
*Heck, 28 of the 45 Super Bowl winners didn’t lose four games all season.
Point is: The Giants were very ordinary, until the end of the season, when they were suddenly terrific. There’s no real precedent for any team like these Giants winning a Super Bowl.
Much more...............
"I’m surprised that so many people (here, anyway) are picking the Giants — if only for this reason. No team like the 2011 Giants has ever won a Super Bowl.
"Point is: The Giants were very ordinary, until the end of the season, when they were suddenly terrific. There’s no real precedent for any team like these Giants winning a Super Bowl."
But I do think it means that if the Giants win on Sunday, they will become — by the numbers, anyway — the worst team to ever win the Super Bowl.
* * *
And so on. But usually when you go into the Super Bowl, you can look back through the years and find a team that matches up pretty well. The 2011 Patriots, for instance, match up almost precisely to the 2009 Saints. Look:
Joe Posnanski » Posts An Unusual Super Bowl «
The Giants are trying to become the first team to be outscored during the season and win the Super Bowl.
• The Giants are trying to become the first 9-7 team to win the Super Bowl. The only teams with nine or fewer victories to win the Super Bowl are the 1967 Packers (9-4-1), who played only 14 games, and the 1982 Redskins (8-1), who played only nine games because of the strike.
• The Giants are trying to become the first team to give up 400 points (25 points a game) and win the Super Bowl.
• The Giants are trying to become the first team to lose four games in a row and win the Super Bowl.*
*Heck, 28 of the 45 Super Bowl winners didn’t lose four games all season.
Point is: The Giants were very ordinary, until the end of the season, when they were suddenly terrific. There’s no real precedent for any team like these Giants winning a Super Bowl.
Much more...............
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