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Well, you can't really blame them for starting to compile this, given that they'd probably want to go to press as soon as the Super Bowl was over.
Believe it or not, they're already making Patriots AND Giants Super Bowl Apparel. Companies do this every year, and it's not any more of a jinx now.
Do not even try to pretend that the posters here would not be flipping out if there was a book titled: "2007 NY Giants: The Team that Stopped Destiny." available for preorder.
Do not even try to pretend that the posters here would not be flipping out if there was a book titled: "2007 NY Giants: The Team that Stopped Destiny." available for preorder.
What company owns that rag?!?!?!?
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Well, you can't really blame them for starting to compile this, given that they'd probably want to go to press as soon as the Super Bowl was over.
Believe it or not, they're already making Patriots AND Giants Super Bowl Apparel. Companies do this every year, and it's not any more of a jinx now.
Do not even try to pretend that the posters here would not be flipping out if there was a book titled: "2007 NY Giants: The Team that Stopped Destiny." available for preorder.
Still, it's just the kind of thing the Gaints can use to pull the disrespect card.
The New York Times.
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Well, you can't really blame them for starting to compile this, given that they'd probably want to go to press as soon as the Super Bowl was over.
Believe it or not, they're already making Patriots AND Giants Super Bowl Apparel. Companies do this every year, and it's not any more of a jinx now.
February 4, 2007
Far Away, Super Bowl’s Losers Will Be Champs
By LEE JENKINS
MIAMI, Feb. 3 — In some parts of the world, the Seattle Seahawks are the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Buffalo Bills are the last great football dynasty and Tom Brady is some frustrated quarterback from New England who can never win it all.
So say the T-shirts and the caps worn in Niger, Uganda and Sierra Leone.
The Super Bowl will end about 10 p.m. Sunday, and by 10:01 every player on the winning team — along with coaches, executives, family members and ball boys — could be outfitted in colorful T-shirts and caps proclaiming them champions.
The other set of championship gear — the 288 T-shirts and caps made for the team that did not win — will be hidden behind a locked door at Dolphin Stadium. By order of the National Football League, those items are never to appear on television or on eBay. They are never even to be seen on American soil.
They will be shipped Monday morning to a warehouse in Sewickley, Pa., near Pittsburgh, where they will become property of World Vision, a relief organization that will package the clothing in wooden boxes and send it to a developing nation, usually in Africa.
IMO this isn't about the Globe or the Patriots, it's about Amazon. By letting customers see/order books not yet published, they give us a look behind the curtain at certain corners of the publishing industry.
The fact is, if you want to be the first to the bookstores IF a perfect season happens, you have to have to have text, photos & layout in place for the first 18 victories before game 19 kicks off. In fact, you lay out every single page so you can just pour in the actual text and photos of the Superbowl game. But in the old world, nobody but bookstore buyers would have known the project existed unless/until 19-0 was a reality. Such is life in the 21st century.
Hedge your bets.....
It's not even about hedging your bets. This kind of thing is standard practice, and the only reason we see it is because Amazon puts books in production up on their site.
It's not a jinx, but it's the kind of easy fodder for Coughlin's pre-game speech. Yeech.
Call it what you want but it's all about $.