It is not surprising at all to me, that the Giants and their supporters are very vocal about this game, and the Patriots & their supporters...not so much.
Basically this game is a bonus for the Giants.
If they win, it will be "See we told you!, The Giants are the greatest ever... not the Pats.. we've shown it twice!"
If they lose, it will be "Oh well, we still ended their perfect season in 2007 and proved we are at least as good as the Patriots" ....with a few "the better team lost that day" and "they had to have been taping our practices" idiots sprinkled in. They really don't have as much to lose in terms of "face", as the Patriots do.
Look at the alternative.. What will be said about the Pats if we lose this game? At best we will have a 50/50 split with the giants. Not "revenge" because a win in 2007 for us stands alone, and winning this year (while being sweet as hell) will not fully erase losing the perfect season.
This would all be magnified if the Pats did any sort of trash talk at all.
As it is, this board (and entire fanbase) might have to be on perpetual suicide watch for the rest of our existence, should we lose to the Giants. (remember when someone was assembling a team of Mental Health professionals to council Bostonians as the Red Sox were down 0-3 to the Yankees in 2004?)
This is why I wanted ZERO part of a rematch. It doesn't make 2007 any better, it just has the potential to make it WAY, WAAAAYYY WORSE!
Not that I am saying I fear the Giants TEAM more than any other potential NFC opponents... Just that I fear what a loss to the Giants would mean vs. a loss to another NFC team.
In the case of losing to any other team it would be "Hey, the Pats are still great because they made it to 2 additional superbowls in 4 years in the later part of BB abd TFB's careers." as opposed to losing to the Giants, where it will be "The Giants were the true team of the decade, and proved it by de-throning the Patriots, not once... but TWICE".. and many more idiotic storylines. :bricks: