Unlike Jimmy the Greek, I’m offering this bold prediction only for you arm-chair quarterbacks who are wagering nothing more than your pride….
I was actually pulling for the Giants and Patriots [to make it to tomorrow’s big game], respectively. Because my fallback allegiance [after my team Philadelphia didn’t even make the playoffs] is now with the Patriots to win the Super Bowl. And I would like nothing more than to see the Patriots get some measure of payback for the way the Giants ruined their chance at NFL immortality by defeating them in Super Bowl XLII (in 2008), ending their pursuit of the elusive perfect season.
(“NFL Championship Sunday,” The iPINIONS Journal, January 26, 2012)
So, despite all the trash talk by the Giants (fans and players alike) about running over the Patriots on their way to a victory parade next week, I’m predicting they’re in for a good old-fashioned ass whopping by the Patriots 38-17.
Go Pats!
That said, it does not bode well that Brady’s supermodel wife, Giselle, made him the laughing stock of the NFL this week when her e-mail asking people to pray for him went viral.
Not that there’s anything wrong with prayers, mind you. It’s just that this kind of shameless pleading for divine intervention is what has made Tim Tebow such an underachieving joke.
Not to mention that Brady seems more like a serene and contemplative Sadducee than a superficial and narcissistic Pharisee – whose traits fit his wife to a T. In any case, he would do well to instruct her to make all future, publicity-seeking prayers on her own behalf, not his.
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