NFL 2011 Conference Championship |OT| Mission Impossible? It Takes a Cruz!

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Doomsayer said:
I am so excited for Sunday because of how much history there is between our two franchises. What's cool too is the Giants probably have the classiest fans here (aside from a drunk you, of course).

Oh by the way,

It was an illegal man downfield, how can he be interfered with if he can't legally catch a pass? Right call!
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Not even the NFL thinks that was the right call.

The NFL conceded that mistakes were made. The league issued this statement this afternoon:

The New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers were informed today that a defensive pass interference penalty should have been called on the final play of Sunday's game.

A videotape review by NFL Director of Officiating Mike Pereira of the final play - the Giants' 41-yard field goal attempt with six seconds remaining - determined the following:

  • Tam Hopkins, number 65, of the Giants lined up as the left guard and was illegally downfield on the pass attempt. The three flags thrown on this play were for this penalty.
  • Guard Rich Seubert, number 69, was an eligible receiver on Giants field goal attempts. This was reported to the officiating crew prior to the game as is routinely done prior to every game.
  • 49ers defensive end Chike Okeafor interfered with Seubert downfield when he was attempting to catch Giants holder Matt Allen's pass. This defensive pass interference penalty against the 49ers was not called.
  • If defensive pass interference had been called, there would have been offsetting penalties (ineligible receiver against the Giants and pass interference against the 49ers) with the down replayed at the original line of scrimmage, the San Francisco 23-yard line. Although time had expired, a game cannot end with offsetting penalties. Thus, the game would have been extended by one untimed down.
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That's no excuse for the Giants blowing a 24 point lead in the first place, but there's no need to distort the facts.
 
ThatCrazyGuy said:
What don't you like about the Pats? tapegate? what else.

I am sure you know everybody on whatever team your root for personally and know they are fine human beings with no asshole tendencies and are fine upstanding citizens, that nobody finds annoying.

No big name Pats have raped or (allegedly) murdered anybody to my knowledge (though some might have, who knows). Or pulled pants down. That is very unlikable.
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Are you fucking kidding me? This used to be FOOTBALL. We used to watch people get fucking nailed crossing the middle. We cheered when QBs took got mauled like they were prey and the D was wild animals. This was a game of violence and bone-crunching physical domination. We revelled in the weekly "you got jacked up!" segment. We youtube'd hits over and over and over again and laughed with our friends when some dude was laid out on the field and obviously cold-cocked.

FOOOOOOOOOOTBAAAAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!!

And then your fucking douchebag QB got a hangnail and whined to his owner who gave Goodell a handjob and pussified the league.

So yeah, the Pats are the reason we cheer for football, not FOOOOOOTBAAAAAALLL any longer. And we hate them for it. FOR-FUCKING-EVER.

Edit: P.S. As noted by esteemed-GAF, the tuck rule also sucks. And let's not forget the snowblower coming out on the field during a TO and clearing a path for the kicker. I think that was another Cheatriot game. Fucking fucks.
 
Also, tuck rule.

Which Mike Pereira wants to eliminate despite helping to implement it in the first place.

ITS A FUMBLE YOU JERKS!
 
The tuck rule is probably the biggest sham in sports history. No idea how there wasn't mass firings and riots after something that obvious.
 
Doomsayer said:
We aren't even strutting, we are enjoying a season that none of us saw coming. Typical exaggeration from bitter fans whose teams fell short of expectations.

No one gave us a shot against the Saints and we have been downplayed all year. There is not player on the Niners who is about himself, there really isn't a player on the team who is unlikable.
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49ers fans have much more reason to be surprised than just about any other team's fans, but this is kind of how I feel about the Giants also. With the relatively quiet offseason and all the injuries at the end of the preseason, I was ready to give this team up for dead, and things were looking grim during that 4 game losing streak, but the Giants have really revived themselves in the playoffs. I'd love to see them go all the way, but I'll be happy for as long as it lasts.
 
It also seems like the Pats get all the calls, which combined with obnoxious BAWSTIN sports fans, the tuck rule, Brady knees rule, years of radio personalities slobbering on Brady, Belichick pretending to be some kind of outlaw by wearing that horrible hoodie and messing with the injury list, and the millions of god awful bandwagon fans...

Yeah.

Pats suck.

cuevas said:
I hate the tuck rule but it needs to be in place.
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Oh Bears fans.

edit: Holy hell! Forgot about spygate!
 
Pats aren't my team.

So you hate them for the tuck rule and brady's injury leading to insane QB protection rules (is somebody else to blame for the defenseless receiver stuffs?).

Wouldn't you hate the NFL more for implementing such rules?

Why do you think this year's Pats team, and the players contained on said team are unlikable. Because of things that happened in their games, not really anything they did? Gronk is likable to me. I like Welker.
 
sonicmj1 said:
Not even the NFL thinks that was the right call.



That's no excuse for the Giants blowing a 24 point lead in the first place, but there's no need to distort the facts.
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I don't think he's distorting the facts, most people don't realize that the ineligible man down-field wasn't called on Seubert (the guy Okeafor dragged down).

I see mistakes like that all of the time, from both 49ers and Giants fans.
 
Doomsayer said:
We aren't even strutting, we are enjoying a season that none of us saw coming. Typical exaggeration from bitter fans whose teams fell short of expectations.

No one gave us a shot against the Saints and we have been downplayed all year. There is not player on the Niners who is about himself, there really isn't a player on the team who is unlikable.
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Justin Smith entertained me and helped knock off the Saints in dominating fashion, and with the Packers out of it I'd like to see them win. Cinderella story as well, so the NFL could sell it, you'd think.
 
I also hate Brady's temper tantrums for flags and how he throws the ball on the sideline like a crybaby when the game isn't going his way.

Gronkowski and Welker don't really bother me. I kind of liked that foot innuendo speech that Welker spouted off last year.
 
ThatCrazyGuy said:
Pats aren't my team.

So you hate them for the tuck rule and brady's injury leading to insane QB protection rules (is somebody else to blame for the defenseless receiver stuffs?).

Wouldn't you hate the NFL more for implementing such rules?

Why do you think this year's Pats team, and the players contained on said team are unlikable. Because of things that happened in their games, not really anything they did? Gronk is likable to me. I like Welker.
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Your also ignoring Spygate.
 
ThatCrazyGuy said:
Pats aren't my team.

So you hate them for the tuck rule and brady's injury leading to insane QB protection rules (is somebody else to blame for the defenseless receiver stuffs?).

Wouldn't you hate the NFL more for implementing such rules?

Why do you think this year's Pats team, and the players contained on said team are unlikable. Because of things that happened in their games, not really anything they did? Gronk is likable to me. I like Welker.
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I'd like Gronk if he wasn't on the Patsies. I love it when a LB creates a jacked up angel of Welker's indented body on the turf. Does that count?

And don't even start on Lady Brady. Everyone knows that fucker is a spawn of Satan.
 
Here's the problem with the Patriots - they are solely responsible for the joke of an NFL we have now by raping the Colts receivers in that one playoff game. This directly led to the rules we have where defense can do nothing to receivers.

And special rules created to protect Brady.

Also, he wears UGGS.
 
Drakeon said:
Packers-Gaf was definitely the largest for this season.
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Browns-Gaf was the loudest in pre-season.
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squicken said:
I don't know, honestly. But there's no need to rush. Interview a bunch of people. There's lots of really smart people doing very creative things at the college level. Pick their brains and see if it can fit at the pro level

From what I have read, Hue Jackson is actually a very smart offensive mind. But I don't think he has the right temperament to coach a young and struggling offense. They are going to need a guy who can stay on even keel emotionally
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I see, in fisher I trust.
 
Kosmo said:
Here's the problem with the Patriots - they are solely responsible for the joke of an NFL we have now by raping the Colts receivers in that one playoff game. This directly led to the rules we have where defense can do nothing to receivers.

And special rules created to protect Brady.

Also, he wears UGGS.
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Except for lions. Where we still manage to get multiple offensive pass interference against a godly team that committed no penalties Against 9ers and one 4 in last 3 games , including 2 playoffs.
 
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-will-hammer-giants-on-way-to-super-bowl-xlvi

The San Francisco 49ers will hammer the New York Giants on their way to Super Bowl XLVI in their championship matchup at Candlestick Park on Sunday night next week.
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Besides the obvious perks of having home-field advantage, the 49ers are simply the better all-around team. In fact, there isn't another team that can stand up to the balance the 49ers exhibit from week to week.

The 49ers defense is the best unit in the NFL, hands down. They can pressure the quarterback all day long with a four-man rush, allowing the other seven defenders, none of which are slouches, to cover the field.

Justin Smith showed the nation why many of the top sportswriters have been calling for him to win the NFL Defensive Player of the Year award with his manly performance against the Saints' excellent offensive line. He literally was able to move his own man into Drew Brees a few times, and I don't expect we'll see a drop-off in performance next week.

If anything, I expect the 49ers to dominate the Giants offensive line, both in the running game and in passing situations. I expect Aldon Smith to continue his dominant run, sacking Eli Manning at least once, if not twice.

Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman will terrorize the middle of the field, and Carlos Rogers, Dashon Goldson and Tarell Brown will be ball-hawking all day long.

Eli Manning has been spectacular lately, and I don't want it to sound like I don't respect what the Giants do on offense, but they simply are no match for the 49ers defense.

On offense, the 49ers have demonstrated in convincing fashion that they are a force to be reckoned with, even if they wait until the end of games to prove it.
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Well damn. GG. :(
 
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ycn-10842933

When football fans eagerly anticipated an NFC Championship game battle royale featuring a rematch from earlier in the season, few people were conjuring up take two of the Week 10 showdown between the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Giants.


Everyone had actually been waiting to see the Green Bay Packers play host to the New Orleans Saints for the second time. Brees vs. Rodgers. The last two Super Bowl Champions. All that good stuff. But that's why they play the games.

With the 49ers dispatching of the Saints with some last-second heroics and the Giants rehashing their postseason road magic in Lambeau Field, it's the Giants vs. the 49ers instead. Here are 5 reasons why the G-Men will beat the 49ers in the 2012 NFC Championship Game.


An ELI-te Quarterback


Does anybody still question Eli Manning's status as an elite quarterback in the NFL? He went 21 of 33 with 330 yards and three touchdowns against the Packers, scoring another massive road upset victory, and locking away several more Giants postseason records in the process. He's as clutch as they come, he's a team leader and he just out-dueled the presumptive MVP, he and his discount double check.


Alex Smith's comeback from utter disaster of a number 1 pick to plucky hero in charge of the new-look 49ers is nice, but when it comes down to it, Manning is in an entirely different class at this stage of their careers.


The Defensive Line


Manning has been playing at an elite level all season, so the reason the Giants have morphed from mediocre to potentially Super is the defensive line. For the first time all season, both Osi Umenyiora and Justin Tuck are at full speed. They joined up with All Pro Jason Pierre-Paul and the rest of that deep front to form the kind of athletic pass rushing force that won them a championship several seasons ago.


That's not news at this point, of course. But the bottom line is that if they can disrupt Aaron Rodgers and the high-octane Green Bay attack, they can disrupt the 49ers and Smith.


The Return to San Francisco




January 5, 2003, is not a date that Giants fans like to remember. The G-Men were obliterating the 49ers for three and a half quarters, securing a 24-point, 38-14 lead. Then Jeff Garcia and Terrell Owens - yes, that's how long ago this was - and a series of unfathomable botched plays and miscues, helped the 49ers storm back and squeak out a 39-38 win in one of the biggest NFL postseason comebacks in history.


The failed field goal attempts. The bad snaps and dropped passes. The infamous Michael Strahan Scoreboard Finger Wag. It was as bad of a loss as you could conjure up, and don't think that the franchise doesn't want to exact some measure of revenge. Those kinds of wounds don't heal easily, and while Strahan is long since retired, that pass rushing troupe he helped mold surely knows the story.


Emotional Exhaustion for the 49ers


The 49ers just scored their biggest win in a decade, since that ill-fated game against the G-Men in 2003. Their players ran off the field crying. Their fans exulted in the sheer joy and disbelief of the last second comeback. It's going to leave the team emotionally exhausted, and it's simply hard to muster up 100% of your emotional, mental and physical capabilities after that kind of win.



In fact, the 49ers caught the Giants under similar circumstances when they beat them earlier this season. New York had just gone into New England and pulled out a big, last-second upset win over Tom Brady and the Patriots. The video of the team rowdily celebrating in the locker room went viral and showed what it meant to the club, and also what kind of state they would be in the next weekend.


Predictably, the team would go on to have a letdown against the tough but unheralded 49ers. For San Francisco, after surviving the almighty Brees and his Saints, they'll have to work extra hard to avoid that same fate.


Calm, Cool Tommy Coughlin


Tom Coughlin continues to find a way to rejuvenate his club, and secure his further tenure with them, at the exact right moments. He was on his way to being fired four seasons ago, and then helped guide the team to Super Bowl victory. It looked like time finally ran out for him in 2011, but he rounded up the troops, got the team into the tournament, and now is one game away from playing for the championship.


Jim Harbaugh is the coach de jour, and the likely 2011 Coach of the Year, but Coughlin is the one with the ring on his finger. He and his team have been there, and done that. That experience and poise will ultimately prove to be the difference in this game.
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well damn. gg :(
 
Took revenge on the Giants earlier in Madden. During the game, Manning's dynamic performance status was changed to "Paranoid"

Feels good.
 
Niners are gonna do this shit!
We're gonna put up 70 points in the first half, then put in the 3rd stringers for the rest of the game.
Giants don't stand a chance bitches!
BOW BEFORE ALEX SMITH'S TINY HANDS/DICK!
 
FrenchMovieTheme said:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ycn-10842933



well damn. gg :(
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I'm especially amused that A) They list the game being in San Fransisco as some sort of advantage for the Giants and B) They bring up the Giants' D-line ability to pressure Alex Smith, but no mention of the reverse? The 49ers made Drew Brees beatable, why exactly can they not do it to Eli too?

I mean, I won't be thrilled to see San Fran in the Super Bowl, but if forced to make a pick I would have to take them in this matchup, though it'll be close. I just have the sinking feeling that they'll continue to play up and I think the emotion card is probably more even than that article gives credit for.
 
AngmarsKing701 said:
I'd like Gronk if he wasn't on the Patsies. I love it when a LB creates a jacked up angel of Welker's indented body on the turf. Does that count?

And don't even start on Lady Brady. Everyone knows that fucker is a spawn of Satan.
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Hey here's a fan of the Steelers.

He bashes other fans for things like poor officiating and a quarterback that appears in questionable magazines.

Here's what his team does:

Wins a SB by paying off the refs
Starts a rapist and a head case at quarterback
Has an ownership that's racist and only gets rid of cancers that are non-white
Fielded the most annoying running back in the last 20 years in Jerome Bettis, who's claim to fame was rushing the ball three yards up the middle, getting up and strutting like guy who just banged Jessica Alba before she got pregnant.

GAF, you also can't have it both ways. If you're bitching at the Pats/Brady for changing the rules regarding hitting quarterbacks you can't BLAME them when the fucking Colts do the same thing years earlier. It's fucking retarded.

Go ahead hate the Pats. I know I would if I didn't grow up being a fan. But shut up about the stupid calls they've gotten over the years. Steelers, Packers, Giants, you name the team a big call has gone their way.
 
2007 was the worst year for flagging pass interference penalties on record. You couldn't touch Randy Moss without getting flagged.

Couldn't touch Brady either without getting flagged

It was such a joke the Pats went 16-0 that year. They got bailed out every week. It was embarassing.

2009 Revis was allowed to mug anyone and it wasn't called.
 
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