BleedinBlue

Not a Mets fan, but just saw the headline cross the bottom of ESPN that the Twins have dealt Santana to the Mets for 4 prospects. Should make some Mets fans happy.

Hmmmm....never heard that before. In fact, I've been to Boston no less than a hundred times and I have never heard of a natable comedy club. In the 70's, 80's, and 90's....serious comics went to Chicago - usually to "Second City". A few notable comics started out there like the Joan Rivers, Belushi, Chris Farley, what the heck....I'll just cut and past from wiki. Notable comics starting their careers at Second City 1970's (1971) John Belushi (SNL, Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Neighbors) (1973) Bill Murray (SNL, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Meatballs, Stripes) (1973) Betty Thomas (Hill Street Blues) (1975) George Wendt (Cheers) (1973) Dan Aykroyd (SNL, Ghostbusters, Driving Miss Daisy, The Blues Brothers) (1974) Michael Gellman (1974) Eugene Levy (SCTV, A Mighty Wind, American Pie) (1976) Shelley Long (Cheers) (1978) James Belushi (SNL, According to Jim) (1978) Tim Kazurinsky (SNL, Police Academy) (1979) Mary Gross (SNL, Hot to Trot, Feds) 1980s (1982) Meagen Fay (Kingdom Hospital, Six Feet Under, Desperate Housewives) (1983) Richard Kind (Mad About You, Spin City) (1985) Andy Dick (The Ben Stiller Show, NewsRadio, Less Than Perfect) (1986) Dan Castellaneta (The Tracey Ullman Show, The Simpsons) (1986) Bonnie Hunt (Life With Bonnie) (1988) Mike Myers (SNL, Wayne's World, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Shrek) (1989) David Pasquesi (Strangers with Candy)(TJ & Dave) (1989) Chris Farley (SNL, Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, Almost Heroes) (1989) Tim Meadows (SNL, The Ladies Man, Mean Girls) (1989) Tim O'Malley (Return to Me) (Godshow) I won't list all the 90's stars to come out of Second City because the list is extensive, but I'll mention a couple of more notable ones: (1991) Steve Carell (The Office,The 40-Year Old Virgin) (1991) Jeff Garlin (Curb Your Enthusiasm,I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With) (1993) Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report, Strangers with Candy, Exit 57) (1996) Tina Fey (SNL, Mean Girls, 30 Rock) (1996) Horatio Sanz (SNL, Boat Trip) Regardless....I think you probably get my point. The center of comedy and comic career kickoffs does NOT start in Boston.

Such an excellent post. Reminds me of the Los Angeles papers lamenting the loss of their Rams 12 years ago when they skipped town and moved to St. Louis. The paper pointed out how the L.A.Rams fans hadn't sold out the stadium for years....yet the New York Giants sold out the stadium game after game, year after year, even when they had very poor or hideous records. To top it off, fans of New York had 2 home teams in which to split the fan base. The huge city of Los Angeles couldn't even support 1 team. I remember smirking as I thought how proud I was to be a Giants fan. Dallas can run paid advertisement to claim being "America's Team" (gag), but there is no team in the world with a more loyal fan base (however, no offense to a few teams as I must tip my hat Bears, Packers, Browns, and Steelers fans for similar loyalty). New England fans do NOT impress me one bit.

This just sounds like carry over resentment between Boston and New York over their baseball teams. Truth is, the Giants are steeped in tradition, one of the great teams of the NFC. Heck, the Patriots weren't even a gleam in their pappy's eye until almost 1960. They're newbies for all practical accounts....hence the lack of previous rivalry. Regardless....I know a lot of Pats fans from the Boston area and none of them sail and very few ski. Most are of Irish decent and pretty much evenly split their time between a mundane day job and a bar stool at night. Nothing wrong with that, but to try and paint them as that college boy named "Biff", who wears a light blue sweater tied around his neck by it's arms is quite a stretch of the imagination. Besides, football is not a game for sissy men who drink tea with their pinky up and Chardoney at night. Real football fans eat raw meat, chug dark beer, and piss on sissy men. But who cares? Truth is....the only reason they have a decent team at all is because they've been built by past Giants coaches and players (ala, Parcells, Bellichek...hell, even their defensive line coach is ex-Giants great, Pepper Johnson)

Thanks....I was hoping that it was determined by overall record....hence, the fuzzy feeling I would have gotten knowing we'd pick ahead of Dallas. Damn!

Out of curiousity....how is the draft order decided? Is it overall record? Just the season record? Do the two teams in the Superbowl get the last 2 picks? Just wondering.

Now that you mention it, I remember that too, but didn't put two and two together until you brought it up. Thanks for pointing it out How can anyone NOT love the Giants? This is a very special team

I read this story the other day and had no idea this was going on. Forgive me if it's already been touched on in this section of the blog, but even if it has been brought up....it's definitely worth revisiting. Lt. Col. Greg Gadson is the co-captain of the NY Giants. He's an ex-football player, a huge Giants fan, and a US soldier who lost both his legs in Iraq. He was asked to speak to the Giants after they were 0-2. Since then, the team has turned around and he's been with them all the way....including sitting on the sidelines in a wheelchair in 0 degree weather at Lambeau. Anyway.....this article tells the story far better than I can. If you haven't heard the story, I demand that you read this one! http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football..._is_giants.html

Sounds like you are raising that kid right Naz....good for you.

I happen to be a die-hard Giants and Yankees fan. But I have to tell you (IMO), that the fan base between baseball and football is so different that I don't think you can compare the two. Baseball fans tend to be nostalgic over tradition and meticulous play. Football fans tend to be gruff, tail-gate partying raw meat eating bulldogs who boasts, "my team will mash your team asshole", type of mentality. My whole fan reaction and fan participation between the two sports is both ravid, but it's like two entirely different worlds to me.

I suspect you'll get to see the Superbowl Jim. Sure hope so. My son got transferred from Wisconsin to Shelby, Mississippi a couple of weeks ago and he's buried with round the clock work. But the whole military community sat and watched every second of the Giants / Packers game last weekend. My son (a HUGE Giants fan who has worn his Giants cap all over cheesehead country for a couple of months) called me almost the same second that Tyne's kick went through the upright and instead of hearing a "hello", all I heard was a loud scream of joy. He had called earlier when he thought Tynes was about to put the game away and instead of "hello", I heard a loud, "FUCK"....then silence, then "sorry Dad". Anyway....the guys in Iraq will be watching the game. I have to believe they'll let you watch it in Fort Dix. My fingers are crossed for you man!!!!

Does anyone know if this is really true or not....or was it a trick by some Pat's fan playing with photoshop?

I'd love to see the Giants head office do the same thing as what the Colts are doing with their coaching situation. While extending Dungy's contract, they simultaneously made Jim Caldwell (quarterback's coach) the Assistant Head Coach, with a payout similar to other head coaches around the NFL and a guarantee that when Dungy retires, he will automatically become the Head Coach of the Colts.

I have confidence that if he gets 3 shots at a field goal, that he'll certainly make at least one of them

Yes they did. And you're a liar if you say it doesn't bother you. Hell, T.O. cried like a freakin baby and Jimmy Jones nearly died of a heart attack. I agree. No one talks about Staubach, or Aiken....it's water over the dam. But the Giants knocking the Cowboys out of the playoffs is current news and it's damn good news. Sounds like the words of a jealous loser. Sorry man....I don't know you and I have no beef with you. But anyone reading your posts would definitely think you are acting like a jealous man who can't come to grips with the fact that the Giants knocked the Cowboys out of the playoffs. And what the hell would they "owe" the Giants??? You make no sense Actually.....we don't want a compliment from you. It means absolutely nothing to us. We don't need a jealous Cowboys fan's approval. Don't need it...don't want it. You root for your team, we'll root for ours. Self-flattery seldom gets anywhere. One man's idea of truth is another man's morning dump. Or what......the team will be dismantled? The earth will come to an end? We might earn your approval?, something we don't need from you nor do we want. Go back home and cheer for your Cowboys. They did pretty good this year. You should be proud. They won more games than I expected. Tell you what....if your Cowboys win the big one next year.....then I will give you my approval for being their fan and tell you that it's okay to love your team.....but only if they win the big one.....duhh

Friggin hillarious. Could the raging jealousy be anymore obvious than that? Cowboy fans are fucked up. They are so jealous of the Giants that they don't even make sense.

Jacobs should start of course....go right up the gut and soften the line. Then bring Bradshaw in to scoot. Then Jacobs to do some more softening, etc. I'd love to see both of them lined up together in a split back set. I think that would drive the defense crazy...especially if Eli was planning on throwing the ball because so much of the defense would have to be prepared for holding both backs in check. If I remember rightly, Miami used to do that with Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick and it worked wonderfully. They were known as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" rather than "Thunder and Lightning", even though Csonka was a bull like Jacobs.

Not me....I have high expectations. I expect a hard fought game from beginning to end and expect it to end up being a close game. When the Giants play solid, mistake free ball...they can beat anyone. My biggest fear.......is bad calls......like the phantom Madison Hedgecock hold that negated Bradshaws run the length of the field......or the "missed" offsides call that got Eli sacked stopping the Giants on 3rd down. Damn refs can make a huge difference in a game. And if the bulk of the betting in Vegas is on the Giants and the points, you can bet odds makers will try to bribe refs to make the game a blowout in favor of the Pats. Hell, there'll be billions of dollars bet on this game. Don't think for a second there aren't assholes out there who aren't willing to do anything to influence the game. Still....I have complete faith that my Giants can do it. I think it's very hard to beat the same team twice in one year. And statistically, you'll discover that the teams usually split. However, statistics won't determine the outcome of this game. That will be determined by "heart", "smarts", and "good solid honest officiating"

Gotta admit. The Packers fans are for the most part, a very classy bunch. I was in Wisconsin for a week earlier this month and Favre's picture is everywhere and Packers logos on just about anything you can buy. They love their team for sure, but don't seem to hate every other team. My son is a big Giants fan and he purposely wears his NY Giants hat everytime he goes out on the town and he says that no one bust him about it. The Pat's exchange on their board is interesting. On top of that, I was listening to one of Belicheks (Sp?) conferences on NFL network last night and he said that the Giants gave the Pats a harder time than any other team they faced all year. He said he was taking nothing for granted and is well aware that the Giants could beat them if they're not on the "A-game" for the whole game. He said the game's outcome could end up being the result of a single turnover or missed tackle. He said he expects it to be a hard fought game and expects the Giants to come fully loaded for business.

Not me. I want no one but the Patriots. Nothing in the world could be sweeter than to win the superbowl by knocking off the most overhyped team in the past decade - perhaps even in my lifetime. And the Giants can beat them....doesn't mean they will....but they can do it. If they can go to Tampa, Dallas, and now Lambeau and beat very good teams on their own turf who were huge favorites....then the Giants can do the same thing in Arizona and knock the Pats off their pedastal and ruin that "perfect" friggin record.

I was going to comment on that earlier and got sidetracked. Johnson had a look of complete disgust on his face and when trying to make comments had all he could do to get it out. They talk about "body language" and "facial expressions" being a language all their own and even a reebie could read Johnson's disgust about the outcome of this game. I didn't think Howie was nearly as bad as Johnson when it came down to facial expressions. Oh well....Jimmy has a lifetime to get over it. We're in!!! Cowboys are still home eating popcorn.

I agree 100%. The close score last night was not indicative how thoroughly the Giants dominated the Packers. I still didn't like that 90 yard touchdown last night by Driver, who clearly grabbed Webster and whipped him around to the ground leaving him wide open for an uncontested TD. Regardless...the Giants dominated almost the entire game and Eli outshined Favre the way the sun outshines the moon. The Giants are going to the big dance and because of it, they stand a chance of winning a ring. When I hear cowboys and eagles fans tell me that "Giants don't stand a chance", I always come back with...."no, the cowboys (or eagles, depending on my target) don't have a chance because they're not in the game....only the two teams in the superbowl 'stand a chance' and since the Giants are one of those two teams...they stand a chance"

Highlights from ESPN board (Cowboy fans) --------------------------------------------------- - "I see the majority of topics are about the Gmen...LOL, you know you love us! And I also see that alot of you havent gotten over the loss to the NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS. Well quit your crying and move on! WE'RE THE CHAMPS OF THE NFC!!! How funny, you guys got that piddly little Division crown, we got the big one, the CONFERENCE crown. And remember, no one played NE like we did. So dont be surprised if the ROAD WARRIORS continue thier streak!! GO GIANTS!!!!! P.S. You guys LOST! Deal with it. You werent better, GB wasnt better,the Giants did what they had to do to win" --------------------------- - "hey bigblue, the giants are going to get killed by the pats and i will love every min ofr it and i hate the pats with a passion. just shows how much more i hate the giants. GIANTS SUCK A S S " ----------------------------- - "Enjoy your second place trophy. Oh wait there isnt one. Nevermind then" ----------------------------- - "Pick on the Giants? Poor them.....bla bla bla. Losers? That would be you. I didnt post garbage when the Cowboys beat the Giants the last three times they faced them. NFC trophies? The Cowboys have 8 of those. Worthless pieces of garbage. Shot to win? LOL!" ------------------------------ - "hey Giants morons.... remember the Ravens? well, this is going to be more crushing, maybe the game is going to be stopped, like pee-wee football, just to not be embarrassed in national TV... Jeronimo... hahaha hey! watch out here comes Gral Custer!!! hahaha ----------------------------- - "Well when you win the season series against a team, you have the right to be cockey. The Giants won the that last game and it happened to be in the playoffs. Now your cockey.....enjoy....I'll see you in two weeks when the Patriots walk off with the trophy"

------------------------------------------------------------------ Reading this shit puts shivers down my spine....shivers of glee....and a smile on my face that would take a surgeon's knife to remove. Oh...how nice to be able to listen to jealous losers whine and cry. Last week we got to watch T.O. cry like a baby and now we get to hear eagle fans implode with jealousy. Sweet music to my ears.

Just happened to catch the weather report with Janice Dean - a Canadian news lady. Anyway....during her report, she pulled out a New York Giants blanket and wrapped it around herself and kept going, "Woooowooo, woooowooooo, superbowl baby". I immediately fell in love! Wish I could get a pic to post of her with her blanket, but can't find one.