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I dont know what was worse the game or the halftime show. I guess the halftime show.

But honestly this was one of the most forgettable games and halftime shows of all time.

Eagles defense was awesome though. The whole d was the mvp.

But yup. This was a waste of a aunday
 
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SnowblindNYR said:
The first season I was watching the Rangers was 2000-2001 only 7 years removed from Cup. It was only the 4th consecutive season they missed the playoffs, so not fun but not Buffalo Bills or Edmonton Oilers territory yet. Definitely not New York Giants territory either. The fans HATED the team. You think fans hate the vets and complain about young kids not getting their chance now, it's not even really close to that 00-01 team.
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A big reason the fans hated that team is that they were set up to compete for awhile and never really got close again.

The Giants won it again.

Out of 32 NFL fanbases, only seven has people our age who can say they've seen the Superbowl twice (PHI, PIT, KC, NE, BAL, TB, NYG) and that number falls to five if you consider that they would have been little kids the first time the Bucs and Ravens did it.

There are Lions fans in their 70's that have never seen their team compete in the final game of the season.
 
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Machinehead said:
A big reason the fans hated that team is that they were set up to compete for awhile and never really got close again.

The Giants won it again.

Out of 32 NFL fanbases, only seven has people our age who can say they've seen the Superbowl twice (PHI, PIT, KC, NE, BAL, TB, NYG) and that number falls to five if you consider that they would have been little kids the first time the Bucs and Ravens did it.

There are Lions fans in their 70's that have never seen their team compete in the final game of the season.
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Well I was 16 for the Bucs, lol. Not a little kid. I don't know what to tell you, I don't get any pleasure over the titles when my team has been a bottom 5 if not bottom 3 franchise for over a decade. This isn't the Eagles of the early 00s or the Ravens currently, not even the Lundqvist Rangers. Giants fans have had nothing to root for for a dozen years.
 
SnowblindNYR said:
Well I was 16 for the Bucs, lol. Not a little kid. I don't know what to tell you, I don't get any pleasure over the titles when my team has been a bottom 5 if not bottom 3 franchise for over a decade. This isn't the Eagles of the early 00s or the Ravens currently, not even the Lundqvist Rangers. Giants fans have had nothing to root for for a dozen years.
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That's a you problem.

To be mad about the direction of the team currently is one thing. To get nothing out of that tells me you really shouldn't be doing this.

What do you ever have to root for if two championships means nothing to you?
 
Machinehead said:
That's a you problem.

To be mad about the direction of the team currently is one thing. To get nothing out of that tells me you really shouldn't be doing this.

What do you ever have to root for if two championships means nothing to you?
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Ok, let me put it this way. Those titles currently in 2025 do not outweigh the garbage from this franchise currently. Do they literally mean nothing? No. But how do they help in 2025? Put a smile on my face if I think about them? Ok. But beyond that what can titles from 13 years and 17 years ago do? Cowboys fans are the butt of jokes for still talking about 92-95. Yeah you can reminisce but at some point if you're a bottom dweller for 13 years how much does that do for you?
 
SnowblindNYR said:
Ok, let me put it this way. Those titles currently in 2025 do not outweigh the garbage from this franchise currently. Do they literally mean nothing? No. But how do they help in 2025? Put a smile on my face if I think about them? Ok. But beyond that what can titles from 13 years and 17 years ago do? Cowboys fans are the butt of jokes for still talking about 92-95. Yeah you can reminisce but at some point if you're a bottom dweller for 13 years how much does that do for you?
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Cowboys fans are the butt of jokes because other fanbases had to watch them win three times.

An empty barrel makes the most noise.
 
Machinehead said:
Yes. And there's nothing random about it.

You do it once, it's an accident. You do it twice, you saw something 90% of sports fans never will.
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So before their most recent minor (for now) resurgence you think Devils fans should have been excited about their team being dog shit for a decade because they won 3 cups in the 90s and early 00s?

And you think it would have been some brownie points over a Rangers team that has been consistently in the playoff picture?

I just don't see it that way. If I'm a fan of most teams in the NFL and a Giants fan brags about a 2011 Super Bowl I would laugh in his face. Your team is dog shit now.
 
SnowblindNYR said:
So before their most recent minor (for now) resurgence you think Devils fans should have been excited about their team being dog shit for a decade because they won 3 cups in the 90s and early 00s?

And you think it would have been some brownie points over a Rangers team that has been consistently in the playoff picture?

I just don't see it that way. If I'm a fan of most teams in the NFL and a Giants fan brags about a 2011 Super Bowl I would laugh in his face. Your team is dog shit now.
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If I was a Devils fan, I would get "I won three Cups and you didn't" tattooed on my neck.

You know what nobody cares about? Being consistently in the picture when you don't win.
 
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Greg02 said:
Man I'd kill to have memory of one of my teams winning a championship.
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If you win one and never come back it is kinda like LarryDavidEh.gif.

Once you win the second one it's like "I beat this sport and the credits rolled, now we're just improving on my high score."

That's how I feel with the Giants. I feel bad for Giants fans born after 2000 or so and it very much annoys me that the Eagles are good now, but like, I don't know man, I beat football.
 
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Machinehead said:
If you win one and never come back it is kinda like LarryDavidEh.gif.

Once you win the second one it's like "I beat this sport and the credits rolled, now we're just improving on my high score."

That's how I feel with the Giants. I feel bad for Giants fans born after 2000 or so and it very much annoys me that the Eagles are good now, but like, I don't know man, I beat football.
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I got to watch my silly football team with their loveable, dopey looking QB defeat the NFL DEATH STAR twice! And one of those was against the greatest football team ever assembled!
 
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Maybe part of it was that I saw both Super Bowls at home and didn't even go to the parade. My memories of that game are limited and fading. As bad as this will sound, when the Eagles won their first one I was miserable. But I lived in Philly and walked through Central Philly and experienced the craziness of it. So in a warped way that Super Bowl was more memorable, plus it was more recent. Yesterday as pissed as I was I got nostalgic for the time that I lived in Philly because I associate the Eagles with my time there and for the most part I really enjoyed my time in Philly. The experience of winning the Super Bowls was basically in my underwear at home. So in some ways at felt like another game.
 
Machinehead said:
A big reason the fans hated that team is that they were set up to compete for awhile and never really got close again.

The Giants won it again.

Out of 32 NFL fanbases, only seven has people our age who can say they've seen the Superbowl twice (PHI, PIT, KC, NE, BAL, TB, NYG) and that number falls to five if you consider that they would have been little kids the first time the Bucs and Ravens did it.

There are Lions fans in their 70's that have never seen their team compete in the final game of the season.
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Bob Richards said:
Life of a Minnesota Vikings fan.

Gotta be the most successful NA sports franchise to never win a championship.
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This thread was a surprisingly good morning read which I never thought I'd say as a Giants fan.

Giants delivered the rings but a lot of bad football, a lot of seasons I barely watched after Halloween. The Rangers delivered a solid 15-20 years of very good competitive hockey but no rings.

I'd take the rings, but it's not as big of a slam dunk as one might think...I get @SnowblindNYR perspective. Maybe the bigger takeaway is to be more appreciative of what each franchise has done...rather then dwelling on what they havent.
 
HatTrick Swayze said:
This thread was a surprisingly good morning read which I never thought I'd say as a Giants fan.

Giants delivered the rings but a lot of bad football, a lot of seasons I barely watched after Halloween. The Rangers delivered a solid 15-20 years of very good competitive hockey but no rings.

I'd take the rings, but it's not as big of a slam dunk as one might think...I get @SnowblindNYR perspective. Maybe the bigger takeaway is to be more appreciative of what each franchise has done...rather then dwelling on what they havent.
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All in all the Giants franchise is better. But a dozen years of being out by like game 3 is just disheartening. And maybe sports isn't for me. Even when the Giants won I woke up the next morning and realized my life hasn't changed one bit. Maybe if my dad were a big Giants fan and I could share that moment. Otherwise it was a warm and fuzzy feeling briefly but I was worth the exact same amount as the day before. My health was exactly the same. I think sports for me is way more of an addiction than anything positive. If they lose it's the end of the world, if they win it's great but not nearly as positive as losing is negative. I almost feel like the season itself is more of a positive than the final win which is anti-climactic. All of last season I had a warm and fuzzy feeling and couldn't wait till the next game for the Rangers. If they won that cup that feeling goes away. It's replaced with satisfaction but it's not as warm and fuzzy as constantly feeling unbeatable all season and not being able to wait for the next game.

For what it's worth I've heard from athletes such as Deion and Aaron Rodgers that after they won their mindset "is that all there is to it?" And many coaches say that the losses are worse than the wins are good. Not sure why fans who have contributed nothing to the wins should feel any other way.
 
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