I’m writing this article after my beloved Pats – the New England Patriots – lost Super Bowl XLVI to the New York Giants in Indianapolis.To describe the feeling – gutted.
Two weeks of anticipation, late nights watching ESPN’s Mike and Mike program and general excitement, wiped away in a few minutes.
It hurts.
So with the emotion and disappointment still coursing through my veins, here are a few reasons why the Giants were lucky to win the game (oh… the score was 21-17 for those who don’t know).
1. How the referees could call Tom Brady for a safety on his first throw of the game is ridiculous. It’s like an NRL referee blowing a play the ball penalty against the team with the ball on the first tackle of the game 10m out from their own line. It doesn’t happen and shouldn’t happen.
2. That safety was followed by the Giants getting the ball back and marching into the end zone for a TD. That’s a 9-0 lead before the Pats even got the ball. Thanks ref.
3. The Gronk wasn’t fit. Half of the trophy should be given to the Ravens for wrecking our main target Rob Gronkowski’s ankle in the AFC Championship game.
If Gronk was FIT and on the field, the Pats win. It’s as simple as that. As it was the Giants didn’t really have to worry about Gronk and could target their attention on Brady and the other target men.
4. Fluke catches in the final minutes being highlighted over and over again. Surely these guys have used their get out of jail cards. First Tyree, now Manninghan? Are you serious?
5. The biggest query I have is how a team that barely wins 50 per cent of regular season games can make the playoffs in the first place? It seems a flawed system.
At the end of it, the biggest drama I have with the whole thing is the adoration being heaped on Giants quarterback Eli Manning and Tom Coughlin.
Good luck to them for winning their second title but if anyone compare them to Tom Brady and Bill Belichick they obviously know very little about the NFL.
The Patriots have made the Super Bowl five times in the past 10 years, won three of them in the space of four years, have completed an unbeaten 16-0 season (admittedly they lost that Super Bowl but they were undoubtedly the best team that year) and the only time they missed the playoffs they went 10-6 without Brady.
The Pats don’t drop in and out of the playoff race every second year, pick up high draft picks and then re-appear.
Eli Manning isn’t even the best quarterback in his family, let alone the NFL.
If this sounds like the ramblings of a poor loser, then so be it.
I love my sport and get emotional and I think that’s the great thing about sport.
See you in 2012/13 G-Men.
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