It’s raining in Brooklyn
I’m sitting in an office on the tenth floor of a downtown NYC building.
Just outside my window, in the streets below, is a gaggle of Giants fans lining the parade route waiting for the Superbowl champions to float by in a few hours.
In essence, I am currently in hell.
It’s a hell of my own making, I suppose. When one chooses to live in the greatest city in the world AND root for the greatest football franchise in the world — bad things are bound to happen. But I wouldn’t live anywhere else and I wouldn’t root for any football team but the Patriots. The heart wants what it wants.
I don’t have much to say about the game, except I was disappointed, but not surprised. This wasn’t 2008. That we even made the Superbowl was its own miraculous occurence. As per usual, I have my thoughts about those who — despite not following/discussing football with me for the past six months, suddenly feel at liberty to trash talk my Patriots in my twitter at reply feed or on my facebook wall. O_o
If you’re not a Giants fan, you can pretty much go fuck yourself; if you weren’t a Giants fan in December when they lost to the Redskins for the second time of the season, you can also go fuck yourself. If are and were a Giants fan, well, hats off to you, congrats, good win. Yes, you own us.
I know that some find it silly, all this general mopiness following a sports disappointment. And I get that, no one died, nothing collapsed — but the same way that I don’t understand pet ownership, yet respect that when a pet dies owners are sad and the appropriate response is to offer condolences, not shrug and say “who cares” — those in my circles should understand by now –I love my Riots and my Rangers and my Mets. The Patriots lost the Superbowl and I’m sad about it.
I’m sure I will be not sad sometime in the not-too-distant-future but until then… thanks for your sympathy or fuck off — pick whichever applies to you.
February 7th, 2012 at 9:13 am
You should spare a thought for the less fortunate this time of year. There are some of us who would have loved to see our WR’s get a case of the drops in the last few minutes of the Super Bowl, but didn’t get that chance because our team decided to go 2-14. So from all of us in Rams Nation, I say “next year we will AW CRAP DID BRADFORD HURT HIMSELF AGAIN?”
February 7th, 2012 at 9:21 am
“I love my Riots and my Rangers and my Mets.”
Wow, the Rangers get billing ahead of the Mets? You’re turning Canadian.
February 7th, 2012 at 9:44 am
@gib lol @vinnay football season just ended, hockey season is currently happening, baseball season looms.
February 7th, 2012 at 9:58 am
I’m not going to gloat about the win. Your guys played hard, but in the end, it just wasn’t to be.
As you said, we kind of own you.
So, maybe I’m gloating just a little.
February 7th, 2012 at 11:56 am
You have the weirdest collection of teams to be a fan for.. I would someday like to sit down and figure out how this came about. Pats loss was soooo hard since we played them tough till the end. Sucks. I have good feelings about next years team though!!
Also, to cheer you up, with that Giselle outburst maybe Tom will dump her frumpy ass and look for some sweet chick from NY! Hey could happen!!
February 7th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
hahaha you just called gisele frumpy and dawn summers sweet… how much drinking did we do in the last two days exactly?
February 7th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Hey, I gave you a Scrabble compliment to offset!
Oh sweet sweet schadenfreude.
And if you don’t think I know how you feel, I seem to remember getting a few trash posts when the Jets collapsed against the Pats in weeks 5 and 10.
At least we can both commiserate together when the Mets dash our hopes again this coming season.
February 7th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
I blame Giselle — clearly God found her petitioning him presumptuous. I think we can safely conclude that He hates her too.
February 7th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Meee tooo
February 7th, 2012 at 3:56 pm
the sangria is deeeeeeeeeeeelicious.
February 7th, 2012 at 4:09 pm
Like!
February 7th, 2012 at 5:13 pm
I am a life long hater of the Patriots. They are known cheaters since December of 1982. They will always be cheaters and I hate them. I have hated them longer than you have been a football fan, nearly 25 years longer. I relished in the trouncing they received from the Bears. I rooted for the Packers. They cheated when they played the Rams, stealing signals and videotaping practices. It brings me great joy that when someone says “Brady” they can be shut up with the simple whisper of “Eli”.
So no, I don’t have to be a Giants fan. I am a football fan with a sense of sportsmanship, a knowledge of right and wrong, things your beloved Patriots lack.
I wasn’t rooting for the Giants but against the Patriots, the scum of all football teams. The evil. The Yankees of the NFL.
Eli Manning is the football Jesus, saving us from the hooded evil that must be extinguished.
February 7th, 2012 at 5:34 pm
And let me add SCOREBOARD malfunction in the AFC championship game and now these mofos are putting the missed field goal ball in the Patriots hall of fame. I hate them. http://blogs.baltimoreravens.com/2012/02/07/late-for-work-27-missed-fg-football-going-in-pats-hof/