By Editor on Friday, February 5, 2010 Filed Under: NFL General
Ahhhh the Super Bowl. Despite all the hype, the 8 hour pregame show, and the 48 minute halftime, it’s still one of the best spectacles of the year. We break down the Super Bowl matchup and have some fun with prop bets.
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Here are are the latest Super Bowl Prop Bets and Super Bowl Odds.
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By Vin on Sunday, January 31, 2010 Filed Under: Featured, NFL General
If you are a hardcore football fan, Super Bowl Sunday creates a dilemma: do you watch the game per your usual routine (either alone or with a small group of knowledgeable football fans) or do you join the hoi polloi for a Super Bowl Party?
If your team is playing in the Super Bowl, you must maintain your usual routine. There’s no excuse for breaking it now. If your team loses, it’s most likely your fault. This is not the time to be messing around with parties and not wearing your lucky underwear. The Lombardi is at stake.
For the rest of you, if you make the decision to host or attend a Super Bowl party, here are the rules you must adhere to. If you’re attending a party, print out this column for the host and other guests and let me be the jerk in your stead.
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By BostonMac on Sunday, January 31, 2010 Filed Under: New England Patriots
By Ryan McGowan
On December 31, I wrote “Five reasons the Patriots can win Super Bowl XLIV.”
Nice prediction. That’s right up there with the geniuses who predicted the Betamax would clobber the VHS, or that New Coke would be a sales bonanza for Coca-Cola, Inc. Predictions like that basically show why I don’t make my living picking NFL games, though I did win the Poor Man’s PTI regular season pick-‘em championship for the umpteenth year in a row, so what does that tell you about the guys on the show with me?
In light of the Patriots’ embarrassing first-round playoff exit at the hands of the Baltimore Ravens, I thought it would be a good time to take stock in our local NFL franchise and deliver my State of the Patriots Union Address for 2010 and beyond.
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By Editor on Thursday, January 21, 2010 Filed Under: Featured, NFL General
The Conference Championship Games are always the best Sunday in the entire football season. This week we discuss whether the Jets can continue their run and whether the Saints can make their first Super Bowl.
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The National Hockey League messed up, and if vulgarity weren’t frowned upon in journalism, I would not have used the word “messed.”
If the NHL cared about its credibility, not to mention if it wanted to gain a little public exposure that it desperately needs, the league would have come out quickly and harshly against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
On Jan. 7, Simon Gagne of the Philadelphia Flyers should have been credited with a short-handed goal. But also on Jan. 7, Lowell MacDonald Jr., producer for FSN Pittsburgh’s Pittsburgh Penguins broadcasts, failed to send the league a video replay from an overhead camera that clearly showed that a goal was scored.
Based on lack of clarity in the other views, the referee declared no goal, only for FSN Pittsburgh to show the home viewers the overhead camera view right after play resumed.
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By Editor on Thursday, January 14, 2010 Filed Under: Featured, NFL General
After a little bit of a letdown for wildcard weekend (with the exception of the phenomenal GB/ARI game), the NFL playoffs should heat up this weekend. We analyze all the games in depth and pick the winners of the divisional round of the 2009/2010 NFL playoffs.
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By Editor on Thursday, January 7, 2010 Filed Under: Featured, NFL General
Now the real fun starts. Despite a deja-vu feeling from week 17, this week’s games are the real deal. We analyze all the games in depth and pick the winners of the first round of the 2009/2010 NFL playoffs.
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By Editor on Thursday, December 31, 2009 Filed Under: NFL General
While all of the playoff participants in the NFC have been determined and only seeding remains, the lower seeds in the AFC are all wide open. We discuss all the likely playoff scenarios and project seeding in this podcast.
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By BostonMac on Thursday, December 31, 2009 Filed Under: New England Patriots
By Ryan McGowan
As surely as the calendar changes from oh-nine to oh-ten, I’m back with my annual homerific justification and rationalization as to why the Patriots will solidify their Team of the Decade standing with a Super Bowl title. (Or, in the case of last year, why the Super Bowl XLIII champion will always have an asterisk because the Patriots were shut out of the playoffs.) So, let’s get right to it—here’s five reasons why Bob Kraft, Bill Belichick, and Tom Brady could be hoisting their fourth Lombardi Trophy in Miami in February:
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