The Patriots and the Giants!?!

So, the Patriots are back in the Super Bowl, going for the first ever 19-0 record. Their opponent will be... wait a minute...the New York Giants? The Freaking New York Giants?! When the hell did that happen? The team that was supposedly done before the season began, with the Manning who wasn't a winner, a coach who had lost his team, a defensive end who almost retired and their best running back in the NBC Studio all season? The Freaking New York Giants?

I'm sure all of you are in shock, much like I am, to see that the Freaking Giants are going to the Super Bowl. Who would have picked them four short months ago, besides Giant Fans on crack that is? You have to agree that none of us saw this coming. There were other teams that made more sense to represent the NFC in Super Bowl XVII before the Freaking Giants.

Green Bay was the feel good pick as I see it. The Packers were young, poised and beat the Giants early in the year. Story book ending in the making, with Favre beating the Patriots, ending their bid for perfection. Who didn't want to see Brett Favre retire with another ring?

Dallas was the hip and most logical choice. They were arguably the best team in the NFC for most of the year, mowed down the competition and had the pretty boy quarterback dating hot-ass Jessica Simpson. Even though I was dreading it, I was preparing for the 'Boys to go to the Big Game.

Even the Redskins made more sense then the Freaking Giants! They had a roller coaster year filled with close wins and painfully close losses. People really questioned whether Gibbs still had it in him. Then, Sean Taylor was murdered and it seemed like the season was done. Instead, after the two-timeout-Buffalo fiasco, the Skins suddenly put it all together and won four straight-- two of which were against the Cowboys and Giants, mind you--and the praise for Coach Gibbs and the talk of destiny began to reverberate not just in DC, but all over the airwaves as well.

But the Freaking Giants are in the Super Bowl? They beat the Cowboys in Big D? They beat Green Bay, in Green Bay, on a field goal in OT, in the minus 1 degree weather after their kicker missed twice in regulation? Eli Manning (who looks like Timmy from South Park) suddenly learned how to win? This team limped into the playoffs and now is in the Super Bowl? Are you kidding me? The Freaking Giants?
I think Jesus Christ is getting ready to make an appearance here on planet Earth real soon, folks. That's the only explanation I can come up with.



Caps Over .500



So, after a start that had them in 30th place in a 30 team league, your Nations' Capitals have gone 16-7-4 since Thanksgiving Day, pulling with in 2 points of the eighth seed for the playoffs and 3 points of of 1st place in the Southeast Division. Alex Ovechkin leads the league in goals and is only 4 points out of leading in points. Nickalus Backstrom is second in Rookie scoring, Mike Green is the Blue Line Stud the Caps haven't had in years and their new coach, Bruce Boudreau, was in the movie "Slap Shot". What a turn around! Not to mention that I love the new uniforms.

As much as I liked Glen Hanlon, he was a teaching coach, not a winning coach. He set the table for Boudreau and the Caps owe him a debt of gratitude for bringing their young players along the way he did. The most impressive part of the Caps turn around has got to be the fact that they have been missing key players thru the whole streak (Alex Semin in the beginning; Chris Clark for the past 20 games; Brian Pothier, Tom Poti and Shaone Morrison from the blue line, not to mention Michal Nylander is out for the year).

If you haven't watched a game recently, I encourage you to turn on a Caps game soon. They are fun, exciting, never give up when they are behind and are on their way up in the standongs toward a playoff birth...FINALLY!


Oh, and Sidney Crosby is a pussy.