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TheMatts
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ & HOUSTON, TX – We may well look back at NFL Week 5, 2008 as the day Eli became the National Football League’s dominant Manning. Up until now, even with an Eli Super Bowl ring, there was little question as to who the greater Manning was. Peyton has been the dominant pro quarterback for the last decade; averaging over 3000 yds passing and 30+ touchdowns per year. In the last 5 seasons Manning has led the Colts to a minimum of 12 wins per year and a long awaited Super Bowl Championship in January 2007. Peyton also has an uncanny way of getting the job done against the odds. Witness both Colt victories this year. A scary last minute 18-15 victory against the lowly Vikings (sorry AW and jgc) who couldn’t put the ball in the endzone and a last gasp 31-27 win against the even lower Texans. If it wasn’t for Sage Rosenfels (more on this name later) coughing up the ball twice late in the 4th quarter, the Colts would be 1-3. To call Rosenfels' turnovers fumbles, would be understating the facts. He was crushed, robbed, swiped, duped, slammed and humiliated into these turnovers and Manning took full advantage with great field position. An excellent reader of defenses and caller of audibles, Peyton is an old time throwback QB. We’ve also spent quality time on MasterCard commercial sets with Peyton and he is a terrific guy. We’ll stop there because we don’t want to sound like we have MTM man-crushes on him.
For his part, Eli Manning’s stuff is newly legendary. The very year Tiki Barber questioned Eli’s leadership qualities; the same year owner John Mara asked, “Can we win with this guy?”, he wins the Super Bowl MVP. Talk about showing up your doubters. Many Giants fans point the the last game of the regular season against the hitherto undefeated Patriots as Manning’s coming of age game. With a playoff slot secured, Coughlin’s Big Blue could have sat the starters for most of the game but, in a move of sheer cojones, the Giants did everything they could to end the perfect season. Unfortunately, that would take another 5 weeks to secure. One year’s worth of playoffs success catapulted Manning into the spotlight. Underdog victories against the Bucs in the heat, the Boys in Bush League Country, the Pack in the Tundra and the Patsys in Super Bowl XLII, put Eli on the superstar map. The pundits then questioned how the Giants might respond in the 2008 season and many of them picked the Jints to finish behind both Dallas and Philthydelphia in the East.
Peyton has the legacy and it’s not fair to measure Eli to that just yet. We can only examine the present day and make the bold call. It’s not just the fast start the Giants have gotten off to and the slow start the Colts have endured. Who in the hell knew what a bursa sac was until we read about Peyton’s late off-season surgery? That is the deciding factor in why the mantel is passing. Bursa sac. Infected bursa sac.
Sage Rosenfels. Son of Marjoram Stein and Basil Rosenfels. C’mon people!
Congratulations to the Tampa Devil Rays (our stance on the renaming). As Dude pointed out, slightly errantly, yesterday the Devil Rays entire payroll is less than the single season salary of A-Roid and Gumby (thanks jgc) combined. That is remarkable. And gosh-darn-it-doughnuts the Red Sox beat the Orange County of California Angels. We just can’t seem to muster a congrats there. Please check out the latest clip and tune in for Angry Ward manana.
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Denise
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| You confused me. Doesn't Peyton get more points for playing injured with the bursa sac thing? |
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Oregon Pete
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| Great vid, guys! Too few and far between for those of us with nothing going on... All those fumbles weren't very SMART of SAGE, were they? |
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Yankee Joe
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| Hey Dude - the Sox winning wont piss me off because the toughest division in baseball has its two reps left. Where are those power houses like the Angels and Cubs? They are out. And YOUR Phillies will lose too. Yanks will end up as third best team in baseball. As for the Mannings, they need to start breeding boys. |
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jgclancy
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Well Sage would have been tougher if he were a Boy named Rosemary, instead.( Cue Johnny Cash music.)
Our "lowly Vikes" pulled out quite the win last night. Despite several evil calls at halftime telling me that the Vikes were going to be crushed in the second half.
Angels lose after failures in both halves of the ninth..."adios muchachos-no soup for you."
Go Devil Rays--- I see no reason to acknowledge the city itself anymore... |
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Sam's-a-fan
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| If we insist on still calling them the Devil Rays, which I do, I will also go back to calling the NBA franchise from Washington D.C. the Bullets! |
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MATT FACTS:
Chad Pennington is NOT a Brett Favre fan... Hillary Clinton and Don Nelson have never been seen in the same place... Jerry Manuel is not related to Charlie ManuelJerry Manuel is not related to Charlie Manuel... Somebody namd Michel coaches the Pittsburgh Penguins... Tiki Barber quit the Giants. The Giants then won the Super Bowl... The New England Patriots only lost ONE game out of 19!!! Aaron Heilman was actually funny in re to Eli and Plaxico Burress helping the Mets as a pitcher and outfielder, respectively. Repeat, Heilman was funny... Jessica Simpson would rather date Tom Brady - trust us... Eli Manning is better than Archie - now... Alyssa Milano is a Met fan. RRRRR... Rickey Henderson speaks in the 3rd Person... Shawn Green has big ears... Howard Johnson likes to stay at the Holiday Inn, ironically... Sandy Alomar, Sr. is the youngest of 9 kids. That's why he was quick around the dish. Jiminy Cricket was the Philly Phanatic in a previous life…Fred Wilpon is pals with Sandy Koufax... Mike Ditka is a really tough guy.. Buffalo has a Triple A baseball team. They are NOT called The Snowballs... Chan Ho Park has people thinking of naming a ballfield after him - it would be called Chan Ho Park Park... John Maine has never been, oddly enough, to Maine... Curt Gowdy, Jr. has never been to Yellow Knife, Canada... Kevin Mitchell played 6 positions for the Mets in '86 and, according to Doc Gooden's book, didn't like cats... John Olerud & Wayne Gretzky have never been seen in the same place... Kevin McReynolds now makes his living doing laugh tracks for sit-coms... Tony Gwynn is nearing 300 lbs... Carlos Beltran has Mercedes Benz dealerships named for him in Barcelona, Spain... Willie Montanez was called Guillermo by Lenny Randle... Rusty Staub beat Jeff Kent in a race – TODAY... Jay Horwitz is a dynamite Cricket players – somebody said... Jeff Wilpon was a decent minor league catcher... Ziggy Palfy lives in Slovakia and is a big Met fan... Superman Returns, yet still can’t hit Billy Wagner... David Wright will win the Triple Crown – on a horse... Omar Minaya is Tobey McGuire’s stunt-double in Spider Man 3... Hilary Clinton has Mr. Met pajamas – we think... Albert Einstein was a HUGE Met fan... The Metropolitan Opera House was named for the Mets after their 2nd season in ’63... Wally Backman, ’86 sparkplug, considered changing his name to Wally Back-Matt... Neil Allen and Mike Stanton, former Mets, have Allen & Stanton Streets on Lower East Side named for them.
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