Giants got a ring; Patriots got Gisele and Gronkowski making fools of themselves

So, I was very happy to see the Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl. And what's happened since then has been even more delicious.

First of, there was Gisele Bundchen having a hissy fit because Giant fans were mocking her husband, Tom Brady, saying that Eli Manning owns him. So a woman who is used to cameras following her every move 24/7 thought it was a great idea to say to her companions that it was his teammates' fault, not him. She said, “You [have] to catch the ball when you’re supposed to catch the ball. My husband cannot [bleeping] throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. I can’t believe they dropped the ball so many times.” She later told Brady, "You played the best game of your life ... you were amazing,” showing that she is as ignorant on sports as she is classless.

Gisele has a history of saying dumb things -- she once said that there should be a law requiring all women to breastfeed, and also described women who gain a lot of weight during pregnancy as "garbage disposals" -- but this takes the cake.  She is another woman with Megan Fox Syndrome, who thinks that because she won the looks lottery, she is also naturally really, really smart. But she's not. Why would a Giant fan yelling about Eli make her throw Patriots players like Wes Welker under the bus? It does not compute.

Somebody asked online whether Brady would say anything to her. Come on now. He wore that dopey Justin Bieber hairstyle last year that she liked, even though it looked so bad on him, even Bieber himself mocked Brady for it. The chances he will chastise Gisele about this are pretty slim.

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Then there is the disaster that was the Patriots' would-be victory party after the loss. Robert Kraft went all-out, having LMFAO, Earth, Wind and Fire, Maroon 5 and DJ Pauly D as entertainment, and inviting Donnie Wahlberg and Steven Tyler as VIPs. Um, did it ever occur to the powers that be that this wouldn't be much of a party if the Patriots lost? This ranks up there with count-your-chickens-before-they're-hatched moves with that 19-0 book ready to go after Super Bowl XLII. To put the Patriots' extravagance in perspective, the Giants had what sounds like a relatively low-key party in a hotel ballroom that only featured a cover band. And they won the game!

While a lot of the big-name Patriots names, including Brady, Bill Belichick, Deion Branch, and Vince Wilfork skipped the soiree, Rob Gronkowski didn't. He, who had a "high ankle strain" that may have contributed to the Patriots losing, danced up a storm and took his shirt off at the party, while bopping around to LMFAO. (And what's up with him taking his top off, anyway? It's not Jersey Shore, after all, even if Pauly was in the house!) Looks like he made a miraculous recovery from that bad ankle, huh?

As Boston blogger Obnoxious Boston Fan put it, he "can only imagine what [Gronk] would have done if they had won." Good question. Sorry, but if athletes want fans to care about their teams, they have to act like they care a bit about what happens, too. Is it really too much to think that dancing around on stage a few hours after your team lost in the Super Bowl isn't quite the best idea ever? Especially when you are supposed to be rehabbing your bad ankle?

I've heard people say that this is a job for the players, so just like in the real world, they're letting off steam. Nonsense. Tell me how it would go over in your workplace if you were seen celebrating without a care in the world right after you helped lose a big account. Heck, Casey Anthony's defense attorneys got (deserved) grief for celebrating after they *won* the case.

I have no problem if Gronkowski et al were drowning their sorrows after the game. The dancing, not so much. But really, the Patriots should have shown some sense in the first place and not arranged such a big party. What is it with New England athletes and inappropriate partying? Between this, and the fried chicken and beer contingent on the Red Sox, all too many of them act like clowns. (Shocking, I know.)

In closing, I will give a little credit to Tom Brady, my least favorite Patriot. At least he actually had the good sense to seem more than a little upset after the loss. As much as I despise him, I can at least respect that. That's more than I can say for Gronkowski.

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Please, Giants! Smash Tom Brady, Bill Belicheat, and the Patriots for Good!

I can't claim to be a real Giants fanatic -- I am basically a free agent football fan -- but I am rooting for them to destroy the Patriots today, like I rooted for Big Blue in Super Bowl XLII. As longtime Squawkers readers know, I can't stand Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the rest of the Patriots. Chad Ochocinco, somebody I used to root for, became dead to me because he joined their team. The Giants have to win, with their ELIte quarterback. Because I cannot deal with hearing about Brady's four rings and all that. I want to hear that the curse of Gisele remains in effect.

It's very exciting in New York today -- my deli even had blue bagels in honor of Big Blue! People are buzzing about the game. It's hard to believe that just a few months ago, Eli Manning was getting ripped to shreds for calling himself an elite quarterback, and Tom Coughlin looked like he could be forced out. Now they're 60 minutes away from a possible fourth Super Bowl for the franchise.

Squawker Jon is all about the curtains in his piece on the game. The thing with the Jets doing the curtains tweak reminded me a little of when the Yanks thought it was a great idea to bring in Bucky Dent to throw out the first pitch in Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS. And how did that work out? Not so well.

Speaking of which, my Red Sox fan friend/longtime Squawker reader Joe had this to say about the media hype:

it was bothering me what the lead up for this game was reminding me of and i couldnt recall - the total piling on of one team, the anointing of one team as totally superior, the massive sense of unfounded entitlement of one team's players and fan base, the utter lack of respect for the opponent when colin cowherd nailed it and it crystallized for me today...this game reminds me of usc vs texas when vince young had his coming out party....admit it.

Yikes!  Funny thing is, I had a similar comparison before Super Bowl XLII, predicting that the Giants would win!

But I do not think the hype is as one-sided as my Patriots fan friend has been saying. I've been hearing a lot of the usual "Brady is a god! Belichick is a genius" nonsense this week, too.

I'm a little nervous, waiting for the game to begin. Please, Giants, New York is counting on you to destroy those beaneaters!

Why I Am Rooting for Tim Tebow Over the Hated Tom Brady and Bill Belichick This Weekend

I make no secret about I can't stand pretty much everything related to Boston and New England. When the commercial says to "Trust the Gorton's Fisherman," I say "No way! He's from Massachusetts!" I also love to hate Tom Brady and Bill (Belicheat) Belichick. It's funny that Brady does Uggs commercials, because that's what I think every time I see him -- ugh!

And Tim Tebow is my favorite NFL player to watch this year. I'm generally pretty cynical about athletes, but he is just so gosh-darn likeable, I cannot help but root for him. And all those come-from-behind wins are nothing to sneeze at, either.

Put those things together, and you have must-see TV tonight. To steal Bart Scott's link, I can't wait to see the Broncos/Patriots game later this evening. And I am going to go out on a limb here, the way I did with Squawker Jon last week on the phone, and say that Denver will win tonight. (I won a $1 from Jon over the Steelers game, but I should have bet that Jon would have to do a Tebowing pose!) While my predictions aren't always right, I did call the Jets' victory over the Pats in the playoffs last year, and the Giants' win over the "19-0" Patriots in the Super Bowl.

What New England reminds me of a little are the Yankees towards the end of the Torre years. Both teams had great dynasties going. Both teams would have impressive regular season records, where they looked pretty dominant, but they would then lose in the postseason again and again.

People talk about New England like they are the best team in football. But the last time they won a Super Bowl was when George W. Bush was getting inaugurated for the second time. The last time the Patriots won a playoff game was in their would-be undefeated season. They lost to the Sanchize and the Jets last year, 28-21, and to the immortal Joe Flacco the year before. But I am supposed to think that there is no way that they can lose today? Sorry, I'm not buying it. The glory days are over, my friend.

So, even though the Patriots are 13-point favorites, I am not counting the Broncos out. New England was nine-point favorites against the Jets last year, and how did that work out in the end?

I am strangely confident in Tim Tebow for this game. There is some sort of magic around him this year. And how great would it be for somebody who emanates such goodness to beat the face of evil? I am imaging Belichick disappearing in a great cloud of black smoke at the end of the game, with the hoodie turning into a cape!

This time around, I don't think even Squawker Jon can root against Tebow. Go Broncos!

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Yeah, baby! Jets destroy the hated Patriots

I'm exhausted from doing the Snoopy Dance last night to celebrate the Jets stomping the Patriots (I'm not agile enough to do the Braylon Edwards backflips, though!) And yes, I did totally call the win.

I haven't as been as excited about a sporting event since the Yankees won the World Series. Granted, I'm not really a Jets fan, but I am a Rex Ryan fan -- and a longtime Bill Belichick and Tom Brady despiser. Not to mention that I dig seeing Red Sox Nation unhappy. So yes, this was great fun to watch. 

And I love, love, love all the trash talk between the two teams. Phil Simms said something after the game about how all the talk this week took away from the game. Are you kidding me? All the trash talk is what made this game such a marquee event! It's entertainment, guys!

The same with Shonn Greene's nap in the end zone, and Rex Ryan roaring down the field over the last touchdown, yelling "Yeah, baby" like he was Austin Powers. But Jim Nantz didn't care for it:

"I've never understood the absurdity of all the self-aggrandizing and now you're going to cost your team 15 yards on the kick and you're going to give Brady and his unit a chance to do something."

Oh, please. That stadium was like a ghost town at that point. Nantz was about the only person who thought the Patriots could "do something" to win the game, being 14 points behind with less than two minutes to go.

And I want more of Bart Scott, please. His postgame interview was epic.

One of my Facebook friends mused last night as to whether Bill Belichick is becoming the new Joe Torre -- great in the regular season; not so great in the playoffs anymore. He has a point. After winning three championships in four years, it's now been six years since the Patriots won a Super Bowl. And they haven't won anything since Spygate, either. Coincidence? I think not.

And Tom Brady, Mr. Postseason, hasn't exactly been bringing it. Bart Scott mocked him in another postgame interview. And the Boston Herald (!) pulled up the stats to show that Bart also had a point:

“This was the quarterback that couldn’t get touched,” Scott said. “(The media) talk all about how great he’s playing, but what Rex (Ryan) pulled out for us was his last three playoff games – what his record was and what his rating was then. He had a 66 quarterback rating in his last four or five playoff games and you guys didn’t believe that. You guys didn’t look deep enough into the notes.” 

Taking Scott’s advice, here is a closer look at Brady’s stats in his last three playoff games:

1/16/11 — 28-21 loss to Jets: 29-45, 299 yards, 2 touchdowns, 1 interception, 89.0 rating

1/10/10 — 33-14 loss to Ravens: 23-42, 154 yards, 2 touchdowns, 3 interceptions, 49.1 rating

2/3/08 — 17-14 loss to Giants: 29-48, 266 yards, 1 touchdown, 0 interceptions, 82.5 rating

Looks like Tom Terrific isn't so terrific as of late. But hey, at least he still has that Uggs endorsement. And the supermodel wife -- unless she dumps him for Mark Sanchez, the new postseason QB hero!

Well, at least Mr. Bundchen has time to go to some more Broadway shows. Maybe instead of watching "Lombardi" during the Jets-Colts game, he should have caught "Jersey Boys" instead?


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Why Reggie Jackson was wrong to compare Tom Brady to Mariano Rivera

Here's something I wanted to weigh in before the Jets-Patriots game is over. Lots of people have noticed how, um, hypocritical it was for career big talker Reggie Jackson to essentially tell the Jets to drink a nice, steaming cup of shut the bleep up. But what bugged me about his ESPN Radio lecture was the fact that he compared Tom Brady to Mariano Rivera:

Jackson also said Jets coach Rex Ryan made a mistake when he questioned Brady's decision to attend the Broadway play "Lombardi" last Saturday instead of watching the Jets' 17-16 wild-card win over the Colts.


"This guy is an automatic Hall of Famer, making fun of him is like making fun of Mariano Rivera," Jackson said. "What are you doing? What are you doing?"

Excuse me? This is insulting to Rivera, someone who has never trash-talked or pointed or shown anything but respect to his opponents.Not to mention that Mo never left his pregnant significant other for a supermodel. He's also not running around with Justin Bieber hair meant for somebody 20 years younger.

No matter how many rings Brady has, he is still a serial tweaker. This is a guy who likes to stick it to his own Boston fan base by wearing a Yankee hat. And he couldn't have been more public in dismissing the opposition than by spending last Saturday night on Broadway going to see "Lombardi" instead of watching the Jets-Colts game. Do you think Tom just happened to go that night because he just wanted to catch a good play? Puh-lease. Don't see why Rex Ryan shouldn't be allowed to note that.

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Call Him Mayor Jinx! Mike Bloomberg sez Jets are going to the Super Bowl

Oh, great. Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the person who jinxed the Yankees' ALCS chances by yakking on his radio show about planning the World Series parade, has done it again. Today, on his weekly WOR radio show, Bloomy said that the Jets are Super Bowl-bound:

"The Jets are going to the Super Bowl. You heard it from me. The Bloomberg prediction,"the mayor said during his radio show.

In an article about Bloomy's comments, the New York Post compares him to Joe Namath guaranteeing that the Jets would win Super Bowl III. Oh, please. As if.

And by the way, even Broadway Joe in his "I want to kiss you, Suzy" phase could have had enough sense not to talk up going to a Broadway show, when most of the city's streets were rendered impassible thanks to the city's ineptness during last month's blizzard.

It wasn't enough that Bloomberg jinxed the Yankees with his parade-planning talk (and besides, what the heck was he talking about regarding planning a parade route. It's called the Canyon of Heroes for a reason -- the ticker tape parades do the same route every time!) Now he's done it with the Jets.

Yeah, yeah, I know I also predicted that the Jets would be going to the Super Bowl -- and even went as far to say they would win -- but I at least was right when I went out on a limb to say that the Giants would beat the Patriots in a Super Bowl. When has Bloomy ever been right on his sports predictions?

I'll let Jet fan Squawker Jon have the last word. He sez that the fact that both myself and Bloomberg think the Jets are Super Bowl-bound shows that we aren't really Jets fans. And given the worrisome comments I've seen from Gang Green fans on the blog over the past week, he might have a point!

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Squawker Lisa sez J-E-T-S are headed to the Super Bowl

I've been saying to Jet fan Squawker Jon for months now that I thought the Jets were going to win the Super Bowl this year. And now the Jets are one step closer to doing so, in getting revenge against the Colts for last year's playoff defeat. Bring on the Patriots, and Tom Brady's dopey Justin Bieber hairdo!

Anyhow, I forget which game this was after, but it was one of those come-from-behind, last-minute victories that the Jets had a lot of this year. I told Jon, to his cringing, that his team reminded me of the 2009 Yankees, with all their walkoff wins. I also said that much like the Yanks triumphed over the Angels in the postseason, that the Jets would get revenge against the Colts.

There's a certain magic you can sense with some teams. Jon and I were in the house for the very first Yankee pie-throwing, and you could feel that the 2009 Yanks were something special. I've had the same feeling for a while now with the Jets, although there have been a few pitfalls along the way, like that humiliation at the hands of the Patriots. For what it's worth, I also predicted the Giants would beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl, so I have that going for me.

So now the Jets have done part of what I had predicted, with their last-minute victory last night against Indianapolis. Now it's time for the Jets to stand up for New York and shut up Red Sox Nation by beating the Patriots. Besides, Bill Belicheat needs to be put in his place.

Longtime Squawker readers know I don't really have a set football team to root for, especially now that the manipulative Jeff Fisher has gotten his way and forced my man Vince Young off the Titans. But I do want the Jets to win this year. And not only that, I can visualize it happening.

Jon doesn't like me talking so brash about the Jets' chances. I don't know if it's that he thinks I'm a jinx, or that 40+ years of playoff futility has shut his mouth about his team. But I do think this is the Jets' year, where they make opponents feel the agony of defeat -- or is that "the feet"?

On another note, check out Jimmy Fallon's "tribute" to this year's NFL season: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - Pro Bowl Shuffle (1/7/11) - Video - NBC.com

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Story of the week::Justin Bieber disses Tom Brady for stealing his hairdo

Squawker Jon told me yesterday about how Justin Bieber made fun of Tom Brady for stealing his hairdo, but I thought it would be too good to be true. Thankfully, it really happened!

The teenage pop star rapped under the moniker "Shawty Mane" this week in this video, and here's what he said about the Patriots quarterback stealing his infamous hairstyle:

"Sacked like a sacker. Call up Mr. Brady. Tell him to leave his hair to the guy who sings ’Baby.’"

Love it!

Brady claimed he didn't know who Bieber was. I don't believe him.

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Whose hairstyle is worse -- Tom Brady's or Jan Brady's?

CBS Sports' Charlie Casserly claims that there's a hair-raising reason Randy Moss got traded from the New England Patriots -- Moss reportedly said Tom Brady's goofy new hairdo made the quarterback look like a girl. Please, oh, please, let this story be true!


Casserly reported on NFL Today:

"One of Brady's problems with Moss was his behavior as a Patriot," said Casserly. "One of the things overheard was Brady telling Moss, 'You've got to cut your beard.' And Moss counters, 'You've got to get your hair cut. You look like a girl.'" 

You can watch this report here from NFL Today (the best part is the uproarious laughter in the studio after Casserly reports this.)

I try not to comment on players' physical appearance, but Tom's Justin Bieber hairdo needs a hair-intervention. It's the most ridiculous hairstyle on a Brady since Jan Brady wore that black wig on "The Brady Bunch" back in the day. Only thing is, her siblings told her she looked dopey with the "New Jan Brady" wig.

On the other hand, Tom's wife Gisele Bundchen is the one who pushed this ridiculous style on her hubby. Why? Is she trying to keep every other woman in the world from finding her husband attractive?

And if this story about the Moss-Brady confrontation is true, where does Brady get off complaining about Moss' beard, and telling him to cut it? Is the Patriots' QB -- who roots for the Yankees, by the way -- taking his Yankee fandom so far that he wants to institute a hair code for his team? If so, he really needs to take a look in the mirror, and see that his own hair would be banned in Yankeeland.

What happens if the Patriots don't make the playoffs because of Moss' absence? How silly will that be if this story is true, that Moss is gone because he dared to criticize what pretty much everybody else in America acknowledges -- that Tom Brady needs a haircut! When I saw Bill Simmons speak last week, he brought up Brady's hair several times, and mocked the 'do (more like a don't!)

Whose hairstyle looks dumber -- Tom Brady's or Jan Brady's? Tell us about it!