deadspin.com - 1/21/2008
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Kickers are always complaining that they have too much pressure on them, and that people only notice them when they fail. This is not exactly true; people only notice kickers when they fail and the team loses . Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes missed two potential game-winning field goals yesterday -- one wasn't necessarily his fault -- but when he hit the last one, that's all anyone ...
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Breakfast Club Must’ve Edited Out Osi Umenyiora
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
HOT FOOT BLOG, via DEADSPIN, has the reason we should look to mid-’80s movies for guidance in NFL handicapping:
Speaking of ’80s movies, no matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t find anything about the Bolts-Pats game, except for this:
Subtitle: “The Philip Rivers story“
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Where were those Packers when the Seahawks needed them?
Ted Miller's Sports Rant —
... best playoff performance in an illustrious career. Favre vs. the Giants in zero degrees, however, showed his 38 years, see that terrible interception that set up the winning field goal in overtime. The larger point here is Seahawks fans don't need to panic over the nature of the blowout defeat at Green Bay and imagine the roster needs to be blown up. The distance between the Seahawks and the Packers... and the Super Bowl sacrificial lamb Giants... just isn't that great. ---DeadSpin takes a shot at Favre . ---Enjoy a good cheap shot? Or are you not a sociopath? Anyway. ...
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The New York Giants' 23-20 overtime victory over the Green Bay Packers got a 31.7 overnight rating on Fox, the highest for an NFL conference championship game since 1996. The Giants' win, which set up a Super Bowl matchup with the New England ...