Simmons: 'Free fallin' out into nothing'
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Super Bowl 42---The National Take
Published 2/4/2008 by Memphis Bengal at Sports Frog
... Belichick had NO faith in Gostkowski. Or his defense for that matter (what is it, about a ten yard difference in field position if he misses?). But at that point, the way the game had played out, I thought there was a far better chance for Gostkowski to make that kick then convert the first down. And, yeah, New England probably could have used the possible three points later on. Bad move. Bad call.
And, if you were looking forward to the Bill Simmons morning after column, it's here:
"This time around, we were the Rams. We were rooting for the unlikable ...
Blog Roundup
Published 2/4/2008 by World of Isaac at The World of Isaac
The roundup is sponsored by Danica Patrick. IF you want a link included, email me. Bill Simmons takes his lumps {ESPN Page 2} Belichick suspended for one year? {Rotoworld} Further proof, Jeremy Shockey is a loser {Sportsbybrooks} Top 13 consolations for Patriots fans {Epic Carnival} Tiger Woods isnt human {The Big Lead} Mercury Morris cried? Another edition of the annoying '72 Dolphins {The Meaningful Collateral}
Morning Coffee Loves Unforgettable Championships
Published 2/4/2008 by HornsFan <burntorangenation@gmail.com> at Burnt Orange Nation: Front Page Posts
... to worry about the meaningfulness of the regular season, but for the life of me, I cannot get this argument. If you take the number of games which become "meaningless" (because, presumably, one team has already locked itself into a playoff berth), and the number of games which have added import (because one or both teams are fighting for a playoff berth), I'm certain you'll find far more of the latter. Unforgettable. The one bit of Bill Simmons' 'Whoops' column that stood out to me? ...
Patriots Links for Monday 2/4
Published 2/4/2008 by MichaelMcCoy <info@patspulpit.com> at Pats Pulpit: Front Page Posts
ESPN's Bill Simmons does a pretty good job of capturing the feelings of a Patriots fan right now. The Globe's Jackie MacMullan laments that the ...
Audibles at the Line: Super Bowl XLII
Published 2/4/2008 by Doug Farrar at Football Outsiders
... is currently the #16 book on Amazon (and has been for at least the last 8 hours). All those sales will be refunded, of course. * I can’t believe how well the majority of Patriot fans are taking this loss. Even Bill Simmons is gracious in defeat. :: ...
Monday Morning Super Blizzard
Published 2/4/2008 by Pacifist Viking at Pacifist Viking
... Sunday at a time (revisited)" (pro-football-reference.com blog) "Audibles at the Line: Super Bowl XLII" (Football Outsiders) This should be one of your must-read articles today. "Sales Genie: Racists" (MVN Outsider) Found via Ballhype. At some point in the night I said to my wife, "I keep wondering how many of these commercials are vaguely racist." "'Free Fallin' out into Nothin'" (Bill Simmons) Everybody on the internet is looking forward to this column, right? ...
There was a particularly important game of football last night
Published 2/4/2008 by PostmanE at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
... – The talk at the day job today has been the defensive mastery on both sides of the ball. While that’s partially true, watching last night I didn’t feel like I was watching a defensive test of wills. I felt like I was watching two teams play relatively conservative football. Without sounding too much like Bill Simmons this morning (whose column does the graceful loser bit quite well, actually), where did the aggressive, let’s-see-if-you-can-stop-this Patriots offense go? When did the screen pass become such a regular part of their ...
Super Bowl link dump
Published 2/4/2008 by ETVal <info@bigblueview.com> at Big Blue View: Front Page Posts
... New England Patriots' fans everywhere are stunned today. ESPN's Bill Simmons offers up a pretty typical reaction. Over at ...
Create The Caption #158
Published 2/4/2008 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... CJTaKoZ "Would somebody tell this fat ass that I am not Chris Tucker and I won't get him into Rush Hour 4!"- Anon "How the heck did this fat, bald guy ever nail Natalie Gulbis?"- Anon _______________________________________ Are you funny enough to create a caption for this photo of National Hero Eli Manning? Daily Links: Stalking in Arizona (The Sporting Blog) Someone Talk Bill Off The Ledge (ESPN 2) Get Well Soon Len (Pro Football Talk) ...
Game Prediction Wrong, Simmons Prediction on the Money
Published 2/4/2008 by Dave H at Pink Hat Nation
... It's just all too easy. Two posts down it was prognositcated that BS would reference his lucky Welker jersey and the Larry Bird Celtics in his next column. Per today's ESPN Sports Guy column: ...
An Open Letter to Bill Simmons, From My Giants-Fan Buddy, Rendhel
Published 2/4/2008 by Matt at DGDB&D: a Texans blog.
... After a year of reading nothing but Patriots/Brady fellating from you, you have the audacity to write THAT as your post-Superbowl column? Where’s the mea culpa on Eli? Where’s the “sky is falling” commentary? Where’s the acknowledgment that the Giants literally beat the crap out of the Patriots? ...
Those were good times
Published 2/4/2008 by bh at Mile High Ramblings
Remember when Bill Simmons was kind of funny? That seems like a long time ago. Now he's not funny, not clever, and a little too self-important . There are waaaaaaaaaaaayy too many "we"'s in his Super Bowl column. Favorite part-of-the-team-fan nonsense quotes: You bleed for your team, No, you don't. They bleed for their team. Of course, there's one catch: You might never get there. There's actually no chance you will get there...because you are a fan. I took the approach of "we didn't deserve to win, we sucked, we choked and I'm not getting distraught over this when the city ...
Boston Fans, Still Struggling The Day After [Sad Pats Fans]
Published 2/4/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... After reading Bill Simmons' magnanimous column this morning, we were began to feel vaguely sympathetic to Boston fans. (Though the biggest revelation from his column is that, had the Patriots won, Simmons had set up to hang out with Tom Brady in his private entourage party room afterwards. The Giants winning might have saved Simmons career; that column might have been the one that finally sent people over the edge.) ...
High Five
Published 2/4/2008 by Fornelli at Foul Balls
... ] I'd like to feel bad for Bill Simmons, but I can't. [ Sports Guy's World ] This was obviously lost in the Super Bowl shuffle yesterday, and although I'm happy for Art Monk finally getting in, I still wish they'd let Richard Dent in. [ ...
Free Fallin’ Out Into Nothing
Published 2/5/2008 by Doug Farrar at Football Outsiders
Free Fallin’ Out Into Nothing We kinda missed the MMQB morning link with all the server problems, but here’s what I think is a very well-written and gracious article by Bill Simmons. As a Seattleite who didn’t have a dog in this hunt, I’m just happy that the predominant sentiment seems to be that the Giants won, not that the Patriots lost. I was worried that it would go the other way, which would have been a cruel disservice to Big Blue. posted 2-4-2008 at 7:24 PM by ...
Bucket Blogging: An Emotionally Difficult Day for Us Both
Published 2/5/2008 by Joey at Straight Bangin'
... Well, I went to his column and was greeted with more of the same. None of it was too noteworthy. Then, I came to #2 on his cute little list of eight things he will forever remember about yesterday’s game(emphasis added): ...
Super Bowl Hangover - What They're Saying
Published 2/5/2008 at End Zone Buzz
... - Bill Simmons, ESPN.com: "Everything you need to know about Super Bowl XLII happened on the Miracle Play To Be Named Later - you know, the third down on the do-or-die drive when Eli Manning ripped himself away from the entire Patriots defensive line (THEY HAD HIS JERSEY!!!!!!) and threw a pass that hung in the air forever like one of those sports movie passes, and even though David Tyree and Rodney Harrison had an equal chance of getting it, Tyree jumped a little bit higher, hauled in the football, trapped it against his helmet and somehow held on while ...
The Morning Tailgate
Published 2/5/2008 at STLSportsMag
When you woke up this morning didn't it just feel like a big day? I don't even think it has anything to do with the actual act of voting so much as it does the name - Super Tuesday. The more I think about it, the more I'm an advocate of coming up with nicknames for all days. Surely we've got 350 adjectives that we can assign to random non-holidays. ESPN has been trying to push this trend for years with names like Big Monday and frankly I'm on board. Rolling out of bed on plain old Wednesday sucks. Rolling out of bed on Ginormous Wednesday feels like something important is going to happen. Oh yeah, get out and vote. Remember a few months ago when there were some rumblings of the ...
Daily Links - SB XLII Should Teach Broncos Patience
Published 2/5/2008 by Kyle at BroncoTalk
... Bowl XXXII with interviews from the players. They concluded the series by talking to John Elway. [DenverBroncos.com]
Randy Gradishar talks about another disappointing year as a finalist. [Denver Post]
Gary Zimmerman knew he was elected for all of an hour before questioning why in the world he’ll only be joining Elway as a Bronco in the Hall. [Rocky Mountain News]
Oh… poh wittle baby. [ESPN Page 2]
Bob Knight Retires
Published 2/5/2008 by Sturminator at Bob's Blog - Live from Lewisville
... said. Dunk O Meter Top 10 …and the highest ranking Maverick… 1 Dwight Howard C ORL 169 2 Amare Stoudemire C PHO 108 3 Tyson Chandler C NO 104 4 Shawn Marion PF PHO 104 5 Andrew Bynum C LAL 88 6 Samuel Dalembert C PHI 79 7 Yao Ming C HOU 75 8 Carmelo Anthony SF DEN 73 9 David Lee PF NY 71 10 Ronnie Brewer SG UTA 69 45 Erick Dampier C DAL 35 Further Super Bowl follow-up… Bill Simmons comes through in defeat …poor sports guy… Over the weekend, I ...
Super Bowl XLII: Bill Simmons Is Still Alive
Published 2/5/2008 at FakeTeams
... Yesterday he posted his Super Bowl recap article, which was surprisingly gracious. He compared his fellow Patriots fans to the cocky Rams fans that watched their team choke away Super Bowl XXXV to the Patriots seven years ago and congratulated the Giants fans on their big win. ...
ESPN.com's Bill Simmons Puts His Cursed Randy Moss Jersey Up for Auction
Published 2/6/2008 by Ryan Wilson at FanHouse
... Well, not only did Simmons take his medicine (promptly too), he's trying to turn a terrifically demoralizing loss into a positive. First, some background ...
Published 2/6/2008 by thecincinattikid at Sedition in Red Sox Nation
... This retrospect on what it felt like to see the undefeated Patriots fall apart in Arizona has to be my favorite Simmons column of all time now. One thing I'm not entirely sure of, as I talk about this loss with my friends who root for the Patriots, is whose fingerprints are on this spectacularly offensive offensive collapse. It's easy to blame McDaniel, but didn't Belichick promote him because he was an unknown and could serve as a strawman enabling Belichick to have even more control over the team? It seems like the arrogant game plan that seemed to be governed by the premise ...
Bill Simmons, Your Tears Are So Delicious
Published 2/6/2008 by larry b at Fire Jay Mariotti
You know what I'm referring to. Maybe if he hadn't spent the last five months writing intolerable Patriots column after intolerable Patriots column, he wouldn't have forced me into eff-you Cobra Kai mode. Alas- this is the end result of that sequence of events. And I'm going to enjoy it. ...
Bill Simmons Sells Cursed Randy Moss Jersey on eBay
Published 2/6/2008 by Jesse Pugh at Comcast SportsNet » Wicked Good Sports
... If you’re a regular Bill Simmons reader then you couldn’t of missed his column from Monday. In the column Simmons mentions inexplicably forgetting to pack his lucky Wes Welker jersey before heading off to the Superbowl in Glendale. While at the game he apparently attempted to make things right by purchasing a Randy Moss jersey as a replacement. Needless to say, that didn’t go so well. ...
I'm Not Bitter About The Giants Win As Much As The Praise Of Eli
Published 2/7/2008 by Luol Dang! at The Smittblog
... I need to start saying that I'm really not making excuses here for the Pats. Simmons really summed up well the feelings I have about the Pats in that they didn't really show that much excitement or grit and were overconfident coming into the game. I'm not sure how it translated onto TV, but it was clear that the Giants came out on every play like they were shot out of a cannon while the Pats looked like they were just biding their time (and it almost worked!). The Pats performance was so lackluster and unimaginative that I felt like we were watching the Kansas City Chiefs or ...
Bronx Banter: 19 18 (and one)
Published 2/7/2008 at Baseball Toaster
... , meanwhile the almost exclusively indulgent Bill Simmons was able to step back and notice the strong parallels between the Giants' upset and the then-underdog Patriots' upset of the Rams six years ago. Simmons, who attended the game with his dad, concluded his column thusly: The last thing we heard as we were walking (OK, hustling) out of the stadium right after the final play . . . was the sound of euphoric Giants fans chanting, "Eighteen and one! Eighteen and one! Eighteen and one!" Yes, it's safe to say the Boston-New York rivalry has been taken to new heights. As a ...
Bill Simmons’ Ill-Fated Randy Moss Jersey For Sale on Ebay
Published 2/7/2008 by Craig at FilteringCraig
... Bill Simmons was at the Super Bowl and he forgot to pack his lucky Wes Welker jersey. (New England fans, you can blame him for bringing bad luck to the team, if you want.) So, he decided to spend $85 on a Moss jersey for the game and it then became famous in his post-Super Bowl column. ...
