embarrassing myself? i'm not the one calling it one of the best super bowl performances in history. i'm not the one creaming himself over 17 points when their defense held the most prolific offense of all-time to just 14 points. if you want to talk about a great game, let's talk about the giants' front four and secondary, not eli manning. there's a difference between "creaming yourself over 17 points" and giving a man some credit. You'd think that after you just spent the last two months acting like no one could even touch the Patriots that you'd be willing to say a little "well done" instead of acting like a baby. what are you talking about? i said that he played fine. he made a few risky throws that didn't end up costing him; he also made some good plays. i certainly knew that another team could score 17 points on the patriots; i didn't think that a defense could hold them to only 14. i guess i shouldn't expect everyone to understand this, since it's a baseball board, but a lot of the time there are parts of a team, aside from the quarterback, that are the key to winning the game. First off, you can cut it out with the "you must not understand football as well as I do" stuff. If you want to lay claim to NSBB's greatest complainer, that's another story. If the Patriots won, you'd spend the next couple weeks talking about how annoying it is that we have to hear about them all day. Instead, the Giants won and it's instantly "Eli isn't good, you guys are wrong", "oh god tell the dolphins to shut up" "blah, blah, blah". Though, I guess I'd be pissed if I spent the last two months proclaiming the Patriots as the greatest team in NFL history, only to see them get beat by a QB that "is not good". Let's hear some more expert commentary from you.