I Love Sports / Moving Pictures

The Giants won the Superbowl. On his radio show, Michael Kay says that a game like the one we all saw on Sunday is the reason we keep coming back to sports. We go through all the BS like steroids, criminal accusations, gambling, and so on ... for a day like Sunday. He compares the 2007 Patriots to my beloved Yankees. The Patriots are now the "Evil Empire" and everyone rooted for them to fail just like everyone roots for the Yankees to go down. The Patriots are now part of a small group of teams where anything but winning is failure. The only way they can improve from this season is to win it all next year.

As for the Giants, I'd like to thank them for a few things like entertaining me during this very tough time. Without all my favorite shows on TV anymore, it was thoughtful of Eli and the gang to compensate for the big void in my life. Thank you for Week 17's thriller where they proved to us -- and especially to themselves -- that they can go toe-to-toe with the Pats. And those games against the Cowboys and the Packers? Fughetaboudit! Thank you for reminding me why I love sports. Although I didn't like all the Jessica Simpson bullshit. That was just annoying.


Anyways, let's post some videos!



My friend Ahmed finally posted some videos on Youtube. The first one is hilarious. It's a video of a strange girl who does amazing things on a snowboard ... by accident. Check it out! For my iPhone readers, click this.




A few days ago, I was looking at a Facebook invite to compete in an eating competition, and it had a video posted on the invite. The video has a special someone in it. Those of you who know him will instantly recognize his face. He's a good friend of mine, and he loves Allen Iverson. By the way, the people in this video are all weaksauce. I can down 8 in 1 minute easily (without agua, obvi). For my iPhone thugs, click this.




This last one is an extremely strange video that has one dude rapping and it's apparently all improvised. However, a reliable source has told me that only the audio portion was improvsed. It was recorded during a freestyle session with two unknown wannabe's. Then one of them attempted to lipsync both parts and made a video out of it. Obviously it was too difficult for him to lipsync the entire song, so he went all PowerPoint on us. Enjoy! For my iPhone gangstaz, click this.

Update: Okay, it's 9:02AM and I just viewed this post from my iPhone to test the iPhone-specific links that I made. I lowered the volume on my phone first. Then I tried the video from Ahmed. After it loaded, Ahmed's "Here comes Anna Lai!" was heard by at least 3 other people, including my boss! But I managed to stop it before it kept going. Phew!

Remember, lowering your ringer volume doesn't mean it'll lower the iPod volume.

Dumb.

I think there's a game on Sunday

Giants vs. Patriots.

Blah blah blah.

At this point, I'm sure we all know what's going on with the Superbowl. All the media coverage has everybody talking like he/she is one of ESPN's 3,000 NFL analysts or something. Seriously though, they have too many analysts for the NFL, but they have one guy covering hockey. There should be no hockey coverage at all. Sorry to every hockey fan I know. All two of you.

Anyway, there are plenty of questions heading into this Sunday's game. Will the Pats go undefeated? Will the Giants upset them? Will Plaxico's prediction come true? Will I finally trim my pubes?

My answer to Plaxico is: highly unlikely, dumbass. All I hope for is a great game, awesome commercials, and food. I'm not sure where I'll be watching it, but I have a feeling that there'll be an Unofficial Superbowl Party @ Club 501 (yes, I live at an actual club).

To my readers who are also my friends: If you want to come, bring something. Chips, dip, drinks, real food, cuffs, cups, plates, girls, chairs, hookah, etc.

I also want to announce that I've had a great hair week. How did I come up with that conclusion? Well, I had 2 awesome hair days, and 2 good ones. Today is a pretty good hair day as well. Thus, they all add up to a great hair week.

Oh wait, sorry. Back to the topic. Yeah, below is my prediction. I've studied all the tapes, looked at the numbers, read all the reports, ran hundreds of simulations; I know what I'm talkin' about, baby.

Giants beat Patriots 35-32

Okay fine. That's what I want to happen. I'm sorry if I just want to see an insane upset. I want to witness the Pats cry because the 18 previous games mean nothing unless they win the 19th. I want to see a New York parade so that it messes up Super Tuesday (I accidentally watched The Today Show). I want to see back-to-back Superbowl wins from the Manning brothers. I want Gisele Bundchen.

Here's my actual prediction:

Patriots beat Giants something-something

Edit: Speaking of ESPN NFL analysts, I just found this on Digg. It's a video of Chris Berman flipping out and going nuts on his studio crew. Awesome. I forgot to actually digg it, so someone digg it for me. Thanks.



Clarification: One of our angry readers by the name of mur has left a comment stating that 32 points is an impossibility. I would like to take this opportunity to concede that the 35-32 prediction was a prediction made by a guest on Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio. I simply copied it. I apologize for taking credit for it.

Also, 32 points is NOT impossible:

4 TD's + 2 safeties = 32
4 TD's + 2 point conversion + 1 field goal = 32

I'll stick to the 35-32 prediction, Mr. Gleezy - oops, I meant mur.