Super Bowl 2012, Giants Vs. Patriots: Living With The Enemy

I am extremely lucky my son is a die hard giants fan like me. We both was literally on our knees praying in OT. Hopefully we win this game and then we can celebrate together.

We can help each other prepare for the trash talking that is sure to occur. Its like the fan version of watching film.

I started watching them and became a fan when Parcells went there.
I even tried to become a Jets fan, when he went there but there was just nothing to like.
Stopped trying when he went to the Cowboys.

That said, first and foremost I am a Giants fan and will have NO problem routing against the Pats next Sunday.

Family dinner ought to be a fun one.

My son just covers all bases and pretty much roots for whoever the Giants are playing. We’ve been simming the playoff games on Madden though and I can still beat him, so good omen there.

I can respect the Indians fandom, as one myself, but going over to the evil empire is too much. Sounds like he hopped on the Bradywagon as a kid.

Then I remember that most Pats fans are Red Sox fans and it gets easier to dislike them.

My theory was that there was a generation of people for whom the name Bucky Dent provoked nightmares. In the last few years those demons have largely been exorcised.

That’s why David Tyree had to replace Bucky Dent in Boston legend. Read Bill Simmons or some of the comments that Brady and Kraft have already made about SB42. World class suffering.

All we have to do is beat them again and we’ll really have something.

I know how you feel. My longtime ex-girlfriend was a big sports fan from Boston and therefore a big Red Sox and Pats fan. I was at Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS with her – that was painful.

The mission I have now is ensuring my 10 month old son is a Giants fan, since we live in DC. My dad keeps asking: He’s not going to be a Redskins fan, is he? And we are doing everything we can to prevent that – plenty of Giants paraphernalia in his room.

My mom is from Worcester Mass (grew up going to EVERY pats game in Foxboro during childhood). My dad from Long Island but we now live in Jersey and have had giants tickets for my whole life (I am 22). My younger brother and I are Gmen fans while my sister is a Pats fan with my mom. I was in school last super bowl but now with be able to watch with my father (I graduated last year). They literally watched the games in separate rooms in 2008 lol.

My Best friend is a due hard Patriots fan and it pisses me off. We talk to each other a lot and work out together so it’s like I live wit the bastard lol. I can’t take how he only compares our recent histories which we hav as many chips as they do and beat them twice once for all the marbles yet he constantly just refers to recent playoff appearances and how we were lucky bc of Tyree. I tell em well Corey fell down on Moss’ TD so that isn’t luck. Pisses me off

But that’s just a halfway measure. Ed has to go full bore and turn the kid’s picture to the wall.
Ed, I feel for you. My kids have always been Giants fans, but two of my grandsons are Eagles fans.
I’ve disowned them.
No halfway measures for me.

Dallas fan for a wife..Eagles fan for a Son…Phillies fan for another…Only two of my boys are rooting for the right teams…Giants and Yankees….I flagged the Eagle fan to his room for excess celebration sitting next to me on the couch…Told him to go watch his TV and do whatever cheering he wanted upstairs..I don’t allow anyone cheering against my Giants or Yankees…They get banished…Everyday when I drop them off at their bus stop..I tell him “Go Giants !!!”…

He’s just in his rebellious years. When he comes to his senses as he gets older, he will regret his misspent youth pining over tommy brady, ( maybe he is pining over Giselle, but that’s another story). In the meantime, while he roots for the Pats and spends your hard earned money on useless Pats gear, just smile and pat him on the head when when the Giants paste the Pats next week. As Mark Twain said
When I was 14 I couldn’t believe how stupid my father was. When I was 21 I couldn’t believe how much my father had learned.

As a Giants fan living in New England I had to prioritize raising my kids as Giants fans. My oldest is in first grade and was the only one not to raise his hand during his class when the teacher asked who was a Patriots fan.

Very proud moment.

Living in Cowboy Territory is no picnic. But I will say that my son does root for the G-Men when they play the pokes, otherwise he is a cowboy fan.

I will say that I had alot of cowboys fans over Sunday, and by the end of the game they were all pulling for NYG. Damn funny, they even asked if they could come back for the Super Bowl

Are like a mutant Hatfield/McCoy Experiment. My dad’s from the Bronx, I was born and raised a Yanks/Giants fan, and my mom’s from CT and her family is all Pats/Sox. My Sister married a Sox/Pats guy from NH, and his family is split down the middle too, with one side from Upstate NY (Yanks/NYG) and the other half from NH (Sox/Pats). On top of that, my sister and I both ended up in MA and I’m dating a Pats/Sox fan. Her Father’s father is a Yankees/Giants fan. Crazy Damn universe, I tell ya.

The Patriots are winning playoff games again, do you think they found a new way to spy?

Or

How do you think Julian Edelman will match up with Victor Cruz?

Or

Ask him if he wants to start Salsa lessons.

Is saying about the Giants recieving core vs Pats. Saying we’re going to pack the middle of the field on Wes Gronk and Hernandez and their outside guys are going to have to win and can they? Where as we hav guys that u hav to play two deep and spread out which opens things up. Very smart guy this Mangini character

Boarding school.

that list of QB’s the Pats have seen in their win streak = pathetic vs what our defense has seen the last 10 weeks

I thought he was a Giants fan, just had fantasy loyalty because of their year. I didn’t realize until he, sitting there drinking MY beer for the super bowl, started rooting for the cheaters! I had that enjoyable last laugh, especially when Bradshaw stole back the fumble he lost in the third period.

My boys live in PA and the mom ruined them, one roots for the Eagles and the other Steelers, which I find obviously more acceptable.

Alot of people are touting their desire to avenge their loss..but they have a problem..Our guys have no intent on letting them do it…We’re going to beat them big time this go-around..

Well…my mother in law knitted Eagles, Giants and a Cowboy quilt for us…I kept the Giants quilt and delivered the others to the ‘Hope Box’ down the road…

for not proper “preaching” your son to be a Giants fan.

this kind of child neglect cannot be overlooked. Both of my boys like both of the teams I care about, the Celtics and the Giants. My oldest one already knows about spewing venom towards the refs if need be. And my youngest has already mastered the art of 4 year old trash talk, ie: rhythmic singing of “The Giants beat the Patriots…The Giants beat the Patriots.” If either of them ever tried to jump ship to another team, to the shrink we go.

…For a team that cruised through one of the easiest roads to the SB imaginable. They only played 3 teams with winning records all year (including the playoffs) and lost to two of them. Of course a team can look good and set statistical records when they play nothing but bad teams all year.

I went to school in Boston so a number of my college friends hopped on the Pats/Sox bandwagons. Even before this year’s SB matchup was decided a Pats fan friend of mine was salivating at the thought of revenge and talking trash saying “THIS TIME ELI DIES” and “We’re going to annihilate you guys!” I’m just keeping quiet and repeating Coughlin’s mantra to them: “Talk is cheap, play the game.” You figure they’d learn after we spoiled a perfect season that no game outcome is a sure thing until the clock runs out?

(also, hi! I lurk a lot but haven’t really posted!)

But we won’t need last minute heroics this time around…

Ed, I’m glad you wrote this post, because I’ve been struggling with the same issue. You see: my girlfriend is an … (gasp) Eagles fan.

I know, I know. But it feels good to admit it.

I live in RI and it’s all Pats all the time up here. Hosted a SB party in ‘08 and was the only Giants fan in my house! The crowd cleared out w/in a minute of the end of the game; didn’t even get in any good trash talking. Now I’m planning another party and won’t care one bit if everyone leaves again w/out throwing out one empty bottle.

…that got such a thrill out of taking pics of the Giants players at camp up in Albany a couple of years ago?

One would think that such an experience might convert him back to Big Blue…

Seriously, though, disowning a child is a lot easier than you’d think.

Are huge Giants fans. They dDidn’t have a choice.

for the next 2 weeks anyway

At least he does not support the Eagles

My wife and son are Patriots fans ( so is my brother in law ). Last time my son upon awakening said that the Giants were going to win by 3 points! When it happened he was upset:; I consoled him and said that the ability to predict the outcome was a gift and we should had placed a Las Vegas bet! He called me last Sunday to contralute and said " the Giants will win again"! When I asked him which team he will root for, he said " I don’t know ". I think the Pats will take it! We beat the Pats the regular season and were beaten by the Packers and 49ners!!!! See what has happened so far!

My wife is a Steelers fan. My son has known, since birth, that girls like the Steelers and boys like the Giants! It’s that easy:)