Timeline of a championship season

by Ed Valentine on Mar 5, 2008 6:55 AM EST in New York Giants News

Starting to lose that warm, fuzzy Super Bowl championship glow? Pissed at Gibril Wilson, Kawika Mitchell and Reggie Torbor? Spending too much time wondering what Jerry Reese will do in the upcoming draft?

Well, I'm here for ya, Big Blue View Nation. Here's 3/6/08 */ google_ad_slot = "1 a little help recapturing that magical Super Bowl feeling.

Golfing buddy Bryan, who doubles as 'Greek' for BBV, stumbled across this amazingly comprehensive synopsis of the Giants' season, from off-season questions to Super Bowl glory.

Looking back on how things played out, here are a couple of my favorite tidbits from this piece.

Prior to the season

Clearly, This is a Giant Mistake: Somehow, after a 25-25 record over three seasons, after two first-round playoff losses, after all the dysfunction and discontent and discipline problems on the field and off, all his team's talking the talk and then limping the limp, Coughlin starts talking to his owners about his plan to get to his first Super Bowl and the owners hyperventilate and decide that stability is far more important than mediocrity. Somehow, they extend the coach's contract one more year in the Big Blue belief that his vision of a better tomorrow is a lot less blurry than it turned out to be this season.
-- Source: Steve Serby, New York Post

Before the Super Bowl

There is just no way Eli Manning can beat Tom Brady in the biggest game in the history franchise. There is just no way Tom Coughlin can out coach Bill Belichick. There is just no way NY can beat Boston in anything anymore. The bottom-line is that the Pats are going to stomp on the Giants dick and there is nothing anybody can say or do to change that. In fact I'm so confident in a Pats victory that I already pre ordered thousands of dynasty shirts.
-- Source: Barstool Sports

Patriots' reaction after the game.

Ellis Hobbs: "You set high expectations, but then you go down, and you're 18-1, and that's one big zit. It's one big blemish. We choked. We choked at the end."
-- Source: Boston Globe

This is an amazing read. If you have the time you can get lost in it for hours. Unless you are 'jrs1940' that is. Our pal 'jrs' might not come up for air for days.

Enjoy!

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Fantastic Read

I wish I had thought of that. Reading the progression, and knowing the conclusion to the story was great.

by Woogie526 on Mar 5, 2008 11:29 AM EST reply actions

Ah, absolutely loved it.

Thanks for finding it and putting it up here!

by NYinCalifornia on Mar 5, 2008 1:08 PM EST reply actions

Great

That's great. I'm definitely going to go back when I have more time.

by potroast on Mar 5, 2008 5:25 PM EST reply actions

More about this site

The site says it is a project of FindingDulcinea. I think they're pretty new but I'm seeing the name a lot.

Someone forwarded me this piece on the Manning Dynasty:

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/multi-day/net-profiles/6-The-Mannings.html

They also had a pretty good guide about the Super Bowl, and they were all over town at Christmas handing out printed copies of their New York City guide. It looks like you can find that one the Web, too.

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides.html?topic=/categories/travel/New-York-City-Survival-Guide

Matt

by mattmooney on Mar 6, 2008 1:32 AM EST reply actions

Wow

I am still working my way through this, I'm only on Week 4

The Post columns from Serby are the best:

"Coughlin is not a championship coach", "Keeping Coughlin is a dumb mistake", "Eli is not a winner"

Only Pete Prisco from CBS said the Giants would be more of a team without Tiki, and that they would have a good season

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Mar 6, 2008 9:08 AM EST reply actions

LOL!!

I knew this one would take you a while. I figure you aren't just reading the blurbs. I figure you are going back and re-reading every word of the original articles. Have fun!

by Ed Valentine on Mar 6, 2008 9:29 AM EST up reply actions

Yeah

I am reading every damn article top to bottom

by Jim Schmiedeberg on Mar 6, 2008 3:27 PM EST reply actions

Awesome

I could read that over and over.

I'm allowed to laugh at those quotes because I was wrong about Coughlin too. Right?

by Josh @ Big Blue View on Mar 6, 2008 3:59 PM EST reply actions

you know

We're all allowed like Coughlin now after calling for his head last year. Everyone's said how much he changed this year. There's no shame in wanting the 2006-Tom gone. I wasn't even really on board yet until after the Skins debacle, when it seemed like the play calling was actually changed to go with the new attitude.

And this one cracked me up the most
"Manning did as much as possible to keep the Bills in the game, did everything he could to make the Giants' plight an impossible one. Hell, you half expected him to run off the sideline and tackle Kawika Mitchell on his game-changing interception."

by queler on Mar 7, 2008 2:30 PM EST reply actions