Who are you going to root for in the playoffs?

by mangold'sbeard on Jan 20, 2012 10:12 AM EST

Who are you going to root for out of the remaining teams? Or should I rephrase, who are you going to hate less?

People keep asking me who I want to see win the Super Bowl out of the remaining teams. I'm having a really hard time answering that and wondered how you guys were feeling. I admit that most of my feelings are centered around legitimizing the respective QB in the eyes of ordinary fans and how that would make me feel.

Patriots- Can't stand em! I want them to fall on their face, have their defense exposed and watch Brady cry. However, Brady/Belichick are already enshrined into the HOF so what's another SB win?

Ravens-- Hate them and their purple uni's. I can't wait for Ray Lewis to retire, and I'm so sick of hearing about how him and Ray Rice are friends...Who Cares?????!!! I hope Ed Reed's comments shot through that locker room like a Holmes cancer. And most importantly I can't stand the thought of Flacco (and that stupid mustache) winning. I would still take Sanchez over him any day.

49ers- Eh. Defense wins Championships??? Can the game manager Alex Smith defy expectations? I could care less about them and would hate to see Smith legitimized with a Super Bowl. He doesn't deserve it.

Giants- Screw em. I wouldn't be able speak to certain parts of my family for months if they won (they are so cocky). And most importantly it would put Eli on another level that I don't want him to ever get too. All the 'who is better Peyton v Eli' talk would be out of control. Just because Eli has another SB win doesn't make him better. The Eli-te talk would be so unbearable, I'd be puking multiple times a day.

With the Ravens and 49ers, I am split. I feel like seeing a 'game manager' type QB would prove that the Jets have a winning formula, however to see one of them actually do it (and not us!) is like nails on the chalk board.

I can't root for the Giants.

I HATE the Pats, but feel like them winning won't change the dynamics of the league. It would meet peoples expectations, not change them. But they are the Pats and I can't root for them.

In the end, I guess (and I just came to this conclusion) I'm rooting for the 49ers, because they aren't an AFC rival that I hate and I hate them least.

Who are you going with?

Poll

Who do you hate less?

Giants

13 votes

49ers

42 votes

Pats

9 votes

Ravens

11 votes

75 votes | Poll has closed

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Harbaugh Bowl

Wouldn’t mind seeing the Giants win though. I actually enjoy watchingthat team play. I love Eli, and I think he’s the ballsiets guttiest mofo slinging the rock out there, and I LOVE how he’s sticking it to all those that doubted him back in the day. I also love watching JPP and Osi play ball, really like watching Bradshaw too. You can throw Kiwi in with the crowd at the end there as well.

But I really really dig that Niner defense. Those boys get after it. Still wish we traded the draft for Aldon Smith.

by Crackback on Jan 20, 2012 10:49 AM EST reply actions

+23

except that I totally would mind seeing the Giants win the SB. I used to root for them when the Jets were out, but in the last few years the NY Press (e.g. Fat Franny and co.) and a lot of their fans have helped me to change my mind.

by Buzzy on Jan 20, 2012 12:26 PM EST up reply actions

Shaun Ellis

As much as i want to see the Pats lose, I have a ton of respect for Ellis and want to see him win.

That being said i’d rather the Pats lose over Ellis winning

by jetsmets65 on Jan 20, 2012 10:58 AM EST reply actions

I like the Giants

they’re typically who I follow after the Jets are eliminated.

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by Bro Namath on Jan 20, 2012 11:06 AM EST reply actions

I'm fine with the Giants too.They're a class organization with ultra long standing fans for generations.

Not at all like the Yankee-Met hatred at least what I’ve seen over about 4 decades.

by Putnan Prince on Jan 20, 2012 8:55 PM EST up reply actions

Before anything else

I am a New Yorker…
The Jets are my team but new york is my home…and Im going for the home team
GIANTS…

That being said the deeper the Patriots go the worst their Draft Pick is…I know I know that does not count for much but something is something

by willmpk on Jan 20, 2012 11:22 AM EST reply actions

This is a confusing one for me...

I absolutely want the Pats to lose. Normally I would root for the Giants but for some reason I don’t want to see Brandon Jacobs winning anything and I don’t like Tom Coughlin (no real reason…I just don’t). In the end I’m kind of expecting a Harbaugh Bowl like Crackback said…I’ve actually been telling people that all week at work. So my answer is that for the sake of parity I am actually hoping the Ravens win…that’s pretty strange considering I’m a Yankees fan too.

by Mac N Cheese on Jan 20, 2012 12:05 PM EST reply actions

49ers please

this team plays the same type of football as us so it would justify our team more

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i want jeffery in green at pick 16

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by tinley24 on Jan 20, 2012 2:10 PM EST reply actions

You don't think Baltimore fits that category as well?

by mangold'sbeard on Jan 20, 2012 2:22 PM EST up reply actions

yeah but i think the 49ers have shown how you can turn a bad qb around

its for that reason they get my vote

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by tinley24 on Jan 20, 2012 4:50 PM EST up reply actions

I could care less about them and would hate to see Smith legitimized with a Super Bowl. He doesn’t deserve it.

I don’t agree. I think Smith is completely legitimized with a Super Bowl. He made all the plays last week when his team
s back was to the wall. I think he’s getting past the game manager title.

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by John B on Jan 20, 2012 2:58 PM EST reply actions

I guess...

But getting to be legitimate in the eyes of the fans and the media is one thing. Getting past ‘game manager’ is a whole different story. I feel like I heard them call Ben Roethlisberger a game manager this year (still).
Smith getting a SB win is going to be comparable to …say, Trent Dilfer-yes he’s legit, but he is not an superior QB.
In the end its about me being jealous. I want to see Sanchez win a SB and argue his is better than a game manager. Not Smith. (wah)

by mangold'sbeard on Jan 20, 2012 3:08 PM EST up reply actions

I dunno that Smith is bad.

And still wonder “what could have been” if he’d had more stability.

Football really is about elements coming together and sometimes all it takes is one change to turn something mediocre into something awesome. Sometimes guys that stink in a place or system thrive in others. It’s all about a precarious “right combination” and I think Alex Smith is in the midst of it right now.

He’s certainly not “elite” but I believe he’s much better than “game manager.”

by cult hero on Jan 20, 2012 8:06 PM EST up reply actions

The Ravens are my #2 team.

I also don’t see how any real football fan would want Ray Lewis to retire. You are watching the most complete, and probably best middle linebacker of all time. Even in his ‘old age’, he has still been a regular top 5-10 finisher in most categories for his position. When he retires, football loses one of its most exciting defensive players to watch.

by SioneBAAOOOHA on Jan 20, 2012 3:06 PM EST reply actions

I guess we have a difference of opinion. I don’t have another team I root for. Just the Jets. And while Lewis is extraordinary, there are plenty of extraordinary players in the NFL. But I don’t root for them bc they aren’t Jets. (Plus, its not like I said I wanted him to die or something!) And honestly, you’re right, I’d rather him stay in the NFL and the Jets crush him, then him retire a SB winner.

by mangold'sbeard on Jan 20, 2012 3:36 PM EST up reply actions

No matter what he's done on a football field he is a freakin' murderer who got away with it.Someday

he’ll be in a cell for something else after he retires which couldn’t be freakin ’soon enough for me.Hopefully he winds up right next to OJ.

by Putnan Prince on Jan 20, 2012 9:02 PM EST up reply actions

I'm just gonna eat chicken wings and whatever happens happens

by CervezaVerde on Jan 20, 2012 3:16 PM EST reply actions

49ers

The Raven’s ain’t bad but I’m bitter they killed us this year, the Giants and their fans are annoying beyond belief and the Patriots are obviously ~~awful, horrible, deplorable human beings~~ my favorite team in the world.

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by NYJALLFINGDAY on Jan 20, 2012 3:27 PM EST reply actions

Giants

I like the Giant because they have the second best coach in the league behind BB.

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by oneg82 on Jan 20, 2012 3:51 PM EST reply actions

There is literally no reason for hating the 49ers.

They have the Coach Of The Year, and they are like our team last year.

The Jets will win the Super Bowl one day and that will be the day i laugh in your face if your not a Jets fan.

by sanchise6 on Jan 20, 2012 5:29 PM EST reply actions

The Jets

Oh, wait, that’s right they were eliminated.

Well my 2nd favorite team is GB and they choked. My 3rd favorite has a rising potential HOF QB, but they didn’t make it either (Panthers).

I absolutely HATE the Midgets, Patriots and the Ravens, so definitely not any of them.

While the Jets were sitting home during the playoffs in the 80s and maybe early 90s, Joe Cool (Montana) and Steve Young were fun to watch and they usually beat the team I hate more than any other…the Dallas Cowboys, so this is an easy one…the 49ers.

I waited to vote until after I posted. LOL! Looks like most everyone picked the Niners.

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by joeklecko on Jan 20, 2012 6:38 PM EST reply actions

Eli isn't better.

Anyone who argues any other way is a moron, period.

If Eli goes down, the Giants still do WAY better than 2-14 and the ENTIRE STAFF doesn’t get canned at the end of the season. Frankly, I think if Peyton deserved MVP any year, it’s this year.

(I voted 49ers. They’re my NFC team and they drafted my favorite college QB this year. Oh yeah, and since my wife’s a Stanford Alum, I’m a big Harbaugh fan.)

by cult hero on Jan 20, 2012 8:02 PM EST reply actions

Anybody but NEW ENGLAND!

Let's Make sure we play like the f***in NEW YORK JETS
and not some f***in slapd**k team!

by jets4life24 on Jan 20, 2012 11:48 PM EST via mobile reply actions

Amen.

Starting to warm up to the once hated Giants, if for no other reason than they flat out own New England. And I love the fact the Patriots haven’t won a title since they got caught cheating.

by nationalist88 on Jan 21, 2012 4:36 PM EST up reply actions

49ers

I want Alex Smith to say with the Lombardi Trophy in hand “You all called me a bust and now Im Super Bowl Champion….BITCH!”

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by BlueChill on Jan 21, 2012 8:58 AM EST reply actions

+1

by ahaigh on Jan 21, 2012 4:37 PM EST up reply actions

I know this is a terrible thing to say...

But I’m honestly considering rooting for the Pats if it’s a Giants-Pats SB. Here in CT, everyone is split between Pats-Jets-Giants, but most are Giants fans. I cannot stand them this year for some reason and the bandwagonning is getting so bad. Still not sure, but considering.

by JetKing55 on Jan 21, 2012 12:43 PM EST reply actions

Someone get a rope

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by Bro Namath on Jan 21, 2012 3:00 PM EST up reply actions

YOu don't understand how bad it gets dude...

But ya, I still will probably end up going for Tommy to break his leg.

by JetKing55 on Jan 21, 2012 3:18 PM EST up reply actions

Giants

I like the Giants, first, because as many of you have said, they’re from NY and a classy organization. But also because I think they have a better chance to beat the pats.

I’m from NJ but living in Boston, and would love nothing more than for NE to lose again. All these Pats fans piss the shit out of me with all their feet jokes and saying tebow is better than Sanchez.

by ahaigh on Jan 21, 2012 4:36 PM EST reply actions

Here is what i say to the feet jokes:

You’re right. His feet walked over the Chargers, Colts, and Patriots in the playoffs. He took the team to 2 AFC Championships with an above average QB and a horrible offensive Coordinator, and built the best Defense in Football.

The Jets will win the Super Bowl one day and that will be the day i laugh in your face if your not a Jets fan.

by sanchise6 on Jan 21, 2012 6:47 PM EST up reply actions