Who Are You Rooting For in Super Bowl XLVI?
by John B on Feb 3, 2012 2:18 PM EST
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You have to pick in this post. You cannot root for both teams to lose. You cannot root for a meteor to hit the stadium. Which team are you rooting for Sunday in Super Bowl XLVI?
I will be pulling for the Giants just because I view the Patriots as a much bigger and more bitter rival. My dislike for an opponent the Jets see twice a year with plenty of players, coaches, and front office members switching sides trumps a team the Jets see once every four years in a game with any meaning.
I get that some will probably pull for the Pats, though. I am sure some of you have insufferable Giants fans to deal with as friends and family. The Giants and their fans also seem pretty obsessed lately with the Jets. How many shots do they take in the press even though Week 16 was over a month ago? Were the Jets constantly talking about the Giants during their deep postseason runs the last two years? They can do whatever they want since they won, but isn't it kind of sad the Jets are so in their heads that they won't stop talking about them? For a team that claims to hate talking, they sure do their share of trash talk. At least the Jets don't put up a fake air of being above smack talk.
Let us know. Who are you pulling for?
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pats
as much as i dislike them, my bro is an absolute diehard giants fan so i gotta go against him. also, i think there’s a huge diff between 3-4 sb’s and 1-2
metsjetsknicksrangers.............can it get any worse?
Giants.
Cowboys fans hate them, but as a NYer I must root against Boston in a NY vs. Boston match up.
Giants
Fiancée is a Goants fan and it’s still NY. Besides, if it weren’t for Rex Ryan’s bluster, this wouldn’t even be a real rivalry. We aren’t in the same division ala Rangers/Devils/Isles and Knicks/Nets, nor is one team’s fan base jealous of the other because of how much they can spend in the same market ala Mets/Yanks, really there’s no real rivalry IMO. Whereas the Pats should basically be public enemy #1 in Jet Nation.
by J-Nasty on Feb 3, 2012 2:27 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I have to go with the Patriots
I hate the Patriots more than the Giants, but I am not around Patriots fans on a day in day out basis. It would suck to see Brady get another win, but seeing this city abandon us, and go blue would be worse. This city doesn’t like Super Bowl losers.
Get busy winning or get busy losing.
I've got an extremely odd family when it comes to the NFL.
My dad is a Cowboys fan, my bros are Giants fans, my fiancee and her family are Bills fans. I’ve gotta go with NYC and the G-Men though. Whether they win or not we’re still gonna be second fiddle and I know enough Giants fans to hope they have something to cheer about the next day. Pats and their troll fans can go _______ for all I care.
After going back and forth on it...
Ultimately I’m rooting for the Giants. I’m always saying the trash talking is meaningless, and it goes both ways… So let them talk about us, whatever. In the end, I really don’t want Brady to tie the most SB wins record for QBs. Some people are already calling him the greatest ever. We don’t need to give that argument any more credence, lol. Plus it’s the flippin’ Patriots, c’mon man screw that noise.
by Exystence on Feb 3, 2012 2:39 PM EST via mobile reply actions
"At least the Jets don't put up a fake air of being above smack talk."
This. But I feel way too many fans do this from all teams. Lets generalize all fans are one thing or another then demonize them, it’s just ignorant.
I’m not talking about fans. I’m talking about the actual team. How many times do we hear, “Talk is cheap. Play the game.” How little do the Giants actually abide by it? There’s nothing wrong with it, but the Giants should just tone down this idea they don’t talk smack.
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by bobdolethesnapplelady on Feb 3, 2012 3:32 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah.
I have no issue with smack talk at all and never have. I just don’t like when a team/person talks about being above the fray and then… well… calls our coach “fatty.” Fuck that.
I feel ya. The same sentiment does apply though.
All teams do this in one form or another. It’s impossible to portray a team as something like that with that many different kinds of egos. That smack talk will always be there with a significant portion of the players on any given team.
IMO, it usually boils down to the HC, with the Giants I think they feel this way because grumpy old Coughlin isn’t straight forward and doesn’t play the medias game, conversely our team are labeled “trash talkers” because of Rex speaks his mind too much and that’s easier to spin.
Patriots
I take a lot of shit from Giants fans and am sick of hearing “Big Blue” everywhere I go. We knocked the Patriots out of the playoffs last year and I will take some comfort if the Giants can’t do the same. I’m also tired of Giants fans belittling getting to the AFC title game the last two years and not getting any further. I’ll be able to use their “if you don’t win the ring, it means nothing” line on them.
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I wonder how many people who are picking the Giants live in the NYC area.
It would seem to me that most people outside NY would root for the Giants as the Pats bandwagon fans seem infest like roaches everytime there is a Super Bowl with them in it. Heck, there are Pats themed bars here in Raleigh, I can’t say I could name one Giants one. I did find a nice Jets one at one point.
Giants fan have become more annoying
It has less to do with the teams and more about how annoying the Giants and their fans are right now—-so I guess I say the Pats.
But this is the choice between evil and evil, Hatfield and Hatfield—
HATE EM’ BOTH!
Patriots for the WIN and Brady retires!!!
..i said it, brady WILL RETIRE IF HE WINS HIS 4TH SUPERBOWL!!!
"The message to the rest of the league is, hey, the Jets are coming, and we're going to give you everything we got. And I think that's going to be more than you can handle"
I'm a green guy in a sea of Giant blue...
But I still don’t hate the Giants. They are a ‘meh’ team for me. The rivalry is completely overinflated.
Go New York Football Giants.
Same here. It was giants day here at my school
Everybody is wearing giant jerseys and I’m wearing my revis jersey and winter hat. Rooting for the giants though.
Let's Make sure we play like the f***in NEW YORK JETS
and not some f***in slapd**k team!
by jets4life24 on Feb 3, 2012 3:26 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Giants
I will never root for any Boston teams.
by nyj-nyy-nyk on Feb 3, 2012 3:04 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Honestly
whoever wins im going to be annoyed anyway. But i hope Eli throws a terrible pick-six to lose the game in the 4th quarter since hes “so clutch” and “elite” just to see how fast the media jumps off his you know what.
I'll be rooting for the Pats
as much as I hate them and their fans (one of whom is my roommate) I can’t stand to listen to the Giants bandwagoners for another few months. I would really like to see Eli crap the bed too so that we can end this talk about him being the next Joe Montana.
I'll root for the Giants
but it pains me. Growing up in the city in the 70’s Jets and Giants fans supported each other more than not, because both teams suffered. Now the Giants success has changed that. The things that make me really hate this current incarnation of the Giants team (despite my liking of Coughlin, Manning and a few others) is that:
a)I hate it when a mediocre team gets hot (and ultimately perhaps win it all). When it happens the entire fan base as well as the press somehow think they are great. let’s face it-the 2007 and 2011 Giants were not great teams. They were teams that had some excellent players for sure, but they got needed breaks and won at the right time. To me that is still as much good fortune as skill, regardless of the fact that in 2007 they played a great game to beat an 18-0 team and this year a 15-1 team.
b)The Giants players are talking MORE than the Jets ever do in the last several weeks. I have a few friends who are Pats fans and they all say it is amazing how the Giants jabber more than the Jets do despite the reputation. Bunch of hypocrites.
Patriots
The Giants fans at school are ridiculous. They think the Giants have the best defense since the 2001 ravens (i think that was the year) and that their offense is an absolute juggernaut. FALSE.
plus, all the Patriots fans i’ve met have actually been decent fellows. can’t say the same for the Giants fans.
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How is this even a Question!?!?!
Any real jets fan has an eternal hatred that should burn deep inside for those smug, cheating MASSHOLES! I would gouge my eyes out and cut off my tongue before i ever rooted for those classless cheaters. Will it suck to hear how the jets are second to the Giants, ABSOLUTELY, but lets face it, even if they lose…they still made it to the Super Bowl twice in 5 years and have an Elite QB so we are going to hear it anyway. Me confident enough in your own reasons for being a jets fan that the ranting of a celebratory Giants fan wont get to you. The only comfort i will find in this game is the fact the if the Giants win, you know a feeling of complete failure and utter dismay will sweep across new England. Thats why EVERY jets fan should be pulling for the GMen (not wearing blue tho) or at least rooting against the pats as hard as you would root for the jets. IF YOU ROOT FOR THE PATS, YOUR NOT A REAL JETS FAN in my eyes, which should mean nothing bc why would anyone care what i think lol (stated as a fact but obliviously its just my opinion…really would love to hear someone disagree)
J-E-T-S for LIFE…but its a two team league right now and NY over NE is a joke of a question.
thank you.
I’m very upset at my fellow Jets fans in here rooting for the Pats. At least you get it.
by nyj-nyy-nyk on Feb 3, 2012 3:46 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Eh.
While I picked the Patriots (and explained why above) it’s not about rooting for them. This is a game—for me at least, and I’m not a New Yorker—where I hate both teams quite passionately. So, I’m not rooting for anyone. The team I would rather have lose is the Giants. To say I’m “rooting” for the Patriots would be a painful stretch. I won’t even be watching the Super Bowl.
funny insn't it that Jets hired?
year Ne was put thru the ringer the Jets Hired Mangini!!!! the same Magini WHO was In Charge of the Video people with NE!! FACT!!!..the same Mangini that Gave the Fins all of NE audibles and They(fins) admitted to being given such)..also Jets were the 1st ones Caught Breaking the New rules of Placement on field of Video Man..reason Tapes were destroyed was that Goodell saw Proof via the Tapes of His Former Employer(JETS) breaking the rules!!!….But ur also forgetting that after Goodell Fined NE..He had 4 people on NE;s staff and NE went 16-0 in regular season..
Mangini Left jets(Fired) and was Caught "filming again with same Video Man he took with Him from both NE and jets!! FACT!!!!
but ALL teams cheat.they sign players from other teams for “insider-Info” then cut them!!!!..Today NFL makes the tapes that teams use to Tape!!!! sends those Tapes to the teams..Nothing has changed.still Taping is allowed…the Team with the Most Tapes of Players and Teams Is Oakland FACT!!!!…
Look we are in the AFC!! I think most fans who;s team is In this Div should go with there DIV. Team no matter if they arnt OUR TEAM….by going to the NFC team tells me ur a band-wagonner…back ur DIV no matter who team is…last yr did u root for GB? or Steelers?..I stood behind steelers becuse of being in AFC!!!!!….
so before u keep ranting about so called classless cheaters u need to do a check on the Coach jets once had and Hired MANGINI!!!!!….was a Cheater both with jets and Browns!! both are facts!!!
At the end of the Championship games, it was the Giants. Last time this nightmare of a matchup played out, I rooted for the giants.
This time, I am really not so sure. With every smug, a-holish shot that a Giant player has taken at the Jets this week, I have thought to myself, “man, wouldn’t it be great if Brandon Jacobs fumbled the game away?” or “how cool would it be if Shaun Ellis had a game against the Giants like he did against the Pats in last year’s divisional round?”
And now I’m just not sure anymore. The Patriots are who they are. I hate their uniform, their organization and their quarterback. But I’m really starting to dislike many of the Giants players as human beings. So I just don’t know.
patriots
i will root for the AFC, and im tired of hearing from Giant fans anyway. remember the last 2 years the Giant fans were rooting against the JETSin the playoffs,believe me i didnt forget it.
alot of them were against us.... yet I tell Giant fans i'm rooting for their squad and they
say " your a jet fan, your bad luck." which gets me into an altercation of course. Giant fans piss me the F#@! off, but its better than seeing NE win it.
Let's Make sure we play like the f***in NEW YORK JETS
and not some f***in slapd**k team!
Defintely the Giants.
Of course, a lot of that might be the fact that I’m in London. Not living in New York, having to deal with smug Giants fans Monday morning if they win probably makes this easier.
That and I actively root against the Patriots with a fervour that boggles the rational side of my mind.
I never thought it would come to this...
But I’m hoping—and really believe this will happen—that the Patriots are going to bury the Giants this game.
The fact of the matter is this, as a divisional rival there is no team in the NFL I detest more than the Patriots, no coach I loathe more than Bill Belichick and not quarterback that annoys me more than Tom Brady. However, at the end of the day I have absolute respect for their organization, team and talent. It’s actually why I hate the team so much. They’re annoying to be stuck in a division with right now.
With that said, I hate the New York media even more. Brady is better than Manning. Belichick is better than Coughlin. The Patriots are better than the Giants. I hope they show it tomorrow. The Jets get less crap from the papers in Boston and less garbage from the mouths of the Patriots than they do from the New York media and from the Giants. This year in particular I’m sore about the Giants and I’m tired of their fans.
So yeah, I hope the Patriots come into this game the way the came into MNF against us last year. I’d love something like 45-3. (Plus I can’t stand Indianapolis and in general, they seem to be pulling for the Giants.)
I can’t win this game. There is absolutely no pairing in the Super Bowl in hate more than this. I don’t want Brady to get a fourth ring. However, I’ve just had it with New York’s reporting this year and I’ve taken too much crap from Giants fans. They need to lose and lose in a manner that burns for the whole of the offseason.
we are in a no win situation... if the giants lose their fans will say "we didnt belong there anyways"
and they’ll also say " At least we made the playoffs" that would tick me off because we said the exact same thing to them the past two years and they rubbed it off and threw the 40 years and counting crap. But if they win….. FML. I’m still rooting for the giants but we still lose.
Let's Make sure we play like the f***in NEW YORK JETS
and not some f***in slapd**k team!
Giants
I would hope that ALL New York fans would support the Jets if they were in the SB. Besides, I respect the fact that the Giants have been serious about developing a pass rush and also in developing/protecting their QB and getting a productive offense, things we’ve been ignoring for several years now. If we had taken these steps, perhaps we wouldn’t be on the outside looking in (again).
I'm pulling for the Giants
I can put aside my hatred of them for one day because of how much I despise the patriots, and Boston sports franchises in general. And they can go ahead and talk shit, if we do better than them next season, it’ll be our city again just like snap that. I know that sounds odd, but the media is so cynical that it just seems to work like that nowadays.
The worst thing about both the Giants and the Pats being in the SB...
Is one of them is going to win. Boo.
I’m not going to be rooting for a winner here. I’ll just make fun of all bad plays and root for some of the individual players I like. Given both outcomes are terrible, I’ll be rooting for the food. I really want to make something shaped like a football with bacon. Yes, I’ll root for bacon football.
Patriots
I cant stand giant fans. I live in NYC so it would be tough seeing NY devote to the Giants and downgrade us. Plus i hate ignorant Giant fans. I hate the Pats, but they are an AFC team that we play twice a year. If they win, we will have two chances at beating the champs.
by Jonathan Reynoso on Feb 3, 2012 4:38 PM EST reply actions
Anyone rooting for the Pats...
without a personal tie to that team is a complete coward and why the Jets will always be the lil bro in this town. Who cares if the giants talk smack about a Jets team who has been spitting it hard for the past 3 years. If they win a championship, they deserve to do so. Dont for a second pretend we would do the same thing. Be confident enough as a fan to support a team that is playing an exciting and passionate style of football who is salivating at the idea of decimating the one team that should be unanimously hated on this site for repeatedly depriving us of a home playoff game, those MASSHOLE PATS.
how are they depriving us of home field advantage please explain this statement
I mean WE have to beat a team to gain Homefield ..that means win the Div..so how is there depriving Us when we lost BOTH game this yr?..WE had a chance and we didnt win either game!!!.we werent deprived..we simply couldnt beat the team that had the lead in the Div…so if say Miami wins it next yr .. ur going to blame that Now Miami has deprived us of home field advantage?…Rex has to begin with talking up about winning the DIV!! b/4 ranting about a superbowl win ya think?…We need to Win the EAST 1st then seek the AFC DIV,,then gain/have homefield advantage thru-out play-offs..BUT need to 1st win the EAST!!!!!…
I also disagree with others that say if WE were in Superbowl that ALl Giants fans would be backing us…think u need to listen to what Giants players been saying in there “media” chats..alot have come out and said jets are the Giants little Brother and always will be!!!! whether they win or not come sunday!!!!
Pats
Fuck Giants fans in NY your one or the other. I hope its a blow out and a few Giants players are hurt in the process
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lol … He has a point thou … I live in Brooklyn NY and Im tired of these asshole Giants fans they act like they never lose even when they do lose!
The Hardest thing for some men to do is .... Believe what they see!
I hate to say it but its gotta be the PATS..
so Rex can feel the heat of consistent winners and understand the level of attention you have to pay to every detail of your team … the G-men dont put direct pressure on our organization as far as on field/X’s & O’s go.
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I'm pulling for the Smurfs.
If I wasn’t a rabid Jets fan, I’d be all about blue. I really like that team.
I'm rooting for the stadium to implode Dark Knight Rises Style
But barring that fuck the pats. I’m no fan of big blue, but fuck the pats. Seriously, the only person in this world I hate more than Bill Belichick is Reggie Miller.
I won’t say I’m rooting for the Giants. More I’m rooting against the Pats.
Do the Shumpty Shump, come on and do the Shumpty Shump
I'm not rooting for the Giants.
I’m rooting against the Patriots.
MARK SANCHEZ HAD BETTER STATS THAN TEBOW.
So either Sanchez is better than " second coming " or you have to admit that Tebow is no good.
This
Satans army could be playing against the Patriots and I would still root against them. I would rather have to sit though a year of people loving up the Giants then a year of talking about Brady as “the best of all time” and how great the Patriots are.
"It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right"unknown
Wow.
This is the chance for the world to see that the Pats can’t win without cheating. So Hell yeah I’m rooting for the Giants. Who cares about Giants fans, I live in Brooklyn and have listened to Giants fans talk smack my entire life. I’m used to it . Plus watching Brady win another ring would do serious damage to my mental health.
by nyj-nyy-nyk on Feb 3, 2012 8:35 PM EST via mobile reply actions
I rather see the more Giants fans miserable vs the rare Pats fans that I encounter
Plus the media will pound them through out until the draft. A Pats victory will give Rex and the FO more motivation to get stuff done and done right.
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Pats...
as much as I hate them (way more than the Giants), Giants fans are talking way to much crap, and getting way to much hype. Another win for Brady and Bellicheat isn’t going to make their heads any bigger, cause they can’t get any bigger, I was 100% behind the Giants in 2007, i’m swinging the other way for this one.
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If the Patriots were playing in the Super Bowl against the Taliban,I'd be rooting
for the Taliban and taking the points.
I'm surprised there isn't a 3rd option...
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Don't mean to insult anyone
But as a Jets Fan-atic it is IMPOSSIBLE to root for the evil up north. I don’t think any Jets fan under almost any circumstance should ever even think about rooting for the evil up north!!!!
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Very reluctantly pulling for Giants
I lost a lot of respect for Giants fans at the game at MetLife stadium this year. Completely obnoxious and rude. In fact, I remember leaving thinking that Giants fans are basically awful people. Pats fans are just as bad in my experience, but I kind of expect that. Since I live in NY though, gotta pull for the Giants. I guess.
Giants, reluctantly...
I live in LA now and have for many years so I don’t have to hear the Giants fans bull…. on a regular basis. But as a diehard Jets fan, I can never ever root for a Patriots victory, let alone another Lombardi trophy for them. This isn’t an easy one. I have many memories from my youth of wearing Jets gear and hearing Giants fans screaming some nasty things at me and thinking some day we will be victorious, holding that Lombardi trophy and then I will be the one who’s talking trash! Alas as Jets fans, we know we haven’t got there yet. Still the Jets are close and this past season was probably the best thing that could have happened ‘cause now the team knows that unity trumps talent all the time. But back to the subject, I have family members who are Giants fans (can’t pick family!) and would feel good for them if their god-forsaken team won. But most importantly, never ever New England!
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The Referees
I hope this SB sets several records…for futility! LOL!! I’d like to see records for yards penalized (both teams), records for fewest first downs, records for fewest rushing yards, records for fewest passing yards, records for most interceptions and fumbles, records for most punts, records for the number of QBs knocked out of the game (but not serious injuries, just bad enough that they can’t continue), and see the Giants score a safety in the last 30 seconds to win 2-0.
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I'm really hoping for a blowout
That way only one team can talk, and we won’t need to hear about how this game was a “classic” and these teams were the “best of the best.” To me there was too much mediocrity in the NFL this year to convince me that either of these teams really deserve to be there.
A 2-0 Game Won't Be Considered a Classic!
LOL!!!! IMO what better way to showcase the mediocrity this year than to have the game be sloppy, penalty-filled, lots of TOs and the only score coming on a safety in the closing seconds?
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Pats fan here
Would you guys be rooting for the team that eliminated your hopes of reaching the playoffs? Or root for a rival team that can balance the image of New York and continue on with the rivalry?
See you guys next season!
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