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Monday, February 04, 2008
NFL Giants Loaf by AFL
Patriots
in Post-Season Exhibition Game
in Post-Season Exhibition Game
Oops.
POST
SCRIPT. I don't know if anybody happened to see it, but we're
diehard football fans in New Jersey, and so we couldn't resist tuning
in to the Tom Petty Concert in Arizona yesterday to watch the scrimmage
between the NFL Champion Giants and an AFL team from somewhere in New
England.It went about the way you'd expect. The NFL's Eastern Division is the toughest and hardest hitting in professional football, and the kind of pure passing attacks they favor in the pitty-pat league are sitting ducks against real defensive linemen.
The crowd seemed to enjoy the show, though, especially when a game but overmatched Patriot team briefly took the lead in the fourth quarter. After that it was the inevitable close we're so used to seeing: the bigger, more talented, more aggressive team stormed efficiently down the field for the oh-so predictable winning touchdown.
If you can catch a replay sometime on one of the back channels of your cable or satellite hook-up, it might be worth your while to give it a look. Manning, Tyree, and Burris got some good additions for their highlight reels, and there were some equally good efforts on the defensive side from Strahan and Umenyiora.
No big deal, really. I just wanted to make sure somebody covered it. You know how it is. Tiger gets all the attention when he's playing, and he played yesterday. And won, obviously. But you knew that.
