The Giants received their Super Bowl rings on Wednesday night. Click below for a look at the other Super Bowl rings - dating all the way back to the Packers in 1967. (Adam Hunger/Reuters)
GALLERY: Super Bowl Rings (1967-2012)
Justin Tuck wanted a bigger ring than Michael Strahan’s. And now he’s going to get it.
“(Michael Strahan) talked about the ‘10-table ring,’” Tuck said. “He wanted a ring you could see from 10 tables away.
“I talked about the ‘Restaurant Ring.’ I wanted one that was big enough to see throughout whatever restaurant you go in and see it from each corner.”
Total caret weight 1.36 in diamonds and 1.11 in sapphires.
Congratulations to the New York Giants.
(Source: New York Daily News)
It’s a bit dated now, seeing how the holiday was on Sunday, but this is too good not to share. Even late.
Osi Umenyiora and LeSean McCoy love to try and get under each others skin. Well played Osi.
And with the 32nd pick in the 2012 NFL Draft the World Champion New York Giants select DAVID WILSON.
The final pick on the night. The Super Bowl defending champs went with a running back, David Wilson. The video montage showed that he isn’t afraid to take a hit and fast. Mike Mayock says he has to learn how to block and run routes.
The Giants know how to draft. When they take a player your ears perk up. My ears are perked. They are in need of some running back help and they have a nice running back bloodline.
And there you have it, the entire first round of the draft and and blizzard of trades.
Whew!
What did you think?
You can now synchronize your watches. The NFL has given word that the 2012 regular season will officially start when the Super Bowl Champion New York Giants host the Dallas Cowboys on September 5th. As usual the game will kick off on the Champ’s home field but what’s odd is that the game is on a Wednesday, not the normal Thursday event.
The regular season has started on a Thursday since 2002, but the league moved this year’s opener up a day to avoid a conflict with President Barack Obama’s planned speech at the Democratic National Convention.
According to the league, it hasn’t played a game on a Wednesday since Sept. 22, 1948, when the Rams faced the Lions.
(Source: ESPN)
Now for a few players who will comeback to their existing teams. New York cornerback, Terrell Thomas, has agreed to a new deal with the Giants. The Seahawks Red Bryant will be back with Seattle and Tim Jennings will be back with the Bears. Sometimes resigning your existing players are the most important moves you can make.
Super LOL XLVI: “I Am A Super Bowl,” by Jake Weisman
(Jake Weisman is a comedian, a football fan, and now a Super Bowl champion. Was he a member of the New York Giants? Pretty much he was. And now he’s returned to NFL Off-Season to talk about football and fatherhood, and to show off the Lombardi Trophy.)
I Am A Super Bowl
I generated a lot of controversy with my last piece about the New York Giants. I know this because all sorts of people were coming up to me afterwards saying things like “Sir that’s not your credit card number, that’s MY credit card number. How did you get that information?”
And I genuinely hate those kinds of questions, and controversy in general, because, honestly, I’m still God, and I don’t need to be asked anything ever. And if you’re thinking right now, OK prove to me you’re God Jake, then it’s like, if I’m not God, then who is this guy standing next to me with a gun?
You might have a few questions for for me so far. Like I bet you’re begging to ask: “when’s Wheel of Fortune?” Pretty rude if you ask me. Next time ask politely like this: “when’s Wheel of Fortune, please?” I won’t answer, but that’s not because I don’t like you, it’s because Wheel of Fortune got canceled.
Oh yeah, so my Dad loves me again. Because the Giants won the Super Bowl. Now the only thing left in my life that sucks is I never had a father to begin with.
That being said, did you guys watch that game? What a game! If I can say one thing about THAT game, I’d wish for my father to be real instead.
Go Giants football!
Oh also, I attached a picture of me winning the Super Bowl this past Sunday, which is also featured on my blog Pictures Of Me Having Sex.
(Follow Jake on Twitter here: @weismanjake. See his erotic art here: Pictures Of Me Having Sex. Watch videos from Jake’s sketch group, Women, here: Women Comedy.)
“This is still a Cruz and (Hakeem) Nicks game. I know we’re right on them tight, but those are still the guys. Make them go to Manningham.”
- Bill Belichick
/via Quickish
“Based on the above chart, fans that waited to buy until the last minute were rewarded with bargains. The get-in price dropped over 56% in the 5 days leading up to XLVI with the average price dropping 32%. At game-time, upper level seats were selling for right around $1,000, which was 56% below the get-in price last year.
For XLV, Steelers and Packer fans alike flocked to Dallas. This year, however, interest was lopsided. In the days leading up to the game, we saw 500% more traffic from the Tri-State area than from Massachusetts. Perhaps it was the shorter drive (12 hrs vs. 15 hrs), or just a case of championship fatigue in Boston (poor Bostonians), but Patriots fans were significantly less interested in the game than Giants fans.
As for the most active buying windows, we saw 61% of tickets sell in the 5 days after teams were set and 27% in the 48 hours before the event. Because so many brokers attend the Super Bowl themselves, last minute logistics were easy to manage.”
(via Ticket IQ)
