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The New York Football Giants have selected the design for their Super Bowl. In typical New York fashion it is both subtle and refined.

10-Table Ring

You might be wondering what is a 10-Table ring?

Michael Strahan has described it as a “10-table ring” - meaning one that can be spotted by gawkers up to 10 tables away at a restaurant.

Hmm. That’s so unlike the quiet defensive leader Michael Strahan.

The ring will have an ungodly amount of diamonds. The rings face will have 3 Lombardi trophies recognizing the three modern championships the NY Giants have won. One side will have the SB XLII logo, date, score, and location while the other side will have the players name and number and the statement, “Eleven Straight on the Road”, reflecting the Giants record setting road winning streak. The alternate statement of “3-5 at Home” was considered but ultimately rejected.

These pictures surfaced on the New York Post today:

Super Bowl Champs, 19-0

more: Pats are 19-0 in Nicaragua

The New York Football Giants are Champions of the American Football world. Not only was it one of the most entertaining Super Bowls ever it has one of the best plays ever. This mediocre Gatorade commercial gives me an excuse to relive that moment one more time:

Unreleased ad from Reebok: Perfectiville

One week ago, a football team from New York played a football team from New England in the final game of the 2007-2008 season, to determine the champion of the season.  The team from New York eventually won 17-14, and the game was watched by an ungodly number of individual Americans of which maybe 15% will vote in November if we are lucky.  Now, I’m not going to just deride my fellow Americans for being lazy couch-potatoes who are more interested in Super Bowl ads than national politics.  There’s more reasons to be apathetic about voting then just being an uncaring, ignorant lemming; it’s very possible that a voter actually might carefully weigh the platforms and positions of Hilary, Obama, McCain, Paul, Mary, and Joseph and decide not to vote for any of them.  It’s very possible to have your opinion about the Presidential election be, “No Opinion.”

What is impossible is to imagine that if you asked any one of the 97.4 million viewers of Super Bowl 42, they would say they had “No Opinion” on what they just watched.

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For the life of me I cannot determine why Joe Buck is the lead announcer for both MLB and the NFL on Fox. There may not be an uglier case of nepotism since that of medieval European royalty. Now, it would be a lie on my part if I said I had heard Joe Bucks call of Tyree’s catch in Super Bowl XLII. I was too busy yelling like a schoolgirl manly GMen fan. I did, however, watch the replays approximately 14 million times and by viewing number two I was watching with no sound. (And if you are thinking the entire reason for this post is so I can watch highlights of the Giants victory in the SB one more time…well I have no comment). It has been said elsewhere but let me reiterate, Buck could have called paint drying with equal enthusiasm. Let’s compare Buck’s and Marv Albert’s call:

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