What Happened, Cat Got Your Tongue?
By SuperFan
Like last week, I got very little sleep on Sunday night. This time, however, it was because I was too excited. I just sat up and thought about what a great clutch performance our Gmen had put on. It makes me so proud to be a fan of this team! To come out on the national spotlight for the second consecutive week and get a huge win when they needed to against a top-ranked team, well, what more could a fan want? This team represents everything that is great about sports – the players on the field are humble and let their performances speak for themselves. We’re not bought and paid for like some teams out there, sporting a bunch of all-stars with egos as large as their paychecks. Just some hard-working, team-oriented athletes and coaches doing what they love to do, and doing it very well.
Which brings me immediately to my first tangent. I’ve been a Yankees fan for a long time, relishing in the tradition, history, and admiration that comes with the pinstripes. To say the organization has strayed away from that over the last several years would be the understatement of the century. I just got wind of Texiera’s new contract, on top of C.C.’s and Burnett’s (not to mention A-Rod’s), and in all honesty, it’s a little embarrassing. My was telling me earlier about something a friend of his who happens to be a banker said: “When C.C. Sabathia throws his first regular-season pitch as a Yankee, he’ll have earned more money than 99% of Americans make in a year. This all happening while our economy is in its worst state ever. Pathetic. This revelation helped reaffirm something a theory I’ve been developing for quite a while. The Steinbrenner family is doing everything in their power to destroy everything the New York Yankees once stood for, and it’s working. I’m really doubting if it’s worth being a Yankee fan just to go watch a team that looks like someone drafted it in a video game with all the rules turned off. Really – it’s beyond laughable at this point. Okay, I’m done. Let’s get back to talking about a REAL New York sports team.
It’s amazing what a different team we become with Jacobs on the field. Eli has more time in the pocket, the receivers seem to get open easier and catch more passes, and the other running backs perform at a higher level (Derrick Ward ran out of his MIND)! Plaxico may not be there, but as long as Jacobs is on the field, we’ll always have a really good shot to win.
It’s also amazing how differently people talk about us after a game with Jacobs on the field. A week ago, we were a team spiraling out of control, with no hope of regaining the momentum we once had. Now, suddenly, we’re the team to beat once again in the NFC. What a crazy game.
I can’t tell you how amazing it was to receive so many e-mails over the past week from you fans. I tried to get back to most, but unfortunately, I couldn’t use the internet for the majority of last weekend. I was working at a golf tournament in Thousand Oaks, CA, and the Hyatt I was staying at had one of those “$9.99/day” internet deals. I didn’t want to give in to the man’s demands, so I went most of the weekend disconnected from the world. Sorry about that, btu I wanted you all to know that I read them and you all have no idea how pumped up your e-mails got me for the game! It’s so refreshing to hear from other crazed Giants fans, especially being all the way on the West Coast, where it’s only appropriate to get excited about something if pop culture says so. So, THANKS AGAIN EVERYBODY! Please keep them coming! The address is gmensuperfan@gmail.com.
Finally, let me be one of the last to wish everyone out there a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year, Happy Flag Day, well, you get the picture… This holiday weekend should be a nice, relaxing one for Giants fans. It’s practically another bye week, where we can see how Minnesota’s first string fares against our back-ups. If we see them in the post-season, we’ll have seen everything they have to throw at us, and they’ll see almost nothing from us. Good deal! Enjoy the holidays, and until next week, GO GMEN!!
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