Quote Originally Posted by CFH View Post
Isn't being portrayed as the greatest team and possible the greatest dynasty ever positive treatment Almost nobody gave the Giants a chance going into yesterdays game.
I never found them to be hated or to be portrayed as hated in any of media I saw covering them. "Spy gate" was the only negative aspect to their season, and they deserved all the critism they got because the league told them to cut that shit out and they kept on doing it.
Let me put it this way.. Go back to 2001? I think it was.. Rams/Patriots.. The Rams were so cocky, calling themselves the "Greatest Show on Turf".. Patriots were an even more underdog in that game then the Giants were in yesterdays game.. All you heard the week before that were the Rams running their mouths about being unstoppable etc.. Now THAT was getting sickening..

Compare that to the Patriots.. All they had to say about during "Media Day" and in the media in general, was how they weren't taking the Giant's lightly and how they have to continue to do what they've been doing all season to win this game.. They never counted the Giants out.. and on top of that, after the loss, they had only good things to say about how the Giants played.. No complaints besides the ones about their own playing. Nothing like "the best team didn't win" stuff you'd expect from a cocky team, etc.. They were gracious in defeat..

Bottom line is that there was no overwhelming talk about the Patriots being "the best team ever" i thought they did just enough talking about that to make the Super bowl even more marketable.. nothing over the top though.. So that's why i just don't understand where the "im sick of hearing about Brady" blah blah.. I didn't think it was over done at all.


Also, the Patriots were VERY hated in the media.. It stemmed from Spy gate and then just Belechik's ways of being vague in interviews, etc.. The supposed "running up of the scores".. All i heard on the radio waves was "someone needs to injure Brady!" That isn't hate?.. The whole 72 Dolphins crew and co. hated that they could be breaking their record and such. On ESPN's poll of "who do you want to win" the Super Bowl, it was an OVERWHELMING percentage for the Giants.. Believe me man, there was hate.