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Giants? Patriots? Any Casual Super Bowl snacks? Early yet always perfectly justifiable Syracuse hate?

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Super Bowl 46 just got a lot more casual.

Bring it.

Poll
Super Bowl Pick:
New England Patriots -2.5
35 votes
New York Giants +2.5
87 votes
Get this one over with, the real game is on Wednesday night
140 votes

262 votes | Poll has closed

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As a redskins fan, need to go with the team the skins destroyed twice
Good point

But as a Redskins fan I simply can’t root for the Giants. Also Coughlin went to Syracuse.

No,

The correct answer is Go Giants.

As a Redskins fan

I want the Giants to win because I feel that if they do there will be less of a chance Peyton Manning will play for the Jets next year, thus a higher chance he will pay for the Redskins. He will get hurt on the first play of the season cus we wont have an o line, but it will be fun while it lasts.

Patriots.

Syracuse Sucks.

Giants.

Otherwise I’d be disowned.

how many less cuse fans would there be in the world

if the bills were a half-decent team?

Or if the Sixers had never moved to Philly....
hi from Indianapolis
How bout those Dolphins?
greetings!
Is it mere coincidence that our game with Cuse keeps getting scheduled the same night as Duke-UNC?

I smell ESPN conspiracy

ACC conspiracy

To make the Orange feel more at home. It’s cool, though, from what I hear it’s a stronger lacrosse conference.

I'm actually OK with that

(1) It’s nice to have the rivalry acknowledged and included in “Rivalry Week.” Not that I love endorsing ESPN’s promotional language, but it’s probably good for visibility’s sake.
(2) Guarantees we won’t have Vitale calling the game. Hoping we get Raf.
(3) We have the 7 o’clock game, and they’re at 9. The only thing that could make beating Syracuse more enjoyable would be our game running long and UNC and Duke fans having to miss the beginning of their game.

The fact that UConn vs. The Loo is the BE Big Monday matchup

Really dilutes the Rivalry Week brand. Not as much as, say, everything else ESPN has done to destroy interscholastic rivalries over the last couple of years, but still pretty bad.

ESPN yesterday said Mussberger/Knight on the call on Wednesday.
If true, that's certainly acceptable in my book
Something a Cuse and GTown fan agree on?

Unheard of! lol

This discussion is eerily civil

Quick! Someone say something inflammatory and typical of our fanbases!

Having trouble spewing vitriol when the Puppy Bowl is on
I love it

In my mind they’re saying these are the two biggest intra-conference rivalries in the sport. That’s why they’re on the same night.

Pitt-Nova

This has to be the most meaningless matchup between these teams in at least five years.

And yet

It is another strong win for well-groomed coaching.

indeed

But a strong finish by Pitt could put them in the tournament yet. The end of their schedule is not terribly daunting.

if they win most of their games and make a decent run in the BET

correct me if i’m wrong, but wouldn’t the selection process take into account the fact that their starting PG was out with injury during that series of losses?

I believe it would

“Key injuries,” I think, is the metric. Which seems really subjective.

Jim Burr with two horrible calls at the end

First the shot clock violation, then the flagrant.

have wager with lordnick on super bowl.

told him to pick a side and i’d take the opposite, loser buys winner dinner during casual extravaganza (#CXIII) weekend.

he took the patriots.

Giants need to get this W...

What's good for lunch in Indy?

Do they all just eat at Steak & Shake?

Why are you there?

The 2 games I’ve been to aren’t that excited. Too corporate. #humblebrag

about to commence Operation Chili
On a related note

Crazy cat lady is not a good addition to the puppy bowl

looks like its

Aberdeen or fumble for the mvp. Puppy Bowl the best.

you called it

fumble brings home the hardware!

Oh My Miami up 16 on Duke
Their bigs just got beat down the floor

by a 300 lb man-baby

Duke starting to get back into this game

Dislike

What kind of offense is that Miami runs...

It looks like they don’t even have plays.. Like they just showed up and got handed Jerseys

Reggie Johnson is a load though.. Hopefully that’s Tyler next couple of years

Here it is..
That was a late ass whistle
can't believe Duke missed both of those FTs
Casual Chili currently simmering
Quinn Cook probably cost them this one

Terrible runner attempt in the lane

Duke goes 0-6 on free throws in overtime

Loses by 4 to Miami. This is gonna be a good day.

duke sucks

watch them still be ranked in the top 10 on monday.

In a non ACC-biased world

They would definitely be ranked below Kansas next week. Two losses at home to unranked conference opponents does not a top 10 team make

Holy Crap

I just realized that February 8th is also the date of the next installment of The Greatest Rivalry In All of Sport. Seton Hall – Rutgers tips at 9 PM. How about that for overshadowing the Gtown-Cuse and Duke-UNC games?

It's nice to see you guys see SH-RU is The Greatest Rivalry as well. lol
Apparently our loving relationship has nothing on them

Or at least Pat Forde thinks so

Hors D'oeuvres, documented.

(As an apology to Casual for my inability to be on top of email, despite the smartphone.)

Excellent documentation

Tomorrow’s Casual Awards just might be a dozen pics of my chili.

I made some solid white chili

Pretty pumped about it

Texas brisket chili. Awesome.
Lock it up

the real sports season begins now.

Very clinical super bowl

Close game but not a great game. No big plays (unless you count the welker drop), no mistakes, no great runs or kick returns or punt blocks or big penalties.

best part madonna half time show which owned black eye peas from last year

maningham catch

Was pretty big play

that Welker drop was more on Brady.

really overthrew him. Brady safety, and a Brady pick did them in.

Yeah that was

Just was hoping for a bit more sizzle – a pick 6, a trick play, a fake kick, going for it on 4th down, a return, a blocked kick, an onside kick, a decent run 20 yard run, a qb scramble, something. It was just two methodical teams playing high level 7 on 7.

Brady pick was a glorified punt and did hurt them much. He throws it away there then they punt anyways. Safety was a mistake, but given it was the first play and it was a default safety it did not feel big in the moment. I meant someone losing it and starting a fight or celebratng to early and fumbling away the score.

As neutral fan, just hoping for a bit more fun. Brady can console himself by sleeping on his piles of money with his supermodel wife who has a higher net worth than him.

The Brady safety and interceptions were big mistakes
And the cocky coaching decision to let the giants score the winning touchdown after bmore missed a chip shot field goal last week
20 yard field goal very different from a 32 yarder.

I trust brady more than the Pats D, to be honest.

Don't look now, but...

Kenpom has us as the #6 Defensive team in the country…

I am the greatest gambler alive

First called the South Florida game then had a clean sweep in my picks for the Super Bowl.

Yeah Football Season is Over!

Football sucks!

Enough of this Super Bowl talk

Shouldn’t this blog be focused on Eli’s performance in the upcoming Double-Stuf Racing League season?

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