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I have finally finished my 2011 Predictions. That exercise, combined with the Worst Giant Loss in Two Centuries has sapped my creative energies and limited my blogging potential.
Let’s leave it tonight with my assurance that I will be hedging many of my positions again this week. The dollar is struggling, but so too are gold and silver, which tell me that we are at a short term peaking period. I don’t think we get to the end of the year unscathed.
Prepare ye, and good night.
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10,000 condolences and all that jazz.
Appreciate it. If they win out, I might feel better. Similar circumstances at the end of 2007, just befor they won the whole shebang.
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I beg to differ. There are few, if any, similarities. The Giants never suffered a loss that debilitating leading up to the playoffs. And trust me, in person, it was a lot worse.
Au Contraire, mon frere….
We lost a harsh Week 15 game to the hated Redskins, throwing everyone into despair….
And then there was this, in Week 12:
Coming off their road win over the Lions, the Giants went home for a Week 12 intraconference duel with the Minnesota Vikings. In the first quarter, New York trailed early as Vikings QB Tarvaris Jackson completed a 60-yard TD pass to WR Sidney Rice. The Giants would respond with RB Reuben Droughns getting a 1-yard TD run. Minnesota retook the lead with safety Darren Sharper returning an interception 20 yards for a touchdown. In the second quarter, Viking’s RB Chester Taylor got an 8-yard TD run, along with kicker Ryan Longwell making a 46-yard field goal.
In the third quarter, Giant’s kicker Lawrence Tynes made a 48-yard field goal, and Minnesota’s Longwell made a 26-yard field goal. In the fourth quarter, the Viking’s Safety Dwight Smith returned an interception 93 yards for a touchdown, along with LB Chad Greenway returning an interception 37 yards for a touchdown. New York’s QB Eli Manning completing a 6-yard TD pass to WR Plaxico Burress to complete the scoring.
Vikings 41
Giants 17
With the loss, the Giants fell to 7-4.
Eli Manning was intercepted four times (with three of his interceptions being returned for touchdowns). He became the 3rd NFL QB since 1970 to have 3 interceptions get returned for touchdowns.**
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**(“Give me 227 AAU QB’s, left-handed, club-footed with less than 20-40 vision, who are better than Eli Manning! I bet you can NOT!”)
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I cannot imagine being there in person, however I was there in 1991 for the Flipper (Rams at Giant Stadium, first round of playoffs) game, when Flipper Anderson caught the TD to end the game and ran directly into the tunnel and the locker room as the stunned home fans looked on.
I felt as if I’d been tasered. Which is sort of how I felt watching that game on Sunday. Mrs. Jake said to me “I can’t believe you weren’t screaming your head off.”
She mistook what she thought was forbearance for what it really was — apoplectic catatonia.
i was there as well. An indelible mark lasered into my retinas.
And what i meant by this not comparing to ’07 was that the Giants had never been up so big and lost so catastrophically in ’07. We lost games but never like this. THE stomach punch of all stomach punches.
YA was the man!
Oh my goodness we may have quite an age violation going on ovah heah.
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One of my earliest sports memories is the 49ers trading Tittle to the Giants. Then they had Brodie for all those years.
My Dad took us to a cold Wrigley in ’63 to watch the Bears-GiantsChampionship. Great match between YA Tittle and the Bears Billy Wade.
Fond memories.
Moved to Miami a few years later and my Dad would take us to watch the Dolphins in the old AFL.
Chicago for Miami? There’s a trade I could live with.
My father was at “The Greatest Game Ever Played,” at Yankee Stadium, with the Giants v. (Baltimore) Colts, and Johnny U going up against Robustelli, Roosevelt and the Giff. He was 18 at the time and always described the game as “formative” in his Giant fan-dom.
Johnny U won, I believe 16-13.
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Watched one of the best back up QBs imo in Earl Morrall- back up to Johnny U and Bob Griese with Dolphins.
Best back up QB (he was a backup for YEARS)?
Steve Young.
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Use to see YA when visiting my aunt in Litchfield Ct … my pre-Pats team as a CT resident those days … still remember them playing in Yale Bowl, Yikes!
It warms my heart that I seem to have attracted so many fogeys to my blog. I have considered myself “fogey-born” since I was a teenager.
It alarms me, however, that you are this old and still so economically illiterate. I presume you are not in a finance or accounting position?
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No, I went to Bentley and majored in Accounting with a minor in Business Law …. was a field auditor many years seeing the real world of both big and small business from both sides. It’s not small business that I have disdain for as much as it is the ruthlessness and deceptive behaviors of a good many large businesses and their minipulative dealings via the legislative process.
I’ve tired of the GOP after years of voting the ticket seeing the long term effects of their policies and lack of concern for the middle class and working man. I have aging parents, children and expect grandchildren in the not too distant future and don’t like what the GOP has done to this nation since the days of Reagan … all talk, but the biggest deficits and jobs exported for years despite their talk of cuts leading to prosperity… it doesn’t work long term, maybe a short term fix or shot in the arm but overall it’s failed as profits are more important hence all the foreign investment.
Experience is the best teacher … they are more concerned with protecting their own wealth than the wellbeing of the nation and use fear and deception to confuse the electorate. I’m done with party politics – I remain Independent and seek the best candidate that has a pragmatic, free thinking approach to solving problems rather than towing the party line.
We are in agreement about “large businesses” and their use of legislatures. But what does that tell you?
It tells me that you cannot rely on government to be your succor, but only the rule of law. Government will be corrupted, so the only way to limit the EFFECT of that corruption is to limit the POWER of that government. I don’t know that much about the Mass State Lege, but the New York State legislature — corrupted completely by it’s one party dominance — is a cesspool of bad inside deals and broken promises. As a result, the NY State economic prospect is dismal at best.
Don’t you get it? You are rooting for the wrong team. You don’t like the corrupt old GOP? Join the crew, and get on the clean house program. You and Rep Ryan should see eye to eye.
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BTW — if only you had gone to Babson, mere miles away in lovely Wellesly… we wouldn’t even be arguing right now…
So close… so close and yet so faaaaaar….. 😉
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It must be my parents democratic background … hard working bootstraps types. Over the ages I’ve come to appreciate their rational for supporting the party that supports them most though my schooling estoppes me from leaning too far left of the middle.
Bentley or Babson …. as I recall, both were on the list but Bentley provided the most in grants and scholorships … as I said, my family were working class and I was the first to go to college.
Once again you presume that since I live in MA I have pledged allegiance to this states politics … you are wrong again as I last supported Romney. I remain here as I prefer it to CT … Celtics, Red Sox, Patriots, Culture, Cape Cod … need I go on?
Wasn’t claiming your support, just providing an example — which was NY, by the way, not Mass.
My antecedent was “I don’t know much about Mass state politics…”
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an assumption on my part based on your past rants about one party Ma rule …. I’m sure you’re familiar since you went to school here and were employed here for some time, weren’t you?
No, just school. Liberal, but a good one. Briefly flirted with working for Putnam and Wellington, but they seemed too institutional in the end. Went back to the transaction biz.
As for your “assumption,” perhaps reading comprehension is part of the problem here?
Note what I actually wrote:
I don’t know that much about the Mass State Lege*, but the New York State legislature** — corrupted completely by it’s one party dominance
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KEY:
* Note, I was referring to your legislature, and not knowing what it was like, as I was only a kid when I lived there.
** THIS being the legislature that I DO know about.
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Not sure if I had talked about AVARF here, but I definitely talked about it on the PPT.
That one could’ve taken care of your subscription costs for the next five years in one day.
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More good news from that “Friend of Business and Free Commerce,” the Obama Administration:
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Senator Demint Vows to Reverse FCC Internet Takeover
A federal court has ruled that the commission has no authority to regulate the Internet, and a bipartisan group of senators and representives warned Genechowski not to attempt to impose a regulatory regime on the Internet earlier this year.
The move’s legality was even questioned by FCC Commissioner Michael Copp, one of the Democrats who voted today with Genachowski, saying he considered voting against the proposal because it lacks a sufficiently defensible legal basis to survive a court challenge promised by major Internet Service Providers like Verizon, Microsoft, and AT & T.
But legal challenges by industry are likely to be much less of a problem for the Genachowski-led takeover than efforts in Congress to stop the FCC in its tracks.
That’s clearly what DeMint has in mind, as he said in his statement released today following the FCC action:
“The Obama Administration has ignored evidence that this federal takeover will hang a millstone of regulatory and legal uncertainty around the neck of a vibrant sector of our economy.
“Proceeding on its own liberal whims rather than facts, this FCC has chosen to grant itself broad authority to limit how businesses can bring the internet to consumers in faster and more innovative ways.
“Americans loudly demanded a more limited federal government this November, but the Obama Administration has dedicated itself to expanding centralized government planning. Today, unelected bureaucrats rammed through an internet takeover, even after Congress and courts warned them not to.
“To keep the internet economy thriving, this decision must be reversed. Regulatory reform will be a top priority for Republicans in the next Congress, and I intend to prevent the FCC or any government agency from unilaterally burdening our recovering economy with baseless regulation.
“In order to provide the stability businesses need to grow, I will work with my fellow senators to see passage of my FCC Act, which would ensure that the FCC can only use its rulemaking powers where there is clear evidence of a harmful market failure, as well as the REINS Act, which would add the accountability of a Congressional vote before any government agency’s proposed major regulations may be finalized.”
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2010/12/demint-vows-reverse-fccs-internet-takeover#ixzz18nIIO7my
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Don’t fear Jakegint, in 2011 (or before) we will see sell-offs in gold and silver… maybe even some as big as 25%-30%… but we will not see peak.
and it is not like there is a team that will beat the Patriots in the post season… consider the loss to Philly as getting the hurt and pain over with sooner rather than later.
Sort of like our 41-17 loss to the Vikes in 2007?
How’d that end for you guys? Oh yeah… 18-1.
So solly, no Lombardi.
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Nothing but dumb luck. That helmet catch was like going all in with 10-2 in the WSOP against Gus Hansen holding poket bullets and winning.