Pats by 10. You just can't argue with that machine.

Pats by 7. They are just too damn good and too well coached.

My heart says Eagles because I'm a big fan of Andy Reid (Go Pack). My head says Patriots because an experienced Super Bowl winner has a huge advantage in the intangibles. And, of course, the Patriots are good.

Patriots 28, Eagles 17

As an Iggle fan I cannot let this thread be an all Pats all the time. The Pats are the best team in football but their Super Bowl victories have not been blow-outs. There are a couple of things in Philly's favor. The Pats special teams, other than Vinny kicking field goals, are 28th in the league. Dave Akers is arguably the next best kicker in the leagueand there is a very good chance of Westbrook returning punts. Another is the defense has not faced a quarterback this season who can run as well as McNabb.

I see this game as a battle between two very good teams and the difference will be decided by turn overs. Both know how to score after a turn over so I predict an Eagle win 27 to 24 with Akers stealing the glory from Vinny. E-A-G-L-E-S!

Well, it's almost always about turnovers, isn't it?

There's a stat that says something like whoever wins the turnover battle wins the game 90% of the time.

The Pats don't -- or at least haven't -- turned the ball over much, especially in the past two weeks. And they pillaged Rothlisberger like a Viking last week.

How about some predictions about whether TO's foot snaps completely off?

That's true about Rothlisberger just like when the Pats coughed it up four times against the Steelers earlier in the season. T.O. will snap his foot while doing an end zone dance.

Eagles by 2 in a boring StuporBowl. 26-24.

Shame, I hate the Eagles, who win and preen excessively.

But Patsies are due for a fall.

Johnny Coldcuts! Woo-hoo! If JC says it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen.

More importantly though, does Johnny have any knowledge of "wardrobe malfunctions" in this years game? Cause the last thing I wanna see is Paul McCartney in his underwear.

Johnny's back! Hooray!

Pats by 17. Because I like to see Eagles fan cry.

Ditka seventy-tree, Hurricane Ditka tirty-tree.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Hey Senator, I don't think there's any worry there. Word is he's going to avoid any reoccurrence of last year's debacle by performing without any clothes at all.

The 62-year-old icon, who was knighted in London nine years ago, joked about the possibility of exposing flesh during the halftime show.

"I can assure you I won't," McCartney said, "because I'll be naked."

Oh, and Pats by 9.

Fucking Johnny Coldcuts! Picking Bruchski to dance in the endzone twice? Are those sesame seeds or little crack sprinkles?

Who would sell Crystal Meth to a sandwich anyway?

WRT blow-outs vs close games, there's an interesting trend of alternating close and blow-out superbowls. If this pattern holds true, we'll have another blow-out.

Who am I selecting?

Double-heh.

This Super Bowl hype reminds me of the Redskins vs Raiders Superbowl. Everyone said the Redskins would win because they had the better record and had won the year before. They were going to be a dynasty EVERYONE SAID. Result? Raiders won, no dynasty talk of Redskins.

This Super Bowl hype reminds me of the Packers vs Broncos Superbowl. Everyone said the Packers would win because they had won the year before and they were going to be a dynasty EVERYONE SAID. Result? Broncos won, no dynasty talk of Packers.

This Super Bowl hype reminds me of the Rams vs Patriots Superbowl. Everyone said the Rams would win because they had won recently and they were going to be a dynasty EVERYONE SAID. Result? Patriots won and no dynasty talk of the Rams.

Enjoy the game but don't buy into the hype. And definitely don't buy into just because a team won before that they will win this time. And remember at the beginning of the playoffs it sure seemed like everyone was saying the Colts would win it all. Then they picked Pittsburgh. Now everyone seems to be saying New England AFTER New England beat the previous 2 favorites.

Eagles 41 Pats 27

Bellichick is not a genius, that is NFL marketing hype. The truth is that if you took Bellichick and his staff and transferred them to a Texas High school, they would get their butts kicked by a number of coaching staffs.

The level of high school coaching in Texas was demonstrated during last years super bowl when the world junior championship was played in Houston as a sideshow to the Super Bowl.

The Canadian team was coached by the offensive coordinator of the Gray cup champions plus Canadian College football coaches. The team consisted of college and high school players from all over Canada. (The rules allowed players to be 20 years old - as long as they were 19 on a date before the game, and a number of the Canadians were 20).

The "US" team consisted of the high school academic all stars from the Houston area. They were coached by the coaches from Katy High and the head coaches from Madison and Humble High schools - all in the Houston area.

By the middle of the second quarter the Canadian coaches were yelling at each other. They were constantly in the wrong defense, none of their play calling worked, and their bigger, stronger, faster, older players just looked confused. It was the 3rd quarter before team Canada got their second first down.

The final score was 31 - 0 team USA.

You might claim that the Texas kids just play better football than Canadians, and that would be true, but the reason they do is that they are coached better.

If you took the two teams and gave each of them to NFL staffs, the Canadians would have won every time - they were far superior physically. The year before they lost to team "California" in overtime, and were favored to win this game, The Canadian team had the advantage of continuity, the US team was slapped together two weeks before the game.

The real test of coaching is to win with inferior talent. Most Anyone can win with better players. Bellichick is a very good coach, he would be a winner in Texas High schools, but he couldn't compete for a state championship with average talent, which a number of Texas High School coaches do.

And yes, I realize the NFL coaches are better than Canadian pros and College coaches, but the NFL coaches aren't so much better that they would have won 31-0 with inferior players.

I like the Pats because the Eagles haven't really played for some time. They sat out their last two regular season games to avoid injuries. They also beat the Vikings, who suck, and the Falcons, who were vastly overrated (having played in a dismal conference). I wonder whether the Eagles are ready for this game.

I figure Pats by 10, at least.

But if I'm wrong, the really important thing, the thing that matters above all else, is that the total score be below 47.5 points.

The Eagles will most definitely be slicing like fucking hammers this evening...
Birds 27
Pats 24

Now please excuse me while I tease the Birds and the over...and move myself into a bomb shelter because the greater Philadelphia area is going to erupt into a scene of drunken debauchery that I don't really care to witness. If the Eagles happen to lose and you are unemployed get to Philadelphia because they are going to need help pulling the bodies out of the Delaware River.

You'd think that Johnny Coldcuts would start looking a little bit wilted after all this time, wouldn't you?

Pats by 10.

Now as for the Redskins, they won three Super Bowls in a decade with three different quarterbacks. That, I think, is a greater testament to the team than having the 49'ers coast to four just on the strength of St. Joseph of Montana. Yeah, the Niners may have been the team of the decade, but no one can tell me the '83-'93 Redskins weren't up there.

SWLiP,

Lemme get this straight...you have no problems accepting that JC is a talking, time travelling, substance abusing, moronic bologna sandwich but you do have problems with his lack of wilting?

One word: Preservatives.

And I got mucho dinero on the Bruschi TD's. JC has a perfect sports record....

Am I the only one to have notice the resemblence of the New England's Patriot logo to John Kerry?

http://www.sportskids.com/sportskids/images/304-0086.jpg

According to my XBox and Madden 2005,

Eagles 38. Patriots 27

Hmm...

According to my xbox Earth has been invaded by the Covenant! You better scramble like hell Mcnabb.

Pats by 17. I don't need no stinkin' sandwich.

I predict Pats by 3.

If not for that flaky touchdown, I would have had it nailed.

Now to call a buddy of mine before he hangs himself.

Yep, I predict Pats by 3.