{"id":6,"date":"2008-02-02T02:49:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T08:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2008-02-02T23:38:36","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T05:38:36","slug":"superbowl-xlii-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Superbowl XLII (42)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a momentous year for the Superbowl, at least if you are a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_Adams\" title=\"Best known as the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\">Douglas Adams<\/a> fan (I watched the movie, didn&#8217;t read the books).\u00c2\u00a0Being number <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything\" title=\"The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything\">42<\/a>, this Superbowl\u00c2\u00a0will be\u00c2\u00a0the answer to everything:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0Did Tom Brady\u00c2\u00a0really hurt his foot? Or was he drawing attention away from a shoulder injury? Or was he just playing head games?<\/li>\n<li>Why are they talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/rumors\/post\/Giants-think-Gisele-is-hotter-than-Jessica?urn=nfl,64512\" title=\"Giants think Gisele is hotter than Jessica\">Gisele vs. Jessica<\/a>? That\u00c2\u00a0ship sailed\u00c2\u00a0in the last 9 seconds of the Giants\/Cowboys game &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0you know, the one where Eli became a man.<\/li>\n<li>Will the Giants complete their\u00c2\u00a0David vs. Goliath act and bring glory to Manhattan? (OK, I find the irony of the Giants\u00c2\u00a0playing the\u00c2\u00a0David role humorous.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Patriots seem to have destiny written all over them, though they have looked human in their last several games. The teams of destiny often do what is expected of them. But this year things have not turned out quite that way. The Cowboys looked like the only team capable of beating the Patriots for three fourths of the season. Even though they lost to the Giants, I still think they were one of the few teams who could beat the Pats. The Cowboys did not really get beaten by the Giants. Yes, the Giants played very well. But the Cowboys were slightly out of synch and could not quite close the deal. Even so, they had\u00c2\u00a0two of the scariest\u00c2\u00a0(to their opponents) drives of the entire season. It looked like Destiny might even work its magic\u00c2\u00a0 in the post-season but the fairy dust ran\u00c2\u00a0just a few seconds short.<\/p>\n<p>It could happen to the Patriots. The\u00c2\u00a0Giants\u00c2\u00a0are a different crew from the one that started the season. They may not have peaked yet. Eli Manning seems to have found the handle, at least for now. So this is a game that needs to be watched &#8212; it is not a fait accompli. And I don&#8217;t think it will be a blowout. It may not even cover the spread (last I heard it was 13 points). The Patriots are a machine: businesslike, cool under pressure. If the Giants can keep their cool they have\u00c2\u00a0chance.\u00c2\u00a0Not a great one. But a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a momentous year for the Superbowl, at least if you are a Douglas Adams fan (I watched the movie, didn&#8217;t read the books).\u00c2\u00a0Being number 42, this Superbowl\u00c2\u00a0will be\u00c2\u00a0the answer to everything:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[21,19,18,20,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveminuteorator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}