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The Clarion | Feb. 1, 2008
Super Bowl Point/Counterpoint Debate
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Master Debaters
B.J.-Plaxico Burress and Eli
Manning form the best
quarterback/wide receiver
pairing in football
Joe- Having caught 70 passes
for 1045 yards and 12
touchdowns, Plaxico Burress
is having a good season.
However, The Patriots have
two different receivers in Wes
Welker (112 catches for 1175
yards and 8 touchdowns) and
Randy Moss (98 receptions
for 1493 yards and 23
touchdowns) who have had
indisputably better seasons
than Burress.
B.J.- Eli Manning doesn’t
have superhuman defense-
reading skills, but he can read
the defense adequately,
which is good enough for me.
Joe- The Patriots' defense
gives up 190 passing yards
per game, meaning that Eli will
have to conjure up the
superhuman abilities that
even you admit he does not
possess if the Giants are to
have a chance.
B.J.-The Giants don’t have a
so-called dynasty like the
Patriots.
Joe- I fail to see why that is
an argument for why the
Giants will win. If you are
making a David vs. Goliath
analogy, it is not applicable in
this instance. Goliath was
technically a giant, so even if
Eli and Co. are playing David
metaphorically, they will really
just be killing themselves.
B.J.-The Giants have deep
blue helmets, while the
Patriots have silver helmets
with only a smattering of
blue. I like blue more than
any other color except
maroon.
Joe- Once again, I don’t really
see the correlation between
this point and the on-field
performance of the teams. In
their 18 wins the Patriots have
beaten teams whose helmet
colors fall all over the
spectrum, deep blue included.
B.J.- The Giants didn’t tape
the defense’s signals in the
first week of the season.
Joe- What some people call
cheating on the part of the
Patriots, I call resourceful
ness. The laws of nature state
that man [sic] must adapt to
survive. This is the Age of
Technology. The Patriots
adapted. That is why the
Patriots are the at the top of
the NFL’s food chain.
B.J.-The Giants came off a
huge overtime upset in the
NFC Championship game
against the Green Bay
Packers
Joe- While some may see that
as a positive, it is really
detrimental to the Giants for
two reasons. For one thing,
that game showed the world
that the Giants’ kicker does
not have the leg strength to
win the NFL’s “Punt, Pass,
Basketball teams sweep North Greenville
The men's and women's basketball teams
traveled to North Greenville University on
Saturday Jan. 26, and both teams came away
with victories. In the women's game, Brevard
held off NGU in overtime for a 57-52 win.
Sophomore guard Lindsay Thrift canned 5-of-8
three point attempts to lead the Lady
Tornados with 19 points. In the men's game,
the Tornados scorched the nets, hitting a
season-high 17 three pointers as a team and
cruised to an 86-65 win. Andrew Freeman
knocked down six long range bombs en route
to scoring a season-high 26 points. Joseph
Chilton added 17 points and Jonathan
Whitson recorded a double-double with 14
points and 10 rebounds.
and Kick” contest in the
under-12 age group. Sec
ondly, the karma that comes
along with knocking Brett
Favre out of the playoffs will
not treat the Giants kindly.
B.J.- The Giants are the last
hope for a honest football
team to win the Super Bowl
(at least until the Washington
Redskins are a decent football
team again and not have
Wide Receivers that have an
eternal case of the dropsies).
Joe- There are many traits
that cause a football team to
have a winning season.
Honesty is not one of them.
The Patriots may be as
crooked as a gerrymandered
political district, but that does
not take away from the fact
that their level of talent is on
a separate plane of existence
from that of the Giants.
B.J.-It’s New York vs. New
England. What can be better
than that??
Joe- I can think of lots of
things, most of them having
nothing to do with football. If
I had to refine my answer to
the gridiron, however, I would
probably say that a Super
Bowl in which one team (the
Giants) is not bringing a
salvation army knife to a
nuclear arms conflict would
be much better than New York
vs. New England.
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