{"id":2980,"date":"2012-02-05T23:51:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T23:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:01:06","slug":"farands-football-punditry-comes-though-sort-of-right-on-winner-wrong-on-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2980","title":{"rendered":"Faranda football punditry comes through &#8211; more or less. Right on winner, wrong on score."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I had the <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2012\/02\/faranda-football-punditry-giants-to-win-because-.html\" target=\"_self\">Giants to win by 7 to 10 points<\/a>. Missed on the points, but that&#39;s OK &#8211; will take the win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aol.sportingnews.com\/nfl\/story\/2012-02-05\/new-york-giants-win-super-bowl-xlvi-over-new-england-patriots?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl1|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D133011\" target=\"_self\">Giants 21, Patriots 17.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2016300d10d78970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Manning S B 2012\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2016300d10d78970d\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2016300d10d78970d-300wi\" style=\"width: 280px;\" title=\"Manning S B 2012\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The old saying &quot;football is a game of inches&quot; still holds true<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I had the Giants to win by 7 to 10 points. Missed on the points, but that&#39;s OK &#8211; will take the win. Giants 21, Patriots 17. The old saying &quot;football is a game of inches&quot; still holds true &#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6424,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions\/6424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}