{"id":3980,"date":"2008-02-02T04:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3980"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:35:46","slug":"countdown-to-gi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3980","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Giants vs. Patriots &#8211; who will win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course the head says the Patriots, but in the heart it&#8217;s the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll go with my heart and pick the Giants, 28-24. <\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the sleeper MVP <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ahmad_Bradshaw\"><strong>Ahmad Bradshaw &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/strong><\/a> the Giants rookie running back who won&#8217;t even be 22 years old until March. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my theory &#8211; the Pats linebackers are relatively slow, and Bradshaw is <u>very<\/u> quick. The potential is there for him to turn a short run into a big gain, or a short pass into a big play. <\/p>\n<p>Of course if the Giants QB Peyton Manning doesn&#8217;t play at the high level he&#8217;s been at in the three prior playoff games (no turnovers in three games!), then the Giants are in real trouble.<\/p>\n<p>My opinion on this game is worth exaclty what you paid to read it! <\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course the head says the Patriots, but in the heart it&#8217;s the Giants. So I&#8217;ll go with my heart and pick the Giants, 28-24. And here&#8217;s the sleeper MVP Ahmad Bradshaw &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia the Giants rookie running back who won&#8217;t even be 22 years old until March. Here&#8217;s my theory &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/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-3980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980","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=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14245,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions\/14245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}