{"id":3981,"date":"2008-02-01T11:33:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T11:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:35:50","slug":"super-bowl-coun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3981","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl countdown: Article on Junior Seau and Michael Strahan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seau is 39 years old and a Patriot linebacker. Strahan 35, and a Giant defensive end. both have been to the Super Bowl, but neither with a winning team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/01\/31\/AR2008013103762.html?wpisrc=newsletter\"><strong>Awaiting Their Crowning Achievement &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Strahan eventually convinced himself to extend his career at least one more season, and now he and Seau, who have a combined 33 years of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/related\/topic\/National+Football+League?tid=informline\"><span style=\"color: #0c4790;\">NFL<\/span><\/a> service, are on the cusp of adding an elusive Super Bowl title to their extensive r\u00e9sum\u00e9s. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Junior is a great friend of mine,&quot; Strahan said. &quot;I text him all the time throughout the entire playoffs and throughout the season, and I see him in the offseason. It is one of those things where I wish he gets a ring, but at the same time I need mine. One of us will have to suffer.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Said Seau: &quot;I have a lot of respect for someone like Michael Strahan. He&#8217;s on the same fence as me, trying to grab one. It&#8217;s been a long, long journey for both of us.&quot; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seau is 39 years old and a Patriot linebacker. Strahan 35, and a Giant defensive end. both have been to the Super Bowl, but neither with a winning team. Awaiting Their Crowning Achievement &#8211; washingtonpost.com Strahan eventually convinced himself to extend his career at least one more season, and now he and Seau, who have [&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-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","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=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9333,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/9333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}