Monday, February 6th, 2012...7:01 pm
Eli and Madonna Make the Magic
GRID IRON…maybe we should just let the Giants and Pats play every year?
The teams played another classic yesterday with Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning outplaying and, gulp, out-thinking the New England “geniuses”.
There were 17 drives during the Superbowl, eight by New York and nine by New England. This fact serves to underline how critical were the New England mistakes. Drives ended with a safety, an interception and multiple dropped passes. The Giants played relatively conservative but also mistake free. They looked like a superbly coached squad and made the Patriots look amateurish.
Twelve man on the field ruining a potentially game changing turnover? Wes Welker dropping a critical pass? Tom Brady with an inexplicable brain cramp in his own end zone?
Nope, didn’t see any of that coming, but it sure made for riveting TV.
MADONNA…I thought the 53 year old icon looked exuberant and gorgeous, dancing her way through a set that included “Vogue”, “Music”, “Give Me All Your Luvin” and a show stopping “Like A Prayer”. Madonna featured guests Nickie Minaj, MIA, LMFAO and C Lo Green. The playfulness and attention to detail that marks all her shows was present, though I did notice (did you?) that she missed her mark once and came close to tumbling off the back of the risers. Now that would have been shocking.
The halftime gig has become a real coup for performers and Madonna has surely raised the bar in terms of expectations…
…a grumpy Elton John, who has never been asked to do the halftime show, informed fans that he wouldn’t want to do it anyways. Okay, thanks for letting us know…
PUG LIFE…Manny Pacquiao has settled on unbeaten Timothy Bradley as his next opponent. Bradley is the current WBO junior welterweight champ, though he did have one fight in the welterweight division last year. Manny weighed 143 for his last fight, so he’s a small welterweight and the men should be similar in stature.
Bradley had his biggest fight last January when facing Devon Alexander, the unbeaten WBC champ. The fight was a bomb, a dull affair where neither fighter impressed. Alexander more or less just quit in the tenth, frustrating fans who had hoped for more. Bradley has a gaudy 29-0 record but has little power (12 KO’s) and does not seem a very difficult opponent for the Pac Man.
Unlike Mayweather – Cotto, this one is a potential hard sell…
…more trouble in the Julio Caesar Chavez Jr camp; the troubled fighter skipped out of his drug test after Saturdays win against Marco Antonio Rubio. Chavez has long been a rumoured steroid user, so this bit of news is troubling. Chavez was trained for the fight by Freddie Roach, the man in charge of Manny Pacquiao…
PONIES…Game On Dude, second in last year’s Breeders Cup Classic, served notice that he will be a tough one in 2012 with a facile win in the San Antonio Stakes at Santa Anita yesterday. Trainer Bob Baffert stated the colt will be pointed to either the prestigious Big ‘Cap at Santa Anita March 3rd or the March 31st Dubai World Cup…
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