What If?

Whatever else you wanna rant about.
User avatar
Quann
Hall of Fame
Posts: 3160
Joined: Sun Apr 06, 2003 11:17 pm
Location: Hopkinton, MA

Re: What If?

Post by Quann » Sun Mar 08, 2026 7:27 pm

Floyd wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 1:09 pm What if Pete Carrol calls the right play and Marshawn Lynch gets the handoff instead of throwing the ball from the 2 yard line?
Hope Tom and Bill send an annual Christmas card to Pete thanking him for that pass call!

Floyd
Hall of Fame
Posts: 10897
Joined: Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:50 am
Location: Not where I should be

Re: What If?

Post by Floyd » Mon Mar 09, 2026 5:10 am

LS71 wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 4:50 pm
Floyd wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 4:08 pm He's an instant hero for eternity
He certainly is for Red Sox fans.

For Yankee fans like, not so much.
You can still switch over to Red Sox Nation LS. We welcome you in. :lol:
Time to Win

User avatar
LS71
Hall of Fame
Posts: 8887
Joined: Wed Apr 02, 2003 8:55 pm
Location: Lost in Space

Re: What If?

Post by LS71 » Mon Mar 09, 2026 8:15 am

^ Thanks! I’m a fan of the Bruins, Celtics and Patriots, but I’m stickin’ with the Pnstripes. I’m not anti-Red Sox, just pro-Yankees.
"Win without boasting, lose without crying." -- Julius Erving

inthescoop
Hall of Fame
Posts: 6125
Joined: Sun Sep 25, 2011 7:40 pm
Location: LA

Re: What If?

Post by inthescoop » Mon Mar 09, 2026 9:17 am

Quann wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 1:23 pm
e_parade wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 1:48 pm
inthescoop wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 1:16 pm
Have a nice drink and watch Little Giants tonight
Good chat. Have fun changing the subject and lobbing insults whenever you're wrong. Good to know I don't need to value your opinion on any subject in the future.
Making little jokes doesn't change the fact you are wrong on this Scoop. By the rules on the books at the time it was 100% an incomplete pass. Eparade and myself are simply pointing that out.
I acknowledge I'm on a message board with 99% Pats fans. If you go on a neutral NFL message board, this would most certainly not be the outcome. Anyways, moving on...

What if David Tyree didn't catch that ball from Eli Manning in the Super Bowl? Would the Pats have gone 18-0? Would they not have lost to the Giants again in the rematch Super Bowl making the Giants and Eli go 2-0 against the Pats in Super Bowls?

User avatar
LS71
Hall of Fame
Posts: 8887
Joined: Wed Apr 02, 2003 8:55 pm
Location: Lost in Space

Re: What If?

Post by LS71 » Mon Mar 09, 2026 11:43 am

^ The Giants having the Pat's number is not unlike Mike Jarvis having Cal's number back when things was cheap...er! :wink: .
"Win without boasting, lose without crying." -- Julius Erving

PintOGuinness
Junior
Posts: 638
Joined: Fri Dec 10, 2004 10:11 am
Contact:

Re: What If?

Post by PintOGuinness » Mon Mar 09, 2026 4:37 pm

Quann wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 7:27 pm
Floyd wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 1:09 pm What if Pete Carrol calls the right play and Marshawn Lynch gets the handoff instead of throwing the ball from the 2 yard line?
Hope Tom and Bill send an annual Christmas card to Pete thanking him for that pass call!
Same sequence - what if Donta Hightower doesnt stop Marshawn Lynch at the 1 yard line?
Word to your motha!

User avatar
LS71
Hall of Fame
Posts: 8887
Joined: Wed Apr 02, 2003 8:55 pm
Location: Lost in Space

Re: What If?

Post by LS71 » Mon Mar 09, 2026 6:33 pm

What if Havlicek didn’t steal the ball?
"Win without boasting, lose without crying." -- Julius Erving

User avatar
Quann
Hall of Fame
Posts: 3160
Joined: Sun Apr 06, 2003 11:17 pm
Location: Hopkinton, MA

Re: What If?

Post by Quann » Wed Mar 11, 2026 8:40 pm

inthescoop wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 9:17 am
Quann wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 1:23 pm
e_parade wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 1:48 pm

Good chat. Have fun changing the subject and lobbing insults whenever you're wrong. Good to know I don't need to value your opinion on any subject in the future.
Making little jokes doesn't change the fact you are wrong on this Scoop. By the rules on the books at the time it was 100% an incomplete pass. Eparade and myself are simply pointing that out.
I acknowledge I'm on a message board with 99% Pats fans. If you go on a neutral NFL message board, this would most certainly not be the outcome. Anyways, moving on...

What if David Tyree didn't catch that ball from Eli Manning in the Super Bowl? Would the Pats have gone 18-0? Would they not have lost to the Giants again in the rematch Super Bowl making the Giants and Eli go 2-0 against the Pats in Super Bowls?
Not trying to be a dick but the Pats were 18-0 that season, just never got to 19-0 which was the problem :lol: Even though we ended up with 6 super bowl rings, that one will always haunt us Pats fans. Would have been the undisputed greatest team ever in NFL history. Ugh

69MG
Hall of Fame
Posts: 13498
Joined: Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:07 pm
Location: Western Mass

Re: What If?

Post by 69MG » Wed Mar 11, 2026 9:48 pm

^ Before I retired, my boss was a Long Island native and lifetime Giants fan. He had an very large damn poster of Tyree with the ball on his helmet in his office. If he wasn't such a good guy and great boss I could have learned to really dislike him. It was tough to walk into that office every day.

User avatar
Sheck
Hall of Fame
Posts: 2435
Joined: Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:13 am
Location: NH

Re: What If?

Post by Sheck » Wed Mar 11, 2026 10:13 pm

What if Jarvis had been hired in '88 instead of Cal?
Give WBB more money.

Online
User avatar
InnervisionsUMASS
Hall of Fame
Posts: 19139
Joined: Fri Apr 04, 2003 1:32 am
Location: Milford, MA
Contact:

Re: What If?

Post by InnervisionsUMASS » Thu Mar 12, 2026 7:02 am

Sheck wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2026 10:13 pm What if Jarvis had been hired in '88 instead of Cal?

Everyone would be a touch less miserable right now.
Stop waiting for UMass to do something big and help UMass do something big. - Shades

User avatar
e_parade
Senior
Posts: 879
Joined: Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:15 pm
Location: Boston

Re: What If?

Post by e_parade » Thu Mar 12, 2026 1:06 pm

inthescoop wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 9:17 am
Quann wrote: Sun Mar 08, 2026 1:23 pm
e_parade wrote: Fri Mar 06, 2026 1:48 pm

Good chat. Have fun changing the subject and lobbing insults whenever you're wrong. Good to know I don't need to value your opinion on any subject in the future.
Making little jokes doesn't change the fact you are wrong on this Scoop. By the rules on the books at the time it was 100% an incomplete pass. Eparade and myself are simply pointing that out.
I acknowledge I'm on a message board with 99% Pats fans. If you go on a neutral NFL message board, this would most certainly not be the outcome. Anyways, moving on...

What if David Tyree didn't catch that ball from Eli Manning in the Super Bowl? Would the Pats have gone 18-0? Would they not have lost to the Giants again in the rematch Super Bowl making the Giants and Eli go 2-0 against the Pats in Super Bowls?
I think a fair tuck rule thing to bring up would be:

What if the tuck rule had never been created?

User avatar
LS71
Hall of Fame
Posts: 8887
Joined: Wed Apr 02, 2003 8:55 pm
Location: Lost in Space

Re: What If?

Post by LS71 » Thu Mar 12, 2026 6:52 pm

Sheck wrote: Wed Mar 11, 2026 10:13 pm What if Jarvis had been hired in '88 instead of Cal?
Jarvis replied to Harper Williams’ post on FB….calling today’s UMass victory as a great win! 8)
"Win without boasting, lose without crying." -- Julius Erving

Post Reply