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Americas Game- 2007 New York Giants

gpost191 : 4/29/2008 10:57 pm
I know some of you were wondering so.....
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Here we go!  
Sean in PA : 4/29/2008 11:00 pm : link
"The series’ newest episode, America’s Game: 2007 New York Giants, will debut on NFL Network in September."

CAN'T WAIT!!
Phenomenal  
Go Terps : 4/29/2008 11:01 pm : link
.
Let the debate begin.....  
gpost191 : 4/29/2008 11:02 pm : link
Eli, Strahan and Coughlin.
september!?  
MookGiants : 4/29/2008 11:03 pm : link
how the hell am I going to make it until september before I get to see that?
my guess  
AnyoneButPhilly : 4/29/2008 11:07 pm : link
Tiki, Tim Hassleback, Luke Pettigout (sp)
Bet the first one of these is the 2007 Pats  
Fred in Atlanta : 4/29/2008 11:08 pm : link
A new group of shows in the series -- America’s Game: The Missing Rings –- also debuts on NFL Network in September. Missing Rings chronicles some of the greatest teams which did not win the Super Bowl.
It'll be Eli, Strahan,  
Go Terps : 4/29/2008 11:09 pm : link
and Coughlin.

One sleeper I'd love to see on the program would be Corey Webster. If ever a guy has an interesting story to tell it'd be him.
Oh man  
L.T.=Lawrence Taylor : 4/29/2008 11:27 pm : link
This is gonna be great. Thanks for posting this man I'm excited.
missing rings  
Kyle in NY : 4/29/2008 11:31 pm : link
sounds interesting
the nfl  
MookGiants : 4/29/2008 11:35 pm : link
had to find something to do with all the film they shot of the patriots this year, so they created the missing rings series
I agree  
Bill Barilko : 4/29/2008 11:46 pm : link
Coughlin, Strahan and Eli.
one show I am really looking forward to  
AnyoneButPhilly : 4/29/2008 11:49 pm : link
was from that article posted a while back about the old traveling nfl championship trophy that got lost after they came out with the Lombardi award. Ar first i thought thats what they meant by Missing Rings. Its amazing that something like that can get lost
GREAT NEWS.  
bceagle05 : 4/30/2008 12:04 am : link
I watched the '86 America's Game before the Tampa playoff game just for good karma. Once they won that game, I watched it before the next three playoff games out of superstition. Hopefully this show matches that one. Coughlin, Strahan and Eli would be great - certainly is a lot of great material there.
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Eric from BBI : Admin : 4/30/2008 12:21 am : link
This is awesome.

My only regret is that they won't have the benefit of time. Time to reflect and appreciate. The 1986 "America's Game" was so good because you could see how much it meant to Simms, Taylor, and Parcells given all the time that has passed.
i'll be ordering that one  
Jint 77 : 4/30/2008 12:31 am : link
also.
Oh Yeah!  
Klaatu : 4/30/2008 12:32 am : link
Eli, Strahan, and Coughlin are the logical choices, but I'd love to see one with Pierce, Plax, and Sam Madison.
Eric  
CL : 4/30/2008 12:32 am : link
I have seen a lot of NFL Films material whey the Sabols will interview particular players 10 or more years later and eventually cut that in with the original footage. But who knows where the Sabols will be in 10 years - that's a really sad thought. Man what a great family and brilliant body of work.
missing rings= Buffalo Bills and Vikings...  
Gene Too : 4/30/2008 12:57 am : link
I would guess that Eli, Strahan and Coughlin will narrate this edition.

It's very anti-climactic  
moespree : 4/30/2008 1:02 am : link
On who it's going to be. I'd be stunned if it's not Eli, Strahan, and Coughlin. But going on the premise that it's supposed to be someone who meant a lot to that season somehow sneaking Jerry Reese in there wouldn't be a bad idea. But it won't happen.
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!!!  
Toastt34 : 4/30/2008 1:09 am : link
Can't wait!!!! If ever there was a team that should have one of these it is these Giants. I was nervous with all the NFL budget cuts that they wouldn't do it, SO SO SO HAPPY! It is so well done!
I nominate. Shockey, Kiwinuka  
G_V_P 4 MVP : 4/30/2008 1:10 am : link
and Sinorice Moss. Oops
I am very happy about this  
JoeMP2003 : 4/30/2008 1:25 am : link
I had read earlier this offseason, when the stuff about the NFL phasing out NFL films started to make news, that the NFL had rebuffed NFL films when they approached them about a new americas game project. Glad to see it will happen

Those are so well done and i can't wait to see it
Eric, I have a solution  
Big Blue '56 : 4/30/2008 7:47 am : link
After you receive it, put it away for 10 years, then watch it for the first time...:o)
As long as they don't have Accorsi  
Big Blue '56 : 4/30/2008 7:49 am : link
PLEASE!!!
America’s Game: The Missing Rings  
mrvax : 4/30/2008 7:59 am : link
I thought it was a joke. I guess it's all about the Vikes, E-gals, and Bills.

Why wait until September to show a film most fans want to see? Show that biotch now during the off season.
i wouldnt want eli to narrate it,  
willybon5 : 4/30/2008 8:02 am : link
he will offer no insight and all! The guy never has anything interesting to say.
Missing Rings  
willybon5 : 4/30/2008 8:03 am : link
they must have gotten the idea from the Pats this year.

Pats
Vikings
Packers
Rams
Bills

thats just recent memory.
Go Terps  
MattinKY : 4/30/2008 9:10 am : link
Don't you mean "Pha----Nominal"

or

"In----Credible"

"Ah----Mazing"

"Stu----Pendous"

"I am totally jacked, can't wait to see the New York Football Giants Americas Game"


Sorry I had a Jim Rome flashback...........
I havent seen any of the productions in this series.  
BoldRuler : 4/30/2008 9:15 am : link
Can someone describe what they are like? It sounds like it focuses on 3 players/coaches talking about their season. Is that correct?
I listened to Steve Sabol on NFL Radio last week, and he spoke  
truebluelarry : 4/30/2008 9:34 am : link
about the America's Game series.

For the 2007 Giants, the subjects will be Coughlin, Manning and Strahan. Sabol said they'd already had all three of them in the studio and conducted three hour interviews with each, and he said Coughlin was great. Sabol also added that the Giants video crew records all of Coughlin's night befor ethe game speeches,and said the Giants made that footage available to NFL Films and will be included.

Sabol also spoke a little about the Missing Ring series. It will be focused on franchises that have never won a Super Bowl (so no 2007 Pats). He said the first ones will likely be the 90's Bills, '87 Bengals and '69 Vikings. I think that is a good idea for a series and will probably be more interesting than a lot of the one's they did on the winners.
Now that's exciting  
Big Blue '56 : 4/30/2008 9:38 am : link
Even Big Al(where ya been big guy?) has taken to TC...:o)
truebluelarry  
MookGiants : 4/30/2008 9:42 am : link
good stuff. Thanks for sharing that information
excellent, thanks for posting  
Overseer : 4/30/2008 10:10 am : link
but September?! yeesh...
Excellent news  
P-Man : 4/30/2008 10:27 am : link
This has absolutely made my day, I have been wondering since the clock ticked down to 0:00 when this would come out.

Even watching other teams episodes are great, the format of the show is tremendous.

Thanks for the info truebluelarry, that sounds like a show that will attain "save until manually deleted" on my DVR.
Thanks, Larry.  
Klaatu : 4/30/2008 10:40 am : link
I can't wait to hear those "before the game" speeches. Should be very entertaining. Coughlin doesn't look like a "fun" guy - frankly, he always looked to me like he should be commanding a Panzer division in the Ardennes, circa 1944 - but looks can be deceiving, as evidenced by his comments to the officials prior to the SuperBowl, "This year everybody's worried about my face, last year it was my ass."
Thank God they are doing this!  
Exit 172 : 4/30/2008 10:47 am : link
I was nervous with all the talk about NFL Films that they would pull the plug on this.

As I've insisted all along, it has to be Coughlin, Strahan, and Manning.
BoldRuler  
Raultney : 4/30/2008 10:49 am : link
America's Game, the '86 Giants will be shown tomorrow night at 9:00 on the NFL Network.

Parcells, Simms and LT. This is a great series, very well done.

I've only seen the two about the Giants; couldn't care less about the other teams.

Can't wait for the latest one.
Raultney  
Tim back from Iraq : 4/30/2008 10:59 am : link
Thats funny... I love the series and usually watch anytime its on the NFL network, but I haven't seen any of the Giants yet!!!! Thursday night I have the DVR primed!
Great news about the 2007 Giants America's Game.  
NYG27 : 4/30/2008 11:03 am : link
As for the Missing Rings series, I think it will be better to focus on the teams that didn't win a Superbowl. The 2007 Patriots would be a crappy show, mostly because most of their core players can reflect on their past SB championships. Same with the 2001 Rams and the 1997 Packers.

In my opinion the best lot of the Missing Rings would be focused on.....

Jim Kelly's Buffalo Bills teams to lost 4 straight SBs, that should definitly be one of the teams selected.

Dan Marino's 80's Dolphins teams, especially following Dan's unsuccessful quest for a SB.

Dan Fout's late 70's/early 80's Chargers teams that some call the best teams not to make a Superbowl.

Frank Tarkenton's 70's Vikings team with that great defense of the "Purple People Eaters" losing 4 Superbowls.
hopefully eli opens up a little for this.  
bceagle05 : 4/30/2008 11:07 am : link
It would be nice to hear him speak from the heart a bit and not give us the usual, "trying to play good football, get the ball to my playmakers" routine. Between this and the 5-cd box set of playoff games that's coming out in June, I don't even want next season to get here. I'll just watch these dvds on Sundays next fall.
Strahan, Tyree, Tuck  
Macgj424 : 4/30/2008 11:53 am : link
but Eli or Coughlin wouldn't be bad
All Tiki for an hour.  
FilmGiant : 4/30/2008 12:05 pm : link
A one man show.

Ok so the Today Show girls do a cameo, like they did in Tampa.

Gore is going to Filmo:  
Randy in CT : 4/30/2008 1:14 pm : link
"oh no you diiint???"
They're releasing it  
Kulish29 : 4/30/2008 1:37 pm : link
at or near the beggining of the season just like they did with the Colts' America's Game last year.
There only reason why their doing the  
Eli2Plax1017 : 4/30/2008 1:47 pm : link
missing ring thing is because of New England, fuck that
Maybe Spags?  
TrueBlueSince82' : 4/30/2008 2:14 pm : link
..
Interestingly....  
Giantfan in skinland : 4/30/2008 4:36 pm : link
The Giants superbowl victories may all be featured in the rings series. Broncos and Bills were three-peat losers. Pats may have been the best team in league history.

In each case, I'll look forward to celebrating their misery.
I think it has to be Coughlin, Eli and Strahan,  
chopperhatch : 4/30/2008 6:29 pm : link
but you could add Pierce in there as a possibility. You have to keep in mind two things:

1) Strahan is on vacation and pondering retirement...I doubt he's been in the studio or will be any time soon. And given that once camp starts and what not, they either have, or will be shooting tape soon.

2) Pierce is great for sound bytes and he would represent the defensive side very well.

Long shots: Plax, Osi, Jacobs.
I posted this before I read truebluelarry's post  
chopperhatch : 4/30/2008 6:30 pm : link
obviously.
I dont understand why they limit it to 3 guys  
JoeMP2003 : 4/30/2008 10:06 pm : link
theres no reason why they can't get more people involved
NFL Films has been a goddamned  
Go Terps : 5/1/2008 12:57 am : link
pillar of American sports. That the NFL Network doesn't utilize more of their material offends me as a fan. Less Jamie Dukes and Rich Eisen, more John Facenda and Steve Sabol.

My buddy works in Mt. Laurel for NFL Films...he helped put together a lot of the stuff on the Super Bowl DVD. There are entire buildings just full of the stuff the Sabols have accrued. With that much material there is no reason the NFL Network should be reairing the same studio show 4 times a day.

One is left with the disturbing sense that the NFL Network is pushing away from the excellence of NFL Films, and more towards the ESPN-style shittization of broadcasting.

Booyah.
I don't think I've ever agreed with Go Terps before  
Greg from LI : 5/1/2008 6:37 am : link
But he's absolutely right on this one. The NFLN would be much better if they featured more of the classic NFL Films programs. Who the hell watches "Put Up Your Dukes"??
The NFLN definitely has room for improvement.  
Exit 172 : 5/1/2008 12:06 pm : link
However, any channel that broadcasts games from years ago in their entirety on a regular basis is leaps and bounds ahead of any other sports network.

I just watched the big Jets Monday night comeback against the Dolphins the other night. The whole game. It was great.

I would agree, though, that more NFL Films productions and fewer programming replays are in order on the channel.
Missing Rings  
tribs : 5/2/2008 12:47 pm : link
90 Bills should be on there. They were heavily favored to win the Superbowl and absolutely tore through the playoffs to get there. But you know what Bills stands for ...B.oy I. L.ove L.osing S.uperbowls.
I wish i had NFLN  
sshin05 : 5/2/2008 1:06 pm : link
for Time Warner
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