San Francisco 49ers

A Bad Call Decided the Super Bowl and No One Cares

It's a shame when one's lasting image of a big football game is a blown call, and even worse when the blown call comes near the end of the game. For many, and at least for me, the lasting image of Super Bowl XLVII is Forty Niners receiver Michael Crabtree tangled in the arms of Ravens defensive b ... More >>

18 Awesome Places to Watch the Super Bowl in New York: Get Your Sports On

Deciding where to watch the Super Bowl is stressful. Do you pick the place with the best drink specials? The greatest food deals? Do you follow the crowd? Find a quiet bar with a decent screen to watch the game in private? We've broken it down by hood and borough of where to get the most bang for yo ... More >>

Nate Silver (and Puppies) Know Who Wins The Super Bowl

Nate Silver, the statistical genius who predicted the outcome of the last two presidential elections and the most recent Senate race, has now revealed his pick for the winner of the Super Bowl. Are you ready for it? It's Beyonce! Nope, it's actually the San Francisco 49ers. And, unfortunately for ... More >>

Super Bowl Commercial Week: Leapfrog for a Beer with Bud, Weis, and Er

It's Day 2 of Super Bowl Commercial Week and today we're revisiting those famous, late night pond-hoppers, the Budweiser Frogs. Way back in 1994, when the San Francisco 49ers and the San Diego Chargers met up in Miami for Super Bowl XXIXX, Bud featured the CGI swamp creatures in an ad for their be ... More >>

How 'bout them Jets: Darrelle Revis Trade Edition

Just three weeks after closing out maybe the most highly-publicized 6-10 season ever, the New York Jets got right back to doing what they do best: creating headlines without winning football games. This time, the Jets stirred up a media ruckus when rumors started swirling that their best player, co ... More >>

Which NFL Playoff City Has the Best Musical History: Boston, SF, Baltimore or Atlanta?

Is Eli Frontrunner For The MVP?

You may have missed it, but there was a stimulating back-and-forth on ESPN on whether Eli Manning should be the frontrunner for this year's MVP. The debaters were Stephen A. Smith, Skip Bayless, Rob Parker and Eric Mangini. The main attraction of the show, of course, is usually Stephen A. vs. Bayles ... More >>

Jets Need Sympathy; Giants Need To Wake Up

Watching the Giants 19-17 loss to the Eagles in Philadelphia last night, two things stood out for me. The first was how extraordinary the Giants have been in two championship postseasons. The second is how utterly ordinary they have been otherwise in the Tom Coughlin era. Late in the 4th quarter, ... More >>

Creators of Atlantic Yards film, Battle for Brooklyn, Talk Opening of Barclays Center, Jay-z, Corruption, and More (Pt. 2)

Yesterday we introduced you to Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, co-directors of the film Battle for Brooklyn. The film follows Brooklyn apartment owner Daniel Goldstein and his fight to save his home from real estate developer Bruce Ratner and other powerful New York City figures and officials see ... More >>

Steve Sabol Defined The Way We Look At Sports

I first met Steve Sabol - actually, I talked on the phone with him - early in 1985. I was at the old Voice office at 842 Broadway, sitting in the cubicle that belonged to the sports editor, who was almost never there. The voice at the other end said his name was Steve and that wanted to talk footbal ... More >>

DRAUGHT CHOICE

The best bars for 
watching the Giants

Kate Bornstein's Amazing Voyage

America's gender outlaw takes us on a wild tour of trans-formation

Will The Giants Miss Mario Manningham?

By the time you read this, you'll already know that the Giants let free agent Mario Manningham go to the San Francisco 49ers for a still undisclosed sum.  Amazingly, it's the second time in four years the Giants showed the door to a receiver who made an unbelievable catch in a Super Bowl against th ... More >>

Don't Care About Football? Care About New York.

This blogger doesn't like football. If she's going to watch a sport it's going to be baseball and she's going to root for the Yankees. Therefore, this Super Bowl Sunday, this blogger is not going to tell you which players to watch. In fact, the only ones she really feels qualified to even mention ar ... More >>

Scientology Network TV Ads: More Precious Reactions!

Scientology's aggressive network TV ad campaign continued last night with another 2-minute commercial that aired on Fox's American Idol right after the New York Giants defeated the San Francisco 49ers to win the NFC championship and earn a spot in the Super Bowl. Poughkeepsie's Michael Farrell was ... More >>

Giants Beat 49ers in One of Most Improbable Games in Recent History

In addition to being one of the greatest wins in Giants history, last night's 20-17 overtime win over the San Francisco '49ers was also one of the most improbable games in recent memory. Let's look at some stats: -- The Giants had no running game at all and were outrushed by San Francisco 150 to 85 ... More >>

Gingrich Wins South Carolina; Paterno Condition 'Serious'; Multiple Deaths in NYC Subways (UPDATED)

Newt Gingrich won the Republican primary South Carolina yesterday. The former House speaker won 40.4 percent of the vote with Mitt Romney trailing at 27.8 percent. Rick Santorum came in third with 17.0 percent. In his victory speech Gingrich targeted "elites." He said: "The biggest thing that I take ... More >>

Giants Fans Confused About Empire State Building Colors

Last night the Empire State Building was lit up in red and yellow, to the sports ignorant, that fact would seem not that big of a deal. But for Giants fans something in that color scheme was awry: red and gold are the colors of the San Francisco 49ers, the team that the Giants will play for the Nati ... More >>

See Alex Run, See Vernon Catch: Giants vs. the '49ers

​Desperate times call for desperate measures. The San Francisco '49ers don't have any flashy wideouts or MVP candidate passers to throw against the New York Giants this Sunday. Instead, in key situations they rely on what some would call trick plays but which are just bread and butter to San F ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: January 11 through 17, 2012

Memo to Tom Coughlin: Win Sunday or Pack It In

​How important is Sunday's Giants-Cowboys game to New York's immediate future? Let's lead with one truly eye-popping fact: If the Giants lose to Dallas, they'll have lost, in the space of five weeks, to all four NFC division leaders. I don't know if that has ever happened in team history; if i ... More >>

Giants Fans Are Getting That Sinking Feeling

​If you're a Giants fan and all you care about is going to the Super Bowl -- and what else would you care about? -- yesterday began the most important four-week stretch of the year. And it hasn't started well with Sunday's 27-20 loss to San Francisco. Why was this stretch so important? Very ... More >>

Bubba Smith, Huge Guy On and Off Gridiron, Found Dead at 66

Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith died yesterday in his home in Los Angeles at age 66 and took an awful lot of history with him. There were two primary reasons why Bubba Smith became such a folk hero while still in college, at Michigan State. The first is that the '65-'66 Spartans were the first major c ... More >>

Jerry Rice is Now Officially The Greatest Player Ever

​It's official: Jerry Rice is the greatest player in NFL history. So says a so-called blue ribbon panel of football writers and historians -- in the interests of full disclosure, I was one of the panelists-- and fans who voted on the NFL Network poll. Check it out for yourself. Jim Brown, ... More >>

Press Clips, Day 8, Lunch Edition: New York vs. The New Yorker Cage Match Edtion

Pictured: a figurative portrait of New York Observer senior editor Christian Lorentzen. ​Press Clips has returned to the roost, and we're starting the week off with great news, great media squabbles, hypocrisy, and self-awareness. In other words, your Monday Media Proctology Exam has arrived. ... More >>

Jockbeat on Gary Myers: Catch This Book

​ The Catch: One Play, Two Dynasties, and the Game that Changed the NFL By Gary Myers Crown, 252 pages, $26.00 "To this day," says Joe Montana in the forward to Gary Myers's The Catch, "the Cowboys still think I was tying to toss the ball into the upper deck of Candlestick Park ... I just ha ... More >>

Win one for the gyppers: Banks' current playoffs eerily like the NFL's

THE GIANTS DON'T LOSE

NY's most overachieving sports team takes on San Fran's back-up quarterback

Park Slope's Pacific Standard

Northern Californian transplants hit the Slope and kick off a "Fortnight of Fury"

Horoscope

1957

One Up, One Down

Both the Jets and Giants Turn Out to Be Giant Killers

Sports

Inside the Pigskin Studio

Riggins and Eason Break Their Legs

Sports

Follow the Money

You’ve Got Baseball Questions. We’ve Got Answers.

Breakdown on the West Coast

How Can the Jets Be Purring at 7-3 With Vinny at the Throttle?

Let’s Get Ready to Fumble!

The Jets: California Dreamin’

Fit to Serve

High-Profile Athletes Toss Their Jocks, and Sports Bras, Into the Political Ring

2000 Village Voice Sportswriters' Poll Results

Athenian Dreams or Trojan Horse?

New York’s Olympic Bid Could Be Billion-Dollar Boondoggle

Head Case

Stadium Splurge

Baseball-Bonkers Mayor Will Turn Series Into a Bonanza for Owners

Nation

A Guide to the Season's Competitors

The Century in Sports

The Eighth Annual Village Voice Sportswriters' Poll

Big Numbers

Deep Impact

What happens when NFL players collide?

Sports Journalist of the Year

NYPD Big Blue