As we noted late yesterday, the Patriots vs. Giants football contest will be shown not just on the NFL Network — available in 600 homes nationwide — but also on both NBC and CBS. The prevailing thought that brought this agreement into place seems to be that it would be a shame if all of America, home washing its collective hair on a Saturday night, would be a colder, less forgiving place if not everyone had a chance to see New England attempt to go 16-0 in a game that, otherwise, means absolutely nothing to either team. Can we be among the first to say, “Who cares?” If the Patriots lose this game, they’ll still be odds-on favorites to win the Super Bowl and those cranky old Dolphins will pop champagne. If the Patriots win the game, they still have three more games before anything meaningful is accomplished this season. We were going to make zero attempt to see this game on Saturday before the TV announcement. Now? We feel the same way. If it’s on somewhere we happen to be, as background, we won’t avert our eyes. But that’s about it. It’s probably going to be a blah game that tells us nothing about either team. The only reasons people are poised to watch are 1) It features teams from Boston and New York and therefore needs to be given State of the Union attention. Can we get this on the Oxygen Network and the Food Channel, too? 2) People have an unhealthy fascination with round numbers and streaks.

A couple other things about this: 1) We have a strange suspicion the Patriots are going to lose at some point in the playoffs. 2) Somewhere between the aggravating travel note and the space formerly reserved for field hockey updates, Peter King had an interesting comparison between the 72 Dolphins and 07 Patriots a couple weeks back. We didn’t realize Miami won all three playoff games (including the SB) by seven points or less, though to be sure that funny little play with the kicker in the Super Bowl influenced that stat (wait for the reaction that the end from a teammate. It never ceases to crack us up). And you youngsters out there might not realize they played professional football in 1972. But they did. In any event, it was interesting to see the numerical breakdown of how both teams did through 14 games, but it was an exercise in curiosity and not an end to the debate over which team is better. Different eras, cheerleader uniforms, different everything. It’s like comparing apples with baby wolverines. (If you’ve never read Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, when are you going to look in the mirror and honestly assess where and when it all went wrong?)

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