Will Scottsdale Get Best of Pats, Giants?

January 29, 2008

I single out Scottsdale, because that’s where the majority of high profile clubs in the Valley of the Sun are.

You remember the stories:

Eugene Robinson: Busted on the eve of Super Bowl XXXIII for “allegedly” soliciting oral sex from a prostitute.
Stanley Wilson: Overdosing on drugs on the eve of S.B. XXIII - a game in which the Wilsonless Cincinnati Bengals nearly upset Joe Montana’s Niners.
Barrett Robbins: Went MIA the week before the Oakland Raiders took the field for S.B. XXXVII. According to reports, Robbins suffered from bipolar disorder, and has had more incidents since his ill-fated week before the super-big game. I hate picking on him, but he later had more run ins with the law, and had been fined by the NFL for using the designer steroid THG.

Now it’s 2008. The Forty-Deuce is at University of Phoenix Stadium. Minus Bill “Bellicheat’s infamous (more than famous) sideline taping scandal, these teams have arrived in Arizona with clean slates. Which begs the questions (ahem):

Who is going to get in trouble (or some more pessimistic might ask, who is going to get in trouble first)?

Keep in mind that the “mean streets of Scottsdale” have been known to land many a celeb in trouble. Mike Tyson. Lil Wayne (okay, he was arrested in Yuma), and who could forget Matt Leinart’s famous speeding photos (for doing 77 in a 65).

For all of you collective eye-rollers out there, I applaud you for sticking with this post. This is news that just don’t matter.

If I were to put my money where my mouth is, I would say that the Giants would be the team to slip up in Scottsdale. I’m not going to name names. Hell, I am just completely speculating at this point; I just think that on the eve of being the most impressive dynasty the NFL has ever seen that New England is far too focused to make any kind of silly mistakes like that.

Forget the fact that Tom Brady may, according to many reports, be injured. Forget everything you’ve heard.

Someone I used to work with told me that people change when they come here. No reason or explanation. They just do. Things they normally wouldn’t do. I would tell you what he told me, but this is neither the time nor place.

For the time being, here is the score: Scottsdale 0, Giants 0, Pats 0.

But it’s only Monday.