The 2012 NFl Awards will be announced  tonight, Saturday, February 2nd, at 9 pm EST on CBS. The Aerys NFL staff recently made their picks for the awards on Aerys Offsides, which you can view here. We may not be one of the 50 members of the Associated Press priviledged enough to vote on the actual awards, we’re still pretty awesome.

The Green Room’s 2012 NFL Awards Picks

MVP:

Kristine- Adrian Peterson. Vikings don’t even sniff the playoffs without him, while the Manning-less Broncos stillreached the playoffs last season. Our Vikings writer, Kim Sherayko, makes the case for the All Day in her latest post on Skol Patrol.
Sydney – Peyton Manning

Comeback Player of the Year:

Kristine – Peyton Manning. This category was tailor made for a season like Manning had.
Sydney – Adrian Peterson

Offensive Player of the Year: Kristine – Adrian Peterson

Defensive Player of the Year: Kristine – J.J. Watt

*Rookie of the Year:

Kristine – Russell Wilson. I doubt Wilson wins tonight, but he should.
Sydney – Russell Wilson

Offensive Rookie of the Year: RGIII

Defensive Rookie of the Year: Luke Kuechly

Coach of the Year: Bruce Arians/Chuck Pagano

Executive of the Year: John Elway

*Please note, we added three rookie categories because we just felt like it. 

The Green Room’s Super Bowl Picks

Kristine – I think the Niners are simply a better team than the Ravens, though it’s certainly hard to discount how well the Ravens (and Joe Flacco) have been playing throughout their playoff run. I always make my picks on where I would put my money and I see the dynamic play of Kaepernick, the Niners running game and defense and Jim Harbaugh as being the better choice. It will be a good game and very close –  likely coming down to one play late in the 4th quarter – with 2-3 point margin. Niners  27 – Ravens 24

Sydney - 49ers

For more thoughts on the Super Bowl, check out this week’s edition of “The Blue and Green Review.”

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*Facepalm*

Happy Super Bowl Sunday, football fans.

I hope you have stocked your fridge full of adult beverages and caloric goodness because today is the day that millions of Americans bust out their gigantic televisions (some of them very recently purchased) to watch the two “best” teams in the league do battle for a gaudy ring.

I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of something to write about on this particular Sunday and while it would be very easy for me to sit here and talk about how upset I am that the Jets aren’t in the Super Bowl, the truth is that I got over that about 5 weeks ago. I cried tears, kicked rocks, and then eventually came around to a sane, re-grouped mental state  that’s got me jazzed up about the Super Bowl.

I’ve moved on.

Lucky for me, the Internet is full of people that do and stay stupid things for me to comment on. And yesterday evening, the universe presented my writer’s block with a gift from a magical place called the Huffington Post.

A women published an article in the Wedding section on HuffingtonPost.com entitled, “Why I’m Making My Husband Miss the Super Bowl.” Naturally, you can imagine why I might want to click on this article. A woman actually is making her husband miss the Super Bowl? Wow, that’s pretty messed up. I feel bad for that dude.

But as unbelievable as it might sound, this woman’s story is actually eleventy billion times worse than the headline leads you to believe.

(If you don’t want to read my summary of her horrific article, then skip down a few paragraphs…)

This woman (Stacey is her name) is making her husband miss the Super Bowl so that they can attend an 8pm dinner reservation to celebrate their one year wedding anniversary. Stacey and her husband were married the day before last year’s Super Bowl which, as it turns out, was also a bit of an issue at the time but as she explains, she wasn’t going to let anything get in the way of her special day (this already sounds like an episode of Bridezillas, the most amazing/awful show on television). And maybe having a wedding the day before, of, or after the Super Bowl isn’t a big deal for some dudes but it is for others. Oh, and there is also the fact that Stacey’s husband is a sports photographer. You kind of have to watch the Super Bowl if you work in sports.

Stacey realized that this “threat” to her anniversary celebration was getting serious when her husband’s beloved Houston Texans made it into the playoffs. So Stacey made a bet with her husband that if the Texans were not in it, she would get her special dinner wish and they would go to dinner during the Super Bowl. As a result of this bet, Stacey admits she rooted against her husband and for a team she didn’t even know the name of (that would be the Bengals and the Ravens, lady. It’s called the internet. Look it up. Your husband might appreciate it.) and got her way.

Don’t be too mad at her though. She makes a lot of sacrifices for her relationship, like agreeing to arrive at the restaurant early  so that her husband could watch the first 90 minutes of the game, rubbing her husbands feet after a hard day at work or  taking out the dog at 6:30 am to he can sleep.

If that wasn’t enough to already make you sick, it gets better….

Stacey is very happy to tell you that in her world, this is called compromise. After all, the first wedding anniversary is a special one (just ask Kim Kardashian, she says) and that both parties have done something to make the other happy. Oh. my. god.

Not all married couples are as equally passionate about their football teams as these two. But wouldn't it be great if they were?

Alright — enough. I can’t go on a second longer (and if you have made it this far without throwing up, you’re a better person than I am). This woman is nuts. Seriously nuts. And let me tell you why:

For the sake of argument let’s leave the Super Bowl element out of it for just one second (even though it’s Super Bowl Sunday and all). As a married woman (yes, I am married, so I can “relate”) this is a ridiculous thing to ask from a man who not only loves football, but earns a living taking photographs of sporting events.

Marriage is, indeed, about compromise but what this woman has done to her husband is not compromise. It’s needy, insecure manipulati­on and for what? An 8 pm dinner reservation?

You see, my husband loves football. But I happen to love it a lot more than him (I happen to love it more than a lot of guys I know). And yes, isn’t that great? It works out for us. But there are some things that we don’t like the same, for example, I don’t happen to understand the TV show “Myth Busters.” I feel rage inside my soul when that show comes on and I suspect it has something to do with the fact that while watching it, my husband falls into a trance of amazement and wonder watching explosions and science experiments. But that’s his thing, and when it’s on I peace out and do girly things like paint my nails. Or whatever. But I don’t bother him because THAT makes him happy. And he doesn’t bother me when I ask him to watch “The Help” (which, by the way, is a realllly good movie and isn’t what you might think).

» Continue reading “Why I Would *Never* Make My Husband Miss the Super Bowl”

Ooops.  He did it again.

As you are well aware, Rex Ryan has made a habit of offering his guarantee that the Jets will win the Super Bowl ever since he became the Head Coach in 2009.  What he has done is taken the Jets to the AFC Championship in subsequent years, falling slightly short of his promise, but still making the Jets the only NFL team with back to back conference championship  play.  Ryan opened the can of worms for the first time this off-season at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis.  He further backed up his promise in an interview with the NY Daily News Sunday, comparing himself to Babe Ruth.

“….I guess I feel more like Babe Ruth. I’m going to walk softly, I’m going to carry that big stick and then I’m going to point and then I’m going to hit it over the fence. It’s like he had the courage to do that. I think I’ve got the courage.  Now granted, I can’t hit anywhere close to Babe Ruth and I’m not as good a coach as Babe Ruth was a player. But I still feel the same way. I still feel like, why wouldn’t I say it? It’s easier for me to say it because I have people with me. Babe Ruth had to walk up there by himself. But if everything was up to me and that we were going to win (if) I’d hit one out, I believe myself I’m going to hit it out. More importantly, I believe in everybody – our players, our coaches, the fan base we have established here, everybody in the organization.”

So there you have it.  Now you can all sleep at night knowing that Rex Ryan is going to point to the Lombardi trophy and make it happen.

Regardless of your opinion of Ryan’s outspoken tactics, there is no denying he has turned a dying franchise around and transformed the culture of JetsNation.  Everyone wants to criticize Rex for speaking this way, but the truth is that before he came around we would have been happy to even make it to the conference championships.  Now, we know so much more is possible.

What do you think Ryan’s guarantee?