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Saturday, February 4th, 2012these are from www.heartec.co.il
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Rachel’s Children Winter Schedule:Jan – Feb Rabbis Sprecher, Klausner, Nadel, Kessin, HaRav Mayer Horowitz Every Wednesday.
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
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WINTER SCHEDULE
AT Beit bnei Rachel. Take Egged #163 Bus to Rachel’s Tomb, walk left past KR to Beit Bnei Rachel, Free Parking OPPOSITE KEVER RACHEL, men and women invited
RABBI EPHRAIM SPRECHER
22 TEVET, JANUARY 17, 2012
4PM via Egged 163 bus at 3 pm
“Is the Current Exodus Failing Because of Attitudes Against Women?”
A light supperette will follow. Time for socializing and tehillim.
RABBI DR. JOSEPH KLAUSNER, yedidyahu
TUESDAY, 29 TEVET, JANUARY 24, 2012
4PM via Egged 163 bus at 3 pm
"The Neviot /Women Prophets: Halacha and Hagadda”
A delicious supperette will follow hosted by Rochelle Eisenstat
In Memory of her Parents, Chana Peril bas David Yosef and Hersh Mendel ben Zalman .
Musical entertainment by violinist Zev Wilensky
RABBI SHIMSHON NADEL
In coordination with the Israel Center
Wednesday , 8 Shevat, February 1. 2012
Bus leaves Israel Center at 12 noon
60/75 nis includes bus and lunch 050-725-8392
“The Weeping of Rachel and Her Children”
and
Presentation of Biblical Art of Malla Carl”
RABBI MENDEL KESSIN
Tuesday, 21 SHEVAT , FEBRUARY 14, 2012
4PM via Egged 163 bus at 3PM
“Rachel Imeinu and Purim, the Hidden Relationship”
A light supperette will follow. Time for socializing and tehillim.
HARAV MAYER HOROWITZ
Thursday, ROSH CHODESH ADAR, February 23, 2012
4PM via Egged 163 bus at 3PM
“We Can Never Anticipate Redemption”
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ATARA GUR, RACHEL IMEINU SCHOLAR
EVERY WEDNESDAY: TEA AND TORAH
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Classes at 11:am Learn from 11 -12noon. Time for Tehillim; Return 12:30 or 2:30pm
INFO: 050-414-2611
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Los Angeles police say ‘Soul Train’ host Don Cornelius dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012LOS ANGELES (AP) — Don Cornelius, creator of the long-running TV dance show “Soul Train,” shot himself to death Wednesday morning at his Los Angeles home, police said. He was 75.
Officers responding to a report of a shooting found Cornelius at his Mulholland Drive home at around 4 a.m., police said. He was pronounced dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 4:56 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said Los Angeles County Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter.
“Soul Train” began in 1970 in Chicago on WCIU-TV as a local program and aired nationally from 1971 to 2006.
It introduced television audiences to such legendary artists as Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and Barry White and brought the best R&B, soul and later hip-hop acts to TV and had teenagers dance to them. It was one of the first shows to showcase African-Americans prominently, although the dance group was racially mixed. Cornelius was the first host and executive producer.
“There was not programming that targeted any particular ethnicity,” he said in 2006, then added: “I’m trying to use euphemisms here, trying to avoid saying there was no television for black folks, which they knew was for them.”
Cornelius, who was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 1995 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, said in 2006 he remained grateful to the musicians who made “Soul Train” the destination for the best and latest in black music.
“I figured as long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for ‘Soul Train,’” Cornelius said.
The series spawned a franchise that includes the Soul Train Music Awards, the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards and the Soul Train Christmas Starfest.
Cornelius stepped down as “Soul Train” host in 1993.
In his later years, Cornelius had a troubled marriage. In 2009, he was sentenced to three years’ probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor spousal battery. In his divorce case that year, he also mentioned having significant health issues.
Giants vs. Patriots II worth 4-year wait
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012INDIANAPOLIS — Here we go again.
Four years after what many consider the best finish in Super Bowl history, the Giants and Patriots are facing off once more for the NFL championship. While there are no perfect records on the line this time, this matchup could be equally enticing.
It certainly looks that way heading into Sunday’s big game. In 2008, with New England undefeated and having beaten New York in the regular-season finale, the Patriots were 12-point favorites. The spread now is 3, and the Giants beat them during the season.
Both teams are on quite a roll, too. The Patriots (15-3) have won 10 straight — it was 18 in a row in ’08 — and the Giants (12-7) have five consecutive victories.
All of which matters not a bit, according to Bill Belichick, who will tie a record for head coaches with his fifth Super Bowl appearance.
“I’ve been asked about that game for several days now. All of the games in the past really don’t mean that much at this point,” said Belichick, 3-1 in NFL title games. “This game is about this team this year. There aren’t really a lot of us coaches and players who were involved in that game, and very few players, in relative terms, between both teams. We are where we are now, and we’re different than where we were earlier in the season. The Giants are where they are now, and I think they’re different than where they were at different points of the season. To take it back years and years before that, I don’t think it has too much bearing on anything.”
The loss still reverberates for former Patriots linebacker Rosevelt Colvin.
“It was like getting punched in the stomach,” he said. “I still can’t watch the highlights from that game because of the opportunity we missed out on was so grand
Having come this far before is immeasurably helpful, according to Justin Tuck, the leader of the Giants’ defense whose return to health and form has keyed New York’s resurgence. He says the experience of four years ago in the Arizona desert will benefit everyone.
“The only thing that I tell the younger guys is make football football,” Tuck said. “Don’t make this game bigger than it has to be. Everybody around you is going to make it bigger, but we have to concentrate on why we’re going out there. There’s going to be a lot of parties. There’s going to be a lot of people pulling at your coattail. Listen, if you go out there and you handle your business and you win this game, you can party all you want to after that.
“For me, personally, the first time I went to a Super Bowl I approached it as such — as a once in a lifetime thing.”
For Tuck, it wasn’t. And while the defense he leads to Indianapolis isn’t quite as overwhelming as the unit that made life miserable for Tom Brady in ’08, it has been reinvigorated as the Giants surged to the NFC championship. It also is just as deep as the group that sacked Brady five times, hit him nine more — Osi Umenyiora claimed he had that many hits alone — and unnerved the usually unflappable star.
Today, it’s Tuck, Umenyiora, All-Pro Jason Pierre-Paul, Dave Tollefson and linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka, who compare favorably with Umenyiora, Tuck, Michael Strahan, Jay Alford and LB Antonio Pierce in 2008.
Other than head coaches Belichick and New York’s Tom Coughlin, that is the most common element between the two Super Bowls.
“It’s been a strength of their team for as long as I can remember,” Brady said. “Michael Strahan, as great of a player as he was, I think we played them in 2003 and they were still harassing the quarterback. It seems like they always have guys who can rush the quarterback. Justin Tuck is as good as they come. Osi week in and week out, he’s a player who can ruin a game for an offense. You look at the group they have now, and they have a ton of depth at the defensive line position.”
Controversial receivers Randy Moss and Plaxico Burress have been replaced by skilled playmakers like tight ends Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez in New England, wideouts Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz in New York. Eli Manning no longer is a question as Giants quarterback, and has carried the offense much the way running backs Brandon Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw did in the past.
Lawrence Tynes kicked the Giants into the Super Bowl in overtime in ’08 and — incredibly — this year, too. Wes Welker led the Patriots with 112 catches that season and had 122 in this one.
Sixteen Giants remain from the 17-14 Super Bowl victory, and only seven Patriots are still around.
Similarities and differences, all juicy elements for Giants-Patriots II.
Here we go again.
Today’s Highlight in History
Monday, January 30th, 2012Today is Monday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2012. There are 336 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 30, 1962, two members of “The Flying Wallendas” high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance at the State Fair Coliseum in Detroit.
On this date:
In 1649, England’s King Charles I was beheaded.
In 1798, a brawl broke out in the U.S. House of Representatives in Philadelphia, as Matthew Lyon of Vermont spat in the face of Roger Griswold of Connecticut.
In 1862, the ironclad USS Monitor was launched from the Continental Iron Works in Greenpoint, N.Y., during the Civil War.
In 1882, the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was born in Hyde Park, N.Y.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. The first episode of the “Lone Ranger” radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit.
In 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse (neh-too-RAHM’ gahd-SAY’), a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.)
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy delivered his first State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress. Author, journalist and radio commentator Dorothy Thompson died in Lisbon, Portugal, at age 67.
In 1964, the United States launched Ranger 6, an unmanned spacecraft carrying television cameras that crash-landed on the moon, but failed to send back images.
In 1968, the Tet Offensive began during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
In 1972, 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”
In 1981, an estimated two million New Yorkers turned out for a ticker-tape parade honoring the freed American hostages from Iran.
In 1982, actor-comedian Stanley Holloway died in Littlehampton, West Sussex, England, at age 91.
Ten years ago: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the United States would watch closely to see what Iraq, Iran and North Korea did next, a day after President George W. Bush singled them out as part of a dangerous “axis of evil.” Interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai (HAH’-mihd KAHR’-zy) visited the World Trade Center site and placed a wreath of yellow roses by a memorial wall as he surveyed the ruins of Sept. 11.
Five years ago: A propane tank explosion leveled the Flat Top Little General Store in Ghent, W.Va., killing four people. Two gunmen shot and killed Mellie McDaniel, the wife of the Jackson County, Fla., sheriff and a deputy sent to check on her; other deputies opened fire and killed the assailants. Hollywood writer-producer and novelist Sidney Sheldon died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 89.
One year ago: Egypt’s most prominent democracy advocate, Mohamed ElBaradei (ehl-BEHR’-uh-day), called for President Hosni Mubarak to resign during an address to thousands of protesters in Cairo who were defying a curfew for a third night. Rachid Ghanouchi (gah-NOO’-shee), leader of the long-outlawed Tunisian Islamist party, returned home after two decades in exile. MVP DeAngelo Hall had one of his team’s five interceptions and returned a fumble 34 yards for a touchdown to help the NFC match a Pro Bowl scoring record in a 55-41 victory over the AFC. Novak Djokovic (NOH’-vak JOH’-kuh-vich) won his second Australian Open title, breezing past Andy Murray 6-4, 6-2, 6-3.
Ryan Bradley won his first title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
Today’s Birthdays: Actress Dorothy Malone is 87. Producer-director Harold Prince is 84. Actor Gene Hackman is 82. Actress Tammy Grimes is 78. Actress Vanessa Redgrave is 75. Chess grandmaster Boris Spassky is 75. Country singer Jeanne Pruett is 75. Country singer Norma Jean is 74. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is 71. Rock singer Marty Balin is 70. Rhythm-and-blues musician William King (The Commodores) is 63. Singer Phil Collins is 61. Actor Charles S. Dutton is 61. World Golf Hall of Famer Curtis Strange is 57. Actress-comedian Brett Butler is 54. Singer Jody Watley is 53. Actor-filmmaker Dexter Scott King is 51. The King of Jordan, Abdullah II, is 50. Actor Norbert Leo Butz is 45. Country singer Tammy Cochran is 40. Actor Christian Bale is 38. Rock musician Carl Broemel (My Morning Jacket) is 38. Pop-country singer-songwriter Josh Kelley is 32. Actor Wilmer Valderrama is 32. Actor Jake Thomas is 22.
Thought for Today: “Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.” — Harold Wilson, British prime minister (1916-1995).
Activists send hundreds of tacos to East Haven mayor
Saturday, January 28th, 2012EAST HAVEN (AP) — The office of East Haven’s mayor was blasted with prank phone calls and a delivery of hundreds of tacos Thursday after his now-famous quip that he would address accusations of anti-Latino bias by eating tacos, a remark that left emotions raw in the town’s large Hispanic community.
Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. has apologized several times but resisted calls for his resignation over remarks he made to a reporter following Tuesday’s arrests of four town police officers.”
Maturo held regular meetings as Connecticut’s Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission called on him to resign.
An immigration rights group, Reform Immigration for America, delivered 400 tacos to his Town Hall office in protest, though Maturo had left for a meeting. A soup kitchen picked up the tacos, but one was left symbolically for the mayor.
His office fielded a steady flow of calls, some with comments about tacos and others from supporters who want him to stay in his job.
Maturo has been mayor off and on since 1997 in this predominantly white, blue-collar town where Latino residents comprise about 10 percent of its population of 29,000. East Haven has been under federal scrutiny since the U.S. Justice Depart-ment launched a civil rights probe in 2009 that found discrimination and biased policing against Latinos.
A federal indictment accuses the police officers of assaulting people while they were handcuffed, unlawfully searching Latino businesses, and harassing and intimidating people, including advocates, witnesses and other officers who tried to investigate or report misconduct or abuse.
The taco flap came after a reporter for New York’s WPIX-TV asked Maturo on Tuesday, “What are you doing for the Latino community today?”
His response: “I might have tacos when I go home; I’m not quite sure yet.”
Maturo, who is of Italian heritage, then said he might have spaghetti or any other kind of ethnic food, then growing angry, told Diaz to “go for it, take your best shot” to make the “taco” comment seem to imply something he did not intend.
He has called himself a “jerk” for the comment, which he called an off-the-cuff quip made at the end of a long, day of interviews.
The video of Maturo’s comments has spread across the Internet on social networks and media websites. It led Connecticut’s largest paper, The Hartford Courant, to call for his resignation in an editorial that declared: “The Mayor is an Idiot.” A Facebook page demanding Maturo’s resignation had more than 750 supporters Thursday afternoon.
The town’s Democratic Party is demanding the resignation of Maturo, a Republican, and he has fielded criticism from state and local officials including Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who said on a conference call Thursday from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Maturo’s remarks were “pretty bone-headed.”
Many residents were still angry Thursday in East Haven, where 38-year-old Jose Tapia, a cook originally from Ecuador, joked, “We’ve got tacos!” as he left a bakery with a bag of bread.
“I took it as a joke, but deep inside, it’s the true version of racist, that comment,” he said.
Pedro Gutierrez, the owner of the Guti’z Bakery, said the comment showed the mayor is out of touch because many Latinos in East Haven are from Ecuador, where tacos are not a part of cuisine, as they are in Mexico. But he said it also shows disrespect for all Hispanics.
“He clearly thinks of us as a third-class people,” he said.
Others were more forgiving, saying they viewed the comment as a misstep, but not something that should end Maturo’s political career.
Others in East Haven said people are being too sensitive.
Paul Esposito, 70, a lifelong resident, made a special trip Thursday to East Haven Town Hall to express his support, telling Maturo’s receptionists, “I don’t want him to resign. People make mistakes all the time.”
Those who know Maturo say that he’s not an idiot or a bigot, but that if the taco comment was meant to be a joke, it was clearly a misstep they think he genuinely regrets.
“It’s baloney. They’re making a mountain out of a molehill,” said Michael Liso, 65, who said he worked as a firefighter with Maturo and has known him for 40 years. “That’s why you put erasers on pencils. … It’s over and done with. Now let’s move forward.”
Maturo, 60, asked East Haven residents in a written apology Wednesday to “have faith in me” and the town. Whether he can make peace soon with Latino residents upset by his taco comment remains to be seen.
Marcia Chacon, a native of Ecuador and co-owner of My Country Store, said the one remark by Maturo destroyed some of the goodwill he had earned in the community by hosting a recent open house with the police department.
“We realized that he is a racist person,” she said. “We realized it is worse than we thought.”
Maturo has said he will no longer publicly discuss the quip. Messages left for several of his political allies at the state and local levels were not immediately returned Wednesday and Thursday.
Report: Alleged killer of Westport jeweler commits suicide in prison
Thursday, January 26th, 2012WESTPORT – A West Haven man accused of murdering the owner of a Westport jewelry store and stealing 0,000 worth of diamonds has killed himself in a Spanish prison, according to a report in The Hartford Courant.
The Courant quotes anonymous law enforcement sources as saying that Andrew Robert Levene, also known as Robert Thomas, has committed suicide in an undisclosed Spanish prison while awaiting extradition to federal murder, robbery and firearm charges.
Thomas Carson, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office, would not comment on Levene’s status, nor would William Reiner, an FBI spokesman.
Authorities say Levene, a 41-year-old former Army Ranger, visited Zeevi’s business on Dec. 7, where he checked out six large diamonds worth approximately 0,000. Saying he wanted to “sleep on it,” Levene came back the next night, pretended to purchase the diamonds, and suddenly pulled out a gun, killing Zeevi, 65, and wounding Zeevi’s associate, Ronen Konfino, 48, of New York City. Konfino survived his injuries and helped detectives piece together a description of the suspect.
Obtaining cellular phone records, authorities were able to determine conversations Levene had with various jewelers in Connecticut, New York City and Pennsylvania. Surveillance footage later surfaced of Levene possibly casing jewelry stores in Pennsylvania, which led to the distribution of a sketch of Levene’s face, along with wanted posters, garnering extensive media coverage.
Authorities say Levene traveled multiple times between Spain, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, including one time with his wife and two children, the most recent being a one-way trip on Sept. 7, 2011, to Barcelona, Spain. Immigration officials say there is no indication that Levene’s family has returned to the United States.
On Dec. 11, Levene boarded a plane in Philadelphia and flew to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, after he missed a flight to Madrid.
Carson did not say which city Levene was apprehended in while in Spain, nor how long it would take for Levene to be extradited. He did say Levene’s case would be held in federal court and tried in Bridgeport, New Haven or Hartford.
TONIGHT-The Authoritative Catholic Talmud-The Censorship of Torah Texts-Presentation by HaRav David Bar-Hayim
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012Tonight (Wed. night) there will be an unusual
opportunity to hear a presentation on the censorship of Torah texts by the
Catholic church. What has been the impact on Torah texts which we rely upon in
our daily learning?
Machon Shilo's HaRav David Bar-Hayim will
deliver a shiur tonight (2 Shevat, 25/1/12) at 19:45 at Mosdot HaRav Aharon
Soloveichik which is located at Nachal Maor 27, Ramat Beth Shemesh. HaRav David Bar-Hayim, head of Machon Shilo
, bears a vital message which offers a bridge between the halakhic and hashkafic
reality of today and the geulah of am yisrael for which we have been yearning.
The Rav's teachings may be found at: http://machonshilo.org/en/index.php
49ers, Giants renew playoff rivalry for NFC crown
Saturday, January 21st, 2012SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants boasted a physical, intimidating defense with athletic linebackers and stout linemen capable of stifling the NFL’s most productive offenses. San Francisco featured a high-powered passing attack led by an eventual Hall of Fame quarterback in his prime with receivers capable of turning short passes into big gains.
When the San Francisco 49ers host the New York Giants in the NFC championship game Sunday for a shot at the Super Bowl, the matchup conjures memories from a previous era of this great rivalry — even if the roles are somewhat reversed.
The elite quarterback now is New York’s Eli Manning, who connects on big plays to Hakeem Nicks and Victor Cruz in a similar fashion to how Joe Montana and Jerry Rice did for the dominant Niners in the 1980s.
San Francisco’s current front seven led by relentless defensive lineman Justin Smith, rookie pass-rushing specialist Aldon Smith and fierce linebackers Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman resembles that old Giants group featuring Hall of Famers Lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson.
And who could have predicted this surprising pairing?
The Giants (11-7) toppled defending champion Green Bay 37-20 last Sunday when everybody figured the road to the Super Bowl would go through Lambeau Field. Instead, New York is traveling West to San Francisco to face the upstart 49ers (14-3) in a meeting of franchises with so many fresh faces on the big stage.
Jim Harbaugh’s “mighty men” as he calls them stunned Drew Brees and the favored Saints 36-32 when Alex Smith hit Vernon Davis for the game-winning 14-yard touchdown with 9 seconds remaining.
Smith knows both the 49ers and Giants showed it’s anybody’s game come playoff time.
“Look at last week, I think everybody thought the road was going to go through Lambeau. I think everybody assumed the NFC championship game was going to get played there and look what happens,” Smith said. “These teams at this point, everybody’s as good as each other and it’s all going to come down to how you execute on that day. We’re all capable of beating each other, that’s for sure.”
Smith and Manning each orchestrated five fourth-quarter comebacks during the regular season, yet Manning missed in a 27-20 loss at San Francisco on Nov. 13 when Justin Smith batted away his last-ditch pass attempt on fourth down in the waning moments.
“This is about the NFC championship. It’s an opportunity to get this win and go on to the Super Bowl,” Manning said. “We played them once before. We know they’re a good team. There’s no denying that. They’re playing great football. They’re playing with great confidence. It’s going to be exciting going out there and having another shot and seeing what we can do.”
Niners long snapper Brian Jennings is the only one left on either side from San Francisco’s last trip to the playoffs in January 2003, when the 49ers rallied for a stunning 39-38 comeback victory against the Giants at Candlestick Park. San Francisco also had beaten New York during the regular season that year.
It’s sold out for Sunday’s game with rain in the forecast as the 49ers look for their first trip to the NFC title game since the 1997 season. Former 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr. will serve as honorary captain after team president and nephew, Jed York, called him immediately after beating the Saints with the thoughtful invite.
Fittingly, DeBartolo owned the team from 1977-98, when the 49ers won five Super Bowls. He was affectionately known as “Mr. D” to his players and coaches.
The only other time these two franchises faced off in the conference championship the game finished in memorable fashion. On Jan. 20, 1991, Roger Craig fumbled with the 49ers leading 13-12 late in the fourth quarter and the Giants went on to win 15-13 to deny San Francisco a chance at a third straight Super Bowl title. New York then beat the Bills to capture its second Super Bowl.
These teams met six times in the playoffs between the 1981 and ’94 seasons with the winner going on to win the Super Bowl four times.
There shouldn’t be too many elements of surprise Sunday considering how recently they last played, though Harbaugh is always good for a few tricks.
“That first game has nothing to do with what happens Sunday night,” Giants safety Antrel Rolle said.
Davis had a career day against New Orleans with seven catches for 180 yards — the most yards receiving by a tight end in a playoff game — so the Giants certainly will try to neutralize him and put constant pressure on a never-more-confident Smith.
Harbaugh has used the phrase “don’t overcook it” with is players as a reference to sticking with what got them this far in a remarkable turnaround season.
“Burnt meat, stale bread doesn’t taste real good,” Harbaugh said. “Like to get it just right. Not undercooked, not overcooked.”
In that November game, the 49ers won their seventh straight and did so without relying on star running back Frank Gore, whose franchise-record streak of five straight games with 100 yards rushing ended with a knee injury and his first career game with zero yards.
Forget about it. He’s ready to roll this weekend.
“He makes a big difference and there is not a question about that,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. “If you look at the way he is utilized and how much they put on the runners when they come in, how much emphasis they put on the run game, he is certainly someone you must pay attention to.”
New York is riding its own impressive roll.
Manning threw for 330 yards and three touchdowns against the Packers as the surging Giants won their fourth straight game. He’d love to win another Super Bowl ring to go with the one he has for the 2007 season.
“The Giants, we saw them earlier in the season and they’re playing at a much higher level, especially these last four or five games they’ve played, done an outstanding job, and we are too, you know?” San Francisco left tackle Joe Staley said. “I think we’re a different team than we were earlier in the season, playing a lot better, with a lot more confidence.”
In fact, the 49ers have already more than exceeded expectations for Harbaugh’s first season. They won the NFC West to end an eight-year playoff drought and the same stretch without a winning record. On top of that, they earned the NFC’s No. 2 seed and home-field advantage. That proved huge in eliminating New Orleans.
“Nobody really gave us an opportunity to be in this position, nobody gave us an opportunity to beat the Saints. Nobody thought we would,” said safety Donte Whitner. “Now we’re sitting here with a home game, home-field advantage, you have the Giants traveling here and if you win you go to the Super Bowl. It’s hard not to think about that. I would be lying if I said we weren’t thinking that one win gets us in.”
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