Defending Champions?

[kehlis]

It's quicker and easier to say than the Giants are trying to repeat what they did last year or the team that won the Super Bowl last year.

To me it's an argue on semantics that isn't important one way or the other.

[oneamongthefence]

Quote: Originally Posted by kehlis

It's quicker and easier to say than the Giants are trying to repeat what they did last year or the team that won the Super Bowl last year. To me it's an argue on semantics that isn't important one way or the other.

The only term I have a problem with in regards to winning a championship is "world champion." Its more like intercontinental champion. If New York won the super bowl then played and beat China in a championship then they would be world champions.

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[mvb34]

Quote: Originally Posted by oneamongthefence

The only term I have a problem with in regards to winning a championship is "world champion." Its more like intercontinental champion. If New York won the super bowl then played and beat China in a championship then they would be world champions. Sent from my myTouch_4G_Slide using Tapatalk 2

Other than Canada (who have there little twist to the game) no country play american football so the Giants are world champions

[CM Hooe]

Quote: Originally Posted by oneamongthefence

The only term I have a problem with in regards to winning a championship is "world champion." Its more like intercontinental champion. If New York won the super bowl then played and beat China in a championship then they would be world champions. Sent from my myTouch_4G_Slide using Tapatalk 2

Until China or any other country fields a team, don't they forfeit by default?

[Tyrant8RDFL]

Quote: Originally Posted by mestevo

They are coming into the season crowned as the best team from the season prior, in the NFL that makes them the defending champion every game. Literal or not, it makes complete sense to me.

The fact that they have to play every single game like everyone else who is not a champion to earn a playioff spot. Then the fact that they also have to win every playoff to get to the superbowl like everyone else means they are defending champs?

Im sorry what are they defending? They just had to go through the whole entire process again to get back to the championship. I did not see a free pass to defend it.

Yes they won last year. Congrats on that, but for the new year you have to START ALL OVER AGAIN to get to the championship.

Like I stated in Boxing it makes sense every fight you fight is a championship fight once you win that belt, but not at all in other sports. No of them are given a free pass to play in the championship game to defend it.

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by Tyrant8RDFL

The fact that they have to play every single game like everyone else who is not a champion to earn a playioff spot. Then the fact that they also have to win every playoff to get to the superbowl like everyone else means they are defending champs? Im sorry what are they defending? They just had to go through the whole entire process again to get back to the championship. I did not see a free pass to defend it. Yes they won last year. Congrats on that, but for the new year you have to START ALL OVER AGAIN to get to the championship. Like I stated in Boxing it makes sense every fight you fight is a championship fight once you win that belt, but not at all in other sports. No of them are given a free pass to play in the championship game to defend it.

The fact that they won the last Super Bowl that was played??

[mestevo]

I think some of you make good points if you are considering teams in a vacuum, but it's really the franchise that is the defending champion.

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[TheShizNo1]

Quote: Originally Posted by kehlis

The fact that they won the last Super Bowl that was played??

You have to "qualify" just to defend it. I don't think a fighter has to keep climbing the ladder after he wins the belt. He doesn't win the belt, then start over.