Chris Snee wants to retire from the Giants with 10 Super Bowl titles. Meanwhile down in Philadelphia, Michael Vick thinks his Eagles are ready to become the next great NFL team.
Snee, a Giants offensive lineman, said winning a second straight championship is “what we expect” and that he has “eight more fingers” left for rings, according to The Daily Review in Binghamton. Vick believes the Eagles have “a chance to develop a dynasty,” he deadpanned in an interview with Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia.
The NFC East rivals had very different seasons in 2011. The Giants went 9-7 and narrowly won the division, but ended up holding the Lombardi Trophy as Super Bowl champs after an amazing postseason run. The Eagles, on the other hand, were much more hyped in the preseason yet finished 8-8, missing the playoffs.
None of that seems to matter to Vick, who says Philadelphia is in “a special place.”
“When I look at our football team and what we have on paper, I think about when I was growing up and the great San Francisco 49er teams, the great Green Bay Packer teams, and the great Dallas Cowboy teams, how they just positioned themselves to compete and be one of the best teams out there,” Vick said.
The Giants will surely have something to say about that as they look for two straight championships.
“It’s only harder,” Snee said of consecutive crowns at a Double A-baseball game between Binghamton (Mets) and Trenton (Yankees). “You look at the history and the odds of winning back-to-back is against us.. .. But the goal is to win back-to-back.”
While the Giants are coming off their second Super Bowl in five years, the Jets have been stealing the attention with the addition of popular quarterback Tim Tebow, who will back up Mark Sanchez. Snee said he and his Giants teammates have no qualms with that, much like they had no problem with the Eagles being called a “Dream Team” by now-former quarterback Vince Young last year.
“We win the Super Bowl and we take a back seat to a Tebow press conference,” Snee told the paper. “But that’s the way we like it. Coach [Tom Coughlin] has said since I got here that talk is cheap, you have to play the game.”
Coughlin, Snee’s father-in-law, has guided the Giants to championships in 2007 and this past season. Snee has been a key cog on the team since being drafted in the second round out of Boston College in 2004. A Pro Bowl selection in 2008, he is thought of as one of the league’s elite guards.
Snee, 30, hopes that title run is not over and made a LeBron James-like proclamation to The Daily Review.
“I have eight more fingers left on my hands for rings,” he said.