Update: Post Super Bowl 2008
“Michael Strahan. The guy is a millionaire but can’t even get his damn teeth fixed. no wonder that goldigger divorced him. he used the podium at the lombardi trophy presentation as a forum to crudely bash sports reporters instead of just winning with maturity and grace. then comes back to NYC and does the same thing.”

Original Submission:
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when at first, we try to deceive? Or something like that. Look, Michael Strahan has been a thorn in Vikingstailgate.com’s side ever since that 41-0 game back in 2001. He wasn’t the reason for the Vikings choke in the NFC Championship, but he was on the team that blanked its Super Bowl dreams. That’s a good reason to duce anyone in blue with some good flat beer to the helmet.

But wait, there’s more. We at Vikingstailgate.com are obligated to hate Brett Favre (I know, I know, he’s a warrior and a pain lovin freak that has stood the test of time of NFL brutality… and blah blah blah). In 2002, with time running out, and Strahan needing 1 sack to break all-time NFL sack record for a season, Favre and Gap Tooth made a deal.

Strahan got sack No. 22½ with 2:42 left in the fourth quarter, falling on Favre after the rolled out and went down at the feet of the defensive end. Favre clearly took a dive and let Strahan touch him for the historical sack. The play looked fake and as predetermined as an NBA fix because the Packers were leading 34-25 and Favre didn’t have a blocker in front of him on the rollout.

Favre, who joked during the week that he might “work out a little side deal” with Strahan to allow him to get the record, called a run in the huddle, teammates said. The quarterback insisted he changed the play to a naked bootleg to catch the Giants off guard, something he’s done five or six times this season.

“No, I didn’t,” Favre said when asked if he allowed Strahan to sack him. “That was a keep pass. I tried to get the edge but he got through.”

Brett’s a liar too bye the way.

Some More reasons to dump a beer on Strahan:

He wrote a tell all book about the NFL, but apparently didn’t include everything.
“You want to be an NFL star? You want to stand in my shoes?, Let’s say one day I came to you and offered you a million dollars to let me take a huge hunting knife and wear down the blade until it was rusty and really dull. Then, when it’s really dull and nasty, I would stick it into a pit of burning coals until the blade was white-hot. Finally, I would pull that sucker out of the flames and stab you over and over and over again. Take that blade and stab you in the ankles, your feet and your wrists. Not just stick it in but turn that rusty old knife and twist it when it’s sunk deep into your knees or shoulders. That is the reality of my NFL. Every single year I have somebody sink this awful, dreadful blade into a few parts of my body.”

How about we just cool that pain down with some beer? Strahan, Just another gap tooth, overrated piece of Brett Favre hugger. AND you play for the frickin Giants. Take a bath!

More Reasons:
In January of 2007, the New York Post Reported:
$15 MIL PENALTY TOPPLES GIANT, STRAHAN’S EX WINS ALMOST ALL
By JEANE MacINTOSH and TODD VENEZIA

January 13, 2007 — A judge sacked Michael Strahan’s bank account yesterday, ordering the New York Giants defensive end to pay his ex-wife Jean a whopping $15.3 million plus hundreds of thousands of dollars in child support as part of their divorce.
Judge James Convery blasted Strahan in a written ruling, saying the arguments he used to get out of coughing up the dough lacked “any credible evidence.”
The ruling means the gap-toothed grid standout will have to give his ex-wife more than half his net worth – as Convery held him to a prenuptial agreement stipulating he give Jean 50 percent of their joint marital assets and 20 percent of his yearly income from each year they were married.
Strahan tried to argue that he wasn’t responsible for the 20 percent because his wife failed to ask for it every year. But the judge said that “the plaintiff is not credible in his claim that the defendant never asked for her separate funds.”
Jean, who married the football player in 1999, celebrated the ruling yesterday.“It pays to tell the truth, and I told the truth,” she said. “I never asked for a penny more than the prenup that Michael and his lawyers wrote and made me sign. And all I ever asked for was that to be upheld.
“I’m thrilled that it was.”
The decision came after a divorce battle that left the popular player’s stellar reputation battered by allegations of adultery, forgery, lying and perversion.
It is also a huge financial tackle. Strahan must pay the $15.3 million and the extra child support even though his net worth is only about $22 million, according to court records.
With his career in its twilight years, this could be a blow from which his bank account never recovers.
But Jean said yesterday that it was his own fault. Strahan himself devised the uneven distribution spelled out in a prenup.
“He and his lawyer wrote it and made me sign it the night before we got married,” Jean said. “We were, at the time, very much in love.”
Jean Strahan had originally sought roughly $14 million, but the judge gave her back interest on the 20 percent annuity, raising the payout by $1.25 million.
The Giant will also have to pay $18,000 per month in child support, and will have to hand over a $311,150 lump sum for support dating back to August 2005. Jean will also get one of his four houses, but will have to pay him back for half of the mansion in Montclair, N.J.
Strahan lawyer Vicky Zigler declined to comment after receiving the decision in Essex County Family Court yesterday.
The couple was officially divorced last July after an acrimonious court battle that included allegations that Strahan:
* Ditched his wife and twin 2-year-old daughters, Isabella and Sophia, to hang out with alleged mistress Nicole “Cupcake” D’Oliveira on a trip to Phoenix.
* Jetted off to Caribbean islands with various other women, including the woman who sold the family their antique chairs.
* Secretly videotaped Jean’s sister, Denise, while she undressed in a guest bedroom. Cops were called, and Jean left him for a while, but he then allegedly came back after he deposited $30,000 in her bank account.
* Forged her name on financial documents that were entered into the case.
* Hounded her and tried to use lawyers to intimidate her into changing their prenup.
In yesterday’s ruling, Judge Convery also blasted Strahan for not remembering his wedding anniversary or wife’s birthday.
Jean Strahan got the news of the decision at her lawyer’s office. She exclaimed: “I’m going to Disney World!”

Takin a Ride on the Man Side?

In 2006, Strahan’s wife accused the biggest member of Brett Favre’s fanclub of having an extramarital affair with a MAN. (Oh My). It was reported on June 26, 2006 on the Outsports.com website (http://www.outsports.com/nfl/2006/0621strahan.htm)
that:

“The wife of New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan coyly accused her husband of having an extramarital affair with another man, TV doctor Ian Smith, in their divorce proceedings on Tuesday, the New York Daily News is reporting.

“Michael moved into Ian’s one-bedroom apartment,” Jean Strahan said, according to the Daily News. “And you can say an alternative lifestyle sprouted.” Her lawyer then stopped her before she could elaborate, the Daily News reports.

Both Robert Penza, Michael Strahan’s attorney, and Smith denied a sexual relationship between Smith and Strahan…”