Wow, nice interception.
With this game all but over, i’m rooting for a Ravens-49ers Superbowl. I’m a Ravens fan myself, and my wife is a San Franciscan, so the Niners are sort of my sentimental NFC team.
I have to say, though, that based on this weekend’s performance, i would have the Patriots as pretty strong favorites to win the AFC. The NFC looks much closer, and San Francisco’s defense should certainly make things much harder for Eli and the Giants next week.
And now it sings!
Defense doesn’t win championships anymore?
Boy, did I wanted to see this happen last year… but I’ll take it!!!
Packer fans are stunned.
Yeah, I felt so shamefully dirty when I was forced to root for Pittsburgh last year…in a Super Bowl! I don’t think I will ever fully recover. The doctor says I’m making great progress though.
My heart wasn’t in it *too *heavily, but I was sort of rooting against Green Bay - if for no other reason than Aaron Rodger’s insurance commercials.
Congrats to the Giants.
On the plus side, Aaron Rodgers will be able to devote more time to his dancing career.
How many times did FOX play variations of that commercial? This NY fan would have liked nothing better than to have them play the dancing discount double check commercial immediately after the last knee.
Holy Crap!! Tom Coughlin really does know how to beat the big teams, eh?
I mis Dio on a discussion like this. He would clearly argue the blown reversal for the Packers, but is probably masturbating profusely at the loss, so… 
Im just amazed that a team that can win three on the road to make it to the super bowl, win that and then win the next 14 in a row can stink it up so bad when it matters.
2010 NFC Championship game!!
Oops, hope that didn’t cause a relapse.
Oh, and yes, I’m an Eagle fan, so I hope the miners crush the crap out of the Gnats.
But I doubt that’s gonna happen.
We got us a 2007 rematch for Pats and Gnats.
Not at all for me! Today helped exorcise the demons of 1998. 2010 was hard, but it just balanced out the schadenfreude I felt in 2008.
Oh, hi everyone…sorry, I’ve been out all day. How did things turn out for the “butbutbutbutbut we’re 15-1 and our QB’s mom can beat up your QB’s mom” team?
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…
But hey, at least they can gloat that my 28-10 prediction was way off.
As a Giants fan, I suppose I should be turning cartwheels and even gloating.
But since I’m STILL secretly convinced that, any moment now, the league will announce that our Super Bowl win over the Patriots was part of an elaborate practical joke… I’ll just say, wow. I’m very happy, but I did NOT see THAT coming!
So many cheeseheads…
(in the warehouse…)
Actually, let me temper that (eight-beer) last post. I’d hate to finish this one off all douchey.
Good game, and the Pack put up more of a fight than I thought that would. That was an incredible run they put up, and I’m confident that Rodgers will add more rings before his career is over.
My favorite Giants fan comment:
Giants 27
Packers 3
Refs 14
Those two bad calls that kept both Packers’ touchdown drives alive got in my head bigtime, but they apparently didn’t faze the Giants a bit. I look forward to a karmic payback next week for the travesty that was the 2002 Wildcard game.
If anyone still has the game on DVR, just before the two minute warning they showed the highlight of the last play of that 2002 game. Watch the receiver on the last pass on the botched field goal. Well before the ball gets there, the defender reaches up, grabs his shoulder pads by the neck and drags him to the ground. Never has there been a more blatant pass interference, but no, no flag for that. Game over, see ya. You didn’t care about winning a playoff game, right, Giants?
Still so pissed.
The announcers said something along the lines of the Packers are now 2-4 at home in the playoffs in their last 6 starts, with two of those losses coming from the Giants. I only remember three losses, though, so I can’t verify that stat. (Michael Vick beat them that one year.)
It’s a huge win, you’re allowed to be douchey.
Thanks for the sentiment, but the Pack stunk up the place today. They didn’t put up a fight, they put up a big steaming pile of garbage. Inaccurate passing, dropped passes, missed tackles, poor coverage, fumbles, and poor play isn’t a fight. But the Giants came into Lambeau and played very well, and, despite the officials best efforts, kicked the Packers in the nuts. I hope this game stays fresh in the minds of every player on that Packer team for the entire off season.
Kind of a moot point now, but I actually didn’t think that fumble call was so bad. Yes, from that one angle it sure looked like the ball was coming out, but from the reverse angle (from which you couldn’t see the knees), you could see that the arm got yanked upwards, away from the body, while still fully controlling the ball for a split second; from the other angle this distinction wasn’t visible: the ball appears to be coming loose as soon as the arm is moved. So, I can see how an official could get to “lack of indisputable evidence” in that circumstance.
Anyway, seems like it was fundamentally a very close game, similar to the first meeting, except that Green Bay made, say, 8 big mistakes (drops, fumbles) instead of a more typical number like 3, and it swung the game hard. Plus, of course, the Giants had the crazy Hail Mary that they totally shouldn’t have tried (the FG had to be good at least 40% of the time or so with the way those kickoffs were booming, while the Hail Mary works, well, almost never).