10 months of Giants fans beating their chest.
Well at least talk of Tom Brady as the best ever will be muted.
Anyone have a video link to the winning touchdown?
That was easily the most entertaining game I have seen in a very long time.
Down to the wire, with a running back failing to FAIL to get into the end zone.
An amazing reception that totally turned the game around.
And a totally fascinating last 59 seconds.
Wow!
They were a 9-7 team that lost to the Redskins in week 15 homey. Find me a worse team that won the Super Bowl. Honestly
And I don’t have to hear that stupid Tom Brady song on the drive to work tomorrow. (I switch between ESPN and NPR.)
So, what’s the over/under on the number of “Elite” headlines tomorrow?
This is the only good to come out of this.
Maybe it’ll shut everyone up about Belichick for a while as well. Seriously, the guy extending the break in practice to 30 minutes is neither news nor a brilliant idea.
Or the Giants were the best team to ever go 9-7. That record doesn’t make a lot of sense given how amazing they have looked.
I thought the Giants would win by more before the game. The Patriots played well and the Giants weren’t at their best, but the Giants won anyway.
Awwww… that’s kind of cute. If it makes you feel better, you keep on believing that.
For my part, congrats to the most exciting and likable Giants team since 1986.
A week?! I thought you yanks cared about this game! I still have nightmares about the 53 minute of the game on july 11th 2010. It was a good game though, was rooting for the Pats, but just found out I don’t really care either way:p.
This is a great day for people who hate the Patriots.
Oh, and The Giants. It’s a good day for them, too.
Giants probably were not the best team in the nfl this year but likely were the best team when it mattered.
That was what, 4 straight drops at the end for the Pats? Not his fault; blame Welker, Hernandez, Branch, and Gronk.
The Giants made fewer mistakes, won the championship, and are therefore the best team in the NFL. Hats off to 'em; they got it done when they needed to get it done and nobody else did.
Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many different receivers drop passes for the same team in such a short period of time. Brady was throwing passes right into the chest and they were dropping them. It was something to behold.
I mean, when it comes down to it, the Giants won because they could actually catch the damn football. Pretty basic skill. If you can catch and the other team can’t, you deserve to win.
Well, in Branch’s defense, it was tipped. That Welker drop killed them. Going to eat at them both for a long time.
They won the Superbowl. That makes them the best team in the NFL. They won the games they had to win to get there, and they won the big one.
Or, more succinctly:
Scoreboard.
If memory serves, nobody has had to do that except Eli Manning. I remember reading an article shortly after the 2007 Superbowl that talked about how no quarterback as ever had the ball in the closing minutes while down by 4-6 points. Meaning: Touchdown you win, otherwise you lose. The one line I remember so clearly from that article was “Eli stands alone.”
That’s enough to google it: Eli stands alone.
Now there have been two chances, one for Eli and one for Brady. And if I had to bet, I’d guess either Big Ben or Kurt Warner had a similar situation in the 2008 Superbowl.
The Patriots, Colts and Steelers have dominated the AFC over the past 10 years or so. They were led by Brady and Peyton Manning, two QBs in the conversation for greatest QB ever, and Ben Roethlisberger, who’s been a top-5 QB (not all-time) for most of his time in the league. All three are great 4th quarter QBs. Yet over the last three years, each of those QBs has had the ball in their hand with the chance to win the Super Bowl, and they all failed. Brady tonite, Ben went 4-and-out last year to end the Super Bowl, Peyton threw a game-killing INT the year before that to lose the game. I find that kinda interesting.
Ugh. That was another great Super Bowl finish, which seems to be the story of the Pats for the last decade…but as someone who adopted them as a second team, that was tough to watch. The only relatively funny thing is that I live in Foxboro, and only 5 minutes after the game ended traffic on my street increased 10x as parties immediately broke up. The last time they won, people didn’t scurry home so quickly…