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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
The New York Football Giants are Super Bowl champions. Let me say that one more time - the New York Football Giants are Super Bowl champions.
I will be the first to admit it; I never believed the Giants had a chance.
This Patriots team was on a mission to become the first team to go a perfect 19-0, a mission of revenge on everyone who called them cheaters early in the season.
A mission to show everyone who said they showed no sportsmanship when they ran the score up on several teams this season.
This is a team that had it all - a quarterback that is Mr. GQ, with a
supermodel hanging on his right arm, and an arm that threw for 4,806
yards and an NFL record 50 touchdowns this season.
This is a team with a coach who, given two weeks to prepare, will dissect and analyze his opponent inside and out.
This is a team with Randy Moss- arguably the best in receiver in the
game- who accounted for 1,493 receiving yards and caught an NFL record
23 touchdowns.
This is a team that had one of the toughest defenses in the game, led
by savvy veterans who knew how to lead by mouth and example.
On paper the Patriots were perfect, but that’s paper.
Last Sunday demonstrated that no one is perfect and that everyone is vulnerable at some point.
The Giants did exactly what they had to do - just one thing that no team has been able to do all season.
That one little thing was getting in Brady’s head.
The Giants hurried, rushed and sacked Brady more than any team did all season.
The Giants defensive line made Brady look merely mortal, sacking him
five times and putting him on his back several more times throughout
the game.
On the offensive side for the Giants, Eli Manning has matured into the quarterback everyone knew he could be.
Manning was called a quarterback who lacked leadership qualities a team
needs in order to win by former Giant running back Tikki Barber on NBC
Sunday Night Football in the early part of the season.
Barber, eat your words.
Manning displayed that quality throughout the playoffs, leading his
team to three consecutive NFC playoff road wins over No. 4 seeded Tampa
Bay Buccaneers, No. 1 seeded Dallas Cowboys and No. 2 Green Bay
Packers.
Then Manning orchestrated that final drive in the last minutes of Super
Bowl XLII to put his team up three, and go on to finish the night with
255 passing yards and two touchdowns, as well as being named Most
Valuable Player.
It leaves us wondering, can we now consider Manning an elite quarterback?
What the Giants did this year was one of the toughest accomplishments a team in the NFL could achieve.
The Giants started 0-2, where they gave up a total of 80 points in the
first two games. The team was then able to earn several key wins at the
latter part of the season to just barely earn a playoff spot.
Hats off to Tom Coughlin and company.
After two years of very boring and drawn out Super bowls, we, the
sports nation, were finally rewarded a Super Bowl that was exciting
until the very end.
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