Giants Win! Patriots Choke! Cosmic Balance is Restored…
I’ll say it again… if you picked the Patriots (never mind that ridiculous point spread) you are a bigger chump than Tom Brady.
The Giants put that man down and he never knew what hit him. Everything the Patriots looked like they enjoyed all year… the pocket protection… the cocky rainbow passes to Randy “Perennial Loser” Moss were taken from them and they were exposed as the cheap, untested suit the ‘72 Dolphins squad must have been waiting for the clock to strike midnight on all along.
I thought this Giants team was no better than 4-12 before the season started. With Tiki gone, Strahan holding out through training camp and a coach who seemed to have one foot in the grave and the other on the job security banana peel, I never imagined this. Not after losing to Dallas and Green Bay to start the year. Not after Eli Manning began to once again resemble Rain Man without the math skills.
But holy fuck what a game.
That Giants defense is magic in a bottle and, beyond the great Michael Strahan, they are set to dominate with youth, speed and pain for a long time. They shut down Brady and his vanilla offense for the entire goddamn game, America.
This was no fluke. This was no Cinderella story. The best team on the field won the Super Bowl. The best team this post-season took it home.
After a brief Randy Moss sighting in the fourth quarter (the first I can recall in a long time), Eli Manning led a drive down the field that will rank alongside Joe Montana’s heroics against the Cincinnati Bengals so long ago. Ice water coursing through his veins, Kid Manning slipped what looked like a prison rape gang tackle, shook off the lowly Patriots pass rush and arced one incredible long pass over the middle to David Tryee who must still be bending over backwards to catch it with his fingertips.
Get used to hearing terms like “The Drive” and “The Catch” with entirely new meanings now. Greatest completion since Montana to Dwight Clark.
Greatest Super Bowl you’ll ever see.
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