Letters to the Editor
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That was good.
Never, in a game not involving my team, have I been so worked up; felt the heavy hand of impending doom, watched the unlikeliest of plays keep going, and screamed my head off for a catch made with someone's forehead. That Giants D-line was the real MVP, but nobody can say anything about Manning anymore, at least not in any terms of finality. That was one of the best games I have ever seen, and I still can't believe the outcome.
Hell of an ending to the season.
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Oh my god
Brady played like shit and whoever calls their plays should be fired.
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Tom Brady awarded MP3
A straw poll sez Justin Timberlake is That Big Sucking Sound
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Should have invested in Crow futures.
A lot of sports writers are eating some very tasty crow tonight, apparently. Tom 'Dreamboat' Brady stumbles badly, and all we hear is how spectacular the Giants are. Humble pie never tasted so good!
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Thank you Jesus
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you.
Suck it, Patriots*.
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It's probably not your fault but ...
Whoever's in charge of headlines for Salon needs to be dragged over the pun coals for "A Giant upset." Media outlets with little to no dignity went either one of two ways: a "Giant" upset or something regarding the imperfect Giants defeating the perfect Patriots. The NY Post, lowest of the low, went for "Super Mann," which, while despicable was at least original. I'm saddened Salon chose to go with the conventional route.
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Proof once again that few things are more dangerous...
...that a team who _really_ wants a title. The Patriots may have had the horsepower and strategies, but the Giants had the strategies _and_ the hunger. (Cue chorus of "Ya Gotta Have Heart..." :))
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It was a joy to watch Belicheat crushed
The classless scoundrel. He ran off the field to hide like a beaten dog.
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Credit where it's due...
The Giants and Eli Manning pulled off an *amazing* game. Congratulations from this Patriots fan.
(Oh, and Cythera? You weren't watching the game I was. Belichick went out to midfield and congratulated Coughlin, then the refs put a second back on the clock and cleared the field. Asking Belichick to come back out A SECOND TIME to congratulate Coughlin is a bit much.)
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Agreed, Belichick's Got No Class
Since the camera was on Belichick the whole time, I couldn't tell how responsible he was for creating the anti-climactic awkwardness that resulted before the final play (though it seemed a bit fishy that he was so committed to hugging Coughlin with :01 to go).
Regardless, he has a responsibility to be on the field for every play of the game. It was inexcusable to head to the locker room before it was officially over. It was disrespectful to the Giants, but I think they'll let it slide. It's even more disrespectful to his own team not to be on the field while the players endured the humiliating formality of the last play. Why should he get to leave if the team can't?
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Parade?
I am a Jets fan so this game was agony for me. I was hoping for a scoreless tie which would end after 4 overtimes when no one could stand up anymore.
I congratulate the Giants. They made more plays. Manning's escape from a gaggle of Pats and heave to Smith will go down as one of the great plays in SB history.
Do you think Belichick wishes he could reconsider his decison to forego the 48-yard FG attempt and go for it on 4th down in the 2nd quarter?
I am pissed that NYC Mayor Bloomberg has offered a parade up lower Broadway, the "canyon of heroes," to the formerly NY Giants. The Jints left NYC more than 30 years ago to play in a swamp euphemistically called "the Meadowlands" in another state, New Jersey. NYC derives no economic gain from Giant home games yet we will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for police, firefighters, EMTs and sanitation workers to take care of 1 or 2 million additional people who will tax our transit system and roads. The mayor is demanding budget cuts from all city agencies yet we are wasting money on a team that doesn't even play in NYC. It is also primary day in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut when we are trying to do something really important like select presidential candidates. Is someone benefiting from this disruption of the election process?
Let the Giants parade around their parking lot as they did after their previous SB wins. Does this mean the New Jersey Devils or the New York (Long Island) Islanders will get a parade if they win the Stanley Cup?
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A Better Analogy is Villanova over Georgetown
Low seed, teams had played before with the more expected result, Villanova throws a near perfect second half and you kept expecting Georgetown to power out of it, but they never did.
Not that there were many humans more different than Rollie Massimino and Tom Coughlin.
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Nobody's Perfect ...
... would be a better title. But, who cares? What a freakin' game! Absolutely the best Super Bowl ever! ...
When it was still 7-3 after three quarters, it was clear the last fifteen minutes were going to be something special. Kudos to the Jints for pulling off the most amazing upset in football history. Far, far bigger than the Jets' feat of days gone by. Bigger because of who they stopped.
I've never wanted a team to win it all as much as I wanted these Pats to win this game. Not only because they're a great team, but because of the sheer chutzpah it took to go for 19 and 0. They could've rested their squad in those "meaningless" end-of-season games against three hard-nosed opponents (Eagles, Ravens, Giants), but they didn't. And, remember, it was the Eagles who gave everyone else the Key. Without that, the rings'd be on the other team's fingers today. And, now, of course Shula will be magnanimous and his team will be trotted out once more as "The Only Undefeated Team. Ever." But these Pats eclipsed his Phins two weeks ago.
To have the ambition to aim for the Perfect Season and to almost, almost pull it off is still, to my way of thinking, proof that the Pats deserve to be regarded as the Greatest Team. Ever. Period. That so many piled onto the anti-Pats bandwagon (even Senator Silver Bullet, himself) and wanted to see the drive for Perfection stopped is to my mind a monument to the bottomless stupidity of the Great Unwashed Masses. Some people are so firmly wedded to Mediocrity that they won't ever acknowledge the grit and determination it takes to aim, not just for the Super Bowl, but for something Bigger even than that: The Perfect Season. Now that the Pats have paved the way, rest assured others will try. Sooner or later, one will succeed. I hail them in advance.
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P.S.: Have Romo and Brady inadvertently revealed a jinx that is worse than the cover of SI? Both paid the price for bringing their Trophy Girlfriends to The Game. Now, we're all left wondering: Did The Jinx Cost Them The Game?