lilgish said:

CarrieLee said:

Oh, just stop it. No need to qualify it. Bill Simmons is crying in his pillow right now.

theAudience said:

ThreadBare said:

He did congratulate him ya dummy!!!!

CarrieLee said:

Yes, he did.

YES NEW YORK!!!

Incredible game.

Manning was unreal.

I was waiting for someone to kick a field goal between this guy's teeth

Revolution said:

BTW, maybe you should watch the game again because he DID congratulate him!

Ya'll are soooo quick to talk shit!

july said:

july said:

New York 17 | Patriots 14

New York Giants win Super Bowl XLII

Patriots have Perfect Season. 19 - 0

New England Patriots win Super Bowl XLII





Super Bowl XLII | Giants 17, Patriots 14
Giants Stun Patriots in Super Bowl XLII
By JUDY BATTISTA
The New York Times

The Giants were not even supposed to be here, taking an unlikely playoff path through the behemoths of their conference and regarded, once they alighted on Super Bowl XLII, as little more than charming foils for the New England Patriots’ assault on immortality.

But with their defense battering this season’s National Football League’s most valuable player, Tom Brady, and Giants quarterback Eli Manning playing more like Brady than Brady himself, the Giants produced one of the greatest upsets in Super Bowl history Sunday night, beating the previously undefeated Patriots, 17-14.

The Giants had seemingly been enlivened for the postseason by a 3-point loss to the Patriots in their regular-season finale on Dec. 29, a game in which the Giants had nothing on the line but pride and competitive spirit. A little more than a month later, they topped themselves, winning the franchise’s first championship since the 1991 Super Bowl.

Back then, Bill Belichick was the Giants’ defensive coordinator. On Sunday, he was the coach who had led the Patriots to the brink of a historic 19-0 perfect season, had survived a spying scandal that cost him money and his team a first-round draft pick, had weathered whispers in recent days that a previous title might be tainted. But he could only watch as it all collapsed under the weight of the Giants’ ferocious pass rush. For another year, the 1972 Miami Dolphins will stand alone with the only perfect season in N.F.L. history. The Patriots are, in the end, only almost perfect.

“It’s the greatest victory in the history of this franchise, without question,” the Giants co-owner John Mara said, his voice hoarse. “I just want to say to all you Giants fans who have supported us for more than 30 years at Giants Stadium, for all those years in Yankee Stadium and some of you even back to the Polo Grounds, this is for you.”

Manning connected with Plaxico Burress for the winning touchdown, a 13-yard pass with 35 seconds remaining in the game. Manning drove the Giants 83 yards in just over two minutes after the Patriots had marched down the field to take a 14-10 lead.

Manning was named the Super Bowl most valuable player a year after his older brother Peyton won the same award for the Indianapolis Colts.

It was, fittingly, a brutal sack of Brady by Jay Alford with 20 seconds remaining that all but ended the Patriots’ final chance of saving their unblemished record. Brady heaved the ball nearly 80 yards in the air in a desperation shot to reach Randy Moss with 10 seconds left, but the fourth-down pass fell to the ground.

So it was Tom Coughlin, who nearly lost his job after last season and was under fire when the Giants began the season 0-2, who was embraced in congratulations by Belichick. And Belichick, either believing the game was over or not wanting to watch it end, left the field, even though the Giants had to run one more perfunctory play to get the last second off the clock.

The Giants, who finished 14-6, won 11 games away from home on the way to claiming the Lombardi Trophy. They used wave after wave of blitzes to batter Brady all game, sacking him five times, twice more than he had been sacked in any previous game this season, and grinding the highest-scoring offense in N.F.L. history to a halt for most of the game.

Last week, Burress predicted the Giants would win, 23-17. But the Giants, who made the playoffs as a wild card and were underdogs in each of their four postseason games, were even better than Burress imagined.

“We didn’t do it to prove you wrong,” defensive end Michael Strahan said. “We did it to prove to ourselves we could do it. We were stopping the best offense in football. Of course, they were surprised. We shocked the world. We shocked ourselves.”

Manning provided the snapshot for the game, pulling away from at least four Patriots and a near-certain sack on third down, and lofting the ball to David Tyree. Tyree made a leaping 32-yard reception, clutching the ball against his helmet as he fell, that put the Giants at the Patriots’ 24-yard line with 59 seconds left in the game. Coughlin said it might have been among the greatest plays in Super Bowl history.

A few plays later, Manning lofted a fade pass to Burress in the left corner of the end zone, giving the Giants their winning score. Junior Seau, the Patriots linebacker who at 39 has never won a Super Bowl, lay face down on the ground in distress. After the game, Burress, whose knee had bothered him during the week, wept on national television.

“It’s disappointing; we came so close to being special,” Patriots defensive lineman Richard Seymour said. “We’re second-class.”

Not exactly. The Patriots still have a 16-0 regular season to cling to, and their offense, for almost the whole season, was unstoppable. But they were crestfallen by their near miss with football history.

It was the first time Belichick had lost a Super Bowl for New England. In recent days, questions had been raised about whether the Patriots videotaped a walk-through by St. Louis before New England won its first Super Bowl in 2002, and several Rams players said they hoped the N.F.L. would conduct a full investigation. The Patriots now face a long, perhaps embarrassing off-season.

And despite his affection for the Giants’ organization, where he worked for 12 years, Belichick was clipped in his postgame comments.

“I mean, look, they played well,” he said. “They made some plays. We made some plays. In the end, they made a couple more than we did.”

The Giants broke open the game with 11 minutes 5 seconds remaining after there had been no scoring since the first two drives. But with Manning’s 45-yard pass to the rookie tight end Kevin Boss and perfect strike in the back of the end zone to Tyree, the Giants seized the lead, 10-7, for the first time since their opening drive ended with a field goal.

For most of the game, the score notwithstanding, the Giants had done everything they hoped to do. They kept the ball out of the Patriots’ hands with a long clock-eating drive that wore out the defense to start the game, and blitzed Brady relentlessly. For much of the game, the Patriots’ defense matched that of the Giants.

After the Giants took their 10-7 lead, they struggled for the first time to stop the Patriots, who finally conjured the sort of quick-strike drive that defined their season. Brady, who may have been hampered by his injured right ankle, found Moss with a third-down touchdown pass to briefly retake the lead with 2:42 remaining.

“We usually are on the better side of those 3-point wins,” Brady said, referring to the Patriots’ three Super Bowl victories, all by 3 points.

But at this Super Bowl, another quarterback played the leading man. Manning has been criticized and scrutinized since the Giants pulled off a draft-day trade for him four seasons ago. Last year, he cheered for his brother as the Colts won the Super Bowl. On Sunday, Peyton Manning stood in a luxury box, anxiously watching his little brother complete 19 of 34 passes for two touchdowns.

Across the field, Brady, who was 29 of 48 for 266 yards and a touchdown, watched as his season, and history, were buried under the red and blue confetti that rained down on the Giants.







Giants ruin Patriots' bid for perfect season
New York shocks New England, 17-14
Associated Press News Service

The New York Giants had the perfect answer for the suddenly imperfect New England Patriots: a big, bad defense and an improbable comeback led by their own Mr. Cool quarterback, Eli Manning.

In one of football’s biggest shockers, New York shattered New England’s unbeaten season as Manning hit Plaxico Burress on a 13-yard fade with 35 seconds remaining in the Super Bowl.

Sunday’s 17-14 win was the Giants’ 11th consecutive on the road, and the first time the Patriots tasted defeat in more than a year.

It was the most bitter of losses, too, because New England (18-1) was one play from winning, but its defense couldn’t stop a 12-play, 83-yard drive that featured a spectacular leaping catch by David Tyree, who scored New York’s first touchdown.

“It’s the greatest feeling in professional sports,” Burress said before bursting into tears.

The Patriots were done in not so much by the pressure of the first unbeaten season in 35 years as by the pressure of a smothering Giants pass rush. Tom Brady, the league’s Most Valuable Player and winner of his first three Super Bowl, was sacked five times, hurried a dozen more and at one point wound up on his knees, his hands on his hips following one of many poor throws.

Hardly a familiar position for the record-setting quarterback. And a totally strange outcome for a team that seemed destined for historic glory.

Oddly, it was a loss to the Patriots that sparked New York’s stunning run to its third Super Bowl and sixth NFL title. New England won, 38-35, in Week 17 as the Patriots became the first team since the 1972 Miami Dolphins to go spotless through the regular season. But by playing hard in a meaningless game for them, the Giants (14-6) gained something of a swagger and Manning cast off older brother Peyton’s shadow and found his footing.

Their growing confidence carried them through playoff victories at Tampa, Dallas and Green Bay, and then past the mightiest opponent of all.

Not that the Patriots were very mighty this day. They even conceded with 1 second on the clock as coach Bill Belichick ran across the field to shake the hand of jubilant Giants coach Tom Coughlin, then headed to the locker room, ignoring the final kneeldown.

That it was Manning taking that knee was stunning. Peyton’s kid brother not only matched his sibling’s achievement of last year with the Indianapolis Colts, but he showed the brilliant precision late in the game usually associated with, well, Brady.

Peyton Manning was seen in a luxury box jumping up and pumping both fists when Burress, who didn’t practice all week because of injuries, caught the winning score.

Awww poor Brady looks like he's going to cry!!! No crying in football!!! We'll be back!

And for the love of god fix your fucking teeth!!!

CarrieLee said:

I never said that he didn't congratulate him....but what I saw was that Belicheat walked off the field with some time still left on the clock. His players had to play one final play with their coach in the lockerroom.

He had the balls to run up the score on every opponent every opportunity that he had this year, but when the tables are turned, he shows his true color.
That's NO CLASS in my book.
[Edited 2/4/08 10:07am]

When I saw that play, I could have sworn that... there are no words for that play, but I'll remember it forever.
The energy in the room just exploded and everyone was cheering when that catch was made. When I saw what Eli did, I knew that they were going to win. They HAD to after that play.
But I think that play was nothing short of "divine intervention".. that's how amazingly unbelievable it was.

Revolution said:

The guy just lost the superbowl after a perfect season. The game was over, he went on the field to congratulate the other team and left. I don't see what the big deal is.

They played terrible.

...Nice!



tA

Tribal Disorder

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CarrieLee said:

Bleary-eyed Eli Manning still taking in win
NY NEWSDAY

The party was over very early this morning, but Eli Manning wasn't ready to call it a night.

He had the congratulations from his high school and college buddies who turned out in full force to see their friend in Super Bowl XLII. He'd shared a moment with his brother, Peyton, in the visitors' locker room at the University of Phoenix Stadium, after Eli succeeded his brother as Super Bowl MVP.

He'd seen all the fellow Giants and coaches he could. Then, in his hotel room, he lay down for a few hours' sleep.

Instead, he turned on the television. "I wanted to see the game again," he said.

Sleep can wait. Eli Manning was a bit bleary-eyed this morning, but he was still plenty alert and excited to be holding up the MVP trophy after the Giants' stunning 17-14 win over the Patriots in Super Bowl XLII.

"I did finally lay down, but I just sat there with my eyes wide open, thinking about the game," Manning said. "I don't know what I'm going on right now. Just the excitement and the emotions of last night."

Manning did have to see "The Play," his 32-yard throw to David Tyree on a third-and-five play from his own 44 with a minute left and the Giants trailing by four. Commissioner Roger Goodell called it "one of the greatest plays in Super Bowl history." Manning didn't see it on the field, being that he had just wrested free from Patriots linemen Jarvis Green and Richard Seymour.

"Someone asked me how I didn't go down, and I don't really know. They never pulled me down," Manning said. "I just threw it and gave David a chance to make the play. The way he caught it, against his helmet with guys swatting at him, it was just a great individual effort by him."

Manning's individual effort was rewarded with the MVP prize, and his choice of Cadillacs. He went with the Escalade hybrid, which isn't available yet.

"I know it comes out in the summer," he told Cadillac's CEO. "I want the first one."

Goodell summed it up best regarding Manning, who was still considered a flop as late as Christmas. "He made a name for himself last night,"

That was fucking great. I wish it had been my team win.

NFC!

From the New York Daily News:

theAudience said:

i'm sorry but the crying is just too funny

CarrieLee said:

Aw, I like Strahan. His gap gives him character. He had that fire for your man though Carrie.

heybaby said:

You might have seen the single greatest game any defensive line unit has ever played, at any level.

They collectively dismantled the best offense in the history of the game, and shredded an offensive line with 3 Pro Bowlers. Their motors never stopped until the final gun.

what have I been talking about all year? BIG BLUEEEEE

I'm watching the parade on TV right now.

PurpleJedi said:

I watched parts too, it was boring!!!

The Red Sox parade was fun, they had the dropkick murphys playing on one of the duck boats with Papplebon dancing around with a broom.

namepeace said:

I agree....fuck Eli, the MVP's were those D-Linemen. They made two defensive linemen the MVP's for the Cowboys (Randy White and Harvey Martin), why not make the entire line the MVP??? They had more to do with that victory than Eli did...

CarrieLee said:

Hi Carrie!



THAT'S for beating the Chargers!