3
Feb

Giants Stun Patriots!

Posted by: Curt @ 7:28 pm in Sports  | 1 views

capt7938f2ba27a3428d9bf043048e411e88super_bowl_football_sb339.jpg

Wow! What a game. Eli Manning and the Giants have stunned the “best team in history” (sure thing) and did it with 35 seconds left in the game.

MVP should be the Giants defense, shared with Eli of course.

The Giants had the perfect answer for the suddenly imperfect 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 35capt1cd056f1097748e88eb34960c27aaef8super_bowl_football_las161.jpg seconds left in the Super Bowl. Sunday’s 17-14 win was the Giants’ 11th straight 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.

What a great game. Oh, btw, being a long time old school 49er fan I have to point out one fact. Joe Montana went to the Superbowl four times, won four times. So all this talk about Brady being the best ever can now silently fade away…..

As a added bonus Tom Petty played at halftime. Being a fan I figured I would put the whole show up for the readers of FA who also enjoy his stuff….He hit all my favorites.

So click below to watch the whole show:

  • Share/Bookmark
Print This Post Print This Post
This entry was posted on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 at 7:28 pm and is filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Trackbacks

15 comments so far

Skip
 1Reply to this comment  

Mark Cuban should be happy, his Dallas Mavericks are no longer the biggest championship chokers in sports history.

February 3rd, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Rivka
 2Reply to this comment  

I agree. MVP should be Eli combined with the DEFENSE. They did an excellent job at stopping the Patriots.

OF course, I HAD to relate it to the election. It was conventional wisdom that the Patriots would win, and they were wrong. Let’s hope the conventional wisdom that McClinton wins is wrong and Romney scores a huge SUPER TUESDAY SUPERBOWL win!

February 4th, 2008 at 4:28 am
CentFla
 3Reply to this comment  

Curt what year did the 49ers also finish 18-1 and won the Superbowl? The Bears did it after the 85 season and won the 86 superbowl to go 18-1. That Bears team would have murdered Tom Terrific and the Patriots.

Cheaters Never Prosper. Sweet.

February 4th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Curt
 4Reply to this comment  

1984. Finished the season 15-1, then won the two playoff games and the superbowl. When it came to the big games Joe never choked, but Tom has. The next year those Bears also went 18-1, but Joe and the 9ers went 4 times in the 80’s…won them all.

February 4th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Old Dog
 5Reply to this comment  

Curt,

May I calmly poit out that the first QB to go to four Superbowls and win all four was named Terry Bradshaw. Montana is at best tied for first and in my mind second.

That punk at New England is not even in the discussion.

February 4th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Curt
 6Reply to this comment  

Sorry Old Dog, Bradshaw takes backseat to Montana imo. He was good, but not the best.

February 4th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Old Dog
 7Reply to this comment  

Ah, we now have the generation gap. May I suggest Sir that we simply agree to disagree. As neither of us could prove our case beyond a shadow.

Montana is your Generations.

Bradshaw is mine. Let us merely state, “Damn them Boys was good!”

February 4th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Curt
 8Reply to this comment  

Oh, I agree completely Old Dog. This new generation will be doing the same with Brady but with a 3-1 SB record he can’t compete with either. Football is so subjective, whenever I hear announcers talking about “best in history” I cringe.

Actually, I like Brady. He is calm like Joe, worshiped Joe as a youngster, and has many of his attributes…but I didn’t want to see him tie Joe, or Terry for that matter. Selfish that way I guess.

February 4th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Old Dog
 9Reply to this comment  

Oh and I agree.

The key here is theat Brady was there and lost. Joe and Terry both found a way to win every time.

That is not subject to generational differnces, that is a fact. When faced with adversity the two best found a way.

February 4th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Curt
 10Reply to this comment  

I’ll tip one to that my brother!

February 4th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Philadelphia Steve
 11Reply to this comment  

Given the degree to which New England’s “win” was considered pre-ordained, I would compare this upset of a calibre with the New York Jets win over the Baltimore Colts in Super Bown III.

Both New York teams as well, except that this time the “NFC” was the underdog

February 4th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Curt
 12Reply to this comment  

Hey! I agree with Stevo! Will wonders never cease?

February 4th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
ChrisG
 13Reply to this comment  

I live in Detroit…. We see the Superbowl… We just never play in it.

February 4th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Curt
 14Reply to this comment  

Ouch! But true. Looked like Kitna was going to pull out that 10 win promise for awhile, but it fell apart.

At least you did better then my 9ers tho.

February 4th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
ChrisG
 15Reply to this comment  

Detroit did better than last year…. Which is not saying much…. They are a great group of individuals, but not a team.

February 5th, 2008 at 6:24 am

Leave a reply

Name (*)
Mail (will not be published) (*)
URI
Comment

If your comments get caught in spam a lot please log into your registered account before trying to comment again. You can email me if your comment is caught in spam

 

Identity Verification: If you wish to verify your commenter identity, so no one can steal it, click the below button: