Today's Agenda: New York Giants- 9-7 Magic

                      After a nerve racking game like that, I need a beer............Well, another beer anyways.  What a magnificent performance by both teams.  In a stunningly similar repeat of Superbowl 42 in 2007, the New York Giants go to the Superbowl as the favored to lose underdogs, against the strong passing game of the powerhouse dynasty of Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.  With Tom Brady's arm and one of the strongest offensive lines in the league, the Patriots were being considered a shoe-in for the championship by many top name sports officials, stating that Eli Manning, though a great quarterback, wouldn't be able to overpower the phenom they call Tom Brady.  Once again, just as in 2007, they underestimated Eli Manning.
                      This post season played out like as though I was watching a movie I'd seen before(in regards to the Patriots and Giants).  New England rolled through almost every team in the regular season, losing only 3 games, finishing it at 13-3, while the Giants finished with a mediocre 9 wins and 7 losses.  That 9th win against the Cowboys in the final game of the regular season was what earned them their seat in the playoffs, barely.  As any football fan knows, however, there's no such thing as barely win it comes to football, there's only winning and losing, the former of which the New York Giants certainly accomplished tonight.
                    With the exception of New England having lost 3 games through the season, everything was exactly the same.  Patriots sat at the number one seed in the AFC, and the Giants at the number 4 seed in the NFC as a Wildcard match up.  Both records, once again, sit at opposite ends of the spectrum. The best team of the AFC, and the worst team of the NFC facing off against each other in the biggest event in sports, and in dramatic fashion, Eli Manning leads the giants to a game game winning score in the last minute of the game, leaving Tom Brady and the Patriots with barely 50 seconds and no time outs to get the ball down the field and into the end zone, which is about 15 seconds more than he had in 2007 when Manning through that famous touchdown pass that ended what would have been a history making perfect, undefeated season for the Patriots.
                  So it makes me wonder if the 9-7 season record has become the Giants magic spot.  At the beginning of the playoffs I called it.  Everyone was hyped up on the Packers or the 49ers, favoring one of these two teams to make a Superbowl appearance, but when I saw the Giants record, I said, "I don't know, Eli Manning's got that 9-7 luck.  He beat the undefeated Patriots 4 years ago."  Sure, I would have rather seen two different playoff teams in the Superbowl(Namely Baltimore and San Francisco), but I just had a feeling that Eli would pull it off again.  Being as it was the Patriots they were playing, I couldn't be happier with the result, because as I've said many times before, I HATE TOM BRADY!!!!!!!!TUCK RULE THIS TOM!!!!!!(2001 Raider vs Patriots playoff game reference, haha.  I'll never forgive him for that, whether it was the referee's decision or not.)
                   So, as far as I can see, they've found their sure fire method to winning championships, having shitty  barely winning seasons. haahaha.  I wish Bill Palechik was capable of human emotion or facial expression, cause I would have loved to see the disappointment on his face when he had to once again accept defeat at the hands of what statistics would prove was a much inferior team.  GO GIANTS!!!!!!!!

                                      Bill Belechick after the Patriots lose to Giants in Superbowl 42

                           Bill Belechick after winning a game just a few weeks before Superbowl 42


This is a link to the press conference immediately following tonight's game.  If you didn't know any better, you would think all three of these came from the same press conference.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-super-bowl/09000d5d826adca2/SB-XLVI-Bill-Belichick-presser