Last year's Super Bowl between the Chicago Bears and the Indianapolis Colts was historic. Peyton Manning won his first Super Bowl. Tony Dungy became the first African-American Coach to win a Super Bowl. This year's Super Bowl between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots was also historic. Eli Manning won his first Super Bowl, preventing the Patriots from completing the first perfect season since 1972. Overlooked has been the fact that Giants' GM Jerry Reese became the first African-American GM to win a Super Bowl. Congratulations, Jerry!
A few more notes:
1) Too bad the MVP trophy almost always goes to an offensive player. No offense to Eli Manning, whose fourth quarter escape from an almost-certain sack created an amazing play to keep the winning drive alive. But really, the Giants' defense won the game. Who knew that Plaxico Burress' prediction would be almost correct?
2) Not that too many people took Plaxico seriously in the first place. Did anyone, even those fans who thought New York would win, really think New England would only score 14 points? And if you did, did you think that BEFORE Tom Brady jinxed himself by laughing at Plaxico. The two people (if that many) who usually read my posts know that my brother prides himself on making fairly accurate predictions. Even he had to admit that he was way off with his 38-24 Patriots win prediction (or it might have been 34-28...way off, either way).
3) Man, I'm glad Peyton won the Super Bowl last year. Can you imagine how mad he'd be if Eli had beaten him to it? I mean, really!
4) There are already questions about whether the Giants can repeat next year. The answer is no. Don't get me wrong; they're a good team. You have to be a good team to win the Super Bowl. But the Giants are like the 2006 Pittsburgh Steelers: good enough to win a Super Bowl; not good enough to be able to get there two years in a row. Heck, the Patriots can't even figure out how to pull that one off. Let's face it: teams in recent memory who have pulled off back-to-backs (Denver 1998-1999, Dallas 1993-1994, San Francisco 1989-1990) haven't tended to be wild card berths with 6 regular-season losses. I will say this, though: Tiki Barber looks rather silly.
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Tikki Barber is a self-righteous Primadona and a Loser with a capital L! In fact, the reason why the New York Giants have not won more than one Super Bowl to date is because Tikki was nothing but a menacing distraction to the entire team; showboating for all the attention, spitting out meaningless and damaging opinions in order to get media sound bites for his own selfish endeavors. He didn’t give a damn about his teammates, the Giants Organization or anyone but his own career. We now know he didn’t know what the hell he was talking about. He is a disgrace to the entire NFL Organization and what the NFL stands for. I am no longer going to watch any television show he appears on. Tikki Barber has been exposed: A Loser who doesn’t have any integrity. A logical conclusion suggests that he doesn’t give a damn about anything or anybody but himself! I will not ever believe anything that comes out of his mouth.
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Say what you really feel, Mike!
Seriously, tho -- good game, even if the folks I watched it with were totally depressed afterwards. So, SC, what did you think of the TV commentary? I thought it was downright awful, almost as bad as the Michaels/Madden disaster from two years ago.
Oh, and good to see you're back!
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