Giants 38 Patriots 35

Well, I got the score wrong, but I'm proud to say I got the spread and the team right!  Wow!  What a football game.  Any football fan should have enjoyed that game.  Wow!  What a game.

I'll be real curious to see how the call on 4th and 13 in the first half with the Patriots going for it instead of attempting a field goal.  Or at the very least punting and pinning the Giants deep.  Final score was a field goal so it will be interesting to see how the "experts" in the media look at that call. 

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Boy that was an intense game!

Great defense throughout the game and then come back after come back in the 4th quarter. Was great to see a close game in the Super Bowl.

I was hoping for the Patriots but oh well =p

Intense is a great way to describe that game.  Nothing more intense for me than those last 36 seconds.  With Brady and all those weapons at his disposal, I could not sit down for the end of the game!

Walter Biscardi, Jr. www.biscardicreative.com

I started off cheering for the Patriots for obvious reasons -- not only because of the undefeated season for a local team, but because it seemed likely that Boston-area teams could pull off a first: champeenship seasons for baseball, football and basketball at the same time.

That said, it was obvious from the time the Pats took the field that they were flat, unable to answer the Giants on either offense or defense. It made no sense that they spent so much of the game in front. Nora and I kept saying to each other there was no planet on which they should be winning. I remember when Teddy and Junior celebrated when the Patriots pulled ahead with only a few minutes remaining thinking, the odds of you keeping the Giants contained for even 2 and a half minutes are next to nil.

At a certain point, we had to just smile and enjoy the show the Giants put on. I was especially impressed with Eli. My favorite part was when he managed to shake off four Patriot defenders, including two of whom got as far as grabbing his shirt...yet he still completed a major downfield pass.

It's just plain FUN to see a special performance like this, potentially one for the ages....not unlike the 2001 performance of a young, unproven backup quarterback named Tom Brady, who stepped up to beat San Diego, favored by 12 points, in a major upset. 

The other thing I enjoyed is that he at least temporarily overshadowed Peyton, the most overrated, and for me anyway, reviled punk in the game...probably in all of Western-hemisphere sport. The fact is that Eli has more wins than his big brother/big baby at the same point in his career, to say nothing of a more dominant and controlled performance in the Super Bowl, at a much earlier age than what's his doof.

As much as anything, it was a matter of timing. The Patriots peaked early, and started to wither against every team they faced raising their game to knock off the leader, typically playing their best gams of the season...usually their best of the last couple of seasons. The Giants had the opportunity of low expectations to carefully build steam, peaking at exactly the right team, as the Patriots had been able to do.

Anyway, even in a loss by the team I favored, it was a genuine pleasure to watch such a surprise unfold. This is indeed why they play the games.

PS. I can more easily brush this one aside a little more easily because I care a lot more about baseball. As others have observed, Patriots fans will never suffer as badly as Red Sox fans, the hardest core of whom still live under a cloud of doom, and always will...for good reason based on the preponderence of their history. I hope for good things next seeason, but with ten times as many games as a football season, and where individual success 3 and a half times out of ten is exceptional, there are a whole lot more opportunities for agony. What's not to love? :-)

If the College Bowl Championship Series (what a joke) ever needed a living example of why championships are won on the field and not in a computer, they just needed to watch this year's NFL championships.  Surely a team with 6 loses would NEVER be paired with an undefeated team in the supposed "College Title Game."

But there we were with a team that had a whopping 6 loses going into the playoffs, having to win every game on the road including a frigid night on the hallowed grounds of Lambeau Field.  And on Sunday night, the better team won the game.  If it wasn't for offensive sputters during the game, it could easily have been a much more comfortable win for the Giants.  But credit the Patriots defense for stepping up when they needed to for most of the game.

The result, probably the greatest Super Bowl I've seen with second place being the Rams / Titans in Atlanta back in 2000.   A game that ended on a slant pattern tackle at the 1 yard line to win the game for the Rams.  In each case you had tremendous defenses controlling the game.

So Division 1 College Presidents who have football programs.  THIS is why we play the game on the field, not through some computer matchup. 

Walter Biscardi, Jr. www.biscardicreative.com