Nobody's perfect

Giants 17, Patriots 14, final. Wow!

Turns out Plaxico Burress gave the Pats' offense too much credit!

Somewhere, the '72 Dolphins are drinking champagne right now.

Liveblog thread below.

P.S. Now, can Obama pull a Giant-sized upset against Tuesday's overwhelming favorite?

P.P.S. I just had a thought. Forget Maria Shriver. Forget Al Gore and John Edwards. Barack Obama needs Eli Manning's endorsement. If Eli were to publicly endorse him in the next 24 hours, Obama would win the New York primary in a landslide. ;)

Comments

[Wobbly H]

I don't like those geezers ('72 Dolphins) given reason to celebrate, but I'm kind of glad the obnoxious Boston sports fans don't get to celebrate another championship.

Damnit.

Best. Super Bowl. Ever.

[Derek]

I figured it was an omen that the New Yorker would win.

And that the Massachusettsian would lose.

[Brendan Loy]

I figured it was an omen that the New Yorker would win.

There is no New Yorker in the race anymore. Giuliani dropped out.

Oh, you mean the Arkansas carpetbagger...

;)

[Gardner]

If Super Tuesday is as good as the Super Bowl, This will be one exciting week.

[Mad Max, Esquire]

Uh, Brendan. CNN.com is running your poll question virtually verbatim. I think you should bitchslap them.

[Jim Hu]

A couple of weeks ago Greg Easterbrook wrote:

In fact, the NFL's passing yardage leader has never gone on to win the Super Bowl in the same season

I confess that I thought that this year was the year for that string to be broken.

Regarding the political spin - it isn't about NY - it's a blow against inevitability. And a vindication of the leader who was painted as not having enough experience.

[David K.]

Max, CNN has had the poll up for a few days now, i think they had it first :)

[Patrick]

I would be willing to bet my left nut that Eli Manning (and the rest of the Manning family for that matter) is a Republican. As such, he should support Hillary in the primary.

[Mad Max, Esquire]

I don't know about Eli being a Republican. Remember when he and Peyton hired a jet to fly supplies into New Orleans after Katrina?

Despite that, they are making so much money through commercial endorsements, I doubt they would publicly come out for any candidate.

[Brian Foster]

I don't know about Eli being a Republican. Remember when he and Peyton hired a jet to fly supplies into New Orleans after Katrina?

Just curious, Max -- how exactly does hiring a jet to fly supplies to New Orleans after Katrina undermine the suggestion that Eli (or any other Manning) is a Republican?

It doesn't. Mad Max is just the resident douchebag.

[Brendan Loy]

Because, Brian, Republicans hate black people! Duh! Get with the program, man. ;)

[Texasyank]

Speaking as a Pats fan:

Gah. Brady looked awful, and the O-line was worse.

But congrats to the Giants. A case could have been made for New York's defensive front four as collective MVP's. They played their asses off.

[Angrier and Angrier]

The Giants did the two things on defense virtually no other team did during the regular season.

First, they pressured Brady to the point where the O-Line broke. There's no way you can cover Moss and Stallworth, so the best you can hope to do is make Brady miss. That's exactly what the Giants did.

The other thing the Giants did is they stopped the Yards after Catch nonsense. I can't tell you how many games this year I saw where Brady would throw a slant or a flat to Welker or one of the running backs and the damn defense would sit back in the zone and let them pick-up a first down. New York did a great job of getting after the ball and wrapping those guys up before they could get too far.

All in all, a great job by the Giants.

[Josh]

I don't know about Eli being a Republican. Remember when he and Peyton hired a jet to fly supplies into New Orleans after Katrina?

Now that's a good one. The Mannings are FROM New Orleans you friggin moron.

After that comment, you have totally lost any (and there was little at that) credibility. You are such a tool!!!!

[Benedict]

If you're looking to read the political entrails from the Super Bowl, then check the parallels between Tom Coughlin and John McCain.

Not only do they kinda, sorta look alike from a size, complexion, and hairstyle perspective, but both were left for dead early in their respective seasons (the Giants started 0-2 and were down two touchdowns to the Redskins at halftime of week 3) before coming back to overcome the Team / Candidate of Destiny, who would be Rudy on the primary front and, as of this moment, Hillary in the general.

McCain / Coughlin '08?

[Mad Max, Esquire]

Call me a tool. Call me an ass. Call me a douchebag.

All I know is I look at the prospective Democratic nominees for President and I look at the Republicans ones and I see that the Democrats look a hell of a lot more like New Orleans than do the Republicans.

Actions speak louder than words. The Republican leadership doesn't look remotely like America. They can talk platitudes to blacks, women and Hispanics all they want. They don't walk the talk.

I may be a douchebag. But I'm a douchebag for pointing out the truth.

[Brian Foster]

Max,

Max,

I'm not calling you a tool, nor an ass, nor a douchebag. I am, however, calling your "argument" illogical and ridiculous.

One does not need to "look like New Orleans" either to care about what happened there or to hire a helicopter to deliver supplies to people there.

You say that "actions speak louder than words," yet you base your conclusion that "Republicans don't care about what happened in New Orleans" not on any action taken, but on what the Republican leadership looks like.

Until a decent number of African Americans finally find the courage and strengh to see through the horrible lie perpetrated upon them by the modern Democratic party and realize that they have a better choice in the GOP, the Republicans cannot be faulted for not having greater numbers of them among their upper ranks.

Absent any indication or hint of deliberate efforts to exclude them, however, your suggestion that Republicans don't care or offer nothing but platitudes is empty and meritless.

As to their efforts, even a rudimentary survey will confirm that the GOP is constantly trying to make inroads with the black community and tear down that oppressive fortress of forced groupthink the Dems have erected around it.

Their overtures can be dismissed as "platitudes" only because the left's intellectual grip on the black community's free will is so intractably ensconced that the mere presence of the "-R" after the speaker's name is sufficient to deprive the speaker of all credibility with the target audience before the first word is ever uttered.

It's nothing short of a tragedy that the chafing shackles of such intellectual servitude continue to bind so many Americans. And a superficial dismissal of any well-intentioned gesture as a mere "platitude" simply because it comes from a person or group that doesn't "look like" the community they are trying to reach out to, does nothing -- nothing at all -- to set the captives free.

It simply turns the screw.