Young Manning Joins Brother Peyton

Giants bring Patriots dreams to an end! They had the perfect season....... not speaking of the 18-1 Patriots.

For the third time in their franchise, the New York Giants win the Super Bowl Championship. The Giants have shined much brighter then the perfect New England Patriots during Super Bowl XLII! Throughout the season, many people believed that the Pats would have been the best in the NFL; they were...... up until the last game of the year!

Despite the first three quarters only being a 7-3 football game, in favor of the Pats, it was still a well fought battle that kept all viewers focused. After the "G-Men" spending most of the first quarter in their possession, they only came out with a field goal. Laurence Maroney answered right back with a touchdown run at the start of the second. With the third quarter being scoreless for both teams, it was the last 15 minutes that made the stadium erupt.

Eli Manning had a passer rating of 144.5, with two touchdown passes, all in the fourth alone, which brought the Giants to becoming Super Bowl Champions. In just over two minutes, Eli drove his team 83 yards, including an unbelievable catch by David Tyree, which led to the Giants game winning drive. With 35 seconds left, Brady was not able to connect any long balls with any of his receivers in 4 plays which also included a sack by the Giants relentless defense.

Eli has joined his brother, Peyton, as the only brothers to win Super Bowl MVP. Throughout the game, you can see Peyton cheering on his younger brother to achieve the greatest prize in football as he did the year before. The Manning brothers were also the last two quarterbacks to defeat Tom Brady in the post season.

My Opinion: I believe that there were a few mistakes which occurred that caused the Patriots to lose Super Bowl XLII. Why would Belichick go for it on 4th and 13, on their 39 yard line, instead of taking their chances with a 49 yard field goal; Stephen Gostkowski's career long is 52 yards so 49 yards shouldn't have been a problem. Also, with 35 seconds left, Brady should have thrown short passes since they had all three timeouts left; instead, Brady launched three balls deep, all incomplete, and wasted time as the Giants celebrated as Super Bowl champs.