I still say the Pats were “puffed up” with their 18 straight wins.
I was hoping (secretly) for a better showing (like: I’M FIGHTING FOR MY TITLE!) but the coaches seemed to think it was a done deal. (No bettah fo’ THEY *$$e$!)
I don’t mind the old “Glory Days” of re-runs, but I think they would have been more useful had they been played for the teams. But that’s just me, so don’t put money on it!
It;s probably easy to be an armchair QB...after the fact. ;o]
:’) I was at a friend’s house, she hates football, but we love pizza; she put on the travel channel (what a spinetingling thrill that channel is, not) and FINALLY switched over to Fox. The game was deep into the second quarter by the time we’d baked the pizza and settled down. She knew about Tom Petty’s being the halftime show, and one of the three songs they did was a good old one, “American Girl” (I saw him live 20+ years ago, and they were fun at that time, but he really croaks instead of sings, and the bulk of his material has a monumental sameness to it). I wish the other two songs had been “No Second Thoughts” and “The Waiting”.
Giants were all over them on defense, and made few mistakes. The Patriots are used to bringing the blitzkrieg on offense, and are not so much used to being on the receiving end. They were rattled a couple of times during the season by teams who were able to do that to them. And in that last drive, Eli put on a show that will stick with me for a long, long time. He should have been cold and on a hook, and wriggled free, then kinda lobbed it, perfectly on the nose, to the suddenly open receiver.
Anyway, easily one of the best SBs. I didn’t really have a favorite in the game, which made it perhaps more enjoyable. But then, as I’ve said, I’m pretty sure the Detroit Lions will continue to disappoint, having not won the NFL championship since before I was born. :’D
The post-game stories are flyin’ already over on ESPN, for example:
Ten things we learned from the Giants’ Super Bowl win
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs07/columns/story?columnist=chadiha_jeff&id=3229351