I'm happy for the Giants... facing the biggest game of their lives, the odds stacked against them, few giving them a prayer of winning. Every commentator, sportswriter and Monday Morning Quarterback dissing and comparing their QB to Brady and finding him lacking.
I'm thrilled for the entire Manning family. They are all much loved in this part of the country. What a wonderful feeling it must be for Archie and Olivia to have two sons playing in back to back Super Bowls, both winning and both named MVP.
In the first 3 quarters Eli was good, fairly solid. In the 4th he played as good as any quarterback in that stadium last night ever played in a single game... Brady, Peyton, Bradshaw, Williams, Young, Aikman, etc. The poise and discipline he showed in the final 75 seconds was simply amazing for a young man playing in the biggest game of his life.
Hillary Clinton cries in Connecticut
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Sen. Hillary Clinton teared up this morning at an event at the Yale Child Study Center, where she worked while in law school in the early 1970s.Penn Rhodeen, who was introducing Clinton, began to choke up, leading Clinton's eyes to fill with tears, which she wiped out of her left eye. At the time, Rhodeen was saying how proud he was that the sheepskin-coat, bell-bottom-wearing young woman he met in 1972 was now running for president.
"Well, I said I would not tear up; already we're not exactly on the path," Clinton said with emotion after the introduction.
Clinton is holding a roundtable discussion with Connecticut women to talk about childcare and healthcare.
When Clinton got misty-eyed at an event in New Hampshire on Jan. 7, politicos and pundits filled hours discussing if it helped her, and Clinton eventually pointed to the moment as when she "found her voice" and turned the corner in the Granite State.
At the time, there was much debate if the candidate's emotional response to a question -- "How do you do it?"" -- was genuine or calculated.
Let the conversation begin again...
And hopefully proud like they likely are. Pretty amazing game, although it was both defenses that dominated (who would have guessed 7-3 at the end of the 3rd quarter), and in the end the Giants pulled the upset.
It would have been nice for the Pats to shut up the insufferable members of the old Dolphin team, but heck.....it will happen someday.