I must say, I still can’t quite believe that the New York Giants won the Super Bowl yesterday. All season long, they looked like a good team that could go toe-to-toe with anybody. During the regular season, they beat such other good teams as the Eagles, Cowboys and Patriots, and narrowly lost to other good teams like the Packers, Eagles and 49ers. But moral victories and narrow defeats are just strokes in the loss column, and after 14 weeks, the team was 7 and 7 and on the verge of missing the playoffs entirely. But then they turned it around and beat the Jets and Cowboys to get into the playoffs. They were the fourth seed, and from where I sat, it looked like they could beat any team in the playoffs except the Saints, with whom the matched up poorly. Well, as it turned out, 
the Saints were eliminated, and the Giants, improbably, ran the board. Yesterday they topped the Patriots 21-17, a come-from-behind last-minute victory. Some skeptics have said the Pats more lost the game than the Giants won, and in truth, on at least three occasions, Tom Brady failed to connect with receivers in what would have been long, fortune-changing gains, if not actual touchdowns. Well, maybe. But Eli Manning played wonderfully, and his receivers caught the ball (most especially Mario Manningham, in what is surely his career-defining reception), and the defense was stout when it had to be, and it says here that the New York Giants are the winners of Super Bowl XLVI.
