Super Bowl Sunday live chat
| A game that’s been scrutinized and analyzed for two weeks will finally be played, and for at least a few hours we’ll stop speculating about the future of Peyton Manning (maybe). So please, join us in our live chat as we watch Super Bowl XLVI. We’ll laugh merrily as we’re fueled by a strict diet [...] |  |
Gronkowski is officially active
| Finally, mercifully, it’s official: Rob Gronkowski is active for the Super Bowl. This isn’t remotely surprising, and at this point the mere fact that Gronk is active means very little. We’ll know much more about Gronkowski’s ability to contribute very shortly. Our guess is still that he’ll make a contribution, but he’ll lose significant burst, [...] |  |
Twice bitten, twice shy: four years later, the Giants win again
| The heave wasn’t quite as desperate this time as it was four years ago, but the similarities were there. Four years ago, Eli Manning was in the grasp of Patriots pass rushers as he scrambled, ducked, and dodged before finally heaving an ill-advised prayer to David Tyree. Then came the famous catch that rested on [...] |  |
Of course there are 2013 Super Bowl odds already
| It’s officially Day 1 of the offseason, and with the speed of the NFL calendar we’ll get just a few days this week to finish digesting and dissecting the Super Bowl before we turn our scrutiny towards free agency early next month, and the Scouting Combine that starts in just over two weeks. We’ve also [...] |  |
The eerie similarities to 2008 didn’t disappear tonight
| INDIANAPOLIS — The Giants said all week that they didn’t want to talk about the past, and David Tyree’s catch and all of the eerie similarities between Super Bowl XLII and this one. But the comparisons were unavoidable. And of course, the actual game ended up having a very similar feel to the one in [...] |  |
David Carr celebrates with his little girl, gets congrats from Strahan
The Giants left Brady’s head, but eventually returned
| INDIANAPOLIS — For a while Sunday night, Tom Brady was lights out. At one point he completed 16 consecutive passes, which had many scoffing at the notion that the Giants defense was in Brady’s head. That’s what many of us barked about in the week leading up to this game. Brady flinched in the regular-season [...] |  |
Is Eli Canton-bound?
| INDIANAPOLIS — Eli Manning has always been known best as “Peyton’s brother,” but it’s Eli who now has two rings, joining an exclusive club that includes only 10 other players. Peyton Manning is not one of those players. And while Eli has never been as consistent as your typical Hall of Fame quarterback, his peaks [...] |  |
Super Bowl slump continues for Brady, Belichick
| INDIANAPOLIS — How much shine has come off of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick in recent years? The duo has now gone seven years without a Super Bowl after winning three titles in a four-year span. Since then, they’ve posted a playoff record of 7-6, losing twice in the in the Super Bowl itself. It [...] |  |
Super Bowl pictures: Giants celebrate
| INDIANAPOLIS — Guess what? The Giants won the Super Bowl. Some photos from the scene… Dave Tollefson taking it in… Good thing Jake Ballard doesn’t have to play again for a while… The Giants on the podium… Spike Lee made an appearance on the field… Devin Thomas and his son… And I believe that is [...] |  |
Steve Weatherford an unlikely hero
| INDIANAPOLIS — Rarely if ever do punters draw crowds in the locker room, but Giants punter Steve Weatherford played such a large role with this success burying the Patriots with his directional punting Sunday night that he was one of the most popular guys in the room as the team celebrated its victory. Three of [...] |  |
Rob Gronkowski was what we thought he would be
| When Rob Gronkowski was first injured two weeks ago during the Patriots’ win over Baltimore to advance to the Super Bowl, the reaction was instant. The angle that his ankle bent induced an instinctive wince, and immediately we assumed one of New England’s primary receiving targets would be sidelined for the remainder of the season. [...] |  |
Monday Links: The Doritos dog won the Super Bowl of advertising
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Giants fans set fireworks off in the middle of a street
| By all accounts the celebrating in New York last night was kept within the reasonable limits of tolerable human conduct, or at least it qualified under that label given what we’ve unfortunately come to expect after major sports championship wins and losses recently (thanks, Vancouver). Sure, there were probably plenty of garden variety arrests after [...] |  |
Wes Welker brought to tears over drop, loss
| INDIANAPOLIS — The drop itself shouldn’t have come as a huge surprise. After all, Wes Welker led the entire league in dropped passes back in 2010. Also why it shouldn’t surprise us: it’s hard to call it a drop. I mean, this was simply a bad pass from Tom Brady… And yet Brady isn’t taking [...] |  |
Four pregame thoughts
| 1. Sean Tomlinson gave us the news that Rob Gronkowski is active for the Super Bowl, but I can add that he looks good in warmups. I’m guessing Gronk will be/has been injected with somewhere between 11 and 17 different pain-killing substances. 2. I can’t say the same for Chad Ochocinco, who dropped a slew [...] |  |
On the philosophy behind letting them score
| In recent years, it seems every Super Bowl has had a trademark play that etched itself into our memory bank forever. There was the David Tyree catch and the James Harrison 100-yard interception return and the New Orleans onside kick to start the second half, to name a few. This year, two plays that took [...] |  |
Prince Amukamara describes the immediate feeling
People really seem to like watching the Super Bowl
| Yawn, right? Another year, another Super Bowl that had really, really incredibly amazing ratings. This is barely a blip on your news radar, and you’re tempted to roll back over in bed while that Super Bowl hangover continues to subside. And I’m here to tell you that this is worth your time, because the Super [...] |  |
GLS or TMZ? Brady and Gisele leave the stadium
| INDIANAPOLIS — A throng of photographers were snapping away at Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen as they walked out of Lucas Oil Stadium after New England’s Super Bowl XLVI loss. I happened to be there, and so I became TMZ for a day. This video is quite useless, but because it involves Gisele, my familiarity [...] |  |
Despite recent Super Bowl success, these Giants qualify as a Cinderella
| The New York Giants are one of the most unlikely Super Bowl champions in NFL history. Ironically, the last time a team with this little preseason hype went on to win a title, it was Tom Brady and the Patriots back in 2001. I know, New York was only a three-point dog for this game [...] |  |
