usually i am not too much into the super bowl. this year was no exception. it started ever since i was at a small super bowl party and my friend (host)'s parents to call and say they were getting a divorce. that ended the party pretty quickly. it's never been my thing. i would be all over it if the BRONCOS were playing but that hasn't happened in awhile. i didn't know what to expect for this 42nd super bowl. the undefeated new england patriots and the new york giants. i was at the gym working out and saw it playing on one of the tvs. it was the end of the 3rd quarter, 7-3 patriots. i was curious to see what was going on since it would be cool if the pats had a perfect season. but of course, it was not to be. i didn't know who would win until this play. by this time the pats were up 14-10 with a little over a minute left in the game. eli manning and the giants were on the move but at a 3rd and 5. one of the most incredible plays ever, from that i knew they wanted to win more. and they did.
first of all, eli isn't really a scrambler but he got out of that sure sack. then he just throws it up there and tyree goes up and grabs it, kind of sticks it to his helmet and has to fight the whole way down. he definitely has control of the ball and you can see how he struggles to keep it in his possession and off the ground. simply amazing. so that was the play of the game.
i always thought "why is eli manning so coveted?". if anyone remembers the debacle that was the 2004 nfl draft, where he was drafted first (out of ole miss) by the san diego chargers. he didn't want to go there and basically held out till the ny giants could work out a trade for phillip rivers and 3 other future picks. so of course i thought what a big-headed jock, to refuse to go to a team because they suck. but hey, that's professional sports!
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true dat... i feel the same way about most professional sports, which is why nfl, nba, mlb don't appeal to me very much. at some point you question their motivation. i mean, when every player's got multi-million dollar multi-year contracts, you gotta wonder how hard they're really gonna push in the fourth quarter of each weekly game. that's why i like college sports so much, you know and they know that they've only got 4 years to make their name known so everything's got so much more urgency. anyway, was a great game still, okay, not much scoring, but fantastic ending right?
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