Giants spoil Brett Favre’s party and they win! in frigid weather conditions

SCOTT JACOBS

I am one to admit when I make a mistake. Namely underestimating teams. So I throw my hat out into the ring and declare you, the New York Giants, as a team I so easily over-looked. You’ve went into Tampa Bay, Dallas, and Green Bay and come out victorious in each one, impressively I might add, and now you have a rematch and a date with destiny’s darlings: the New England Patriots.

Your momentum came following a huge win over the Bills in crappy weather, and you followed that up with a sterling performance against the Patriots, although you fell short. That game changed your season. If you can keep up with the Pats, you can play ball with the big dogs. It’s why Tampa Bay was no real chore for you and the reason that Dallas was a win you could get. But Green Bay? Now that seemed a little too much to ask. In weather that dropped into the negatives, and a windchill that dropped to as low as -24!

But you were undettered. Your QB Eli Manning was mistake free all three games this postseason. Tiki Barber enjoys his desk job. Brandon Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw get the credit for taking this team to a very unlikely Super Bowl appearance. Tom Coughlin looked as good as gone early in the year, and now he’s the toast of the town.

And now we get the Northeast Superbowl, live from the Southwest. While it doesn’t sparkle and shine quite like Favre-Brady, it does have some appeal to it. Can the Giants figure out what they couldn’t do in week 17 and repeat their performance from that game, along with a little luck, and win? They got their revenge over Dallas. They got their revenge over Green Bay. And like Lawrence Tynes, last two field goals, it took a third, just like it will take a third revenge shot this post-season to accomplish the unthinkable.

Is this Pittsburgh all over again? The team that goes on the road throughout the playoffs, and comes out so confident that they decide they want to win the whole damn thing? Or is this as far as it goes. I mean, look at it this way: In the last two weeks the Giants have defeated a pair of 13 win teams in hostile conditions. It will take a win over the undefeated, unblemished Patriots to win it all. That would mean that in one month, the Giants beat teams with a combined 42-6 record. Pretty remarkable.

Then again, this run has been pretty remarkable.

They started the season out 0-2 and found themselves on the ropes in Washington down big. I remember watching the ticker on Fox and thinking this team is doomed to a bad year. And then they came back, and I watched that goal line stand. They’ve won every road game ever since, an incredible 10 road wins and counting.

I’m sure they’ll try to wear their roadies in Glendale, cause lord knows, road is where the heart is.

With two weeks to prepare for the playoffs, and a brand new Eli can they do it?

Can they win this final game?


You’ll just have to stay tuned for that one. I don’t give away my predictions that quick.

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