2/4/08

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Title:Giants upset Patriots to win Super Bowl XLII

Who:The New York Giants won Super Bowl XLII

What:The New York Giants won Super Bowl XLII with a last-minute touchdown, upsetting the New England Patriots' hopes of becoming the first team since 1972 to complete a National Football League season undefeated. The Giants beat the Patriots 17-14 in Sunday night's championship game, giving New York its first NFL title since 1991.
Giants quarterback Eli Manning was named the game's Most Valuable Player -- a year after his brother, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, took the same honor.
''There's something about this team,'' Eli Manning told The Associated Press. ''The way we win games, and performed in the playoffs in the stretch. We had total confidence in ourselves. The players believed in each other.''
The heavily favored Patriots, who have won three of the last seven Super Bowls, went undefeated in the regular season and playoffs.

When: Feb 2,2008 on Sunday

Where: Everything took place in arizona

Why:To see who is the superbowl champions

How:With just under a minute remaining, Manning wriggled free of what looked like a certain sack to throw a 32-yard pass to David Tyree, putting the Giants on New England's 24-yard line.
Four plays later, Manning connected with wide receiver Plaxico Burress on a 13-yard pass to reclaim the lead and win the game.
''It's the greatest feeling in professional sports,'' Burress said after the game as he was overcome by emotion.
Taking over with 35 seconds remaining, Brady was sacked once and threw three incomplete passes on the Patriots' final possession. Patriots coach Bill Belichick crossed the field and shook the hand of Giants coach Tom Coughlin with a second left on the clock, then went to the locker room and missed Manning's final kneeldown.
Giants wide receiver Amani Toomer, who had six catches for 84 yards, credited his team's physical play for the win.
"They tried to just bully us around," Toomer said. "We're a more physical team than them, and it showed today. We punched them in the mouth, and they didn't want anymore."
Last year's Super Bowl was the highest-rated TV show in the U.S. for 2007, with more than 93 million people tuning in, according to Nielsen. This year, with two teams from huge markets competing down to the wire, that number might have been surpassed.