Last year, I bemoaned the awful play that was Super Bowl XLI, where the only three people that came to play seemed to be Brian Urlacher, Joseph Addai, and Dominic Rhodes. This year, I didn't see the whole thing. I checked in every once in a while, but then I sat down and watched the final three minutes. Below is an example of the type of play that you would expect to see in a Super Bowl where both teams are playing great...and yes, I was positively delighted to see the Pats lose, especially to someone as erratic as Eli Manning. The guy ran the gamut in that final drive...throwing off his back foot, throwing into traffic, getting sacked, fumbling the ball, evading tacklers, throwing perfect strikes, losing his temper, keeping his cool...he could have thrown a pick returned for a TD, fumbled a snap, ran backwards twenty yards out of bounds, and I wouldn't have been surprised. Instead, he threw a beauty for a TD with 39 seconds left.
HOWEVER...There was nothing like this game. Still the greatest drive ever.
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