Gloriously, incomprehensibly, the NFL's defiant road warriors did it again. Just give us a chance, and we'll find a way to make something happen." And you know what? That's when we play our best. As Peyton's kid brother later recounted, "We're thinking, 'Hey, we've been in these situations before.' We've gone through so many moments when things were against us and nobody gave us a chance and we had to rely on each other and find a way to overcome adversity. So it was that, after losing the toss at the start of overtime Sunday night in a game they could have closed out earlier, the Giants barely flinched.
But when you've overcome what the Giants have in their '07 campaign, from an 0-2 start to a late-December crisis in a Buffalo mini-blizzard to playoff deficits at Tampa Bay and Dallas, no challenge seems overly daunting. Bill Belichick's Patriots, going for their fourth championship in seven seasons, will surely be a tougher test in the desert than the Packers were on the legitimately frozen tundra Sunday.
That doesn't mean Coughlin's team, which lost a 38-35 thriller to New England in the regular season finale at Giants Stadium, will win its first Super Bowl in 17 years. If you've been following the Giants closely, the only reasonable answer is: Damn straight. Trust me, we're going to go out there and battle."īefore reviewing the circumstances of the Giants' latest and most unexpected conquest, ask yourself this question: Can this fifth-seeded team which lost six regular season games possibly bring down the relentless and unblemished Pats? "That's how it's got to be – we would expect nothing but that. "We know there's going to be a lot of hype about the Patriots, that everybody expects them to go out there and do their 19-0 thing and ride off into the sunset," middle linebacker Antonio Pierce said after the game. Rather, it'll be Eli Manning, whose inexorable team has already been installed as two-touchdown underdogs to the Tom Brady-led AFC champion New England Patriots. Sorry, Favre worshippers: The quarterback standing between the 18-0 New England Patriots and history in Super Bowl XLII won't be the graying 38-year-old legend. By rallying to claim a 23-20 overtime victory, its 10th consecutive road triumph and third of the playoffs, New York extended a remarkable run that, appropriately, leads to another seemingly insurmountable obstacle on Feb. Then, in a subzero pressure cooker that appeared destined to bring them down, the Giants fought off presumed extinction the way they have so many times in this unlikely season – and like few NFL teams have before them.
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