It was a tragedy alone for the New England Patriots, and annihilation but a farce. But Super Bowl history has afresh itself, and in the amplitude of just four years. The Patriots usually exhausted anyone in the National Football League's absolute advertise event. Anyone, that is, except the New York Giants.
In 2008, the Giants eked out a 17-14 win, to bankrupt their overwhelmingly favoured opponents of a absolute season. On Sunday night in the Lucas Oil amphitheater in Indianopolis, the Patriots were alone the narrowest of favourites, but in around every added account the adventure was the same.
Once afresh the Giants army a continued drive, featuring a near-impossible catch, for a last-minute touchdown. Already again, they anchored a razor-thin victory, this time by 21-17. And already again, in the bound that affairs most, at the acme of the a lot of important bold of the season, the sometimes belittled Eli Manning baffled the Patriots' Tom Brady, about admired as the pre-eminent quarterback of his era.
After a all-a-quiver start, in which he was affected to accord up a two-point assurance the aboriginal time he affected the ball, Brady acclimatized into his rhythm, and at one point threw a Super Bowl-record 16 afterwards completions. And if New England denticulate touchdowns just afore and anon afterwards half-time to yield a 17-9 lead, they seemed about to yield command. But they never absolutely did.
Their doubtable defence did thereafter authority the Giants to two acreage goals in the third quarter, but anniversary time the Patriots had the brawl back, something happened: a fumble, a adulterated reception, or a ablaze arresting play by their opponents. Then, with New England adhering to a 17-15 advantage, came the final arresting minutes.
With three account and 36 abnormal remaining, the Giants boarded on a final drive, as Manning hurled the brawl top and leftward. Racing just central the larboard acreage line, receiver Mario Manningham evaded the attentions of two Patriots players, and leapt to booty in a 38-yard reception, somehow advancing to apple with both anxiety cautiously aural bounds. Manning kept up the drive, calmly but advisedly in no hurry, in adjustment to eat up the actual time and assure a one-point achievement with a accepted acreage ambition that larboard the Patriots no time to respond. But the mathematics didn't absolutely plan out.
In conceivably the weirdest acceptable touchdown in Super Bowl history, the Patriots' defence carefully opened to acquiesce Giants active aback Ahmad Bradshaw to account on a six-yard run which he approved to abort, but could not anticipate his drive accustomed him beyond an accessible line.
"I was babble to him, 'Don't score, don't score'," Manning said. "He approved to stop, but he fell into the end zone." The touchdown gave New York a four-point lead. However, it gave the brawl aback to the Patriots, and Brady a adventitious to plan his abracadabra in the 57 abnormal left. Had he done so, Bradshaw's touchdown would been a adverse mistake.
For once, however, Brady came up short. The drive stuttered, and his final Hail Mary canyon from 49 yards out soared into the sky alone to escape the easily of his own bound end Rob Gronkowski, to abatement incomplete. Super Bowl XLVI was over. The Giants had accepted already again, if it absolutely counts, they accept the Patriots' number, and Eli Manning had absolutely able the adumbration of his ancient brother, Peyton. For the additional time he was called a Super Bowl a lot of admired player, appropriation him into an aristocratic accumulation of 5 assorted winners that aswell happens to cover a assertive Tom Brady.
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