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The Giants last night came back to beat the Patriots 21-17 in Super Bowl XLVI in a classic game that actually equaled the 17-14 Giants victory over the Patriots four years ago, a game that went down as perhaps the greatest Super Bowl ever played.
Just as he did four years, ago, Manning led his team for the winning drive. This time, trailing 17-15, he took the Giants 88 yards, with a David Tyree-like moment when he threw a brilliant 38-yard pass to Mario Manningham, who made one of the all-time greatest catches in Super Bowl history.
“t was a perfect, perfect pass,’’ Manningham said.
The catch eventually led to Ahmad Bradshaw’s 6-yard touchdown run with 57 seconds left on a play where Bradshaw actually didn’t want to score, with the Patriots giving him a clear path and Manning — with the Giants already in chip-shot field goal range — was screaming “Fall down, fall down!’’ Bradshaw stopped on the 1-yard line but his momentum carried him into the end zone to make it 21-17.
“This is twice now we’ve been on the biggest stage and gone down the field and scored a touchdown when needed,’’ guard Chris Snee said. “It all starts with Eli. He’s tremendous in the huddle, tremendous in that situation, he just did a phenomenal job.’’
The Patriots got the ball back at their 20 with 57 seconds left and one timeout to work with, but couldn’t score.
As Giants head coach Tom Coughlin said after the game, any talk about whether Eli Manning is an elite quarterback or not is now over.
Manning was selected as the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player, his second one (he was also the MVP four years ago). That alone puts him in an “elite” category of two-time Super Bowl MVP winners with the likes of Brady, Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw, and Bart Starr.
The Giants last night came back to beat the Patriots 21-17 in Super Bowl XLVI in a classic game that actually equaled the 17-14 Giants victory over the Patriots four years ago, a game that went down as perhaps the greatest Super Bowl ever played.
Just as he did four years, ago, Manning led his team for the winning drive. This time, trailing 17-15, he took the Giants 88 yards, with a David Tyree-like moment when he threw a brilliant 38-yard pass to Mario Manningham, who made one of the all-time greatest catches in Super Bowl history.
“t was a perfect, perfect pass,’’ Manningham said.
The catch eventually led to Ahmad Bradshaw’s 6-yard touchdown run with 57 seconds left on a play where Bradshaw actually didn’t want to score, with the Patriots giving him a clear path and Manning — with the Giants already in chip-shot field goal range — was screaming “Fall down, fall down!’’ Bradshaw stopped on the 1-yard line but his momentum carried him into the end zone to make it 21-17.
“This is twice now we’ve been on the biggest stage and gone down the field and scored a touchdown when needed,’’ guard Chris Snee said. “It all starts with Eli. He’s tremendous in the huddle, tremendous in that situation, he just did a phenomenal job.’’
The Patriots got the ball back at their 20 with 57 seconds left and one timeout to work with, but couldn’t score.
As Giants head coach Tom Coughlin said after the game, any talk about whether Eli Manning is an elite quarterback or not is now over.
Manning was selected as the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player, his second one (he was also the MVP four years ago). That alone puts him in an “elite” category of two-time Super Bowl MVP winners with the likes of Brady, Joe Montana, Terry Bradshaw, and Bart Starr.
