Giants were simply super

See? I knew Giants receiver Plaxico Burress was wrong. He predicted the Patriots would score only 17 points in the Super Bowl and the Giants would win 23-17.
In fact, the mighty Patriots scored only 14 points, which about 99 percent of the people who paid attention to Sunday’s classic would have found laughable had you said that before the game, yours truly included. The Giants fell short of Burress' prediction, as well, putting up 17 points.
I even wrote a column earlier this week and offered my opinion of just how wrong Burress was. I predicted the Patriots would score 17 points before he had three catches. We’ll never know, since neither one of those things happened. Burress had only two catches, although the second one should count as more, since it was an SBW grab – Super Bowl-winning.
I didn’t have a dog in this fight. I don’t like the Giants, since I have rooted all my life for the Cowboys. (By the way, keep the NFC East in mind for the near future. There’s not a team in there on the decline, and by most accounts, they’re all getting better.) I don’t really have anything against the Patriots, other than their coach, Bill Belichick. I am convinced that the only people who actually like Belichick are Pats’ fans, and that’s only because they win a lot of games.
It’s nothing personal. But as a fan of the NFL, I like personalities, something Belichick lacks. A friend of mine says Belichick wields the power of Satan, which is why the Patriots were undefeated until Sunday. I don’t think it’s quite that bad, although I could have sworn when Burress pulled down that TD, I saw Belichick’s head do a 360 like that chick in “The Exorcist.”
But all joking aside, the better team Sunday won the game. Not the more talented team, but the better team. And don’t tell me the Patriots lost that game. The Giants won by doing what they had to do. Their defensive front hit Tom Brady more times in one game than he usually gets hit in five games. And Eli Manning managed the offense beautifully and made plays like a guy who knows how to win.
The Giants might not have been the best team in the NFL all season, but they were the best team when it counted most.

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