The 2007 New York Giants, The GREATEST UNDERDOG STORY IN SPORTS
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- Опубліковано 1 вер 2020
- The Cinderalla Story of the 2007 New York Giants football team. A team that shouldn't have even made the playoffs, somehow managed to create one of the most improbable and unlikely run the sports world has ever seen.
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As Dolphins fan, still remember watching the Super Bowl, went Nuts with Tyree catch, in my opinion THE GREATEST Super Bowl EVER, I loved how Giants won with a lot of heart, Respect 2007 NY Giants. 👍🏻
Never Underestimate the Heart of A Giant
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Yes Yes Of Course Of Course
Grandiosely Superb
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CHEERS 🍾🍻$$$$
That night, the feeling in NYC was electric. Strangers were hi-fiving each other and chanting "18 and 1"
The only good thing about being a dolphins fan that season
It's one of the greatest, but people like more scoring. The game was so old school trench warfare, I must have seen it 10 times rewinding every play. 2011 Giants Patriots was great and just as close but u can tell watching both games that 07 rosters of both were better.
One thing that should've been added to this was Plax's prediction of the Giants winning 23-17 and Brady's interview where he says "We're only going to score 17 points? Hahaha, okay. Is Plax playing defense?" and then cut to the end of the game where they only score 14 🤣🤣🤣
That shit was legendary 😂
You shouldn't be too hard Brady. Look at the year his team had to that point. Why SHOULDN'T he feel insulted by that prediction?
@@josephciolino2865 I feel like people forget how lethal the brady moss connection really was. It went off the rails so fast people forget that they were jaw dropping good in 2007.
@@PulsingKrugotvoid So true. Moss was scary good and they almost connected on that last Hail Mary.
That game changed Brady. Brady was never cocky like that again.
There will never be anything as magic as that Superbowl run and victory. Unreal, all of the guys will forever be heroes.
Can we please acknowledge how damn good Plaxico Burress was 🔥🔥🔥
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The Best!!!!!
Great but loses credit for being STUPID enough to carry a loaded pistol. Jerk.
He made pro corners look like children. Al Harris is still lookin for his shoes from that game but unfortunately Plax took em in the 1st quarter
It's just too bad he shot himself in the -foot- leg.
Eli beat Brady twice for the superbowl such an incredible stun that’s why I’ll always love my team the New York Giants!!! 🗽, NO QUIT IN BIG BLUE! 💙 & Eli Manning is one of the greatest Quarterbacks ever!
They didn't just do it once, but twice. Eli's got TWO rings. While Aaron Rodgers who is supposed to be one of the greatest QBs ever - only has one. and has choked in every other big game and yet no one gets down on him like they do Eli. I mean Favre was an interception MACHINE and you didn't mention THAT when Webster picked him off. Sh!t, NO Qb was better that postseason than Eli. And the team as a whole, they were straight up road warriors that year.
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Talk your shit my brother
As a pats fan I’ll take Eli over Rodgers in the playoffs any day
Preach
Lol Rodgers losses usually defense gives up 20-30+ pts. Eli had all time performances on defense.
Nothing will ever top this season. I was in high school in Massachusetts, and my father was deployed to Iraq for the entire regular season. He got home the week the playoffs started, and we got to watch every game today. Will never forget The Helmet Catch. Almost missed it because I turned away from the screen thinking Eli had been sacked, when I heard "Manning stays on his feet, airs it out down the field..." Magic.
Historic play. Thank for your service Dad.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I am a lifelong Giants fan and I purposely did NOT watch the Super Bowl as I can't tolerate pain. I hated the Pats and Brady as well. But my wife was traveling in NYC, and she called me right after the game screaming her head off. I immediately told her to cease speaking. What? Could it be? The Giants did NOT lose to the Pats? I then watched the game, and the stress was almost unbearable, even though I kind of knew they had won. Watching this great video was still stressful. It never goes away as it is so unlikely for the Giants win. I can never pray for another miracle again, as I think I've more than used up my allotment.
Priceless
It was way more emotional live. It was like heart attack bliss all in one
@@swordinvictus I have watched a lot of sports. That was so INTENSE even though I knew 99% that they won, and even then watching it taped, it was brutal. Even now when I watch Eli escaping the grasps of the sack, and then doing the helmet catch, my heart still stops. I can never ask God for a favour again. I have used up all my miracle requests for life. But I still wish Mariano get that last save in the Game 7 of the 2001 AD WS. We deserved it. But that SB more than made up for it. Thank God. 🙂
Pats fan here....hats off too Giants
this video brings me tears. Defeating the greatest team in history, WOW!
Not the greatest the 72 dolphins are
@@zegobot9674 I'm old enough to compare the Patriots to the 72 Dolphins. I watched both play and I was a dolphin fan back then. The Patriots would have beaten them.
We proved they weren't the Greatest!
And the Patriots couldn't beat the giants @@thullraven1
@@gonadmigraines1984 Nope! I loved it!
The Eli to Plax connection could’ve been a top 5 QB/WR duos of the 00’s if he hadn’t shot himself. It’s remembered now as a classic meme, guys look, Plax shot himself hahaha, but if you look at the numbers, the Giants were likely going back to back before he was gone for the last half of the season, and beyond that it’s anyone’s guess. He missed two years after the incident, imagine what he could’ve done for the giants in those two years. He may very well have resigned and stayed with the gmen. Imagine a veteran Plax, Cruz, Nicks, and Manningham. Are you fucking kidding me? What a fucking WR room that would’ve been!
They won another Superbowl without him so it's not like he was totally needed
As a lifelong diehard Giants fan, this has got to be one of if not the best superbowls ever
This is one of the best SB of all time. And imma cowboys fan. Big Blue Wrecking Crew was reborn for this game.
A common Eli INt. It was perfectly thrown and dropped lol
Exactly. And it happened a lot. Also, that o-line let Eli down countless times. Eli gets crapped on WAAAY too much. No, he wasn't as good as his brother, but damn....few are. Eli has two SB rings and two SB MVPs. He'll be in Canton, too. Not bad.
iirc that was Eli's ONLY interception in the playoffs that whole run!
THIS WASN’T A SUBPAR TEAM AT ALL! This was a team with Heart! 💙 NO QUIT IN NY!
Smh Best season of MY LIFE. I’ll never forget that 2007 season. By far the Wildest craziness season and at the end I was crying like a baby watching my Team win it all Omg I’m getting emotional thinking about it. NOW TIME TO DO IT AGAIN BACK IN THE PLAYOFFS 2023 🗽💪🏻 LETSSSS GO GMENNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!
One down 3 to go bro
And the ride ended 🥲
Tuff ending to a great season. I’m proud of my boys Thoe It was one hell of a season that’s for sure
Didn’t end too well did it 😂
I cried too
Don't ever count the Giants out! The 2007 Giants, no team has ever or will ever have more earth shaking victories on the road to immortality!
Subpar? This was a really good team. Their started the season against the 2 best teams in the NFC ( Packers & Cowboys). If the schedule was set up differently they would of went 12-4.
Yea but them being considered a bad team makes that SuperBowl win that much more impressive
It was lucky lol 3 close games caught all breaks Tyree helmet catch is the definition of lucky.
@@edwardbrito4010 No, he caught it with BOTH hands. Not hard to see if you at play. The only reason it went to his helmet is because Harrison was pulling on his arm trying to get Tyree to drop it. Without Harrsion there, Tyree finishes the catch the same way he started it. With BOTH Hands. Nice Try though Ed.
@@edwardbrito4010 That wasn't luck. That was God. As GRIMLOCK07 pointed out, had Rodney Harrison not grabbed his arm David Tyree never would have pinned the ball to his helmet. Now, getting back to the God part, before the game David Tyree had been prophesied to by Hubie Synn that God would use him to do something extraordinary during the game which would give him the platform he had been praying for to glorify God and spread the Gospel. The Helmet Catch was that extraordinary thing.
What’s comical is an unwanted Tiki sitting on his couch watchin Eli save the football world by taking down the undefeated Pats in a SB MVP performance.
His twin brother won a Superbowl while he retired and shat on Eli and nowadays he's criticizing Saquon Barkley for going to the eagles when the giants DIDN'T offer him an extension guys a moron
Eli Manning was is a great example of succeeding when everyone counts you out.
I will forever be a die hard Giants fan 🤞🏽. Now let’s make it happen for this season 👏🏽.
Next season
@@armaggon5920 next season
I'm a giants fan and I remember this season. I knew they had a good chance at winning the superbowl the way they closed out the season almost beating the pats closer than anyone ever did. I just loved hearing how all the experts were betting against the giants in every playoff game writing them off almost instantly. It felt so good to see that NY logo on that helmet raised at the end of each game in victory. Yea we started 0-2 and finished the whole season at 10-4 including the playoffs and superbowl at 14-4 far from subpar !!!! That was a tough great football team in 2007 !
A great memory for ever in my heart!
As a giants fan watchin this I got chills at least 5x. You killed it with this one, amazingly well done bro
GREATEST story ever told
And it happened twice.
I was a dolphins fan and the dolphins went 1-15 that season. Football was looking pretty bleak until Eli saved the dolphins greatest achievement of a perfect season (probably the greatest NFL achievement to date)
If you were a Giants fan, you always knew Eli was clutch. It was a matter of making it to the 4th and all of a sudden he would go 8/9 on the final drive
Eli was clutch? a 117-117 and an 83.8 4th quarter passing rating would strongly disagree with you.
@@tomknapp6194 you’re not a Giants fan
@@TheDrunkLawyer But, I know how to watch footbal and Eli was not good. His stats were not good. And being carried through two post seasons is not good.
@@theog2306 Just answer a simple question: Does a QB have a better chance having more yards in 3 or 4 games?
It's that simple.
@@theog2306 The defense did their part in helping Eli? That's f***ing hysterical!
Eli still barely won 5/8 games by 4 points or less.
Here are the facts:
Eli never beat a single playoff team that scored more than 20 points.
In 2011, the Giants defense in the playoffs allowed 14 points per game. If that were the entire season, that would be the #1 defense in the league.
Eli still barely won 5/8 games in 2007 and 2011.
Seriously, he wasn't that good.
And the whole "most yards in a postseason" thing".... Just answer a simple question. Does a QB have a chance to have more yards in 3 or 4 games?
That's a no brainer. So, let's take in consideration all the QBs that had no chance at 4 games and say the average yards for any QB that played 3 or 4 games.
That seems fair doesn't it. After all, the best QBs in the league had a bye and no chance at having 4 games.
But, you should have a problem with that. If you go by average yards/game, Eli is no longer in the top 10. He's 14th overall. In yards/attempt, he's 19th overall. Just because he had more chances to throw, does not mean he was better, as these stats clearly show.
But, let's really drive this point home. Brady almost broke that record. Twice. In THREE games. He fell less than 100 yards short both times. About 5 other QBs were less than 200 yards away from breaking it also, but only played in 3 games.
While it sounds great on the surface, it is just another smokescreen of Eli's career. The headlines sound great, but the actual facts fall way short of being great.
What else do you have. sunshine?
Clearly they were a good team. They won the super bowl, went 12-4 in 2008, won the #1 seed in 2008 and they had made the playoffs before in the manning era. Clearly they were good for a while and 2007 was just the year they came through come playoff time.
Best way to sum up being a Giants fan during that run.....after they beat the Packers, I bought "NFC Championship" gear because I figured that was the prize. I now keep it as a fun memory/reminder.
This is what sums up being a Giants fan. A bunch of bad seasons with Good players and then boom out of no where we win the Superbowl. Looks like this year is going the same way 👀🔵🔴
@@ehc1999 you said this 2 months ago 😳 oh boy 🎉
Not a giants fan but seeing them beat favre who threw an interception which was his last play as a packer and then defeating psycho tom and the evil emperor ending there perfect season can you say priceless 😄
At 30 years old and not a giants fan, this was my favorite season run of all time in any sport on any level. Truly once in a lifetime and something we will never witness again. Just as a fan of sports in general, it simply doesn’t get any better than this. The biggest Cinderella story and biggest upset in American professional sports history. Even though I never was and never will be a giants fan, I will always be a fan of the 2007 giants. Still cannot believe it happened to this day.
So this almost is exactly like current playoff situation. Maybe Super Bowl will come true for us again
from the future and hate to this but no
Let's goo G-MEN 💪 💙
And you failed to mention for a "subpar" team, they won a total of 11 games on the road, a league record.
Is it really?!
Road Warriors
We can’t be that bad if we won it all
My overall favorite moment in football ever was seeing Brady walk off the field with the defeated look on his face after being denied the perfect season by Eli. Nothing has topped that for me yet.
For me, this was the greatest Super Bowl that wasn’t a Steelers victory. We were all Giants fans that day.
Makes me feel warm and fuzzy
I'm about to cry 🥹 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Brandon Jacobs was running shit over 🤣 Eli and the guys, Justin tuck, Micheal Strahan and company. Man this was a great year to be a giants fan. 😌
I think your comment about the INT in the super bowl by Eli was really kind of stupid and shows that you actually didn't even watch the game. If you actually watch that game you clearly saw Eli Manning throw the ball to Steve Smith who should have caught it but he bobbled it and it was intercepted. So you should go back and say an INT caused Smith not handling the ball properly. Again really stupid comment
Great video man. I loved the statistical side that you ag e up recapping the entire season. Much appreciated!
I think you have to take the negativity around this team in context. They were a top 5 rushing team and top 5 pass rushing team, and the QB was excellent off play action, all things we look for today in a good team. Tom Coughlin also was MUCH more modern than his image gave off. Coughlin loved getting the ball vertical, wasn't afraid of high scoring games, was an EXCELLENT in-game tactician and always used his time-outs well and controlled the middle eight, and he might even still hold the record for best percentage of successful challenge flags. Toxic masculinity is real, and I'm afraid there will always be a contingency of people that can't get past Eli's facial expressions or Coughlin barking orders. They didn't transform into a magic carpet ride in the playoffs, rather they were simply great at the things that win playoff games.
GREAT VIDEO!!! WE NEED ONE FOR THE REMATCH IN 2011!
Can't lie though, that Giants team was dope and fun to watch
Im on long island i remember driving home from the super bowl party and everyone on the roads were honking their horns. Will never forget that lmao
great video dude, yea these boys just got hot at the right time, eli was a gamer, great defense also
Subpar!!! They won the Championship. So was the rest of the league below subpar?
No. It's football. If your hot at the right time you can win. I mean even the super bowl you didn't walk away thinking new york was the better team. Your lying if you say you did. Subpar may be a little harsh but if your comparing them to other playoff teams, in particular NE, they very much were sub par. But they were hot. And lucky. And won the whole dam thing.
@loganb8789 after watching the first time they played, game 16, that season, and the Superbowl, NY was the better team at that point. You call it getting hot. As someone who coaches, all the way from youth to Junior College sports, I call it improving as the season went on. NY got better. Started doing the little things better. NE wasn't as efficient as they were earlier in the season and had several scares toward the end of the season. Like against the Ravens, the Colts, the Eagles, and even the Giants. The Pats never got better and many teams caught up with them. They weren't dominant at the end of the season. The teams they whipped up on the last 6 weeks weren't playoff teams,, except the Steelers. All the playoff teams, they won the game by 3 or less.
If we compare that to the 85 Bears. Except for Miami being hot in week 13 and beating them, they had no game decided that close, all season long. I believe the closest was 6 points, once. The rest by a TD and an extra point or more.
I'm not saying that Pats team wasn't great, but they aren't as dominant as their record showed.
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What else do you need to know?
Against the best offense of all time? Going through the teams they did to get there?
Yeah, they earned their shit
You know what he meant! They were not great by any means but got hot at the right time against a over confident undefeated patriots team
The absolute best Super Bowl run in NFL history. Went in as the underdog team every single playoff game that year.
Sometimes in football when you get hot and everything is kicking you can't be beat even by the best
The Giants were not a sub par team, really stupid comment. The Giants were the better team and the game should not have been that close given how they were beating the patriots up prior to start of 4th quarter.
Giants fan here. I remeber watching the Giants play the Patriots during the regular season that year on Satruday night. I knew after that game if we somehow could get past the NFC specifically Dallas we could beat the Patriots if we saw them in the SB. But, I didn't think we'd get past Dallas! LOL!
Awesome report. Great work
Great video!!!
Eli didn't outplay tom brady. he outplayed the pats defense. Brady faced a different defense, no?
This is probably one of my favorite childhood memories, even if I wasn't a Giants fan, this is still everything I love about sports, it was like a sports movie irl, the type of thing people would yell about being rigged if it happened today lol, and the crazy thing is that there was a sequel, I'm sure this only popped up because of the unlikely postseason run this year, I can't be too mad at the Giants' off years, I already saw them win two Super Bowls in my relatively short life, some people have lived a full one without seeing their team win, I'll know they'll get back to the top.
The miracle of 2007 is the Giants started bad weeks 1-15....but transformed into a DIFFERENT dominant team on Dec 29th 2007; on that night vs the Patriots they turned into the 2008 Giants; a 12-4 team that won the #1 seed. Except, the 07 postseason roster had Osi Omenyura AND Micheal Strahan, Osi was lost 2008 injury and Strahan retired.
I will forever just as a fan and lover of the sport have the upmost respect for this Super Bowl run
I’m an Eagles fan but this was the one day I was a Giants fan
I am glad someone else called this SB, David Vs. Goliath.
I have been saying that since & I am not a fan of either team.
Giants had 3 rookies on started lineup and no shockey,best player on offence!
Very inspiring story. Great video 👍👍
You like ny giants?
@@viciousvigilante4985 I'm a Washington fan but admire 2007 Giants
Its not how you start, but how you finish the Race?
The only teams NE lost to in the Superbowl were northeast teams, because Bill Belichick didn't want to infringe on their market values.
Won multiple bets with Giants. Last 4 games they kept coming from behind to win.
they had 50/50 odds in this game.....and a great pass rush...didn't turn the ball over ( but Samual had a chance to make a tough int ) and got healthy and got hot......the bookies lost this game, everybody took the giants and the points.........they had a 10 point 4 quarter lead in week 17 if I remember correctly...should have won that game too !
Beautiful
I can’t believe that Eli bested Brady in his first attempt in the playoffs but it took Peyton years to beat Brady.
People don't give that front 4 the credit they deserve. They're the reason the Giants won BOTH their superbowls. You don't think if Peyton, Brees, & Rodgers would've made more superbowls if they had the dominant players at the line of scrimmage like the Giants had defensively?
That’s why my Gmen had Eli whom I call the Comeback Kid💯
Great video! You forgot to add one little caveat that made winning the super bowl that much more special. The patriots were caught cheating that off-season and were royally PISSED at the rest of the league and smacked everyone on their way to an undefeated season. The rest of the league rooted for the Giants because they didn’t want the NFL’s Evil Cheating Empire to go undefeated. Patriots fans would’ve had bragging rights the sports world would not be ready for. Greatest season ever!
Giant fan watching the game inNH listening to endless praise how the pats were going to blow them out lol ohh and not reacting to whole game that was tough until the final score then big smile
This was my absolute favorite season as a Giants fan. My expectations were low because the entire team was shaky, and besides, everybody knew the Patriots were going to win it all that year. I remember wishing the G-Men would just get their shit together. And then all of a sudden, around the week 16 Buffalo game, it started.
And it just...kept...going.
What a wonderful ride it was.
Love the predictions being added every playoff game The Gis TD werent pick.
Sons rarely succeedboast the accomplishments of their fathers. Brady's Daddies Eli and Foles know this better than anyone. They took Tommy to school 3 times.
Atlanta losing being up 25 points is really bad.
I think this is worse, though.
Almost Perfect
Getting beat by Eli.
Almost had total perfection.
Sad
They were not a subpar team
According to experts they were.
He said, “subpar *on paper* “
This can apply to a lot of teams who have playoff success. On paper, the chiefs are worse than they were last year but have performed way better this year and are playing in the Super Bowl
Wrong
Yes they were but they won a super bowl so who cares
All my family are Giants fans. I even had a Tiki jersey during this time. But I am a Jets fan. I have no hate towards the team or their fans kuz i had to grew up one. To me, it's awin-winn if a New York team wins. But I remember watching this run. Simply amazing with drama and suspense. I think I was 16 or 17 and that second to last play. I thought it was over Eil was sacked or the refs will blow the Whistle. But the throw, the catch on the helmet and then win. I didn't cheer and shout. But I was definitely happy they won and the Pat's lost.
18 and 1 is the biggest upset since Miracle on Ice.
When UA-cam sports analysis do a video please tell the truth stop creating a narrative.Eli stats didn't have to be god like but one thing about him he could pick defenses apart.
I remember this like it was yesterday .. every “expert” unanimously thought the giants would lose in each n every one of their playoff games, and somehow they defied all the odds
Man that game was crazy. Don’t forget how good that giants defense played, Osi, Tuck and Strahan pressured Brady the whole game and spags called some creative blitzes in key moments that the giants executed. Brady got sacked a bunch and even if he got the ball out he was still taking hits. The giants don’t win this game unless the pass rush got to TB and threw his timing off. They definitely executed, even on the Pats last possession going for a Hail Mary, Jay Alford rushed up the middle and sacked TB for a huge loss.
This video lost me when they said the 2007 weren’t a good team. They were a perennial playoff team and entered the playoffs at 10-6.
Fact is: all the experts were saying that back in the day. Nobody believed in the giants and till this day say we should have never won.
Every football fan owes that giants team a big thank you imagine how insufferable their fans would be if the patsies won and their already insufferable
St. Louis Blues' 2019 championship run rivals it for sure
I just wished the Giants hadn't wasted the last half of Eli's career with terrible O lines and a weak running game.
Who watching this in 2023 divisional game weekend ?
Credit where credit’s due; the 07 Giants did what no other team could and Eli deserves to be in the Hall of Fame just by making the 07 Patriots the only 18-1 team to not win the Super Bowl BUT the Patriots weren’t quite the same team after “Super Bowl 41.5”. The juggernaut of the first half of the season was almost figured out by the Colts, Eagles AND Ravens to start the second half and the massive blowouts where they scored 30-40 points a game turned into much closer affairs while putting up only 20-30. Yes, the 2007 New York Giants were a Cinderella run for the ages but, at least in regards to cracking the code to the Patriots, they owe a lot to the teams that gave them the blueprints. Again, massive props for even getting themselves to that position in the first place AND being the only team to be able to successfully exploit the weaknesses exposed by the affirm aforementioned teams but those teams shouldn’t be disregarded completely.
Great times!!!!
giants fan let’s run it back dj it’s your turn. 2022-23 is just like this.
Today, I bring up the early Eli and Phil Sims years, both didn't have great starts. Sound familiar? Then look how Jones responded this year. I see a pattern.
As a Giants fan we started off 0-2? but we won 5 straight we played New England hard. at WK 16 but we got hot in the right time Beating Tampa Dallas N Packers
Beautiful! Whether they ever played in New Haven or New Jersey, the New York Football Giants of 07 and 11 formed the perfect bookends to the 69 Mets and Jets (let’s leave dem bums and the Yanks out of it for now)- as epitomizing the Spirit of New York and the best of American society and of the entire Western Civilization
I honestly beleive that if Tiki Barber didn't retire the G-MEN wouldn't have made the Super Bowl. He was Eli's go-to guy in any emergency and once he left Eli counted on all his receivers...
interesting perspective!
Fun fact we were going back the next year but ya know bang bang lol
Real G-men fans had some of the best accomplishments a fan could have. Enjoy my friends we did it the rest will come again!!!
This surpasses the Jets win in SB-3. There was only a 2 game difference between the Colts (13-1) and Jets (11-3). The media was so completely biased for the Colts because they were the NFL. Being from the AFL the Jets had no prior matchup against the Colts or common opponents to compare against. They just said NFL better and made them an 18 point favorite. In 2007 everything was apples to apples when comparing. But one thing NOBODY mentioned, the Patriots looked really flat and unimpressive in both their postseason games prior. A 21-12 win over the Chargers without Tomlinson and a very hobbled Rivers at QB should have been a warning while the Giants continued to achieve the the big upsets in Dallas and Green Bay.
“The eagles will smack the giants” giants history has something else to say.
2004 Greece is the most insane underdog history ever.
Probably one of my Best......it always pops up in my Chad powers mullet LOL SE7EN CHRIST❤
Eli was better than Braby. Most of Eli’s interceptions were the receivers fault just like the one in this bowl. (14:07)
The announcers were so salty especially after that tyree catch
Sour grapes from a Patriots fan!
Eli Manning and Kurt Warner are the only two underdog quarterbacks who managed to defy as many expectations as they both did.