Just curious as to which SB you enjoy watching more? For me, SB 42 hands down; specifically the last quarter.
For SB 46, I still don't know whether to cheer when Bradshaw scores that last TD. It is all anti-climatic. Part of me wants to cheer, but at the same time it feels like a bad thing...anyone with me on that?
And the last Pats drive; I still for some reason fear that Gronk is going to catch that deflection in the endzone.
Of course, the pass to Manningham is a think of beauty as is the rest of that drive (up until the Bradshaw TD).
What say you?
I still watch those final few minutes of 46 at times, but they don't hold the same tension for me as 42.
Put it together and started to dominate the Pats in 46 (whom I argue lucked into the game as the Ravens outplayed thme in the AFC title game. Also considering what had happened four years earlier, the fact that the Giants were able to keep Brady in check again was awesome. I agree the AB TD was hard to cheer for, but at this point I know the outcome so I am happy for AB that he has a super bowl TD.
I personally enjoy rewatching XXV every ofseason. Ottis and the OL doing their thing on long drives and the defense playing bend-but-don't break and hammering Reed over the middle. Landetta had a very good dame as well. Every punt was a fair catch and gave Buffalo long fields. It's good stuff.
I will obviously take the result any day, but the anticlimactic winning TD in 46 makes watching 42 more enjoyable for me
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it would have been a blowout had the Pats not been allowed to routinely pass interfere. That's the only thing that made it a game.
Just recently re-watched highlights of 46, and it was absurd the amount of contact NE DBs were making repeatedly on Nicks and Manningham in particular that game, more than a bit "just" before the ball arrived. In a way Welker dropping that pass was so friggen justfied...
But what have been even worse was how often Linval Joseph was blatantly held; Linval had been having an awesome playoffs consistently knocking opposition OL off the line and penetrating himself... And on several crucial plays it looked as if the Pat's orthopedic surgeons had fused one or another of Linval's arms onto one or another Pats' OL. It's almost comical the refs didn't make a SINGLE call of holding on the Pats vs Linval, IIRC...
Still the best single play in either game was Manning to Manningham - sheer and utter perfection of both the throw and catch.
With 46 I knew we were winning after beating green bay. I called sb victory over the pats right after gb.
Better question which nfc championship game is better? Versus green bay or 49ers? That's a complete toss up. Too epic.
In 46 ... I knew we could ...
In fact in 46 we were on a cruiseship ... watching on a 20 or 30 foot screen ... and when we got the ball back ... I made a makes shift bELIeve sign ... to get others to share my confidence ...
When we did ... I had to make a bunch of 2.99 a minute calls to share my joy and excitement with those back home ...
The guy most screwed by 42 has to be Steve Smith. I don't think I've ever seen a highlight clip of the end of the drive that didn't go right from the Tyree catch to the Burress TD catch.
That third down play by Smith was really fine for a rookie. Isolating himself to catch the pass, and then heading up field for the stakes before being shoved out of bounds. He was not a lucky guy, but at least he got his ring and he earned it.
And they were completely and utterly unphased, both by the monumental moment and momentous task in front of them, and proceeded to beat the living snot of of Tom Terrific and piss all over Boston's pre-planned parade. Shit, forget the "football" qualifier, that was one of the greatest nights of my life, period.
The most I've ever seen a game, any game in all my life, determined by the WILL to win.
I fully expected the Giants to win 46. There was honestly never a doubt in my mind. But 42 was like a fantasy, even though they had already taught us to never count them out. I usually dont watch football with people, but I didn't give them much of a shot and figured "screw it, have some friends over and just have a good time". And that we did. My living room was like a locker room: I was spraying champagne everywhere (a wedding gift, would never buy in anticipation, too superstitious), someone got hug-tackled right through an end table, my wife was crying (about the champagne and table). Just kidding about the last part, Mrs. Rud can hold her own, but it really was a bar scene that eventually spread to the Streets of Philadelphia. I ended up at the parade, met a bunch of BBIers, didn't go back to work for 3 days lol. The whole thing really was like a fantasy.