XXI, XXV, XLII, XLVI - What is your favorite and why?

Especially coupled with the win over Dallas a few weeks prior, it's ridiculous but I think the Super Bowl 25 run may be even harder to top from a pure football pov.

Hard to believe that the 46 run, as improbable as it was sort of gets lost when comparing the four runs.

The Super Bowls with best replay value in my opinion:

21
42
25
46

I can't answer the question sorry.

In comment 12117825 Big Blue '56 said:

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1-XLII- 18-0 2-XXV-Up against an "unbeatable" Juggernaut 3-XLVI-After the SF brutalizing of Eli 4-XXI- Yes, I know, the first one, yada, yada, yada, but we were clearly the best team in the league, so it was no surprise

Yeah, but that first one was very sweet. You never forget your first!

the game was awesome (to the football purist), and the historical context on top of it was incredible.

The sheer arrogance of the Pats and their fans leading up to it was insane. They were all saying things like "the Giants did so well to even get here, you should be so proud of them!". And Brady's smirk when he said "we're only going to score 17 points?"

With respect to Super Bowl 3, Unitas and the Colts, The Catch, The Ice Bowl, and several others to me Super Bowl 42 is the most epic game in NFL history

for some of the reasons already stated. The franchise sucked for so long. The fans suffered for a couple of decades with a team that was absolutely horrible. So bad that many fans burned their season tickets in the parking lot a few years earlier.

After the NFC Championship that year, strangers were hugging each other as they were leaving the stadium with a look to each other that said "finally". I was able to see that same reaction from my father who was one of those who were going to the games since 1948.

This Superbowl essentially turned the franchise around and made it what it is today. So, for those reasons I am choosing XXl. This takes nothing away from the others of course.

Daniel in MI summed it up for me, but I will add that it was seeing the buildup and the realization of that championship was somehow so fulfilling. I also was a child of the 60's and went through the "years of lousy football" so seeing that built, to beat the 49ers and all those great battles. The skins were good then to and we beat them, it just seemed magical. It was the heyday of the Bears and Ditka, this is where I started to hate Buddy effin Ryan.

The run to the Super Bowl that year was pre-ordained(sp) because of the way they paid their dues and how they went about doing it. Wellington's handprints were all over that team, from Parcels on down. Simm's guttiness, Taylor's greatness, Carson's steadiness and the Suburbanites, Joe Morris all of those guys have a special place for me!

Sorry for all the spelling and grammar issues, I am not nor will I ever be eloquent.

but 21 was the first, like a first love.

The Road Warriors who shocked the world. We're only going to score 17 points? Hahahah, let Tom Brady hit the floor. The build up, the great plays, and being a hard fought drag down hit you in the mouth game in an era of arena league scoring against the presumptive greatest team of all time... 18-1, DENIED.

and 25 was probably my favorite Giant team ever.

But I keep coming back to 42. The number of stars and planets that had to align to make that happen...

I broke out the Giants 10 Best Games DVD set. I just finished watching SB XXI and am watching the SB XXV right now. It's been a good afternoon for me.

surrounding the game or the way it was played. I was on a high for weeks after that game. Oh, and BTW, Simms was glorious.

for me. Got to go to the NFC championship in Green Bay with my brother and had the whole family in the house for the SB. I agree with John Mara that it was the greatest win in Giants history.

The first one, after the team having been so bad during my early fandom, it was just such a spectacular thing to win it all. But thinking about how wonderful XLII was, I'd probably rank the 1986 season as my favorite season, but XLII as my favorite super bowl. Toppling that seemingly invincible team, silencing their fans, their coach, their QB, and doing it in thrilling fashion? That's tough to top.

XXI because of my dad. We suffered together through twenty years of football shit, and were able to celebrate the vindication together. That was special.

XLII because of my son. He's a Pats fan, and was giving his ol man a lot of 19-0 bullshit before the game. He learned a really valuable lesson that day, and it actually brought us closer together because of it.

when we put NE down for a 3rd time.

XXI - somewhere in the middle of that season you kind of knew it was going to be a special season...and it was a great ride all the way to the end by dominating everybody in the playoffs and SB.

XLII - just a phenomenal ride thru the playoffs, especially by shoving it in the faces of the Cowboys, Packers and Patriots. Only because XXI was the first SB win, does this one come in a very close second.

But the most surprising, the Tyree game, is right there.

... We went into Dallas, the 1 seed, the heavy favorites, a team that beat NYG twice in the regular season, a team that sent what, ten guys to the pro bowl? Then the giants win in dramatic, nail biting fashion and in the post game PC Terrell Owens melts down and cries about his QB. You can't make that up...

And that was just one little segment of the run in January- February 2008. If you wrote that script you'd be laughed out of the room.

We are only talking about individual Super Bowl games but it's hard to ignore the runs to get there. Beating Dallas like that... Fucking priceless...

Because it was the first one after years of finally reaching the pinnacle.