Super Finish leads to a Super Victory

It is easy to see how the Giants won the super bowl considering millions tuned in to watch the game, but what may go unseen is how they finished their year off. This time it didn’t take a miracle throw from Eli to some unknown wide receiver. This time it took a precise pass from Eli to a known wide receiver. Other than that this super bowl run and the one they made in 07-08 are identical. Both started with a few games left in the regular season, when the team decided to bond together and become one. Justin Tuck, the teams all pro defensive end said it best when he said that the team tossed all their egos out the window. It is almost like this team has a switch that they can turn on, but if that were the case then they would have won the last three after the first one. Unfortunately for them things is not that easy. In the NFL it takes a little luck to get where you want to go. For instance this year the Giants where two lucky plays away from being eliminated from playoff contention, when they faced the Dallas Cowboys for the first time last season. If the Giants lost than they would be eliminated considering there were only four games left in the season. On one play the Dallas cowboy’s quarter back misses a wide-open wide receiver who was so open that he would have scored. Then at the end of the game the Giants get lucky and block the game winning field goal as time expired. If these two plays happen any other way then the Giants would have been watching the last Super bowl instead of playing in it. Still the team understood how close they came to not being in the playoffs and started to make a run that stands out as one of the best end of seasons finishes of all time.