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Why I Am Glad The Giants Won

My list, in no particular order:

• I have disliked the Patriots since the '80s. The only time I want them to win is when they play a team I dislike more.


• I generally pick the New York teams, unless they are playing a team I like more.


• We can finally stop talking about the Pats 'perfect' season. Though, I agree with D about Mercury Morris, and think he is irritating and should not be a spokesman for Miami's perfect season.


• Randy Moss is a loser. The only way having his team lose could have made me happier, is if they had a chance to win and he dropped the pass in the end zone. Forever branded as the guy who cost 'em the big game - I would have loved that.


• Michael Strahan got his ring. (Though I do feel bad for Seau)


• I won my bets except the total score. (Who'd have thought these two teams, playing in the ideal conditions of a domed stadium, would only put 31 points on the board?)


• Just about everyone was pulling for the Giants at the Super Bowl party we attended, making for a loud and exciting win.


• Brady, Moss, et alia will associate Glendale (and UoP Stadium) with the big loss for years to come.


• The play. Manning somehow slips out of the grasp and throws down field to Tyree who sacrifices his body and defies physics to make the grab. Unbelievable and amazing.


• Jordin Sparks is adorable. Her father, besides playing for the National Champion Glendale Community College football team, played for the New York Giants. It is fitting that the Giants would win in Glendale when Jordin sang the National Anthem.


• Plaxico's prediction. When Burress suggested the Giants would win with a final score of 24-17, he was chastised by the media for a boast that would surely get the Patriots fired up, ensuring the loss NY would inevitably suffer to be especially humiliating. Tom Brady said something along the lines of "Oh, he thinks we will only score 17 points?" Turns out they couldn't even score 17 and Plax's prediction was as close to perfect as New England's season - missed it by that much.

I'm sure there will be more that come to me.....