Uh-uh, Tom. Not in this city, and not in this game.
Indianapolis is a Manning town, whether it's Peyton or Eli affairs out the wins. And the Super Bowl is al of a sudden the arena of the New York Giants, who accept ample out how to topple Brady and the New England Patriots in the better moments.
Eli Manning led addition fourth-quarter touchdown drive and won his additional Super Bowl MVP on Sunday night, arch the Giants to a 21-17 achievement that provided a pulsating accomplishment to an NFL division that started with agitation and a lockout.
"It's been a agrarian game," said Manning, who now has one added Super Bowl appellation than his beforehand brother. "It's been a agrarian season,"
A agrarian accomplishment was absolutely fitting.
The Giants (13-7) about didn't accomplish the playoffs, defective a lot of advice at 7-7 with two amateur left. Their aegis assuredly came together, and Manning gave them a adventitious in every bold with his affection for comebacks -- a league-record 15 touchdowns in the fourth quarter.
Of course, his greatest career improvement was in that Super Bowl four years ago, if the Patriots were best and Manning led a astern scoring drive that included an constant Super Bowl moment -- the absurd bolt David Tyree fabricated by accoutrement the brawl adjoin his helmet.
The Patriots (15-4) had a adventitious to abstain added such history on Sunday. Brady, aggravating to bout adolescence hero Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw with four Super Bowl titles, had New England in ambit to put it abroad astern in the fourth quarter.
Wes Welker alone a canyon at the 20-yard band with 4 account left, banishment a punt that gave the Giants addition adventitious abaft 17-15.
"It comes to the better moment of my life, and (I) don't appear up with it," said a red-eyed Welker. "It's one of those plays I've fabricated a thousand times."
Manning's about-face for added Super Bowl magic.
He threw a spot-on 38-yard canyon down the amusement to Mario Manningham, applicable the brawl altogether amid two arresting backs barreling down on the receiver. Manningham got both anxiety down afore accepting smacked out of bound in foreground of the Patriots' bench, a bolt that was upheld on epitomize and reminded the 68,658 admirers at Lucas Oil Amphitheater -- one in accurate -- about that added bolt four years earlier.
"In those situations, you are consistently searching to see who is traveling to be the guy," Tyree said, in the Giants locker room.
Once Manningham came down with it, the Giants sensed things had angry their way, just like four years earlier.
"I anticipate they are both amazing catches," Giants drillmaster Tom Coughlin said. "I anticipate with Mario's beforehand tonight, the way he kept his anxiety inbounds and captivated assimilate the brawl (while) traveling out of bound was a arresting thing."
The Patriots were cerebration the aforementioned thing, too.
"I anticipation that play they fabricated on our amusement was a astounding bandy and catch," Brady said. "That got them going."
They got down to the 6-yard band with just over a minute larboard and the Patriots down to one timeout. New York could accept run the alarm down to a few abnormal and kicked a acreage goal.
Patriots drillmaster Bill Belichick did the algebraic and absitively on a trade-off: Give up a touchdown for some time. New England pulled up and accustomed Ahmad Bradshaw to run the final 6 yards with 57 abnormal left.
Once Bradshaw accomplished what was happening, he approved to stop at the 1-yard band to accumulate the alarm traveling but concluded up falling astern into the end zone.
Brady would get one endure adventitious with the Giants aegis address down on him, as it consistently does. Arresting end Justin Tuck awash the New York aegis afterwards a touchback on the alpha larboard the brawl at the 20-yard line.
"I anticipate a lot of guys had their eyes lit up," Tuck said. "This is what we've been alive for all year, and we've got 57 abnormal larboard to be apple champs."
Brady set a Super Bowl almanac by commutual 16 after passes beforehand in the game, topping Montana's record. If he bare several quick completions to get affective in the endure minute, he couldn't do it.
The Patriots got alone as far as midfield with 5 abnormal left. Brady threw a agony canyon into the end zone, area the brawl was batted about in a scrum afore falling abridged just aloft the ability of All-Pro bound end Rob Gronkowski, bringing the aerosol of armament from above.
"You appear down to one play at the end," Brady said. "If we accomplish it, we're apple champs. If we don't, we're adulatory we were."
Brady's had a boxy time adjoin this Giants defense. During the approved season, it pressured him into mistakes during a 24-20 New York win in Foxborough, Mass. The Patriots went on to win their next 10, a band that concluded if Brady faced that aforementioned aegis on Sunday.
It just seems to accept his number. On his aboriginal canyon of the game, Brady was pressured by Tuck in the end area and threw the brawl to an accessible atom downfield to get rid of it, consistent in a safety.
By contrast, Manning didn't accomplish any big mistakes and, again, was at his best beneath the last-minute pressure.
"He's become assured over time, affectionate of grew into it," said his father, above New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning. "I consistently acquainted like you accept to acquaintance those situations afore you become confident. He's absolutely had his share."
And cipher will catechism annihilation he says again.
Manning was criticized for insisting afore the division that he's an aristocratic quarterback. Then, with the Giants struggling, he was overshadowed by a altered Manning drama.
Peyton and the Colts were acquisitive to ability a Super Bowl in their stadium. Instead, the quarterback had close operations and the aggregation came apart, bidding buying to apple-pie house. The anniversary arch up to the Super Bowl was overshadowed in boondocks by allocution about Peyton's future.
Eli insisted he wasn't agitated by administration the spotlight. In the fourth division on Sunday, he had it all to himself.
Manning was 10 of 14 for 118 yards in the final division with his seventh game-winning drive of the season. Overall, he completed 30 of 40 for 296 yards with a touchdown and no interceptions, arch the Giants to their fourth Super Bowl championship -- two abaft Pittsburgh for the record.
In the end, a Manning got to elevate the argent Super Bowl bays in Indianapolis.
"It just feels acceptable to win a Super Bowl," Eli said. "Doesn't amount area you are."
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