INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Elite and Eli. One and the same.
And now there are two Super Bowl championships and two MVPs to prove it.
Eli Manning is the big man in the NFL after one-upping Tom Brady and leading the New
Turns out the "new" Bill Belichick looks and sounds an awful lot like the "old" one.
Especially when he gets beat.
During the week leading up to the Super Bowl, there was plenty of buzz about how the dour Patriots coach was a changed man.
Tom Brady was one of the last ones out of the shower, perhaps hoping some extra hot water would help take the sting out of a crushing Super Bowl loss. In a nearly deserted New England Patriots locker room, he sat, wearily pulling on his boots, the pained
For a moment, no one was bigger than 5-foot-8 Danny Woodhead.
The New England running back's 4-yard touchdown reception in the final minute of the first half gave the New England Patriots a 10-9 halftime lead in the Super Bowl.
"I was able
Robert Kraft stared at the scoreboard, to see if time really had run out.
It had.
In a game that meant so much, his New England Patriots had come up a fingertip or two short.
"It's for Miss Myra," receiver Deion Branch said after the
Justin Tuck called together his pals from the New York Giants' defensive line, gathering them in the end zone before the game for an impromptu pep talk and urging them to create some havoc for Tom Brady.
On the first play for the New England
Archie Manning got to see one of his sons win a Super Bowl and MVP in a city special to his family.
It wasn't Peyton, who hoped to lead the Colts to a Super Bowl title in their own stadium but wound up missing the season while recovering from neck
Move over David Tyree. Mario Manningham is the new star in the Giants' latest version of "The Catch."
It may not have been a helmet catch like Tyree's in the Super Bowl four years ago, but it was just as clutch and just as timely ? and Tyree was
The eyes that watched Tom Brady's pass sail to him were red. The hands that couldn't catch it were clasped in his lap. The heart that has helped make Wes Welker a star was broken.
Blame me, he said. Blame me for letting a ball I always catch fall
Eli Manning is elite, for sure. A king of comebacks, too. And far, far more than Peyton's little brother now.
Spot-on from beginning to end Sunday night, Eli Manning won his second NFL championship in a four-year span ? and second Super Bowl MVP
