Giants Stun Patriots in Super Bowl XLII
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Eli Manning led a game-winning scoring drive late in the fourth quarter to give the Giants an unlikely victory in the Super Bowl and spoil the Patriotsâ perfect season.
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The Giants surprised even their most ardent fans with their Super Bowl victory. On Tuesday, the new N.F.L. champions were the ones left awestruck.
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Quarterback Tom Brady guided the  defending champion New England Patriots to a 41-27 win over the  Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC championship game on Sunday and  back to the Super Bowl for the third time in four years.
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The New England Patriots completed a perfect regular season. But the Giants put up more of a fight than almost anyone imagined they would.
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The Giantsâ 17-14 upset of New England in Super Bowl XLII Sunday night was the most-watched N.F.L. championship game ever, seen by an average of 97.5 million viewers.
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An escalator malfunction injured seven people at Giants Stadium on Saturday night, shortly after the New England Patriots beat the New York Giants, 38-35, for a perfect 16-0 regular season.
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The Giantsâ stunning win in the Super Bowl was a victory that actually felt victorious, unlike Yankee championships that have always felt a bit more like the divine right of a king.
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The 97.5 million viewers who saw the New York Giants' last-minute win over the New England Patriots made it the most-watched Super Bowl ever and second biggest event in American television history.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey  - The New England Patriots earned a place in NFL history by completing a perfect 16-0 regular season with a 38-35 victory over the hard-fighting New York Giants on Saturday.
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FOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts  - Only a Super Bowl XLII victory against the New York Giants now stands between the New England Patriots and a perfect, unbeaten season.
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The New England Patriots will  beat the New York Giants by a score of 38-30 in the Super Bowl,  at least according to the popular "Madden NFL 08" football  videogame.
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JACKSONVILLE, Florida  - Tom Brady threw two  touchdown passes to lead the New England Patriots to a 24-21  win over the Philadelphia Eagles and their third Super Bowl  title in four years Sunday, cementing a place among the NFL's  great teams.
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The Patriots became the first team in NFL history to finish a regular season 16-0 Saturday night, defeating the New York Giants, 38-35.
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New England will become the first NFL team ever to go unbeaten through a 19-game season if they beat the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII.
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The Giants on Thursday tried to fan away every possible wisp of a quarterback crisis. Even rookie Eli Manning tried to do his part.
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Tom Brady and the peerless Patriots keep getting better. Really. The quarterback was merely magnificent Sunday, throwing for three touchdowns and running for two more as New England crushed the Washington Redskins 52-7 in an easy tuneup for its battle of unbeatens at Indianapolis.
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The New England Patriots completed a perfect regular season. But the Giants put up quite a fight.