Super Bowl Liveblog

Final Score:
New York Giants- 17
New England Patriots- 14

Eli Manning just announced as Super Bowl MVP. There were several passes that should have been intercepted, but sometimes that’s the way the game goes.

Enough can’t be said about the Giant defense. Throughout the game, the front seven provided ruthless pressure on Brady resulting in only one touchdown on 29/48 passing. Neither team could establish much rushing which is a credit to both defenses.

The Patriots should be commended on an amazing season, just one game short of perfection.

The commercials were pretty poor overall with no real winners to speak of. I find myself permanently scarred by the nipple dude with the battery cables and Fox’s non-stop tv promotions.

Thanks for sticking in with us tonight and congratulations to the New York Giants.

10:11 pm Wow- what a night. Definitely the best Super Bowl I can remember in the last ten years. The Giant defense shut down a prolific Patriot offense and Eli Manning played the gutsiest game of his career. Unfortunately for all football fans, the ‘72 Dolphins record continues and we’ll have to listen to them for at least another year.

10:09 pm Mark O. says the idiots in his neighborhood are whooping and shooting off fireworks. At least they’re not burning couches (yet).

10:07 pm Giant nation is stunned. Eli wins the Super Bowl one year after Peyton (that’s what I just said Joe Buck, quite stealing my stuff).

10:03 pm Giants take over on downs. Ball game. For some strange reason the officials see it necessary for the Giants to actually run a play and burn the final second. There must be some sponsorship associated with the final second.

10:01 pm 65-yard bomb to Moss incomplete. This thing’s almost over.

10:00 pm Brady just got the Bundchen knocked out of him. Part-time Brad likes the hit.

10:00 pm 25 seconds left. Three timeouts for New England.

9:57 pm What a slant route by Plexiglass. He smoked the DB- absolutely unbelievable. Mark O. puts down his pizza and yells the Yankees win! Theeeeeeeee Yankees win. Part-time Brad says sexico in the hizzouse. Spartan pride.

9:55 pm Giants 1st down at the 13. Smith got out of bounds to stop the clock. 49 seconds to go.

9:53 pm Right now is when the Giants are missing Shockey the most. The receiver routes are taking too long to develop and Manning is running for his life. No timeouts left- 2nd & 11.

9:52 pm Unbelievable. What an escape by Eli and Tyree coming down with the ball trapped on his helmet. Absolutely unbelievable.

9:50 pm Memo to Eli’s left hand: quit sitting there all lazy like and wrap up that football. Punk.

9:49 pm 4th & short- Giants convert. Nice work Jacobs.

9:45 pm Uhhhh….man with battery cables connected to his nipples powering a booming stereo system playing Salt ‘n Peppa?

9:44 pm Horrible play-calling. 2:04 to go, the Giants should have run the ball. Take some pressure off Eli, make third down more do-able, two-minute warning. Eli will take the heat if he can’t pull this off, but the coaches own this.

9:42 pm Peyton Manning sighting # 5.

9:41 pm 2:42 to go. Giants have all three timeouts left. It’s Eli time. What a stick on the kickoff. Hixon needs to check his junk on the sideline.

9:39 pm Touchdown Moss. Good protection. Good throw. Giants should have blitzed heavily there but they look gassed. 14-10 Patriots.

9:37 pm Welker just got tattooed. There’s some heavy hitting going on out there tonight.

9:36 pm Double fake by Brady and a bad throw to Moss. I could’ve made that throw. With a boot on my foot.

9:36 pm 1st and goal Patriots.

9:30 pm Maroney for 1st down. There’s that running game I was talking about. You don’t need to be Charlie Weis to come up with this game plan: Maroney, Welker. Welker, Maroney. Moss down the field. Ballgame.

9:27 pm A 375 horsepower Hyundai?

9:23 pm Mark O. says his bottle of scotch is empty but his Red Baron pizza is almost ready. Sounds like Monday morning could be interesting.

9:21 pm Congratulations to E-Trade for finding new and exciting ways to exploit talking babies. Well done.

9:20 pm Where is the Patriots running game? Giants are going to win this game if New England can’t get some diversity on offense. What you think Brady is, a super hero? Oh, you do? Oh, ok.

9:17 pm Sarah Connor Chronicles promo # 512. Fox is a whore.

9:15 pm Mark O. says Jared Lorenzen is FAT (not phat). I remind him that it’s actually Kirstie Alley, not Jared Lorenzen. He returns to his bottle of Scotch.

9:14 pm B+ commercial break- James Carville on a Segway and crazy big wheel racing. Nice stuff.

9:12 pm Touchdown Giants- David Tyree. Peyton Manning sighting # 4. What a pass by Eli threading the needle into a very tight space. 10-7 Giants.

9:12 pm Joe Buck just repeated my comment about the O-Line. He must have the page up on his ‘puter.

9:11 pm Eli is in the zone. The Offensive Line is giving him tremendous protection.

9:08 pm Mark O. says Shockey who!! Nice work Boss.

9:07 pm Peyton Manning sighting # 3

9:04 pm Chester Pitts bagging groceries- good stuff. And the line at the end about the Texans being in the Super Bowl. Maybe they’re saving the good commercials for the 4th quarter…

9:02 pm Tom Brady incomplete pass to Gisele Bundchen. Damn super models.

8:58 pm New England found the answer to the Giants rush. He’s 5′ 9″ and his name is Wes Welker. The Linebackers aren’t keeping up with him.

8:55 pm Mark O. says Joe Buck wants to date Wes Welker. He just got a note passed to him in study hall that said that.

8:53 pm E-Trade baby puking on keyboard. Bud Light commercial with dude getting hit by a jet. That marks the first mildly interesting commercial break. Pathetic.

8:50 pm Into triple coverage. Plexiglass almost came down with it. Mark O. says Asante Samuel is a free agent and his Eagles need him. part-time Brad has stopped by and says the Giants would win if they didn’t suck. Seriously, tell me what other website you get this kind of analysis from? None I say.

8:48 pm That was a late throw by Manning. Lucky that wasn’t picked off.

8:42 pm First “pin their ears back” mention by Aikman. Strahan with the sack- loss of six. This is becoming a “defensive struggle” as “they” say.

8:41 pm What a sweet cut by Kevin Faulk to convert the 3rd & 13. Nice work.

8:38 pm The Giant D came to play tonight. Too bad the 12 men on the field penalty gave the Patriots a fresh set of downs. That six week layoff is really making for a sloppy game. Oh wait, that’s college football, never mind.

8:33 pm Shaq riding a horse is the gold. Solid gold. The commercial should have been funnier though. The Ad agencies just aren’t trying this year.

8:32 pm Mark O. says he saw his wife’s nipple during halftime so the Super Bowl tradition continues. Take that FCC.

8:23 pm How long does Chris Myers spend in the make-up chair. I’m going with two to three days. Thoughts?

8:12 pm Decent effort by Tom Petty tonight. No nipples though. Damn censorship.

8:09 pm Mark O says he won $50 on the coin toss- lucky bastard. And Brandon Jacobs needs to get it going in the second half. We’ll see…

7:54 pm Halftime. 7-3 Patriots. Pretty weak commercials. Hopefully the halftime efforts are better.

7:43 pm Pepsi commercial with Justin Timerblake. Nice. Well done Pepsi.

7:37 pm That was too close for Manning’s comfort. Receiver slipped on that one.

7:28 pm Down goes Brady. Nice pressure up the middle from the Giants. 3rd & 17.

7:13 pm Holy Patriots. Interception Hobbs. Turnover # 1 goes to New England. That was Eli Manning’s 1st interception this post season.

7:12 pm Peyton Manning sighting # 2

7:08 pm Gisele Bundchen sighting. Hey- there’s Jim Carrey too. Wow, my life is enriched.

7:02 pm Touchdown Patriots. Honorable mention to Bridgestone for the 1st squirrel commercial of the evening. Nice job.

6:58 pm Wow that’s interference. 1st and goal at the 1.

6:46 pm Excellent commercial # 1 goes to Diet Pepsi Max with L.L. Cool J and a sweet combover. Nice!

6:45 pm Strong opening drive by the Giants. 3-0 New York.

6:39 pm Peyton Manning sighting

6:29 pm Ill-advised pick: you can’t stop history and you can’t stop the hoodie. Patriots by six.

6:27 pm Giants win the toss. House promo # 1. Damn you Fox for jamming your promos at us. I guess it’s your right for paying $75 Bozillion for the Super Bowl. Still sucks. Oooh, what’s this? A Troy Aikman promo? Stuff it Aikman.

6:23 pm Prison Break promo # 1. We get it Fox. They’re still trying to break out of prison. We don’t care.

6:16 pm Sarah Connor Chronicles promo 1: Eat it Fox.

6:11 pm Full disclosure: I (Red) is stating for the record that I married into a die-hard Giants family and am currently wearing my G-Men thong. Mark O. should be joining us shortly and also in the effort of full disclosure, Mark O. lives in New Jersey which in and of itself only means that his judgement is partially impaired by virtue of making a conscious choice to live in New Jersey. That said, we hope this will be a hell of a game. A Giants win will make us happy and a Patriots win will make history.

So many storylines to think about- will the Giants be able to establish the run?, will Tom Brady’s scalp actually go bald during the game?, will the commercials be better than last year? Can’t wait…

6:09 pm Further pre-game ranting- Memo to Fox: thanks for making me mute every commercial break so my kids don’t hear your promos for House or Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles. So much for family programming. Eat it Fox.

6:07 pm More pre-game ranting- Memo to GM: if you really want us to think you “super-green”, just make all your frigging cars hybrids. Otherwise, stop cramming hybrid commercials down our throats at a seven per hour clip. Eat it GM.

6:04 pm Pre-game ranting: I need to get some stuff off my chest. First of all screw Fox and the red carpet. Thanks for taking one of the manliest of all events and wussifying it by putting Ryan Secrest out there on the red carpet. Nice to see all the celebrities get in to see the game while Joe Fan has to shell out $3,000 for tickets. Screw you NFL. And memo to Fox: we don’t care about celebrities predictions for the game. Talk to us about global warming or scientology or just shut up.

6:01 pm We are live!