Giants/Pats Rematch All of the Rage On Eastern Seaboard

Hey Pats fans, remember this?

It's a good day to be a New York sports fan.

Carmelo and Amar'e are wearing Knicks uniforms.  The Yankees are defending AL East champions and just picked up a stud in Michael Pineda.  The Rangers are currently 2nd in the Eastern Conference.  If you're a Syracuse fan in NYC, they are one of the best in college basketball.  However, the Giants take the take by returning to the Super Bowl.  The G-Men punched their ticket to Indianapolis with a 20-17 overtime victory in San Francisco tonight.

As for the game, it truly was a game in which most of the players played well.  Eli Manning and Alex Smith both threw no picks in a game that was affected by rain.  Victor Cruz and Vernon Davis both caught for over 100 yards.  Mario Manningham made a nice catch for a 17 yard touchdown grab in the 4th quarter, his only one of the game.  Both defenses combined for nine sacks.

The difference in the game was San Francisco returner Kyle Williams.  Williams fumbled twice resulting in two Giant scores.  He is the goat for the evening.  Sure, the 49ers couldn't score at the end of regulation or their one overtime possesion.  The fact of the matter is that Kyle Williams is the reason that San Francisco is not going to Indianapolis.  Like Baltimore, San Francisco played good enough to win.  They just didn't.  The legend of Alex Smith will have to wait til' next year.

Now we have a Super Bowl rematch on our hands.  It was the game ESPN and Roger Goodell (graduate of Bronxville High School, in suburban New York) wanted.

We have two weeks to analyze the hell out of this game.  Go.