Yeah, I read someplace how Peyton and Eli walked out into an Indiana Corn field at midnight, full moon, hoot owls, blood & Super Bowl mojo etc and summoned the Lightning of Thor to put into Eli's throwing arm, etc.
Which is actually quite daring, because doing that tends to flatten the corn for miles around, and we like to use all our corn for ethanol.
I think for that one "four Patriots wrestling at Eli but he still squirms away and completes an insane pass" play, they added a dose of slippery snake & catfish juju.
I mean, you mix New Orleans voodoo and Manning firepower and the whole TV Sports Expert herdspeak means
nada!
Two Super Bowls, two Mannings, that was sweet!
but I can't quite get over Spygate. Maybe the video made no difference; maybe everyone does it. But cheating's cheating. 19-0 never would've sat quite right for me, no matter what.
That's big for me too. It's like all the baseball home run records by guys who are probably junked up/pumped up on steroids etc: it just takes the shine off the history for me.
I like Tom Brady, but I'd feel cheated if their "perfect season" had that "cheating" taint forever (no matter what the NFL lets them dodge)
Do it again next year and good for them (well, do it right up until the Colts spank them out of the playoffs)
I'd rather give the Dolphins their glory and have THIS SB story be: "Mannings prove themselves to the nay-sayers twice in two years" and "Fire in the NY Giants belly proves stronger than Patriots' win-o-matic"