The New York Giants are Super Bowl Champions.

From The NY Daily News

Giants fans partied like champions Sunday night as Big Blue beat the hated New England Patriots 21-17 in Super Bowl XLVI, an encore to their 2008 championship victory over Tom Brady and Co.

From the seats of Lucas Oil Stadium in Indy to the streets of New York City, the Giants faithful were delirious.

“This is unbelievable,” said Victor Gonzalez, 30, who traveled to Indy to see his beloved Giants pull off the nail-biter win.

“It’s all worth it. All the heartache. Everything. I’m on top of the world right now. I never want this moment to end.”

Mario Capestany, 33, a travel coordinator from the Bronx, also danced in the streets of Indy after

Brady choked in the final minute of the game.

“I came to see Brady get stomped and this was unbelievable!” Capestany said. “Pop the champagne. We are world champions.”

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Bill Belichick will use demonic mind control on his players if necessary.

From CBS Sports

How could Julian Edelman be his nickel cornerback in the Super Bowl?

Nothing against Edelman. If I’m ranking the players in the Super Bowl, sort of like Prisco did earlier this week but with a different scale — ranking them not in terms of ability, but in terms of admirability — Edelman would be in my top 10. The guy is about 5-feet-9, weighs a buck-nothing and is playing a position for the first time since he was 12 years old. That’s impressive. That’s admirable.

That’s stupid.

How does this happen to the Patriots? That’s what I need to know, even more than I need to know the answer to another question, which is: How much will Eli Manning punish Julian Edelman on Sunday?

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The NY Islanders will need a new logo if they wind up moving to Brooklyn.

From The NY Times

The Islanders and Brett Yormark, chief executive of Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment and the Nets, announced Tuesday that the Isles would play the Devils in an Oct. 2 exhibition at the new Brooklyn Nets basketball arena.

The announcement serves as another shot across the bow of Nassau County politicians and voters, who have rejected every effort by Islanders owner Charles Wang to upgrade or replace Nassau Coliseum, the club’s 40-year-old home.

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Eli Manning is headed to Super Bowl XLVI.

From The Fith Down

You might remember that Brett Favre was the leader in consecutive starts. And then that Peyton Manning took over that title.

But you may not know that Eli Manning is the new leader among active players, at 119 games. Yes, he’s the N.F.L.’s iron man.

And his durability was on display against a ferocious Niners defense on Sunday. He was sacked six times and hit many more. In some instances, he was simply mangled.

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Prince Fielder thinks he'll look slimmer in a Texas Rangers uniform.

From Yahoo Sports

They basically flipped C.J. Wilson for Darvish. Their lineup remains better than the Angels’, even with Albert Pujols in Anaheim. Their bullpen is deeper, though the ninth inning – Joe Nathan in Arlington, Jordan Walden in Anaheim – is sketchy for both.

Imagine, then, what Fielder could do for the Rangers, for an already muscular offense, and then what the Rangers could do for Fielder.

After all, he’s done his time in the market where everything must go right in order to contend. And he has his suitors in Seattle, Washington, maybe Chicago (North Side), Miami, Baltimore and Toronto. Through no fault of his own, it appears his timing is simply crummy. The Yankees and Red Sox are both set at first base and perhaps diving for the luxury tax threshold.

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Eli Manning owns the Green Bay Packers.

From ABC News

For the second time in four years, the Giants strutted away from Green Bay with a playoff victory, shocking the reigning Super Bowl champions 37-20 in the divisional round Sunday.

Now they’re headed to the NFC Championship game in San Francisco next Sunday, bursting with confidence that they can win another road game and get back to the Super Bowl.

“This team knows how to win on the road,” defensive end Justin Tuck said. “It seems like right now, it’s our time.”

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Praise Tebow!

From The NY Times

Tim Tebow, whose stature as a football and social phenomenon was built on the foundation of fourth-quarter comebacks, completed a 20-yard pass that Demaryius Thomas turned into an 80-yard touchdown on the first play of overtime Sunday, giving the Denver Broncos a 29-23 upset of the Pittsburgh Steelers in their A.F.C. wild-card game.

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Houston Rockets' coach Kevin McHale is taller than Frankenstein.

From The Dream Shake

But there are some significant problems with this Rockets team that opposing teams have exposed in the first six games.The biggest problem (bizarrely, for the Rockets) is the offense [edit: okay, maybe it's the defense]. There are other problems with the Rockets, definitely: Scola’s rebounding numbers are way down, Lowry’s is really awesome but his turnover numbers are dangerously high, and Jordan Hill seems to be our best non-Scola big man right now. But the single biggest difference between the 2011 Rockets (winning record!) and the 2012 Rockets (we’ll see!) is the offense.

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Santonio Holmes acted like a baby according to some NY Jets.

From The Jet Press

Some teammates reportedly called Holmes a cancer to the team that quit weeks ago. They also compared his behavior to that of a 10 year old child.

LaDainian Tomlinson, for one, was not afraid to speak his mind.

“Let me just say there were some guys in the huddle that were unhappy with Tone’s demeanor,” running back LaDainian Tomlinson said. “When you have a group of guys that’s fighting their butts off, and one guy, for whatever reason, their demeanor’s not with them, you’re going to get some guys to say something to him and tell them how they feel. That’s what you got today.”

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Baylor and Washington fried the scoreboard during the record setting Valero Alamo Bowl

From ESPN

The teams combined for 1,397 yards of total offense, which broke the FBS bowl record. The previous high was 1,211 yards, set by Arizona and Rutgers in the 2005 Insight Bowl.

The 123 points scored were the most in bowl history in regulation. The 17 total touchdowns were also a bowl record. The 123 points were 40 more than any previous Alamo Bowl.

The all-time record was 125 points, but that was a double-overtime game between Marshall and East Carolina in the 2001 GMAC Bowl.

The two teams tied a bowl record with 12 rushing touchdowns. They’re tied with Texas Tech and Air Force in the 1995 Copper Bowl.

The 64 second-half points tied a bowl record.

Baylor’s 777 total yards of offense is a bowl record, breaking Arizona State’s record of 718 in the 1972 Fiesta Bowl. Not a bad way for RG3 to go out, if he does indeed enter the NFL draft.

Baylor’s 67 points were also a bowl record.

Baylor’s eight rushing touchdowns tied a bowl record.

Bears running back Terrance Ganaway’s five rushing touchdowns tied a bowl record for both rushing touchdowns and total touchdowns scored.

Washington QB Keith Price’s seven touchdowns accounted for a bowl record, as did his 42 points. Four other players held the previous record, with six touchdowns and 36 points.

The 59 first downs between the two teams was three short of the record of 62, set by NC State and Kansas in the 2003 Tangerine Bowl.

The two teams were just short of the FBS record for points in regulation, set at 136 points in a 74-62 Navy win against North Texas on Nov. 10, 2007.

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