Knocking on the Super Bowl’s Door

Posted on January 14, 2008 in Sports

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And then there were four.

The remaining teams have worked all season to get to the Super Bowl, and now all that stands between them and a spot in the championship game is one more game.

The New York Giants upset the NFC’s top seed, the Dallas Cowboys, to get to this point. Now, they find themselves the underdog yet again, this time to the NFC’s number two seed, the Green Bay Packers.

While Giants quarterback Eli Manning competes for a Super Bowl berth, his brother, Peyton Manning, and his Indianapolis Colts, will be stuck watching the rest of the playoffs.

The San Diego Chargers pulled off the weekend’s other upset, beating the Colts a second time this season. The win earned them a ticket to Foxboro, Mass. to take on the perfect New England Patriots.

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is coming off of the best game of his illustrious career. Brady completed an unprecedented 26 of his 28 pass attempts for 262 yards with three touchdowns, including one coming off of a perfectly executed fake Statue of Liberty play.

It doesn’t look like anyone will be able to stop the Patriots from achieving true perfection: 19-0.

But anything can happen. This is, after all, the NFL.

Odds are, the team with the best chance at ending the Patriots pursuit of perfection is whichever NFC team makes it to the Super Bowl.

The Giants came close to beating the Pats once already, and Packers quarterback Brett Favre is having a season to remember.

As the Jacksonville Jaguars showed the rest of the league, you can play a great game against the Patriots and still lose. It takes more than great to beat the Patriots.

It takes perfection.

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