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NFL Super Bowl 2008 News | Archive Index
NFL Super Bowl 2008 News | Archive February 4, 2008
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NY Giants 17, New England 14
By BARRY WILNER, AP Football Writer
February 4, 2008
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- With the Super Bowl on the line, look who had the perfection thing down Pat: Eli Manning and the road-conquering New York Giants.
And what a beauty their 11th straight road victory was, a 17-14 Super Bowl win Sunday that shattered the New England Patriots' unblemished season.
In one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history, Manning, New York's unlikely Mr. Cool, hit Plaxico Burress on a 13-yard fade with 35 seconds left. It was the Giants' fourth consecutive postseason away win and the first time the Patriots tasted defeat in more than a year.
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Thrilling Giants-Patriots game makes Super Bowl the second most-watched TV show ever
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
February 4, 2008
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Giants' thrilling win over the New England Patriots was the most-watched Super Bowl ever, with 97.5 million viewers, Nielsen Media Research said Monday.
The game eclipsed the previous Super Bowl record of 94.08 million, set when Dallas defeated Pittsburgh in 1996. Only one other show in American broadcast history was watched by more people, the "M-A-S-H" finale in 1983, which drew 106 million viewers.
Sunday's game had almost all the ingredients Fox could have hoped for: a tight contest with an exciting finish involving a team that was attempting to make history as the NFL's first unbeaten team since 1972.
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NFL Super Bowl 2008 News | Archive January 29, 2008
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Giants embark on another road mission in Super Bowl
Mon Jan 28, 10:22 PM ET
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Coach Tom Coughlin and his New York Giants arrived in Arizona on Monday right where they want to be -- on the road with the Super Bowl on the line against the New England Patriots.
While the Patriots are looking to cap off an unprecedented 19-0 campaign with a Super Bowl victory on Sunday, the Giant are aiming to extend their NFL record of 10 successive road wins in the title game in Glendale.
"We have played very well on the road and I really believe the team concept is the reason that we have played well on the road," Coughlin told reporters.
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Brady practices in Patriots' first Super Bowl session
By BARRY WILNER, AP Football Writer
January 29, 2008
PHOENIX (AP) -- Looks like Tom Brady will be true to his word.
One day after promising his ankle injury wouldn't keep him from preparing for and playing in the Super Bowl, Brady was back where he belongs Monday. He practiced with the New England Patriots for the first time since he was hurt against San Diego in the AFC championship game more than a week ago.
If the undefeated Patriots needed a lift as they prepared to play the New York Giants, they got one from Brady's return. The league MVP missed three workouts last week, but he was on the field, as usual, at Arizona State's practice facility in nearby Tempe.
"Anytime the MVP of the league is back, it has to be a positive," receiver Wes Welker said. "He looks good -- the same dimples and all."
According to the Chicago Tribune's Dan Pompei, the designated pool reporter, the star quarterback appeared to have a slight limp. But he participated in all phases of practice, including jogging the length of the field twice at the end of drills.
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NFL Super Bowl 2008 News | Archive January 21, 2008
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Perfect Patriots, improbable Giants headed to Arizona for Super Bowl
By DENNIS WASZAK Jr., AP Sports Writer
January 21, 2008
The New England Patriots' path to perfection has one last hurdle: a New York team of road warriors hoping for a Giant upset.
"We'll try to elevate our game for one last performance," said Tom Brady, the Patriots' dimple-chinned, record-setting quarterback with the model girlfriend.
Brady and the Patriots (18-0) will try to match the 1972 Miami Dolphins as the only teams to complete an undefeated season when they face Eli Manning and the Giants on Feb. 3 in the Super Bowl at Glendale, Ariz.
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NFL Super Bowl 2008 News | Archive January 19, 2008
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No surprises: Super Bowl XLII will be Pack vs. Pats
By Rich Cimini on January 19, 2008 10:39 PM
Prediction time: I’m taking the Patriots, 31-10. Too much Brady, too many injuries for the Chargers. Watch for a big game from Randy Moss.
Here’s a take from my buddy, Doug, a diehard Patriots fan who just schmoozed with the muckety mucks at the AFC media party: “Vincent Jackson catches a TD because he didn’t catch one all year on my fantasy team. It’ll be a lot closer than people think, 28-17. Also, that shrimp and mussel pasta was really good.”
Doug doesn’t get out too often. Let me just say, after mingling with Pats fans, they are one confident bunch. There will be utter devastation if this team loses.
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GEORGIA FRONTIERE: 1927-2008
Rams owner had a lot of memories
Richard Goldstein, New York Times
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Georgia Frontiere, the owner of the NFL's Rams for nearly three decades and the first woman to take control of a league franchise, died Friday. She was 80.
Her death was announced by the Rams on their Web site. She had been hospitalized with breast cancer for several months, her children said in a statement posted there.
Frontiere, an occasional night-club singer and chorus line performer who hoped to become an opera star, was thrust into the pro football world in April 1979 when her husband, Carroll Rosenbloom, the owner of the Los Angeles Rams, drowned in the ocean while swimming near his Florida home.
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NFL Super Bowl 2008 News | Archive January 11, 2008
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Can Patriots continue win streak?
By ajc.com | Friday, January 11, 2008, 09:12 AM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Locally, the NFL news has centered around the Falcons’ search for a coach and general manager. The search seems to take a disappointing turn each day with big names reportedly withdrawing from consideration day after day.
Nationally, the news has centered on the Divisional Playoffs with eight teams still in the hunt for Super Bowl XLII. The AFC games match unbeaten New England against upstart Jacksonville and Indianapolis, last year’s Super Bowl champion, against San Diego.
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Seau's Super Bowl Shot
Only Reason For His Return
By DAVID HEUSCHKEL | Courant Staff Writer
January 10, 2008
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — - Patriots linebacker Junior Seau made it through November, something he hadn't done in any of the past three seasons.
Before this season, the last time he played a football game in December was 2003.
The last time he played in January? That was 13 years ago. The drought will end Saturday night when Seau and the Patriots take on the Jacksonville Jaguars in an AFC divisional playoff game at Gillette Stadium.
In his 18th season, Seau is playing with the same enthusiasm he did as an 18-year-old at Southern California.
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NFL Super Bowl 2008 News | Archive December 31, 2007
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Super Bowl run begins with wild card weekend
Mon Dec 31, 2:29 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - With the New England Patriots' unbeaten regular season installed in the record books, the NFL spotlight swings to the runup for the Super Bowl which kicks off with wild card weekend Saturday and Sunday.
After earning first-round byes, the Patriots, defending champions Indianapolis Colts, the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys will spend the first weekend of the post-season like millions of fans watching from their sofas to see who they will meet in the divisional playoffs.
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Perfect Patriots take giant leap towards ultimate goal
Win is New England’s sixteenth in 16 games; Brady and Moss have record-breaking years
Nick Szczepanik
Perfection achieved: now to improve upon it. The New England Patriots completed only the second perfect regular season in the NFL’s modern era on Saturday night, winning 38-35 away to the New York Giants to record their sixteenth victory in 16 games.
The Miami Dolphins were the first team to achieve the feat, in 1972, when the regular season was only 14 games long. They finished the season with a 17-0 won-lost record after winning two play-off games and the Super Bowl, so if the Patriots go on to claim their fourth Super Bowl win in seven seasons, they can justifiably claim the superior achievement.
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NFL Super Bowl 2008 News | Archive December 19, 2007
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Engram left off invite list for NFL’s irrelevant party
JOHN MCGRATH; THE NEWS TRIBUNE
Published: December 19th, 2007 01:00 AM
If you really are torn up about how Seahawks wide receiver Bobby Engram is the victim of a Pro Bowl snub, here’s four questions to prove your agitation is genuine:
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NFL: Week 15's Decent Dozen
Posted: December 18, 2007, 6:30 PM by Guy Spurrier
Football, NFL
AFC
1. New England (14-0, East Division champion)
When it is time to zig, the Patriots love to zag. It is part of what makes them great. So when the whole world expected them to run up the score on the Jets over the spying incident, the Patriots simply beefed up the running game and grinded out their 14th straight win. And then they topped it off with a pleasant handshake from coach Bill Belichick. Pure evil. Next up, the 1-13 Dolphins. It does not have the same ring as 14-0 vs. 0-14.
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