A Perfect Ending

Well Super Bowl 42 is in the books and it is truely a perfect ending. Oh maybe not for the oh so wonderful and powerful Patriots who fall one game short of "pefection". They will end this season with an 18-1 record. It is perfect in terms of justice though.

At the beginning of the year the Patriots were caught cheating. They received a slap on the wrist through losing their draft pick (pick 31 out of 32), but that doesn't matter anyway because they will get a top ten pick via trade with the 49ers. Then it was discovered Coach Belichick had an entire library of video tapes spanning years (and their past Super Bowl victories) and those were simply destroyed.

As the season progressed, those "classy" Patriots began pounding teams. In one game in which the Pats had a huge lead, Belichick put "god-like" Brady back in because the other team scored a touchdown...even though the game was still way out of reach. No matter. The Patriots were amazing! Unstoppable! No matter that six of those wins came against the three other teams in their division. Those teams were a combined 12-36 on the season. In fact, the Patriots played only 4 playoff bound teams. Outside of those teams, their opponents were 50-46. Not exactly a tough mission. Impressive? Yes, they were good, but the greatest ever? Not in my opinion. Against teams with losing records and toward the end of the year the Pats seemed to crumble against these lesser teams. Nevertheless, the Patriots were hailed as perfect. In fact their destiny seemed to be written in stone. Media pundits hardly mentioned the Giants. All that mattered was the 19-0 mark. Perfection.

So for some of us (a very small group where I am at) this was a perfect ending. A team received exactly what it deserved. I think we all saw how classy Belichick and the Patriots were at the end of the game when they simply left the field. Yes there was that whole 1 second left on the clock, but they still left. Classless. Congrats to Eli Manning. I think its cool that both he and his brother Peyton have won (and back to back, what are the chances).