Super Bowl XLII: Upset? Yes; Greatest Ever? Not Even Close

Sunday's Super Bowl will be remembered forever because of how it finished. 

Two touchdowns in the final three minutes and when it was all said and done the Giants had beaten the unbeatable. 17-14, Eli leads the way to take down Brady, Belichick, and the greatest thing since sliced bread.

By no means was this the greatest upset of all time in Super Bowl history.

Is anyone else aware that the Giants played the Patriots within three points of the "greatest dynasty in NFL history" back in Week 17?

Also remember in that game, the Giants were holding back at certain points in the game; although not drastically, still enough to rest some players for the playoff run.

Just because the Patriots were previously unbeaten does not mean they were exactly world beaters.

First half of the season? Sure. But look after the Patriots bye week and you will see three regular-season games decided by three points.

I don't care what team you are, any Steelers team of the 70's, the '85 Bears, whoever. You can only have so many close games before you finally fall.

What's more, the Giants were playing their best football at the right time of the year. 

The only reason they were such a huge underdog was because of what the Patriots were capable of doing to teams this year. Not what they have failed to do since Week 11. I'll give you an underdog winner obviously—but greatest upset of all time is more than a stretch.

Chaminade over Ralph Sampson and Virginia. Appalachian State over Michigan. Stanford over USC. Miracle on Ice and Joe Namath's guarantee in Super Bowl III. 

All the above and plenty more upsets have been much bigger than last night's. 

The Patriots were outplayed for an entire evening by a very good team. The difference between this upset and the ones listed above (outside of SB III) are that the ones listed previously had two teams that did not belong on the same playing surface as each othe.

They should have been blowouts, but the unthinkable happened.

A very good team who was better prepared for last evening's game won—not a team that was worse than the great New Englanders.

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