Super Bowl Kickoff Time 2012: Giants Will Regret Antagonizing Tom Brady

The New York Giants are really going to regret all the trash they were talking leading up to the Super Bowl.

If there is one person in the NFL whom you may want to avoid antagonizing, it would be Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady.

I have a funny feeling that he's going to be taking this game very seriously.

Brady is a notorious competitor—check the three Super Bowl rings—and a fiery one at that. It's not all that of a surprising thing to look down on the Patriots' bench to see Brady getting in the ear of one of his teammates, trying to keep him focused, or just simply sitting with a determined and quite scary look in his eyes.

The guy's all business, and his cage is not the one I'd want to rattle before the Super Bowl.

Apparently the Giants are either too cocky to care or too arrogant to realize that it may make a difference in the game. Either way, according to Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News, the team is talking really confidently heading into the Super Bowl:

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They certainly are confident heading into their rematch with the AFC champion New England Patriots on Sunday night. They also haven’t been shy about expressing it, whether it was Antrel Rolle saying “we’re going to win this thing,” Chris Canty telling fans to prepare for a parade, or Jason Pierre-Paul insisting the Giants’ pass rush is already in Brady’s head.

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This could end up being a fatal mistake for the Giants.

Not only do they run the risk of coming into this game overconfident and then losing a ton of momentum when the game evens out and the reality of two very good football teams playing each-other sets in, but they also run the risk of giving Brady even more motivation than he already has.

This may be arguably the most focused and polished Brady we have seen since the last time his team was in the Super Bowl, but now there is much more than just a ring on the line for him.

He's got his legacy and possible all-time greatness at stake, the chance to redeem himself and his team from their last Super Bowl—which was a loss to the Giants remember—and now he has the chance to shut the Giants and their brash trash talk up.

A confident Brady is a scary one. An angry Brady is almost unbeatable.

The Giants may have sealed their fate before the game even started.

Super Bowl XLVI: Sun. Feb. 5th at 6:30 p.m. EST on NBC