Maureen McGovern sang that there's got to be a morning after. And so it was one morning after Super Bowl XLII that the NFL wrapped up its activities for its 2007 season today with its traditional 8:30 a.m. news conference featuring the commissioner, the game MVP and the winning coach.

I won't dwell on the Giants' 17-14 win over the Patriots much more, but two final points struck me about the las… More

NFL Films among many others painted this NFL championship game in similar stark colors. Today's game would result in either the perfect season or the perfect upset.

The perfect upset it is.

In what many will declare the greatest Super Bowl of all the XLII played, Eli Manning, Plaxico Burress and the New York Giants answered an 80-yard touchdown drive capped by Tom Brady's 6-yard TD pass to Randy… More

QB Eli Manning and the Giants took the opening kickoff and drove into the Super Bowl record book.

It's not a record that's easily found, but in holding onto the ball for the game's first 9:59, the Giants set the NFL mark for the longest drive by clock time in Super Bowl history. Manning helped set it by converting four third-down situations, three on completions.

The team they took the record f… More

Quarterbacks will always be in the Super spotlight, in the forefront for winning the Super Bowl MVP trophy. In that regard, New England's Tom Brady and New York's Eli Manning have been dissected every which way to Sunday this past week.

I'm not going to tell you anything you don't know, but I have some numbers that maybe you haven't seen that indicate the trends today's two field generals have be… More

Super Bowl XLII Media Day has come and gone, and as always it was a zoo. A pleasant zoo, with lots of late-night television shows represented and Mexican TV stunts involving puppets and women proposing marriage to almost every Giant and Patriot.

But if you listen to enough of the players and read between the lines, usually you can tease out a storyline about the mindsets of the teams as they head… More