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Manning Wins Super Bowl MVP With Another Comeback vs. Pats

INDIAN OLIS — Eli Man­ning is elite, for sure. A king of come­backs, too. And far, far more than Peyton’s lit­tle brother now.

Spot-on from begin­ning to end Sun­day night, Man­ning won his sec­ond NFL cham­pi­onship — and sec­ond Super Bowl MVP award — for lead­ing the New York Giants to a 21–17 vic­tory over the New Eng­land Patriots.

Man­ning went 30-for-40 pass­ing for 296 yards with one touch­down pass and zero inter­cep­tions. He opened the game by becom­ing the first quar­ter­back to com­plete his first nine attempts in a Super Bowl. He fin­ished his work by direct­ing the nine-play, 88-yard TD drive that put New York ahead with 57 sec­onds left.

It started on New York’s 12-yard line and ended with Ahmad Brad­shaw eas­ing into the end zone from 6 yards out. The Patri­ots decided not to con­test the run, try­ing to save some time on the clock for a final drive — an auda­cious and risky deci­sion by Patri­ots coach Bill Belichick. But New Eng­land couldn’t get the ball back in the end zone, with Tom Brady’s final pass falling just beyond the grasp of tight end Rob Gronkowski.

Man­ning also was the MVP of Super Bowl XLII, when his scor­ing pass to Plaxico Bur­ress in the final minute allowed New York to upset Brady and New Eng­land, ruin­ing the Patri­ots’ bid for a per­fect season.

Man­ning now is one of only five play­ers in NFL his­tory with mul­ti­ple Super Bowl MVP awards. He joined the guy he one-upped yet again in the big game, Brady, along with Terry Brad­shaw, Bart Starr and Joe Mon­tana (the only one with three). Man­ning did it in the House that Pey­ton Built, the sta­dium where his Big Bro — a four-time regular-season MVP but owner of only one Super Bowl title — plays for the Indi­anapo­lis Colts.

“It just feels good to win a Super Bowl. Doesn’t mat­ter where you are,” Man­ning said, clutch­ing the sil­ver Vince Lom­bardi Tro­phy. “It’s been a wild sea­son. We had a great, tough bunch of guys who never quit, and had faith in each other. I’m proud of these guys stick­ing together.”

Man­ning led six game-winning dri­ves to bring New York back from fourth-quarter deficits dur­ing the reg­u­lar sea­son. So it came as no sur­prise he was cool as could be Sun­day, when he was 10 of 14 for 118 yards.

The great­est come­back of all, though, prob­a­bly was the way Man­ning — with plenty of help, of course — steered the Giants back after they lost five of six games dur­ing one stretch to fall to 7–7. From there, they won their last two regular-season games against the Jets and Cow­boys to sneak into the play­offs as the NFC East cham­pi­ons, then con­tin­ued their surge with four post­sea­son wins in a row on the road.

“I’m proud of our guys. I’m proud of the team,” Man­ning said. “I’m proud of the way they fought back all year. We never got dis­cour­aged. We kept our faith all year.”

And Archie Man­ning got to be the proud papa again.

“I think it’s spe­cial because of the city here,” he said. “This city has meant a lot to our fam­ily for 14 years, and I’ve been here all week. The city did a great job, and this build­ing looked beautiful.

“Yes, it is special.”

Back in August, Man­ning was asked in an inter­view whether he con­sid­ered him­self an “elite” quar­ter­back like Brady. Man­ning said sim­ply that he belonged “in that class.” But it all became quite a big deal in New York — shock­ing, right? — and he was criticized.

Hard to imag­ine any­one argu­ing now.

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