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Oh man, this could get ugly. I don't know how you can call the Giants the worst Superbowl champs ever, You say they just got hot at the right time? Well that's what football is all about. It doesn't matter if you never lose previously in the year. If you don't play your best when it counts, you aren't the best team. That's what I love about the NFL. Anybody can beat anybody, and nothing is a given.

Football is about more than regular season stats, Bucmaster. You're gonna really need to bring it to win this.

Strong arguments on both sides...could be a good one.

The Giants are the defending champs and that is good for them and they earned their ring BUT that season is over. Let's look back to the last team to take 3 straight road games and then win the Super Bowl....

The 2005 Steelers, guess who watched the playoffs from their couches the next season....

What you did last year don't mean SHlT....

Harris, who would you say was the worst Super Bowl champion?

^ With all due respect nickb, the Steelers are still the only team in NFL history to have played in a season after winning all 3 games on the road to win a Super Bowl, so I wouldn't judge the Giants upcoming season because of that

First - The Patriots played the Giants in Giant Stadium (regular season)

Second - Both teams were on "the Road" for the SuperBowl (no credit there)

Third - The Giants didn't (as you stated) take down Brady. If I remember right Brady had a high ankle sprain, not an excuse, just a fact. If Brady was 100% healthy no way Giants win.

Fourth - Giants win on a "lucky" catch!!!!!!!!!!

I will however give them repsect, but not MORE than they already have.

Will wait for second arguments.

I don't believe they are the worst SB Champion ever.
They however were very inconsistent.

The Ravens might be the "worst" ever, because of that offense they had in 2000. The defense however is maybe the greatest of all time.

Tampa might be too

Crap, Buc's in a TD w/ a disgruntled Giants fan......can u say, "cage match"? lol

Bucmaster...I'm sorry man...but the first argument really wasnt making much sense. Its not that I'm a Giants fan. You were just going in so many directions there.

I'm not a blind homer, but I do happen to think the Giants should get more respect. Alot of people like to bring up 'luck'...which bothers me alot. Luck would entail every team in their way losing a major player or their plane crashing so they had to forfeit. Thats freak of nature type stuff.

Did they get hot at the right time? Yes. But lets cool it on the other rhetoric.

"Second - Both teams were on "the Road" for the SuperBowl (no credit there) "
if i remember, there were many more people rooting for the Pats

Harris, who would you say was the worst Super Bowl champion?
nickb23 | 07/20/08, 02:26 PM

Truthfully, I don't know. I'm having a hard time thinking of any team to win the Superbowl that you could call the worst. But I think when you look at a Giants team that beat an 18-0 team that everybody was calling one of the greatest teams ever assembled, I don't see how you can say they're the worse.

I'm not saying the Giants are the best team ever, or that they'll repeat next year. All I'm saying is they played their BEST when it mattered, and that's what football is all about.

I think that the '02 Pats were probably the worst team talent-wise to ever win a SB. Not that they were a bad team (obviously) but they were mediocre during the regular season and needed a LOT of help to get through the playoffs.

^ With all due respect nickb, the Steelers are still the only team in NFL history to have played in a season after winning all 3 games on the road to win a Super Bowl, so I wouldn't judge the Giants upcoming season because of that
NYGiantsSBXLIICHAMPS | 07/20/08, 02:35 PM

It is the prescedent that was set. The Giants barely squezzed into the playoffs and while they may have caught lightning in a bottle at the right time, NO ONE is guaranteed a playoff spot and respect is of NO importance when it comes right down to it. They still have to play the games and hope that regular season Eli doesn't show back up.

I think that the '02 Pats were probably the worst team talent-wise to ever win a SB. Not that they were a bad team (obviously) but they were mediocre during the regular season and needed a LOT of help to get through the playoffs.
cowace2 | 07/20/08, 03:08 PM
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http://www.fannation.com/throwdowns/show/183343

I have TD'ed this with the PIMP and it was a close call.

...or maybe the '69 Jets. Tough to compare the two though.

Why are you so upset ?
And I'd rather be the WORST SB champ than the best NON-Champ anyday of the week

I don't like the Giants- but you have to give them credit for beating all the teams in their way
- they are the champs until next Feb....

I say the 69' Jets were the worst super bowl champs

"Second - Both teams were on "the Road" for the SuperBowl (no credit there) "
if i remember, there were many more people rooting for the Pats
Terpsfan is Maxwell Smart | 07/20/08, 02:41 PM
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Doesn't mean they were the home team........on the road is on the road.
I still don't think the Giants are being disrepected.

"Fourth - Giants win on a "lucky" catch!!!!!!!!!!"

You said this ONE HOUR AGO, sounds very disrespectful to me

i vpte right! you can say what you want but the bottom line is this team, won three games on the road, and beat one of the most talented teams ever, in the superbowl. The giants also had a week secondary and still managed to accomplish what they did. (spagnola baby- thats eagles right there!) They derserve more respect then i see them getting. I alot of people can say it was luck, it was this, it was that, but the bottom line is they won, and the road they took to do it was only accomplished by one other team!