Super Bowl 46 Prediction, It's a Lock!

Newk’s Bender on the Game

Throwing you a bender because I just thought you should know…

There are many ways to pick a Super Bowl winner. As the game is now set, the next weeks will bring a multitude of reasons and analysis on who will win and why. Everyone from experts to clueless folks who have never watched a football game will weigh in with their opinions and bets. They will use actual football analysis, current hot streaks, nicest uniforms, favorite colors, geographical affiliations and a host of other nonsense to determine the winner and place their bets accordingly.

One way to look at the upcoming match up on February 5 might be to look back to 2007. That season brought us a memorable Super Bowl and exciting upset as the New York Giants beat the undefeated New England Patriots. As this championship game brings us a repeat of Super Bowl 42, maybe we should analyze 2007 a little more. 

 

In 2007, as the regular season wound to a close, the Giants lost 22-10 to Washington in Week 15. 

However, they did make the playoffs and defeated an NFC South division team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Wild Card round.

They continued on and beat the #1 seed, Dallas Cowboys, on the road, 21-17.

This propelled them to the NFC Championship game against the #2 seed, the Green Bay Packers. On a frigid day in Wisconsin, the Giants used an OT turnover, the Brett Favre interception, to position their kicker Lawrence Tynes for the game winning field goal. 

This also happened to be 17 years to the day after Matt Bahr kicked a game winning field goal over the 49ers to take the Giants to Super Bowl 25.

Now we might fast forward to the 2011 season to complete the thoughts behind placing our minuscule wager on the Giants for Super Bowl 46.

In week 15 this past season, the Giants lost to Washington 23-10.

Again, they qualified for the playoffs and faced an NFC South division team, the Atlanta Falcons, which they defeated to advance.

They traveled to Green Bay to face the #1 seed in the Divisional round. Again, they won this game against the top seeded, favored Packers while playing on the road.

Now the Giants were set to face the #2 seed again, the San Francisco 49ers, in the NFC Championship. Once the game was forced to overtime, we all knew exactly what was going to happen, right? Of course! There was a turnover, the 49ers Williams fumbling the punt, which led directly to Lawrence Tynes kicking the game winning field goal. 

So despite the fact that I am not from New York and I feel Tom Brady is an elite quarterback, along with both teams colors being basically the same, and with my analysis and nonsense all lined up to go with the Patriots, I can only assume Eli Manning will make some incredible throws and pull this game right out from under Belichick and the Patriots again.

Then in 2015…..

All this because I know more about nothing…