The Giants are in the Super Bowl?!!!!

Yesterday, as we (hopefully) all know, the Giants played the 49ers in the NFC Championship game. The last time these two teams faced off in the playoffs was coincidentally the game that propelled me into liking football and solidified my family responsibility of being a Big Blue fan. It was the 2003 wild card round, and the Giants blew a huge lead and botched a field-goal attempt in the final seconds to lose. But I was hooked. Flash forward nine years now: Giants-49ers, for the chance to go to the Super Bowl. Here I am, in London, watching the game online and finding out about the G-Men’s amazing win the next morning. This is a completely different team than that ’02-’03 team. And while we’re at it, this team isn’t the special 2007 team either. But this year’s group is special in its own right. The Giants face a tough task against the Patriots in the SB. It doesn’t matter that they beat them this season or during the ’08 Super Bowl. What matters is that the G-Men are ready for the Pats in two weeks. This is it. I’m hooked.