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| Browns' Anderson replaces Brady for Pro Bowl |
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02/04/2008 |
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| Berea, OH (Best E Casino) - Cleveland Browns quarterback Derek Anderson was rewarded with his first Pro Bowl selection Monday, taking the place of AFC starter Tom Brady. Brady won't play in Honolulu on Sunday after his New England Patriots lost in the Super Bowl. Anderson was the first alternate and will become the first Browns quarterback in the Pro Bowl since Bernie Kosar in 1988. In 15 starts this season, Anderson threw for 3,787 yards with 29 touchdowns -- one shy of Brian Sipe's club record set in 1980. Tigh |
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| Thrilling Giants-Patriots game makes Super Bowl the second most-watched TV show ever |
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02/04/2008 |
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NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Giants' thrilling win over the New England Patriots was the most-watched Super Bowl ever, with 97.5 million viewers, Nielsen Media Research said Monday. The game eclipsed the previous Super Bowl record of 94.08 million, set when Dallas defeated Pittsburgh in 1996. Only one other show in American broadcast history was watched by more people, the ``M-A-S-H'' finale in 1983, which drew 106 million viewers. Sunday's game had almost all the ingredients Fox could have hoped for: a tigh |
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| Very preliminary findings indicate Super Bowl viewership may be headed toward a record |
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02/04/2008 |
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NEW YORK (AP) - Very preliminary findings from 49 of the nation's biggest markets showed that ratings for the New York Giants' thrilling Super Bowl win over the New England Patriots were up 9 percent over last year's big game, according to Nielsen Media Research on Monday. Experts say those numbers indicate the game has a strong shot at being the most-watched Super Bowl of all time, and the second most-watched broadcast ever. The game had a 43.3 rating and 63 share, Nielsen said. That's up from the 42.7 rati |
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| Super Bowl Play-by-Play |
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02/04/2008 |
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -Play-by-play of the 2008 Super Bowl between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots:FIRST QUARTER New York won coin toss elected to receive. NE30 S.Gostkowski kicks 72 yards from NE 30 to NYG -2. D.Hixon to NYG 23 for 25 yards (P.Woods, E.Alexander). 1-10 NYG23 (14:55) B.Jacobs left tackle to NYG 26 for 3 yards (A.Thomas). 2-7 NYG26 (14:14) B.Jacobs up the middle to NYG 28 for 2 yards (V.Wilfork, T.Warren). 3-5 NYG28 (13:32) (Shotgun) E.Manning pass short middle to P.Burr |
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| Perfection plucked for Pats |
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02/04/2008 |
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| Glendale, AZ (Best E Casino) - This is the scenario no one envisioned - let alone talked about - as the New England Patriots put together the first undefeated regular season since 1972, rattling off 18 straight wins on their way to what looked like a cinch: a fourth Super Bowl title in seven years. The hype surrounding New England's pursuit of perfection centered on whether the Patriots measured up with those '72 Dolphins the equally renowned San Francisco 49ers teams of the 1980s, or the Dallas Cowboys of the mi |
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| Strahan: We shocked the world |
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02/04/2008 |
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| ment, but the 15-year veteran was sure glad he returned for another shot at a Super Bowl ring. "We shocked the world - hell in a lot of ways we shocked ourselves," Strahan said after Sunday's 17-14 victory for the Giants over the previously unbeaten New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. "No one expected us to win." Going into the season, the 36-year-old Strahan was choosing whether to call it quits, but the league's single-season sacks record-holder decided it was best to come back; and on Sunday his veteran lea |
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| Patriots' offensive line fails Brady in Super Bowl |
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02/04/2008 |
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -The New England Patriots' big, brawny and bearded guys were just plain bad. The AFC champions' heralded offensive line allowed a season-high five sacks to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl on Sunday, failing to give Tom Brady the type of tight protection they had guarded him with all season. ``It's one of those things where they have a great front seven,'' center Dan Koppen said. ``They have tremendous players up there and they just outplayed us.'' Their inability to protect Brady |
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| Kinder, gentler and now a champion - Coughlin makes his mark |
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02/03/2008 |
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| g up the Super Bowl trophy. So long portrayed as an unkind, unbending caricature of himself, Coughlin got recognized as something different Sunday - a champion after leading his New York Giants to a stunning 17-14 upset of the no-longer-undefeated New England Patriots. ``Other than family,'' he said, ``the greatest feeling in the world is when, all of the sudden, you realize you're a world champion.'' His wife, Judy, was standing outside the locker room shedding tears of joy. ``Unbelievable,'' said the wife w |
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| Giants defense spurs Super Bowl upset with 5 sacks of Patriots Brady |
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02/03/2008 |
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -Plaxico Burress miscalculated. Tom Brady and the New England Patriots couldn't get 17 points against the New York Giants defense. Michael Strahan, Justin Tuck and Osi Umenyiora hounded and hit Brady from start to finish, limiting the NFL's all-time best offense to just two touchdowns in a stunning 17-14 victory that will go down as one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history. The 14 points were a season low for a team that was looking for a place in history. Now it has one. `` |
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| Preventing perfection: Giants stun Pats in Super Bowl XLII |
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02/03/2008 |
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| e, AZ (Best E Casino) - Eli Manning's 13-yard touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress with 35 seconds left in the fourth quarter boosted the New York Giants to one of the greatest upsets in Super Bowl history, a 17-14 victory over the previously unbeaten New England Patriots. New York (14-6) came into Super Bowl XLII as 12-point underdogs, but still managed to win the title for the first time since the 1990 season, all while preventing perfection by the Patriots (18-1). New England's loss means the 1972 Miami Dolphins r |
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