Rosenthal: We used to expect Tom Brady to make all the decisive plays in the fourth quarter, but Sunday's Super Bowl showed that expectations have changed. Brady no longer always pulls it off. That time has passed. It’s Eli’s time now.
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PFT: Giants don't have many notable players among guys with expiring contracts, but New England does with guys like Welker, Anderson, Green-Ellis and Branch.
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Elite and Eli. One and the same. And now there are two Super Bowl championships and two MVPs to prove it. Eli Manning is the big man in the NFL after one-upping Tom Brady and leading the New York Giants to a 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Sunday's Super Bowl - in older brother Peyton's house, at that.
Rosenthal: We used to expect Tom Brady to make all the decisive plays in the fourth quarter, but Sunday's Super Bowl showed that expectations have changed. Brady no longer always pulls it off. That time has passed. It’s Eli’s time now.
If you needed any more evidence that “Eli” is the root word for “elite,” there was the juxtaposition of Manning and Manningham, which sounds like a cheesy law firm but is today, in fact, a football combination for the ages.
