Greg Hanlon: The 2007 Super Bowl Champion Giants: What Could Be More Perfect?

The world has been shocked, the dragon has been slain, the mighty 18-0 Patriots have fallen. To be a fan of a Super Bowl champion is to never tire of the campy platitudes. Each one brings home the new reality, which, for the forseeable future, can be classified as "too good to be true." Never is such a reminder more appropriate -- Yo, we just won the @$#%ing Super Bowl!!! -- than this year for us Giants fans. The most die-hard among us always believed it could happen, but now that it has happened, we can't believe it. To rehash what everybody knows, the Giants just beat the 18-0 Patriots, who came into the game with the best single-season record in league history, having surpassed the 17-0 record of the 1972 Dolphins (who accumulated the record when the NFL season was 14 games, not the 16 it is today). But the Giants radically realigned history last night: Their victory dropped the Pats down more than a few notches, below the 17-0 1972 Dolphins, below the 18-1 1985 Bears, and, ... (link)