{"id":12686,"date":"2012-02-06T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T21:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12686"},"modified":"2012-02-06T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T21:46:43","slug":"giants-beat-patriots-21-17-to-win-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12686","title":{"rendered":"Giants Beat Patriots 21-17 To Win The Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; <strong>Eli Manning<\/strong> and the Giants scored a last-minute touchdown to beat the New England Patriots 21-17 Sunday night for New York&#8217;s fourth Super Bowl title.<\/p>\n<p>It was a rematch of the 2008 NFL championship, when <strong>Manning<\/strong> led New York past New England to ruin the Patriots&#8217; bid for a perfect season.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first Super Bowl with two starting quarterbacks who previously won the NFL championship game&#8217;s Most Valuable Player award &#8212; and they took turns being brilliant. <strong>Manning<\/strong> became the first quarterback to open a Super Bowl with nine consecutive completions. Later, New England&#8217;s <strong>Tom Brady<\/strong> put together a run of 16 completions in a row, breaking another Super Bowl mark.<\/p>\n<p>But in the end, it was <strong>Manning<\/strong> who directed the nine-play, 88-yard drive that put New York ahead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ahmad Bradshaw<\/strong> capped the winning drive with a 6-yard run up the middle. He wanted to stop at the 1-yard line but fell backward into the end zone.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a minute later it came down to one last play, when<strong> Brady&#8217;s<\/strong> long heave into the end zone fell incomplete among a maze of players.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ahmad Bradshaw #44 of the New York Giants celebrates his six-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter against the New England Patriots during Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium on February 5, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; Eli Manning and the Giants scored a last-minute touchdown to beat the New England Patriots 21-17 Sunday night for New York&#8217;s fourth Super Bowl title. It was a rematch of the 2008 NFL championship, when Manning led New York past New England to ruin the Patriots&#8217; bid for a perfect season. This was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}