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01/16 (Giants, Wow) Quickie

Found January 16, 2012 on Dan Shanoff:
PLAYERS: Tom Brady,  Eli Manning,  Jim Harbaugh,  Matt Schaub
TEAMS: New England Patriots,  New York Giants,  San Francisco 49ers,  Houston Texans

Hey, don't miss Quickish's NFL stream this morning, with some smart takes on yesterday's games.The Packers were a great story this season -- a mini-dynasty (or standard version) in the making. The Giants waltzing into Lambeau and throttling them is an even better story, the kind of you-kind-of-hope-it-will-happen-but-don't-expect-it-to-happen result that makes sports fun. (As compared to, say, Tom Brady's evisceration of Tebow and the Broncos on Saturday night, which was -- lamentably -- entirely predictable and without much of any shade of doubt.)It instantly lines up right behind the Super Bowl win over the Pats as the greatest game of Eli Manning's career -- one in which he is settling nicely into just enough consistency and signature wins to wonder whether it's unreasonable to think both Mannings are future Hall of Famers.And it triggers a "hot hand" theory about these Giants that immediately gets the pundits talking about 2007 (but really -...
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