Posted on Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 10:00:41 AM EST in NFL
More on: Giants, Super Bowl XLII, Eli Manning, David Tyree, video (all tags)

It's not a dream. The New York Giants are the winners of Super Bowl XLII! And so what if Plaxico Burress' prediction was a few points off!

About ¾ of the game can be thrown out of your mental memory bank in order to preserve room for all those memories of bikinis and coco butter from your last youthful spring break to Cozumel. But make sure you keep that fourth quarter inside the ol' noggin because that was something special. A Manning miracle, you might say. We've watched enough football over the years to know that games are never won or lost on a single play but, you might as well put a cape on David Tyree because he saved the day with this whacky snag.

Easily one of the most sensational plays in S.B. history; however, we're a little bitter towards Tyree because of his play. Primarily because it revived Mercury Morris and the rest of the population of Perfectville from potential obscurity. We weren't exactly looking forward to hearing about the Patriots "pursuit of perfection" for the remainder of our lives, but, damn, we're getting to the point of physical nausea after 36 years of Dolphins reunions/celebrations when the final unbeaten goes down.

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Posted on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 08:42:08 AM EST in NFL
More on: Giants, Patriots, Super Bowl XLII, tickets, money (all tags)

We know that the chance to see a perfect 19-0 season doesn't come around very often, but this is starting to get just a little out of hand. Don't you people have kids you want to send to college?

Asking prices for the Feb. 3 game range from $2,450 to $19,446 at StubHub, a unit of eBay Inc. and the biggest of the online resellers. Officials there say the average price so far is $4,300 for tickets that the National Football League originally priced at either $700 or $900.

"You gotta mortgage your home to get into the game," said Michael Hershfield, a former lawyer who recently started the ticketing Web site LiveStub.com. "There's this recipe that's been spiced up for a very exciting, very hot event. With all the changes in the industry, this combination has created this current wave of supply and demand."

RazorGator Chief Executive Jeff Lapin, who is predicting total sales will set a record, is amazed what buyers are willing to pay. Tickets on his Web site are listed between $2,700 and $7,200. "I'm telling my friends to buy now because it looks like it's going to be tight," he said.

StubHub figures show the march higher of scalped tickets in recent years. Tickets it handled for last year's game between the Bears and the Colts averaged $4,004. That was sharply higher than the Steelers-Seahawks in 2006 at $3,009, the Eagles-Patriots in 2005 at $2,659, the Patriots-Panthers in 2004 at $2,290, and the Raiders-Buccaneers in 2003 at $2,767.

Considering the University of Phoenix Stadium will seat around 75,000 on game day, we're talking about a whole lotta the greenbacks. Even with an expensive divorce settlement ahead, we know Shaq Daddy can foot the bill, but what about us regular Joe Six Packs? We're going to have to sell our organs to get through the gates? Aww, screw it; if we're dropping a load of cash, it's going to be at the Lingerie Bowl and it's going to be all in one dollar bills!

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[CBS2.com]: Super Bowl LXII Tix Fetch Record Prices

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