{"id":22164,"date":"2012-02-06T21:36:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T04:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=22164"},"modified":"2017-06-10T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T18:10:16","slug":"the-peterson-principle-2612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=22164","title":{"rendered":"The Peterson Principle 2\/6\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"

Tim Peterson<\/p><\/div>\n

Super Bowl XLVI<\/p>\n

The catch made by Mario Mannigham on the Giants game wining drive wasn\u2019t as good as David Tyree\u2019s four years ago. But it was a great play and a perfect throw by Eli Manning.<\/p>\n

No, Eli Manning hasn\u2019t vaulted ahead of brother Peyton now that he has won two Super Bowls to Peyton\u2019s one. Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl. Was he as good as Eli Manning? Or Peyton Manning? Is Eli better than Aaron Rodgers who has only won one? Sorry it just doesn\u2019t add up.<\/p>\n

If Wes Welker makes the catch for the Patriots in the fourth quarter all this Manning talk is a moot point. The Patriots win and Tom Brady has four under his belt.<\/p>\n

Brady\u2019s throw was slightly off line. But Welker, a solid NFL receiver, definitely should have made the play.<\/p>\n

Aaron Hernandez also had one right in his hands and dropped it on the Patriots\u2019 final possession. That one hurt too if you\u2019re a Patriot fan.<\/p>\n

Everybody ripped Madonna for her performance on the halftime show. I didn\u2019t think it was that bad. Maybe it\u2019s just that there have been so many bad halftime shows that this was one seemed good by comparison. I know I\u2019ve seen a lot worse.<\/p>\n

Ironically Tyree\u2019s brilliant catch in Super Bowl XLII was his last in an NFL game. He got hurt and never caught another.<\/p>\n

Rob Gronkowski\u2019s injury did prove to be a big factor in the game. He was held to just two receptions for 26 yards.<\/p>\n

Ahmad Bradshaw remembered at the last second that he was supposed to go down before crossing the goal line on the game winning touchdown. Chris Collinsworth called it a big mistake. But seriously how do you tell a guy that he screwed up by scoring a touchdown?<\/p>\n

Mannning\u2019s MVP performance wasn\u2019t off the charts but it was extremely efficient. He was 30 of 40 for 296 yards and one touchdown with no interceptions.<\/p>\n

Brady was nearly as good with 276 yards with one pick but he was noticeably missing a deep down the field threat. Deon Branch caught three balls for 45 yards and Chad Ochocinco, yeah he\u2019s still playing, had one catch for 21 yards.<\/p>\n

The running game was MIA for both teams. Neither team had a 100 yard rusher and the Pats had just 83 total yards for the game.<\/p>\n

Funny moment at the end of the game: Giant Coach Tom Coughlin hugging Flavor Flav.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think Coughlin even knew who he was.<\/p>\n

The Giants became the first seven loss team to win a Super Bowl and they also became the first team to win a Super Bowl in four different decades.<\/p>\n

The intentional grounding penalty on Brady on New England’s first play from scrimmage that gave the Giants a safety was a bad call. He was clearly throwing the ball to somebody down the middle of the field. It\u2019s not a call that should have been made there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Coughlin, 65, became the oldest coach to win a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t seem like it considering how successful they have been, but the Patriots haven\u2019t won a Super Bowl in seven years. And they\u2019ve lost three straight to the Giants.<\/p>\n

We did get to see the Salsa Dance once when Victor Cruz scored a touchdown. He danced almost as well as Madonna.<\/p>\n

Mannigham was great but Hakeem Nicks (10 catches, 109 yards) was better.<\/p>\n

An odd way to get to 21 for the Giants \u2013 a safety, two field goals, two touchdowns, an extra point and a missed two point conversion.<\/p>\n

When was the last time you saw\u00a0two penalites, one for\u00a0each team, for too many men on the field in the same game?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for the commercials? I saw one Doritos commercial about a dog that was decent but other than that I don\u2019t know. We were watching it on DVR and the Super Bowl host fast forwarded through all of them\u2026cool with me.<\/p>\n

Tim can be reached at tim@midvalleysports.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super Bowl XLVI The catch made by Mario Mannigham on the Giants game wining drive wasn\u2019t as good as David Tyree\u2019s four years ago. But it was a great play and a perfect throw by Eli Manning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12817],"tags":[6813,4485,6816,6289,6577,6811,6817,4488,6819,6814,6810,1991,6815,6821,6797,4250,6818,4309,6820,6812],"class_list":["post-22164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fanview","category-petersonprince","tag-aaron-hernandez","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-ahmad-bradshaw","tag-chad-ochocinco","tag-chris-collinsworth","tag-david-tyree","tag-deon-branch","tag-eli-manning","tag-flavor-flav","tag-madonna","tag-mario-mannigham","tag-peyton-manning","tag-rob-gronkowski","tag-salsa-dance","tag-super-bowl-xlvi","tag-tom-brady","tag-tom-coughlin","tag-trent-dilfer","tag-victor-cruz","tag-wes-welker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59511,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22164\/revisions\/59511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}