There is a lot of symmetry to this super bowl run. The Giants started the 2007 season in historic fashion, giving up 80 points in back to back losses to the Cowboys and Packers. Then, in total contrast to that horrendous start, they ended their regular season by playing their best game of the year in a game that had to shock the Patriots and established the Giants as a legitimate threat to end the Patriot's quest for perfection.
As it turned out, those first two losses were against the eventual #1 and #2 NFC seeds by season end. As they entered the post-season, the Giants had to face - and erase - the demons of those first two games. Against all odds (and all "experts") the Giants went on to make TO cry in Dallas and then traveled to the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field and made believers out of the Packers.
Now, with the type of symmetry that creates history, the Giants' last game of their regular season takes on much greater meaning. New England cannot be happy about this turn of events. The sense of destiny that pervades the Giants' improbable run to the Super Bowl is palpable. This Giants team and their historic march makes them a very dangerous team that NE would be wise to take very seriously.
Oh, and one last note. Before the season started I fantasized about how sweet the payback would be for the Giants to go on a historic Super Bowl run while Tiki Barber sat and watched. Sweet destiny.
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