Tom Brady: International Man of Awesome

This Sunday, from the coastal shores of Indianapolis, Indiana, the Super Bowl with the greatest amount of buildup since last years edition will take place. This game will provide Boston and New England sports fans with what we have sorely wanted for two weeks:

A chance for Tom Brady to make everyone shut their over-indulged, gaping wind holes.

I have had to listen to people like Mike Lupica provide what can be loosely described as "journalistic fellatio" on Eli Manning. Look, I get it. The Giants have been hot recently. They have turned a stellar 9-7 season in the increasily awful NFC East into a Super Bowl trip. Commendable on their part, I will give them that credit.

But here is where I have a bone to pick. The New England Patriots have spent the past two weeks hearing nothing but how awesome the Giants are. Frankly, the coverage in and of itself makes me want to vomit with the fire of a thousand suns, but I am glad that it went down this way and not the other way around. Dissing the Patriots and basically turning them into underdogs everywhere except the Vegas sportsbooks is akin to poking a murderous grizzly bear with a stick. Eventually, it will come back to bite you in the ass and most likely remove your head from the shoulders at some point.

Oh lord am I glad that it happened this way. While people like Aaron Ross, Justin Tuck, and Brandon Jacobs are galavanting about the media declaring themselves world football champions, Tom Brady is stewing in a darkened room somewhere in the Indianapolis city limits, picking apart Prince Amukamara's schoddy cornerbacking ability and finding holes in a Giants team that, although you wouldn't know it, lost SEVEN games along the way.

Now I know I will hear "Give it a rest, J-Lang. The Giants beat them in the regular season," or "This is basically the same team that lost the big one to the Giants in '07". Save your breath, you sanctimonious windbags. And whomever was the asshole who said "The Giants will beat the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI because they beat basically the same team in 2007" should have his media credentials revoked and swiftly removed from their job. How lazy do you have to be to make a prediction based on nothing? A trained Koala with basic means of research could've made a better prediction than that.

Back to Brady. I am glad to have him as the Patriots' quarterback, and not someone of lesser spine and cojones. Give me a man who's hungry to prove his detractors wrong. A man who constantly has had a chip on his shoulder. A man who is backed into a corner and has to fight his way out to save himself and his team. I will take that any day of the week and thrice on Sundays over Archie Manning's pampered third son.

Speaking of Eli Manning: how offended do you think Peyton was at the fact that someone questioned who is the best quarterback in the Manning family? Christ Eli strings together three good playoff games and you'd think he came from the seed of God himself. Has no one watched Peyton play football ever? As much as I am a huge Brady fan and don't like Peyton, I would pick him over Eli. Come on. Talking heads abound think this is an actual question.

Say what you want. But on Sunday when Tom Brady is guiding the Patriots staunch aerial attack through Hermie the Elf's Da Vinci Code defense like the great conqueror Alexander throughout Europe and Asia, don't say I didn't tell you so.

After Sunday, I am hoping that I will be able to listen to people like Mike Lupica try to spin their nonsensical verbiage at me about how Brady didn't win the game and that Eli lost it. Come find me. I'll greet you with a simple smile and handshake.

Patriots 30, Giants 17.

Go Pats.

J Lang