Giants, Patriots progress to Super Bowl

The  New England Patriots  and  New York Giants  reserved a rematch of their extraordinary 2008 Extremely Serving series with anxious playoff triumphs on Sunday to arrive at next month's NFL championship spectacle.

Lawrence Tynes quit a 31-yard area objective after 7:54 of over-time to provide the Giants a 20-17 succeed over the San Francisco 49ers in the Nationwide Meeting ultimate and a cabin in Extremely Serving 46 February 5 at Indianapolis.


"It's awesome," Tynes said. "I had goals about this yesterday. I was so stressed before farmville. I realized I was going to have to create a big conquer."


At New England, the Patriots overrode three turnovers and a sub-par efficiency from qb Tom Brady to side the Baltimore Birds 23-20 in the National Meeting ultimate and progress to their 7th Extremely Serving.
"We're going to try to go out and conquer some buttocks in a couple several weeks," said Brady.


Brady obtained the successful details on a 1-yard run with 11:29 staying but the result was not completed until Baltimore kicker Billy Cundiff skipped large eventually left on a 32-yard area objective attempt with 11 mere a few moments staying.


"In the NFL, you have to create big performs in demand circumstances and he skipped," Patriots instructor Expenses Belichick said.


Super Bowl 46 will be a rematch of the 2008 headline activity, in which the Leaders surrounded the Patriots 17-14 to reject New Britain an unbeaten run to the headline, and a regular-season activity last Nov that was won by the Leaders 24-20.


"They are an excellent group," Leaders qb Eli Manning said. "We just have to go to In and perform our best baseball."

The Leaders are 3-1 all-time in Extremely Containers, having won later and 1991 as well as 2008 while dropping to Baltimore in 2001.

New England has won the Extremely Serving three periods, all under Brady's route, in 2002, 2004 and 2005. The Patriots missing the headline vision in 1986 and 1997 as well as to the Leaders four decades ago.
The Giants, who missing 27-20 to the 49ers in a regular-season activity last Nov, had the advantage of two horrible punt dividends by San Francisco's Kyle Williams in getting the succeed.


New York's Jacquian Williams broken reduce a fumble from the 49ers' Williams and the Giants' Devin Johnson retrieved at the 49ers' 24-yard range, establishing the level for Tynes' successful conquer.
"Just an excellent perform at the end of the experience to provide us a opportunity to win," said Leaders instructor Tom Coughlin.


Another level came when New You are able to punted but obtained ownership of the soccer tennis ball after it moved off the eventually left joint of San Francisco's Williams and was retrieved by the Leaders at the 49ers' 29-yard range with 11:06 to perform.


That set the level for a Manning 17-yard landing touchdown complete to Mario Manningham, placing the Leaders again on top at 17-14 with 8:34 to perform.

"Just an excellent attempt," Manning said. "We realized we had to get after them. We hit a number of big performs and that was the experience."

The 49ers resolved by walking to the Giants' 7-yard range but had to negotiate for a 25-yard area objective by Mark Akers to equalize with 5:39 to perform, establishing the level for over-time.
Alex Jackson cast his second landing complete to Vernon Davis, a 28-yarder, with 5:18 to perform in the third 1 / 4 to provide the 49ers a 14-10 cause.

Tynes quit a 31-yard area objective with two mere a few moments staying in the second 1 / 4 to provide the Leaders a 10-7 half-time cause.

Smith attached with Davis on a 73-yard landing complete 7:49 into the experience to provide San Francisco a 7-0 cause but the Leaders drawn even on Manning's 6-yard landing throw to Endure Pascoe with 11:15 to perform in the second 1 / 4.


At New Britain, Brady, who will go with Bob Elway with a history five profession Extremely Serving begins, enhanced to 10-2 in house playoff video games and 5-1 in convention finals over his 11 conditions.
But he was only 22-of-36 for 239 gardens two inteceptions on Sunday.


"I drawn very bad these days but our protection stored us," Brady said.
Brady jumped over his blockers on a fourth-down perform in. from the objective range for a landing that offered the Patriots a 23-20 cause with 11:29 staying, capping an 11-play, 63-yard generate.


Baltimore instructor Bob Harbaugh decided not to have Cundiff attempt a 51-yard area objective, having seen him create only 1-of-6 from beyond 50 gardens all period, but a fourth-down complete dropped imperfect, gving New Britain the soccer tennis ball.


"It was a big evening for us," said Vince Wilfork, who created six tackle. "We realized we had to come out and perform some excellent baseball."


The Patriots took over with 2:45 staying but could not run out time, establishing the level for Baltimore's ultimate generate, which led to heartbreak after an end-zone complete decrease by Lee Evans and Cundiff's ultimate pass up.


"The most frustrating aspect of all this is that I experience individually that I let everybody down," Evans said. "It's on my shoulders.


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