NFL Game of the Week: Giants 23, Packers 20 (OT)
Being your own Manning
By Steve Sabol
NFL Films
Expectations can make things hard. And if your name is Manning and you play quarterback in the NFL, there are a lot of expectations. Eli Manning knows it. But he knows something else. Something more important. And in the last couple of weeks he's reminded me of it: To succeed you have to be your own man.That's not easy for anyone, least of all a guy such as Manning. Truth is we like our quarterbacks big. Weather it's the big arm of, say, John Elway, or the outsize personality of Brett Favre, the NFL doesn't celebrate subtle. Swagger gets more play than sincerity.
Eli Manning
40 Att | 21 Comp | 251 Yds | 0/0 TD/INT
Reaches Super Bowl one year after brother Peyton won one for the Colts.
He could go all the way Packers wide receiver Donald Driver gets behind the Giants defense and goes 90 yards for the early touchdown.
If at first you don't succeed ... Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes misses an opportunity to put New York into the Super Bowl during regulation.
... try it again Tynes gets it right on his third try and nails a 47-yard field goal to lift New York into the Super Bowl.
