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Super Bowl Rematch A Fitting Farewell To Season

By DERON SNYDER

The buildup to Super Bowl XLVI — like every Super Bowl in the modern era — has been excruciating, a two-week lead-in that feels twice as long before the NFL season finale. Was it really just a couple of Sundays ago when we came oh-so-close to Baltimore and San Francisco meeting in this game?

If the Ravens’ Lee Evans didn’t drop that pass in the end zone and the 49ers’ Kyle Williams didn’t botch those two punt returns, we might not have this exquisite matchup between old-school coaches and elite quarterbacks. We might be stuck with the Harbaughs in headsets and their suspect signal-callers.

Of course, we would’ve made do with that matchup or any other pairing. That’s the beauty of the Super Bowl. Whether it’s GiantsPatriots, Ravens-49ers or even an uninspiring Buccaneers-Jaguars, it gets the same treatment. And we lap it up, planning and preparing our Sunday itineraries and counting the days.

But if we could choose the teams for SB46 (fans of Baltimore and San Francisco notwithstanding), this is just about perfect. Tom “Captain America” Brady and the New England Patriots, a team folks love to hate, in a rematch against Eli “The Other” Manning and the New York Giants, from the city folks love to hate.

The teams respect one another, but they don’t like one another. Brady and coach Bill Belichick would be 4-0 in Super Bowls if not for the Giants. Manning and coach Tom Coughlin will be 2-0 if they can repeat their performance from four years ago. The legacies of Brady and Belichick are entrenched, regardless of Sunday’s outcome. Manning and Coughlin are on the brink of joining the upper echelon with a win.

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