This game marked -The last game for Brett Favre with the Green Bay Packers -The third home playoff loss for the Packers in the 21st century -The first conference championship victory for Tom Coughlin as head coach -The third time a team made the Super Bowl after winning three road playoff games -The first time a NFC team made the Super Bowl after winning three straight road playoff games
I remember this day very much. I was an eight year old die hard Packers fan and when Tynes hit that Field Goal, I ran to my bedroom and cried my little eyes out for Thirty Minutes straight. Since I knew this highlight was coming, I went back and rewatched the game for the first time since that cold January night in 2008. The Giants deserved the win. They were the better team. Eli played outstanding, throwing dimes all night and Plaxico Burress absolutely torched Al Harris, similar to how Randy Moss torched him in the 2004 Wild Card game. I would say this was the best game of Burress' career. I was rooting for them to beat New England in the Super Bowl, something I don't usually do for a team that knocks us out. Now to the Packers. So many missed opportunities and mistakes. Obviously Brett Favre's Overtime Interception to Corey Webster stands out. He made two mistakes on that play. One, he threw the ball inside instead of outside. Donald Driver never had a chance. The second and you have to look hard, just as he was throwing the ball, Ryan Grant was wide open literally right in front of him with so much green grass ahead. All that was needed was a little touch pass and it's and easy 1st Down. Then we have the R.W. McQuarters muffed punt. We had two great attempts to get the ball and we couldn't get either one. Who knows? We drive down the field and a rookie Mason Crosby, who was kicking good that night, hits one to send us to the Super Bowl. But the drive that got me frustrated the most was the Giants Opening Drive of the 2nd Half. They had a 3rd and long at around midfield and Nick Collins gets called for a roughing the passer on after an incomplete pass. Then they get to the goaline and Brandon Jacobs fumbles it and we fail to pick it up. They punch it in to go up 3. If the Packers get that stop, it's probably Favre vs. Brady for the Lombardi, but then again who knows as the Giants also gave the Packers some gifts that produced 10 points in the 2nd Half. This was a game that is right up there with Seattle in 2014 for us Packers fans. That game for me was more heartbreaking because we had it won and choked it away in epic fashion. This day marked the end of an era. Just over a month after this, Brett Favre announced his Retirement. I remember coming home from school again crying my eyes out. Brett Favre was my favorite player growing up and the first Packers jersey I ever wore. I lived and died with him and I was devastated he wouldn't be our Quarterback anymore. It is now going to be a kid from Chico, California. He has proved on National Television that he is ready to take the reigns and become the present and no longer the future in Green Bay. It will take a bit to win over the Favre Forever backers. It will be a smooth transition of power. What could possibly go wrong?.....
The same Eli who threw for 59 yards against the league worst Dolphins and had 30 incompletions in a home game vs Washington, outdueled Brett Favre at Lambeau to make the Super Bowl I will never understand why 07 Eli basically only gave a damn in road games
I’m not going to lie, I cried real tears when the Packers lost this game. This was the second most devastating playoff loss outside of Seattle in 2014.
To me it was 4th and 26th. We gave that game up by not running on 4th and 1 when Green, Henderson and Davenport had over 200 rushing yards combined. Then don't stop them on 4th and 26 🤦♂️🤬🤬
The team that couldn't beat anyone with a pulse for 3 months, who at one point went 13 games without beating a team above .500, just won back to back playoff road games vs. 13 win squads
A few hours before this one, the Patriots stumbled their way to the Super Bowl with a 21-12 victory over the hobbled Chargers. In that one, Brady threw 3 picks, and despite playing on one structurally sound knee, Phillip Rivers effectively moved the ball between the 20s for the first 3 quarters. However, in the red zone San Diego consistently stalled, and the Patriots offense held the Chargers to just 3 field goals on 4 red zone trips. It obviously didn’t help LT only lasted three minutes of that one before leaving the game with his knee injury, but still, I guess you have to give the Pats defense credit for holding their own. On offense, it was New England’s backfield that won them the game, as Lawrence Maroney continued his strong closing stretch and ran for 122 yards and a TD. Along with Maroney, now 31 year old Kevin Faulk once again reared his head in the playoffs, catching 8 passes for 82 yards and adding 1 rush for 8 yards. While it’s impossible to really say whether or not the Chargers could have beaten the Patriots if they were healthy, they would have had a good shot, especially considering how even that game was through 3 quarters (the Patriots did dominate the 4th quarter, possessing the ball for over 12 minutes of the quarter while scoring the TD that put them up 21-12 in the process). The fact the Patriots regressed as hard as they did after what was a good performance against Jacksonville doesn’t bode well going into the Super Bowl, and that’s especially true if they don’t figure out how to get Randy Moss involved in their offense, as he was held to 1 catch and 14 yards for the second straight week (weird stat alert). Speaking of weird stats, the 2007 New York Giants, who have a middle of the pack offense and a middle of the pack defense, a +22 point differential, and an expected record of 8.6-7.4, win their 10th straight road game and will represent the NFC in the Super Bowl against the aforementioned Patriots. While they caught their fair share of breaks in this one, they out-stated Green Bay in every category and were clearly the better team on this night. In fact, they arguably played their best game of the season here, with Plaxico Burress leading the way with a career-defining 11-151-0 performance. If their next matchup with the Pats is anything like the first one, they’ll need Eli and Plaxico to show out like they did here if they want to shock the world. For Green Bay, a magical season ends in heartbreak, and they’ll spend all offseason lamenting a few pivotal bounces of the ball on the frozen tundra. That said, their utter inability to run the ball (14 attempts, 28 yards) on a night where passing the ball was suboptimal certainly didn’t help their cause. The main question this offseason of whether that Dallas performance by Aaron Rodgers on Thursday Night Football in week 13 was enough for Green Bay to move on from Brett Favre was answered a month after this loss. Favre announced his “retirement,” and Rodgers was given the reigns to the franchise. After the success the Packers had in 2007, Rodgers will be under a ton of pressure to play well and win immediately in 2008.
Lawrence Tynes was bringing back the ghost of former team’s past, Lin Elliot, with some of those kicks during regulation. He resurrected himself in overtime.
Ironically the last Wild Card team to reach the Super Bowl (2005 Steelers), Tynes indirectly started that run 2 years ago with the aforementioned Chiefs, he missed a late kick at Dallas that ended up being the first spark that lit Pittsburgh’s fuse
The last time New York made a Super Bowl, they faced an AFC team that was historically great on one side of the ball It didn’t go well against the 2000 Ravens defense, things won’t change against the 2007 Patriots offense
There's one thing in the Giants' favor, Brady won the passing yard title and that have been cursed since 1959. Lets hope it works its magic to allow Strahan get that hardware.
I said that Jared Lorenzen could have won those Tampa and Dallas games. Well, I have to give the devil his due- Eli did not play on this night like a guy whose gameplan could have been duplicated by another.
Recent Super Bowls: The Gruden Bowl (OAK vs TB), The Close Call Bowl (NE vs CAR), The Last Two Unbeatens Bowl (IND vs CHI), and now the Rematch Bowl (NE vs NYG)
Role playing aside, I was kind of surprised that Tynes nailed the toughest field goal after botching the two easier ones (though the latter was due to botched hold).
Ironically the last Wild Card team to reach the Super Bowl (2005 Steelers), Tynes indirectly started that run 2 years ago with the Chiefs, he missed a late kick at Dallas that ended up being the first spark that lit Pittsburgh’s fuse
@@chrisuncleahmad Game by game, Tynes was the kind of kicker you'll never know what you're gonna get. Even in 2011 there was a stretch where the guy couldn't go a single game without missing a field goal.
Now where was I? Oh yeah! Damn the Giants actually did it and Strahan may actually have a shot for a ring. Our best shot is the passing yards title curse that have been ongoing since 1959, can the Giants exploit this on the Patriots? I better not get my hopes up and jinx it. C'mon Eli, just one more game! Get Strahan that ring and make Tiki die in the inside.
Ever since that Dallas game, with how good Rodgers looked, the Packers franchise already made their mind that if Favre doesnt win the Super Bowl, that Rodgers was gonna be their starting QB in 2008, and that the Favre era in GB would be over Its a damn shame that Favre wont have a chance to take down the perfect and hated Patriots. Imagine what that victory would have done to Favres career. Maybe the greatest QB of all time at the moment if that had happened.
Lawrence Tynes kicks the Giants to the Super Bowl. Ironically the last Wild Card team to reach the Super Bowl (2005 Steelers), Tynes indirectly started that run 2 years ago with the Chiefs, he missed a late kick at Dallas that ended up being the first spark that lit Pittsburgh’s fuse
What is the reason the Marlins were easy to root against? I’d think a majority of people would have rooted for them since they were playing the Yankees. Only reason I can think of is the series against the Cubs.
Eli, the same guy who threw for 59 yards against the league worst Dolphins and had 30 incompletions in a home game, outdueled Brett Favre at Lambeau to make the Super Bowl The mind boggles
As a Giants fan this is just so beautiful. Two historic franchises at Lambeau Field in brutal cold weather to go to the Super Bowl. What a classic game. Will never forget it.
What a run the Giants had... Beat Dallas at home in a back and forward battle that went down to the final seconds, took gb and favres last stand in lambeau that goes back and forward with so many close turnover moments and it goes into ot... Then beating the undefeated patriots in another classic that went down to the final seconds... It was a movie script
Giants and Patriots who you got? I believe Eli will turn the ball over a lot, NYG’s defense is good but NE will shred em, looking like a coronation in 2 weeks in Glendale.
Most of this game was the Giants flirting with disaster. Shades of the 02 Wild Card Game with failure to execute on late field goal snaps, recovering fumbles, dropped or flagged Eli interceptions. But Burress, Pierce, Boss, Hixon, Webster and Tynes all made huge plays. Improbable Super Bowl coming!
The alertness of Boss on recovering that goal line fumble that led to a TD run the next play gotta be one of the most underrated critical moments for the Giants that postseason
Plaxico Burress dominated Al Harris, I always thought Harris was overated he got beat out of coverage most of the time especially in this game only game he did something was that infamous Matt Hasslebeck "we want the ball and we are going to score" other than that Harris was Overated
This game marked
-The last game for Brett Favre with the Green Bay Packers
-The third home playoff loss for the Packers in the 21st century
-The first conference championship victory for Tom Coughlin as head coach
-The third time a team made the Super Bowl after winning three road playoff games
-The first time a NFC team made the Super Bowl after winning three straight road playoff games
The first NFC Championship appearance for Eli
Two most memorable things from this game:
1. Favre's pick
2. Coughlin's red face
Also the two most memorable parts of this game for me
add Jacobs leveling Woodson
4:54 Brett Favre’s (infamous) last pass and interception as a Packer
Favre and backbreaking picks in the postseason, name a better duo
He went out on a pick 3 straight years.
Super Bowl XLII in 3 simple words- East Coast Bias
It's New York vs Boston, this time on the gridiron
First postseason meeting between these two franchises since the 1962 NFL Championship game.
Plaxico Burress, who came up small in two AFC Championship Games with Pittsburgh, was immense on this night
The literal frozen tundra of Lambeau Field
I remember this day very much. I was an eight year old die hard Packers fan and when Tynes hit that Field Goal, I ran to my bedroom and cried my little eyes out for Thirty Minutes straight.
Since I knew this highlight was coming, I went back and rewatched the game for the first time since that cold January night in 2008. The Giants deserved the win. They were the better team. Eli played outstanding, throwing dimes all night and Plaxico Burress absolutely torched Al Harris, similar to how Randy Moss torched him in the 2004 Wild Card game. I would say this was the best game of Burress' career. I was rooting for them to beat New England in the Super Bowl, something I don't usually do for a team that knocks us out.
Now to the Packers. So many missed opportunities and mistakes. Obviously Brett Favre's Overtime Interception to Corey Webster stands out. He made two mistakes on that play. One, he threw the ball inside instead of outside. Donald Driver never had a chance. The second and you have to look hard, just as he was throwing the ball, Ryan Grant was wide open literally right in front of him with so much green grass ahead. All that was needed was a little touch pass and it's and easy 1st Down. Then we have the R.W. McQuarters muffed punt. We had two great attempts to get the ball and we couldn't get either one. Who knows? We drive down the field and a rookie Mason Crosby, who was kicking good that night, hits one to send us to the Super Bowl.
But the drive that got me frustrated the most was the Giants Opening Drive of the 2nd Half. They had a 3rd and long at around midfield and Nick Collins gets called for a roughing the passer on after an incomplete pass. Then they get to the goaline and Brandon Jacobs fumbles it and we fail to pick it up. They punch it in to go up 3. If the Packers get that stop, it's probably Favre vs. Brady for the Lombardi, but then again who knows as the Giants also gave the Packers some gifts that produced 10 points in the 2nd Half.
This was a game that is right up there with Seattle in 2014 for us Packers fans. That game for me was more heartbreaking because we had it won and choked it away in epic fashion. This day marked the end of an era. Just over a month after this, Brett Favre announced his Retirement. I remember coming home from school again crying my eyes out. Brett Favre was my favorite player growing up and the first Packers jersey I ever wore. I lived and died with him and I was devastated he wouldn't be our Quarterback anymore. It is now going to be a kid from Chico, California. He has proved on National Television that he is ready to take the reigns and become the present and no longer the future in Green Bay. It will take a bit to win over the Favre Forever backers. It will be a smooth transition of power. What could possibly go wrong?.....
The same Eli who threw for 59 yards against the league worst Dolphins and had 30 incompletions in a home game vs Washington, outdueled Brett Favre at Lambeau to make the Super Bowl
I will never understand why 07 Eli basically only gave a damn in road games
Aaron Rodgers proved a worthy successor to Brett!
To think all it took for Eli to suddenly show a pulse in big games was a moral victory last month
Lost in all of this was outside of the 90 yard TD by Driver, the giants defense was suffocating.
Driver was an underrated receiver.
3:43 The Patriots win Super Bowl 42 if that muff isn’t recovered by the Giants
The Packers had a pretty solid defense so I’m not so sure it would have been a slam dunk for the Patriots but you’re probably right
@@tonypreston7278would have been a rematch of SB 31!
@@AmirKhan-yv8jm 31!
@@tonypreston7278 I stand corrected my bad!
I’m not going to lie, I cried real tears when the Packers lost this game. This was the second most devastating playoff loss outside of Seattle in 2014.
To me it was 4th and 26th. We gave that game up by not running on 4th and 1 when Green, Henderson and Davenport had over 200 rushing yards combined. Then don't stop them on 4th and 26 🤦♂️🤬🤬
@@GABRIELA-ACEVEDO. Mike Sherman with that Mike McCarthy energy
@@GABRIELA-ACEVEDO. Plus that was the same passing route that TO made the winning TD 5 years earlier.
@@GABRIELA-ACEVEDO. no guarantee they win at Carolina even if they make a stop
The team that couldn't beat anyone with a pulse for 3 months, who at one point went 13 games without beating a team above .500, just won back to back playoff road games vs. 13 win squads
The Jeckel & Hyde of the NFL.
Hot Take: If the Giants lose this game, Strahan is not in the Hall of Fame
Winning SB 42 got him in!
A few hours before this one, the Patriots stumbled their way to the Super Bowl with a 21-12 victory over the hobbled Chargers. In that one, Brady threw 3 picks, and despite playing on one structurally sound knee, Phillip Rivers effectively moved the ball between the 20s for the first 3 quarters. However, in the red zone San Diego consistently stalled, and the Patriots offense held the Chargers to just 3 field goals on 4 red zone trips. It obviously didn’t help LT only lasted three minutes of that one before leaving the game with his knee injury, but still, I guess you have to give the Pats defense credit for holding their own. On offense, it was New England’s backfield that won them the game, as Lawrence Maroney continued his strong closing stretch and ran for 122 yards and a TD. Along with Maroney, now 31 year old Kevin Faulk once again reared his head in the playoffs, catching 8 passes for 82 yards and adding 1 rush for 8 yards. While it’s impossible to really say whether or not the Chargers could have beaten the Patriots if they were healthy, they would have had a good shot, especially considering how even that game was through 3 quarters (the Patriots did dominate the 4th quarter, possessing the ball for over 12 minutes of the quarter while scoring the TD that put them up 21-12 in the process). The fact the Patriots regressed as hard as they did after what was a good performance against Jacksonville doesn’t bode well going into the Super Bowl, and that’s especially true if they don’t figure out how to get Randy Moss involved in their offense, as he was held to 1 catch and 14 yards for the second straight week (weird stat alert).
Speaking of weird stats, the 2007 New York Giants, who have a middle of the pack offense and a middle of the pack defense, a +22 point differential, and an expected record of 8.6-7.4, win their 10th straight road game and will represent the NFC in the Super Bowl against the aforementioned Patriots. While they caught their fair share of breaks in this one, they out-stated Green Bay in every category and were clearly the better team on this night. In fact, they arguably played their best game of the season here, with Plaxico Burress leading the way with a career-defining 11-151-0 performance. If their next matchup with the Pats is anything like the first one, they’ll need Eli and Plaxico to show out like they did here if they want to shock the world. For Green Bay, a magical season ends in heartbreak, and they’ll spend all offseason lamenting a few pivotal bounces of the ball on the frozen tundra. That said, their utter
inability to run the ball (14 attempts, 28 yards) on a night where passing the ball was suboptimal certainly didn’t help their cause. The main question this offseason of whether that Dallas performance by Aaron Rodgers on Thursday Night Football in week 13 was enough for Green Bay to move on from Brett Favre was answered a month after this loss. Favre announced his “retirement,” and Rodgers was given the reigns to the franchise. After the success the Packers had in 2007, Rodgers will be under a ton of pressure to play well and win immediately in 2008.
End of the Brett Favre era in Green Bay. Packers won't be the same with that Rogers guy.
This channel is amazing
Lawrence Tynes was bringing back the ghost of former team’s past, Lin Elliot, with some of those kicks during regulation. He resurrected himself in overtime.
Ironically the last Wild Card team to reach the Super Bowl (2005 Steelers), Tynes indirectly started that run
2 years ago with the aforementioned Chiefs, he missed a late kick at Dallas that ended up being the first spark that lit Pittsburgh’s fuse
@@chrisuncleahmadboth Eli & Big Ben won their first SB via wild card , winning 3 straight road playoff games !
This game hurt as a packers fan I was 8 or 9 when this game happened I remember I cried like a mf 😔
I was 11 years old and cried my eyes out
@@tonypreston7278 2014 seahawks game hurt as well having to go to school the next day and getting roasted was not fun at all
The last time New York made a Super Bowl, they faced an AFC team that was historically great on one side of the ball
It didn’t go well against the 2000 Ravens defense, things won’t change against the 2007 Patriots offense
There's one thing in the Giants' favor, Brady won the passing yard title and that have been cursed since 1959. Lets hope it works its magic to allow Strahan get that hardware.
4:56 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!! This is not Detroit!!' Oh wait, wrong Favre playoff interception with the game tied.
“THIS IS THE SUPER BOWL”
favre really loved throwing the ball to donald driver late in his packer career..
I said that Jared Lorenzen could have won those Tampa and Dallas games.
Well, I have to give the devil his due- Eli did not play on this night like a guy whose gameplan could have been duplicated by another.
It's a good thing you know nothing about football if you think Jared Lorenzen (RIP) would've won those games.
Recent Super Bowls: The Gruden Bowl (OAK vs TB), The Close Call Bowl (NE vs CAR), The Last Two Unbeatens Bowl (IND vs CHI), and now the Rematch Bowl (NE vs NYG)
in the pregame Jimmy Johnson (From NFL on FOX pregame) said "And our water... What happened to our water"
And so the Packers' luck has run out and won't be back for some time...
Role playing aside, I was kind of surprised that Tynes nailed the toughest field goal after botching the two easier ones (though the latter was due to botched hold).
Ironically the last Wild Card team to reach the Super Bowl (2005 Steelers), Tynes indirectly started that run
2 years ago with the Chiefs, he missed a late kick at Dallas that ended up being the first spark that lit Pittsburgh’s fuse
@@chrisuncleahmad Game by game, Tynes was the kind of kicker you'll never know what you're gonna get. Even in 2011 there was a stretch where the guy couldn't go a single game without missing a field goal.
Fitting that Favre's last pass as a Packer was a pick
Eli (Daylight Come And You Gotta) Delhomme
This was a College Football 2007 quality type of upset.
Not even a packers fan but......come on Brett, you can't be makin that throw
Now where was I? Oh yeah!
Damn the Giants actually did it and Strahan may actually have a shot for a ring. Our best shot is the passing yards title curse that have been ongoing since 1959, can the Giants exploit this on the Patriots?
I better not get my hopes up and jinx it.
C'mon Eli, just one more game! Get Strahan that ring and make Tiki die in the inside.
Ever since that Dallas game, with how good Rodgers looked, the Packers franchise already made their mind that if Favre doesnt win the Super Bowl, that Rodgers was gonna be their starting QB in 2008, and that the Favre era in GB would be over
Its a damn shame that Favre wont have a chance to take down the perfect and hated Patriots. Imagine what that victory would have done to Favres career. Maybe the greatest QB of all time at the moment if that had happened.
I kind of wonder if Favre would have stay retired has the Packers won that year.
Lawrence Tynes kicks the Giants to the Super Bowl.
Ironically the last Wild Card team to reach the Super Bowl (2005 Steelers), Tynes indirectly started that run
2 years ago with the Chiefs, he missed a late kick at Dallas that ended up being the first spark that lit Pittsburgh’s fuse
Burress completely embarrassed Al Harris this game.
Giants will be major underdogs against Patriots
Don't remind me of this game as a Packers fan 🤬🤬 Plax torched Al Harris all night
Aaaaand....then Favre joined the Vikings and again threw the game away in the NFC championship in New Orleans.
This was Dolphins-Chiefs from last week, only both teams actually showed up to play and belonged in the postseason.
When Favre went through his "retirement", his last pass being a pick felt like an indication that he would come back
3:49 if packers get that an kick the game winning fg.. i wonder if that changes anything with brett retirement or not..
Not since the 2003 Marlins has an underdog playoff surprise been so easy to root against
What is the reason the Marlins were easy to root against? I’d think a majority of people would have rooted for them since they were playing the Yankees. Only reason I can think of is the series against the Cubs.
Eli, the same guy who threw for 59 yards against the league worst Dolphins and had 30 incompletions in a home game, outdueled Brett Favre at Lambeau to make the Super Bowl
The mind boggles
End Of The Era Brett Favre As The Packer Move To Minnesota And Now The Start Aaron Rodgers Era
You forgot the one year he was a Jet.
As a Giants fan this is just so beautiful. Two historic franchises at Lambeau Field in brutal cold weather to go to the Super Bowl. What a classic game. Will never forget it.
What a run the Giants had... Beat Dallas at home in a back and forward battle that went down to the final seconds, took gb and favres last stand in lambeau that goes back and forward with so many close turnover moments and it goes into ot... Then beating the undefeated patriots in another classic that went down to the final seconds... It was a movie script
@@dylanandrich1949 one of the most annoying runs in NFL history.
No upgrade for Eli Delhomme yet (Jake Delhomme was the last NFC Wild Card team to make the Super Bowl and also faced the Brady and Belichick Patriots)
The Panthers won their division in 2003, yes they had a wild card game but they won their division
Giants and Patriots who you got? I believe Eli will turn the ball over a lot, NYG’s defense is good but NE will shred em, looking like a coronation in 2 weeks in Glendale.
He’s Eli Delhomme now? Lol that’s the best comp actually at this moment in time
Do you think that the 2007 Packers would have beaten the 18-0 Patriots if they made it to the super bowl?
Nah. Still think it would have been close though.
1996 rematch pretty much
Most of this game was the Giants flirting with disaster. Shades of the 02 Wild Card Game with failure to execute on late field goal snaps, recovering fumbles, dropped or flagged Eli interceptions. But Burress, Pierce, Boss, Hixon, Webster and Tynes all made huge plays. Improbable Super Bowl coming!
The alertness of Boss on recovering that goal line fumble that led to a TD run the next play gotta be one of the most underrated critical moments for the Giants that postseason
Plaxico Burress dominated Al Harris, I always thought Harris was overated he got beat out of coverage most of the time especially in this game only game he did something was that infamous Matt Hasslebeck "we want the ball and we are going to score" other than that Harris was Overated
The same Al Harris that played well in Philly?
4th and 26th
Randy Moss smoking him in 2004
Bernard Berrian embarrassing him in Chicago in 2006
Hard to believe this was the same Plaxico Burress, who came up small and shrunk in the playoffs with Pittsburgh
@@chrisuncleahmad keep in mind, he was injured the entire season
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Packers Giants coming to America came true
Oh yeah take the L Packers Fans!!!