Giants Win the Super Bowl!

(NY Daily News) INDIANAPOLIS – Four years ago, John Mara stood on a podium in a swirl of confetti after witnessing what he called “the greatest victory in the history of this franchise.” He was sure it was a once-in-a-lifetime moment.

Then, on Sunday night, it happened all over again.

History repeated itself in incredible fashion as the Giants rode another amazing fourth-quarter comeback byEli Manning to win their second Super Bowl championship in four years. They beat the New England Patriots, again, in Super Bowl XLVI on an Ahmad Bradshaw touchdown with 57 seconds remaining, this time 21-17.

Then they withstood a final, desperate pass by Tom Brady, again, to hang on to a heart-stopping win.

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“To get one Super Bowl win in the manner that we got it four years ago usually lasts a whole career,” Mara said from under another storm of confetti. “But to get two of these? It is beyond description. It really is.”

Getting two in five seasons against the same rivals — a team with three Super Bowl rings of its own — is amazing enough, but they did it by nearly duplicated their miraculous championship run from 2007, right down to the final, nerve-wracking drive.

This time they got the ball back at their own 12 with 3:46 remaining, trailing 17-15 and needing only a field goal to pull off the miracle.

They started fast, with a 38-yard pass down the sidelines to Mario Manningham, who made the highlight-reel catch at midfield by leaping and just barely getting his feet in bounds. Manning — who set a Super Bowl record by completing his first nine passes and was named the MVP again for his stellar 30-for-40, 296-yard performance — completed four of his next five passes before the Pats let Bradshaw score on a six-yard run with less than a minute to go.

Then the Giants defense took the field, thinking, as safety Kenny Phillips said, “Don’t blow it. Just don’t blow it.” This time Brady — who set a Super Bowl record with 16 straight completions and finished 27 for 41 for 276 yards — had 22 seconds more than he had in Super Bowl XLII. And he nearly pulled off the biggest miracle of all when he fired a 49-yard Hail Mary pass into the end zone on the final play of the game.

Of the time ball was in the air, Mara said, “I couldn’t breathe. That would’ve been a horrible way to lose the game.” But Phillips leaped and knocked the ball away the Patriots’ Aaron Hernandez. New England’s injured tight end Rob Gronkowski lunged for the batted ball but it proved out of reach. The celebration was suddenly under way.