Yes, you heard it here first. It was the Summer of 2006 when I predicted a Giants/Patriots Super Bowl. So I guess I was one year off. Oh well. It was worth the wait.

This figures to be the most talked about and watched Super Bowl ever. It has everything: A team playing for history as the Patriots go for 19-0. A Cinderella team in the Giants that no one envisioned reaching the promised land. Two big name quarterbacks: Tom Brady and Eli Manning. One looks to put his name next to Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw as qb's to win four Super Bowls. While the other looks to finally come out from under his older brother Peyton's huge shadow. It also Boston versus New York, two Bill Parcells disciples coaching against one another, and a rematch of their dramatic regular season ending game won by the Pats 38-35.

I am especially happy for two people who will play in this game: Junior Seau and Eli Manning, who must feel like a junior when compared to his brother and father---both great NFL qb's.

First, how can you not love Seau. All of these years toiling at linebacker for a chance to win a Super Bowl. And thanks in part to his brilliant third down play yesterday, he gets another shot. One of my former interns worked for Seau's charity foundation for 5 years and raved about the class and decency of Junior Seau. It's hard to root against him. But I will have to in this Super Bowl.

It's not that I wouldn't want to see the Pats make history. I love football history. Love it. And I think 19-0 is just incredible to even fathom. Just not against the Giants.

First, I think Eli Manning is a good guy. A little goofy. Perhaps. But in a totally innocuous way. Imagine the pressure he's been under his whole life living up to his father and older brother's legacy. So to lead the upstart Giants to a Super Bowl in only his fourth season is just remarkable.

But for me this game goes much deeper. My Dad and Uncle shared Giants season tickets in the 70's and 80's. I grew up going to a couple of Giants games a season. Big Blue is in my blood. I was at the Meadowlands for the lean years in the late 70's to the glory years of the mid to late 1980's. I can still see Joe Montana flattened on his back by Jim Burt as the ball floated into the arms of LT. With apologies to Lawrence Tynes, that would be the original LT, Lawrence Taylor.

I am almost certain the Giants won that playoff game by a final of 49-3.

Those were the '86 Giants. A truly GREAT team. I would be very surprised if these Giants beat a truly great Pats team. But I can't wait to find out.