I'm really not going to be cheering for anyone. I can say one thing though. It would be a bigger letdown for the Pats to lose than it would be an upset for the Giants to win. The fact that the G-Men are in the big game lets you know that they have a chance to win and should be there. However, everyone, myself included, has expected the Pats to win the Super Bowl ever since the Randy Moss trade. To go 18-0 thru the regular season and playoffs just to lose the one game that absolutely matters most will be considered the biggest choke job in NFL history.

I've never seen a team before with their legacy on such a big pendulum as this year's Pats. Win the Super Bowl, and you're aguably the best single season team to ever play the game. Ahead of the '85 Bears (who lost one game during the season only to shut out their first two playoff opponents and obliterate the Pats in Super Bowl XX 46-10), the '72 Dolphins (17-0), and the '84 49ers (15-1 reg season, SB champs). Lose the Super Bowl, and you don't go down as the best single season team ever, you go down as the best single season team ever NOT to win a Super Bowl (the 1998 Minnesota Vikings know how that feels).

There will always be a "but" when talking about this team if they lose. People will say "the 2007 Patriots were great BUT they didn't win the big one". Greatest team ever discussions do not have a "but" in them. Only sound arguments for the team. The only thing people remember about those great Buffalo Bills teams of the early 90's is the fact that they went to the big game four straight times and lost. Now they're a footnote, and so will the Pats be if they lose.

The Giants are just happy to be here. If they lose, there will be no huge letdown. The NY fans will praise them, and are already praising them. Almost no one outside their locker room expects them to win, so the Giants have absolutely nothing to lose. The Pats have everything to lose...