Don\'t touch him, he\'s poison!

Right after Mike Vrabel recovered the Giants' attempted on-side kick with just over 1 minute left in last night's game between the undefeated Patriots and the G-Men, I knew New England was going to win the much anticipated match. Yes, as my bookie will tell you, that's just how good of a prognosticator I am. Anyway, the New York Football Giants were excited with their performance in the loss:

"We didn't win the game, but if you saw everybody in the locker room, everybody was excited," [Eli] Manning said. "I never saw a locker room so upbeat after a loss because we played so well, did some good things and hung in there in a game where we didn't have to play. We wanted to. We wanted to come out and play well, and we did that." "There is nothing but positives," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. "I told the players in playing this game everything would be positives, there would be no negatives and that is how I feel."

Congratulations all around fellas. I wish I would have known this theory of positivism when I was screaming at the TV as Eli and the offense lolly-gagged through their 2-minute drill, or as Pats' RB Kevin Faulk ran past the sticks on crucial 3rd downs in the 4th quarter. How come throwing short and running for the 1st down only works for good teams? -KD