Perfection!

Last night I was lucky enough to go to the Patriots-Giants game at the Meadowlands and I was fortunate enough to witness history. As a Patriots fan, the win was gratifying enough, but with so many additional circumstances surrounding the game it was that much more of a boost. My dad's side of the family has had Giants season tickets since the days they played at Yankee Stadium and my brother and I have got to spend some valuable father-son time with my dad at some pretty exciting games (my brother's first game there when he was just a kid was against the Cowboys and after the Cowboys blew them out my dad lost my brother to Cowboy fandom forever).
It's always an experience at Giants Stadium and this was no different. Usually I root for the Giants (especially when they play the Patriots' division rivals like the Jets or Bills), so the other usual suspects in our section I think recognized me as a Giants fan. But beneath my Columbia snow jacket was a Red Sox sweatshirt I had planned on unveiling, but reconsidered upon arrival. Good thing. While there were a ton of Pats fans at the game, there were only a few families in our section that were being mercilessly heckled for most of the game by the meatheads in our section. That is, until the Patriots pulled ahead. Then the long, shameful exodus of fans began, even as the Giants showed a spark of life. The realization of inevitable New England victory was too much for some fans to deal with, even the grizzled stadium veterans.
Eli Manning and the Giants played well... actually they played great. Against any other team they would have won. But they weren't playing any other team, they were playing the Patriots and the New England offense was clicking on all cylinders. Brady and Moss set individual records while the team's victory guaranteed regular-season perfection. 16-0. Unbelievable.
Congratulations Patriots on a well-played season, but now comes the playoffs... the second season. New England fans are looking for another championship to go along with the Red Sox earlier in the fall. Let's have some more victory parties, eh?