Boston Globe & Super Bowl Loss

Maybe Boston has had too much unexpected success for the Red Sox lately, so it was due for a football upset. It came with the New York Giants' stunning last-minute defeat of the "hometown" Patriots in the Super Bowl on Sunday.

The chief Boston Globe headline reads: HISTORY DERAILED. Dan Shaughnessy, the well-known sports writer, kicks off his report as follows.
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There’ll no Hub parade on Super Tuesday. No commemorative books about ‘‘Path to Perfection.’’ In New England, the churchbells all are broken.

Two-touchdown favorites and touted as possibly the greatest football team of all-time, the Patriots were beaten by the New York Giants, 17-14, in Super Bowl XLII last night at University of Phoenix Stadium. Twenty three hundred miles from Foxborough, an 18-0 season dissolved when New York’s Eli Manning found Plexico Burress in the end zone for a 13-yard touchdown pass with 35 seconds left on the clock.

The Patriots lost the Super Bowl. It is an alternate universive. It does not compute. It’s like hearing Tony Bennett singing, ‘‘I Left My Heart in Ashtabula,’’ or seeing a photo of Mitt Romney with his hair messed up.

Source: mediainfo.com