Live Super Bowl blogging: Fourth quarter

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"Still stuck on 7-3 in Super Bowl 42," says Buck to start things back up after a Patriots' punt.
More celeb sightings -- LL Cool J, Kate Hudson and Kurt Russell, back to Jordin and Gisele, and Frank Freakin' Caliendo, who lives in the area, with his wife and kids (or some woman with a kid on her lap that he's got his arm around).
"Frank Caliendo, who has the ability to freak out his kids every morning," says Buck.
How? By taking them to school naked?
"By waking them up to a different voice," he finishes the thought.
And after a pass from Manning to Boss for 45 yards, a shot of Jeremy Shockey drinking up in a suite. Leading to Aikman saying he doesn't believe the Giants are better without the star tight end, despite "what some have suggested."
Some also suggested we need another shot of where ever Ryan Seacrest disappeared to. Not us.

==It's officially the second-lowest scoring game through three quarters (9 points were tallied after three in SB9).

==6:11 p.m.: Giants go up 10-3 on TD pass to David Tyree and about 11 minutes to play. Tyree didn't have a TD catch all season long, it's finally pointed out.

==6:20 p.m.: Brady incomplete on third down pass after another hurried throw.
Aikman: "You'd like to keep a back in there and help out (Brady) but because the blitzes are coming inside you can't give help to (lineman) Matt Light."

==6:31 p.m.: "Now you're finally seeing New England get into some kind of a rhythm," says Aikman after Brady completes a pass to Faulk, the third completing on a drive that started again deep in New England territory and moved the ball inside the Giants 40 with 5:20 left. "This is not unchartered territory for them. Think about the Super Bowl games, even games this year, where the pressure mounted each and every week. ... They have been battle tested in these situations."

==6:38 p.m.: Patriots' drive continues. Buck reminds audience that Brady has led his team to 28 career game-winning performances. Third and goal from the 7 with 2:45 left in the game: "Brady throws ... Moss ... Touchdown!" Crowd noise as Moss preens on the sideline. "A methodical drive put together by the game's best," Buck says after about a 30-second pause of crowd reaction. "Tom Brady .. Patriots lead by 4."
On the overhead replay, Aikman notes that the Giants cornerback "Corey Webster was in troble as soon as he started backpeddling off the line of scrimmage. They doubled Wes Welker on the inside. They left Corey Webster one-on-one with Randy Moss and it just wasn't a match. ... Webster has been terrific throughout the postseason ... just not able to match one-one-one with Randy Moss on the goalline."

==6:41 p.m.: Graphic: Giants have five wins after trailing in the fourth quarter this season (most in the NFL). Aikman mentions that Manning has been best lately in the no-huddle offense and the team has all three time outs plus the two-minute warning.

==6:42 p.m.: With 2:39 to play, first and 10 from their own 17 is where the Giants' last drive starts. 11 yards to Toomer. Manning incomplete to Burress. Manning incomplete to Burress. Down to 1:59 "to completing the perfect season are the Patriots," says Buck.

==6:44 p.m.: What we really need now is a Victoria's Secret ad to distract everyone. Oh, here's one. To the tune of "I'm In The Mood For Love." Followed right afterward by a towtruck driver hooking up the jumper cables of his truck to his nipples and turning on a stereo system in the back of his truck after drinking Amp energy. Then Ben Roethlesburger doing a promo for "American Idol." Way to kill the buzz.

==6:45 p.m.: Giants have it third down. Manning to Toomer short of the first-down line. "Toomer was inches short," says Buck. Even it was about a foot.
Fourth and 1 with the game on the line: Jacobs gets the first on a close run. 1:22 left.
==6:48 p.m.: Giants 1st and 10 at their own 38: Manning scrambles, fumbles, 5 yard gain.
==6:50 p.m.: Giants 2nd and 5 at their own 44: Manning nearly intercepted by Samuel.
==6:51 p.m.: Giants 3rd and 5 at their own 44: Manning nearly sacked, scrambles out of it, Tyree goes up and catches it inside the 25. Time out.
"Oh, my God," says Buck with an astonished laugh.
"Tyree somehow was able to make the catch," says Aikman. "And that was somehow after Eli Manning was able to avoid the sack."
==6:52 p.m.: Giants 1st and 10 inside the 24: Manning flushed out, no gain to the line. Giants timeout with 50 seconds left.
==6:54 p.m.: Giants 2nd and 11 inside the 25: Manning throws to Tyree, nearly intercepted.
==6:55 p.m.: Giants 3rd and 11: Manning complete to the sideline to Steve Smith for a first down.
==6:55 p.m.: Giants 1st and 10 inside the 14 with 39 seconds left: Manning TD to Burress.
"Manning lobs it .. BURRESS ALONE ... TOUCHDOWN NEW YORK," says Buck. More crowd.
Shot of Peyton Manning clapping.
"17-14 Giants," says Buck after about a 45-second crowd noise.
Aikman: "Look at this route by Plexico Burress, starts to the inside just enough to sell the slant, and then he goes to the corner. They call it the slant-and-go route -- the Sluggo route -- and it worked beautifully."
Burress didn't have a catch the whole second half, Buck notes.
Graphic on Manning's stats for the fourth quarter: 9 of 14, 152 yards and 2 TDs.

==6:58 p.m.: "These will be the longest 29 seconds of Eli Manning's life," says Aikman as Brady and the Patroits start the final drive with three timeouts left on their own 26. "And 29 seconds and three time outs left is an eternity for Tom Brady."
Brady long, incomplete.
"At stake is the perfect season 18-0, at stake for New York Giants is their Super Bowl win," says Buck.
Three lead changes in the final quarter is a Super Bowl record says the graphic.
Brady sacked by Alford with 19 seconds left. Patriots take time out.
From his own 15, Brady downfield to Moss, broken up by Webster near the Giants 20 some 55 yards on the fly. Time out with 10 seconds left.
==7:03 p.m.: Brady bomb down field, incomplete.
"Two seconds left as the Giants take over," says Buck. "They run out the clock. They put one second back on the scoreboard. The celebration started and now will stop. There is one second left on the scoreboard. There are fans out there, there are photographers and this officiating crew is trying to restore order. Bill Belichick is leaving the field and nobody from New England is out on the field. The official word from the NFL is a play has to be run.
"And the New York Giants, one second away from pulling off this upset. ...."
"The Giants have won the Super Bowl," says Buck, without a shout or a burst of energy, but with a simple proclamation that had some disbelief that everyone else has.

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Burress is in tears on the sideline talking to Pam Oliver.
"What do we do now?" Jeff Feagles' wife screams.
"Just take it all in," Feagles responds.

"We had seen too much with the wins in Tampa, at Dallas and then at Green Bay to write them off," Buck said to Aikman in the postgame. "They played a brilliant ballgame here tonight."

Bradshaw to Coughlin: "Coach, you are a world champion. You deserve it."
Kind of a change in tune to how much Bradshaw was critical of Couglin during the regular season, especially early on.


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