Another great weekend of playoff football is over, and now we must wait the tedious two weeks until the Super Bowl. I, for one, am not a fan of the two week break, but Tom Brady seemed pleased about it, so I won’t complain. There will be much to discuss in the next two weeks, but I am coming out now with my prediction for the big game: Patriots by 3. That’s how they’ve done it the last three times, so I’m sticking with it until they do otherwise. By the way, I really wish that I wasn’t a Pats fan so that I could bet on the Giants with their +14 spread. That spread is way too high and the Pats have not been doing very well at all against the bookmakers recently.

I am very confident that the Pats will win the game, however the one thing to be concerned about is the play of Mr. Eli Manning. He and the Giants are reminding me of the 2001 Pats, so much so that I found myself during the NFC title game rooting for a New York team for the first time in my life. The Giants don’t have the greatest players, but they’ve been playing hard, mistake-free football and it’s working. In the weeks since I trashed Eli Manning, he has been superb. While I am flattered that Eli was so offended as to elevate his game after reading my post, his performance needs to stop before he plays the Patriots. And so, to show my sincerity, I have composed this heartfelt apology to Eli, in the style of Akon’s hit, “Sorry, Blame it on me”:

• I’m sorry for the times I wrote about you
• In all those posts I didn’t have a clue
• I’m sorry that I wrote about how you sucked
• I’m sorry that I thought your team was f*cked

• I’m sorry that I said that you were lame
• That you wouldn’t make it to a Super Bowl game
• Now you’ve shown I should’ve held my tongue
• Peyton wishes he could’ve gone that young

• I’m sorry I thought you’d disappoint Dad
• For sixteen games Archie saw you look bad
• How was I to know you’d turn it around
• That in the post season you would rebound

• I thought your brother was better than you
• Peyton always had more commercials to do
• But while he was filming you were in the gym
• I guess it should be you giving pep talks to him

• Even though you’ve had your problems
• In the playoffs we now know
• All the talent’s been inside you
• At long last you’ve let it show

• If I can’t apologize for being wrong
• Then it’s just a shame on me
• I didn’t think that you had game
• And you can put that blame on me

There. You can take my other comments off your bulletin board. And please don’t ruin the perfect season, the last thing we need is for a New York team to end the streak.