… and the Giants win the Super Bowl XLII.


“They were basically double-teaminmg me all night, playing a man press, playing a guy over the top,” Burress said. “We were just waiting for that one time where we could get him over there in single coverage. I gave him a slant fake, he bit it, Eli put it up there and I came down with it.”


Unable to practice the majority of the season while playing on an ankle that he admitted during the week was worse than advertised. “Most guys who have what I have, they probably would have had surgery and gone on IR”. Asked about the ankle following the Super Bowl victory, an elated Plaxico Burress responded, “I don’t feel nothing.”


Perhaps no player on the Giants epitomized the team’s resiliency and fortitude more than Plaxico Burress.