We’re about 20 hours removed from Super Bowl XLII and I’m still struggling to find the proper superlatives to describe the Giants’ 17-14 upset over the Patriots. Shocking, incredible, surprising, dramatic. Pick whichever one you want. Rather than attempt to break down the game with a standard article, I’ll use bullet points. After all, who doesn’t love bullet points?

• Here’s a few fun statistics. The NFL’s leading passer (in yards) has never gone on to win the Super Bowl. Ever. That’s 42 years of sample size to work with. And before you go claim that Kurt Warner led the league in 1999, he didn’t. Steve Beuerlein did. However, Warner did lead the league in passing in 2001, when his Rams lost to the Patriots. Speaking of Kurt Warner. He’s the last regular season MVP (1999) to win the Super Bowl.

• How about that Giants’ defensive line? The likes of Osi Umenyiora, Justin Tuck and Michael Strahan delivered their most dominant performance of the season in the biggest game of the season. While Eli Manning deservedly sits on newspaper front pages everywhere, the true MVP of this game was that Giants front four. They were everywhere.

• Speaking of Eli Manning. He’s taken plenty of shit throughout his career but man, did he step it up yesterday. Eli threw for two touchdown passes in an epic 4th quarter, including the play that everyone is talking about. As soon as it happened, you figured it was just meant to be for the Giants. Chalk that play up as “Super Bowl Lore.” We’re gonna be seeing that one for a while.

• Where was that old Patriots team? Once the Pats’ offensive line realized the Giants had come to play, I expected them to “flip that switch” and go back to their dominant selves. But they didn’t. All of the nastiness that line showed for the last 18 weeks was gone. Instead, the Giants made them look substandard. Mediocre, even. Despite that record-setting Patriots’ offense, the game still has to be won in the trenches. And for the first time all year, the Pats’ offensive line didn’t man up and do the job.

In the end, doesn’t this seem like some sort of karmic justice? The Patriots, criticized for Spygate videotaping opposing coaches and running up the score, fell short in their quest for football immortality while Eli Manning, the emotionless drone under center in New York, came up huge. Even a day later, typing that doesn’t feel right yet.