Attention bettors: New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico BurressSuper Bowl XLII will be: 23-17, G-Men.
Despite his club being a 12-point betting underdog, Burress isn't lacking confidence - and while he stopped short of a guarantee, well he wasn't backing off his prediction.
"Are predictions guarantees?" he said. "We want to win this game."
"Why come in with a negative attitude?" Burress said at media day. "We've got to take a back seat to them because they are 19-0? The goal is to win the football game."
Burress says the Giants aren't just at the Super Bowl to play, and he says if they do what's necessary to win, they'll come out on top.
"I am going to say it again: the goal is to win the football game," Burress said. "It is not to come here and just play. The goal is to come here and win. That's why we are here."
As for the score? "My high school basketball number was 23," said Burress, who wears No. 17.
New York coach Tom Coughlin was a little taken aback to hear his star receiver make that proclamation, saying "That's not the way we have done things all season."
Yet Burress isn't the only one feeling confident. Giants co-owner Steve Tisch has also predicted tha this team would upset the Patriots. And defensive end Michael Strahan told reporters "history will be ours."
When told of Burress' prediction, Patriots linebacker Adalius Thomas just shrugged it off.
"One thing I've learned this year more than anything else is none of that matters," Thomas said. "Nothing that you do in the press conference matters. The only thing that matters is how you play on Sunday."Burress also had this to say about Pats QB Tom Brady, who called the Giants "probably the hottest team in the NFL right now."
"That's a bunch of crap," said Burress. "He doesn't believe that. He's a Michigan guy. He's supposed to say things like that."
Of course, Burress went to Michigan State, so he automatically harbors ill will toward Wolverines.
REMATCH BOWL: This will be the 12th time that the Super Bowl will be a rematch of a regular season game; the team that lost the regular season game is 6-5 in the Super Bowl rematch.
This is the third time in the Giants' four Super Bowl appearances that they are facing a team that they played in the regular season. All three regular season games were played in Giants Stadium.
In 1986, the Giants defeated Denver on Nov. 23 then beat the Broncos in Super Bowl XXI, 39-20. Four years later, the Giants lost to the Buffalo Bills on Dec. 15, but topped the Bills in Super Bowl XXV, 20-19.
The New England Patriots also played two rematch Super Bowls. In 1985, the Patriots lost to the Chicago Bears early in the season and were then routed in Super Bowl XX. Six years ago, New England lost at home to St. Louis on Nov. 18. The Patriots never lost again and beat the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI, 20-17. knows what the final score of
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