The New York Post sees things differently. It wants the world to know that their city won the Super Bowl tonight. How did they do that? They covered their entire front page in New York Giants.

It’s not my place to judge any Web site on how they design their front page, but this just seems a little excessive. At least they have pride in their team. That’s the most important thing.

Although the Patriots pushed for a final effort to win, they couldn’t muster up a final touchdown. The final score was 21-17.

Twitter has exploded as you might expect. Let’s check in!

The Giants defied the odds pushing their score up to nine so early in the game. The Pats have to fight back hard to make up for that gutsy play. They were able to score a field goal putting their score at three, but still a ways to go.

A lot of people in Vegas had money on final scores in the game and two-point safety will most likely throw that off. The game is already looking to be far more interesting than previously thought.

The majority of those who go online will do so before the game (82%) or after the game (61%). Twenty-nine percent said they would go online during the game or during halftime (28%).

The most common reason to go online was to checkout stats (17%), followed by looking for recipe and party ideas (16%). Sixteen percent said they would go online to visit the Web sites of Super Bowl advertisers and 13 percent said the would watch Super Bowl ads or video clips online.

Overall almost half (49%) of respondents said the game was their favorite part of the Super Bowl festivities, but more than a quarter (26%) preferred watching the ads. Sixty-five percent of males said they were more likely to prefer watching the game, while 35 percent of females prefer watching the ads.

The most memorable ads from last year came from Anheuser-Busch (40%), followed by Doritos (23%) and GoDaddy.com (18%).

As to which team will win the Super Bowl, sixty-four percent predict it will be the Patriots with 36 percent believing that the Giants will pull off the upset.

"Viewers have indicated that the Internet will be a more significant part of their Super Bowl experience than last year," said Andrew Lipsman, senior analyst at comScore.

"In particular, there seems to be a greater inclination to access advertisers’ content online, which highlights the increasing importance of a cross-media advertising strategy."

The New England Patriots will beat the New York Giants in a close game by the final score of 38-30. Skeptics may scoff at such a prediction but EA Sports has predicted the past five winners of the Super Bowl.

EA Sports says the Patriots and Giants got off to a close start with two touchdowns by running back Laurence Maroney and three field goals by Giant’s kicker Lawrence Tynes who helped the Giants get to the Super Bowl by kicking the game winning kick over the Green Bay Packers.

 Towards the end of the third quarter the Patriots led by only one 24-23. They added to their lead with a 31-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Tom Brady to wide receiver Randy Moss. In the fourth quarter the Giants were down 31-23 and a chance to tie the game. A tipped pass by quarterback Eli Manning dashed those hopes as the Patriots cornerback Asante Samuel made an interception. The Patriots would score one more time to take the lead 38-23.

The Giants scored one last time and the game ended 38-30. It will be fun to see how the real game turns out on Sunday.
 

If you haven’t been paying attention to professional football or celebrity dating gossip, good for you and let me fill you in. Singer Jessica Simpson is canoodling with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. The Cowboys lost Sunday to the New York Giants and a cub-quarterback, the brother of the great Peyton Manning, and the reason University of Kentucky football I-can-throw-the-ball-a-hundred-yards-sitting-down quarterback Jared Lorenzen isn’t starting.

But I’ve digressed already. 

Cowboys fans say Romo was off his game because of sideline hottie Jessica. And for many, that’s a legitimate concern. (Not for me. When I played sports, the presence of a smokin’ hot girlfriend made me play better. Choose whichever your superstition you prefer.)

On Monday morning, I noticed on Google’s Hot Trends list, which I check every morning to see what’s going on in search land, that there was a spike in searches for "Yoko Romo," a reference to Simpson that also refers to the lady that supposedly destroyed the Beatles.

You know, if you really believe that.

Something similar happened on Yahoo’s search engine. Yahoo’s Buzz Log reports that searches for "Jessica Simpson curse" and "Tony Romo cursed" spiked after the game, as did searches for Simpson look-alike Lynsey Nordstrom, who was supposedly planted by the Giants to mess with Romo’s head.

Nielsen//NetRatings won’t be left out of the madness. They report that blog posts about the two lovebirds have increased by 300 percent since Sunday night in a phenomenon they call "Monday morning chatterbacking."

"A common trend we see after a big loss is what we call ‘Monday Morning Chatterbacking’ in which online fans look for culprits or scapegoats. Fair or unfair, there is always a great deal of fingerpointing, and the Romo/Simpson relationship is certainly top of mind with fans,” said Pete Blackshaw, executive vice president of Nielsen Online Strategic Services and project manager for Nielsen’s 2008 Super Bowl monitoring program.

“Virtually every aspect of this relationship has been analyzed, dissected, debated, and critiqued by highly engaged football fans,” said Blackshaw. “Even Cabo San Lucas as a ‘strength-gathering’ vacation spot has been vigorously picked apart!”
 

Yeah, well, somebody really needs to give America something better to do, don’t you think?