Super Bowl XLVI - Statistics and Records

Statistics and Records

For the Giants, Manning completed 30 of 40 passes for 296 yards, one touchdown, and no interceptions. Bradshaw was the top rusher of the game with 72 yards and a touchdown, also catching two passes for 19 yards. Nicks was the top receiver with 10 receptions for 109 yards. Blackburn, who had been cut by the Giants earlier in the season before being re-signed, had 6 total tackles and an interception. Tuck made 3 tackles and two sacks. For New England, Brady completed 27 of 41 passes for 276 yards and two touchdowns, with one interception, becoming the first quarterback to throw a touchdown pass in five separate Super Bowls. His top target was Hernandez, who caught 8 passes for 67 yards and one score. Welker added 7 receptions for 60 yards and two carries for 21. Gronkowski, who came into Super Bowl XLVI battling an ankle injury, was held to just two receptions for 26 yards. Linebackers Jerod Mayo and Brandon Spikes each had 8 solo tackles, 3 assists, and a forced fumble.

With the win the Giants became the fifth team to win at least four Super Bowls, while the Patriots became the fourth to lose four. Brady has yet to win in Lucas Oil Stadium, (to another Manning) as a professional and has not won a game in Indianapolis since 2007, when the Patriots defeated the Indianapolis Colts on their way to a perfect regular season. Belichick dropped to 3–2 as a head coach in the Super Bowl, while Tom Coughlin won his second Super Bowl in as many tries. Some news organizations, among them The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, said that their victory made them NFL's version of the 2011 World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals, saying that these two championship teams that had been given the last rites by many near the end of the season, emerged as champions at the end.

The Giants became the first team to have won Super Bowl games broadcast on all four U.S. national networks (CBS, ABC, FOX, and now NBC).

The Giants and Patriots became the 3rd and 4th teams (after the Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers) to appear in Super Bowls in four different decades (both in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s) and the first two to appear in Super Bowls in four consecutive decades. The Giants became the first team in Super Bowl history to win Super Bowls in four different decades (1986, 1990, 2007, 2011). The Patriots became the first team in Super Bowl history to lose Super Bowls in four different decades (1985, 1996, 2007, 2011).

Dan Shaughnessy said in a piece in The Boston Globe about Boston on the loss to the Giants under the headline, "History Repeats:" "Instead of celebrating a grand slam–championships in every major sport over a period of four years and four months–New Englanders are spitting out pieces of their broken luck, bracing for the avalanche of grief from the New Yorkers they envy so badly."

The Giants went into the half trailing 10-9. The Giants have trailed at halftime in all of their Super Bowl appearances, trailing 10-9 to the Broncos, 12-10 to the Bills, 10-0 to the Ravens, and 7-3 to the Patriots.

The Giants are now 4-0 in Super Bowls in which Bill Belichick has been on the sidelines, winning twice with Belichick as a Giants' assistant coach, and twice when Belichick was the opposing head coach. The Giants are also 3-0 in Super Bowls against AFC East teams.

This was the second Super Bowl, after Super Bowl X, resulting in a final score of 21-17 with the winning score including a safety and a missed extra point as part of its 21-point total (although in this case it was a failed 2-point attempt while in the earlier case it was a blocked kick).

This was the 5th set of teams to have a rematch in Super Bowl history and overall the 6th rematch. The Cowboys & Steelers met 3 times, with others being the Dolphins & Redskins, 49ers & Bengals and Cowboys & Bills.