Super Bowl XVII - Electric Football on FOX Sports

Electric Football makes an appearance on the Thursday Night Football broadcast prior to the game between the Patriots and the Giants! Super Bowl XLII is regarded as one of the biggest upsets in the history of professional sports, as well as one of the finest Super Bowl games ever. The story of the Giants - Patriots rivalry will be shown through the lens of Electric Football, our beloved and classic tabletop game.

More than 30 custom figures tell the story of these two great franchises. Figures represent the amazing "Helmet Catch" by David Tyree, coaches Belichick and Coughlin, Brady, Gronkowski, Manning, and more.

More information about the game, courtesy of Wikipedia:

Super Bowl XLII was a classic match up between the NFC champion New York Giants and the AFC champion New England Patriots to decide the NFL champion for the 2007 season. The Giants defeated the Patriots by the score of 17-14. The game was played on February 3, 2008 at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

The Patriots entered the game as 12-point favorites after becoming the first team to complete a perfect regular season since the 1972 Miami Dolphins, and the only one since the league expanded to a 16-game regular season schedule in 1978. The Giants, who finished the regular season with a 10-6 record, were seeking to become the first NFC wild card team to win a Super Bowl, and were also looking for their third Super Bowl victory and first since they won Super Bowl XXV seventeen years earlier. This Super Bowl was also a rematch of the final game of the regular season, in which New England won, 38-35.

The game is best remembered for the Giants' fourth-quarter game-winning drive, often considered the greatest drive in NFL history. Down 14-10, New York got the ball on their own 17-yard line with 2:39 left and marched 83 yards down the field. In the drive's most memorable play, David Tyree made the "Helmet Catch" on 3rd down, a leaping one-handed catch pinning the football with his right hand to the crown of his helmet for a 32-yard first down conversion. After a second first-down conversion by Steve Smith on 3rd and 11, wide receiver Plaxico Burress scored the winning touchdown on a 13-yard reception with 35 seconds remaining.

The game was tight throughout, with both teams' defense dominating the competition until near the end of the game. Only 10 total points were scored in the first three quarters. The Giants consumed a Super Bowl record 9 minutes and 59 seconds on their opening drive, but could only manage a field goal. The Patriots then responded with running back Laurence Maroney's 1-yard touchdown run on the first play of the second quarter. After a scoreless third quarter, the fourth quarter saw a Super Bowl record three lead changes. After Tyree's 3-yard touchdown reception at the beginning of the quarter, New England wide receiver Randy Moss made a 6-yard touchdown reception with 2:42 left to play before New York's game-winning drive.

Giants quarterback Eli Manning, who completed 19 of 34 passes for 255 yards and two touchdowns, with one interception, was named Super Bowl MVP. Giants defensive end Michael Strahan, who retired following the victory, had two tackles and one sack. This game was the first since Super Bowl IX in 1975 (the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Minnesota Vikings 16-6) that neither team scored at least 20 points.

The telecast of the game on Fox broke the then-record for the most watched Super Bowl in history with an average of 97.5 million viewers in the United States.

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