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2012 SUPER BOWL XLVI

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Super Bowl XLVI was an American football game between the National Football

Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants and the American Football Conference

(AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL)

champion for the 2011 season. The Giants defeated the Patriots by the score of 21–17.

The game was played on February 5, 2012, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the

first time that the Super Bowl was played in the state of Indiana.


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In addition to winning their fourth Super Bowl in team history, the Giants set a new record for the

lowest regular season record by a Super Bowl champion. The Patriots entered the game with an

AFC-best 13–3 regular season record, and were also seeking their fourth Super Bowl win. The

game was also a rematch of Super Bowl XLII, in which New York also won, 17–14, to spoil New

England's run at a perfect 2007 season in what is now considered to be one of the greatest

upsets in sports history. Super Bowl XLVI also marked the third consecutive matchup between

teams from divisions with the same cardinal directions, with the Giants/Patriots from the NFC/AFC

East, Super Bowl XLV between the Green Bay Packers/Pittsburgh Steelers from the NFC/AFC

North, and Super Bowl XLIV between the New Orleans Saints/Indianapolis Colts from the

NFC/AFC South. Two years later, the Seattle Seahawks/Denver Broncos, from the NFC/AFC

West, would continue this trend when they met each other for Super Bowl XLVIII.



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The Giants jumped to a 9–0 lead in the first quarter of Super Bowl XLVI before the

Patriots scored 17 unanswered points to take a 17–9 lead in the third quarter. But the

Giants prevented the Patriots from scoring again, and two consecutive New York field

goals chipped away New England's lead, 17–15, late in the third quarter. The Giants

capped off an 88-yard drive with running back Ahmad Bradshaw's 6-yard game-

winning touchdown with 57 seconds left in the game. Eli Manning, who completed 30

of 40 passes for 296 yards, one touchdown, and no interceptions, was named Super

Bowl MVP for the second time in his career. He became the third consecutive

quarterback to win the award after Aaron Rodgers in Super Bowl XLV and Drew

Brees in Super Bowl XLIV.



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The broadcast of the game on NBC broke the then record for the most-watched

program in American television history, previously set during the previous year's Super

Bowl. Super Bowl XLVI was watched by an estimated average audience of 111.3

million US viewers and an estimated total audience of 166.8 million, according to

Nielsen, meaning that over half of the American population watched at least some of

the initial broadcast. The game also set the record for most tweets per second during a

sporting event, with 13.7 million tweets from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. (PST).



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With the loss, along with losses in 1985, 1996, and 2007, the Patriots tied with the

Denver Broncos, Buffalo Bills and Minnesota Vikings for most Super Bowl losses at

four (although the Broncos would lose their fifth against the Seattle Seahawks two

years later).



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