monkey's Banana Peel Award

The award given to the offensive and defensive players who best slip up the opposition.

Let's face it, this game, going into it, meant a lot more to the Giants who are in the heat of an NFC East bloodbath than it did to the Seahawks who are so far ahead in their division that the fat lady stopped singing quite some time ago.
I know that many media people will forget about that, and they will focus only on the three missed field goals, rather than the fact that all of those attempts were from a long ways out, and that our the Seahawks defense held them to those long field goal attempts.
They will also forget, that just like the Giants, the Seahawks had plenty of chances to sew it up and didn't. The game should never have gone into overtime in the first place, considering the fact that, despite the great effort, Amani Toomer did not make that catch and considering the fact that Shockey never had controll of the ball when he got drilled and dropped the catch in the end zone.

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