GIANTS and PATRIOTS....the ROAD to SUPER BOWL 46....Who had the TOUGHEST Road?...Which Road will help pay off on SUNDAY?

It is almost here the LONG Drawn Out Super Bowl WEEK that is over analyzed and over televised to all. Having said all of that it is an anxiuos week for both teams, fans, cities of both teams, and the networks covering the SUPER BOWL.

Talking the NFC Champion New York FOOTBALL GIANTS and the AFC Champion New England PATRIOTS and how did they get here? Of both teams who had the toughest ROAD to get to NAPTOWN? And which Road both of these Teams traveled will pay off on SUNDAY?

The G-MEN first had to WIN on their field the last game of the SEASON vs America's Team the Dallas COWBOYS. Who ever won that game gets in and hosts the NFC Wild Card Game. The G-MEN took care of the COWBOYS in convincing fashion 31-14 and was the team to get in.

They started at home vs the DIRTY BIRD FALCONS and "MATTY ICE" RYAN and took them apart 24-2 as the G-MEN were starting to look like that SUPER BOWL 42 Team that shocked the Undefeated PATS in the VALLEY of the SUN to get their last LOMBARDI. The WINNER here had the uneviable task of traveling to rested PACKER Group and Green Bay.

The G-MEN shocked everyone but themselves as they hit the PACK in the GRILL and the PACK NEVER got up.QB Eli MANNING CHucked the PIGSKIN all over LAMBEAU for some 300 yards plus and the GIANTS WR's had their way with the PACKERS Secondary. To this day I could not tell you what in the name of VINCE LOMBARDI was going on that game but the PACKERS looked out of sync the ENTIRE GAME....Final......37-20 G-MEN.....WOW.

Then the G-MEN traveled to the BAY out west to take on the Upstart GOLD RUSH and they traded blow after blow until in OT it was a huge miscue by the NINERS in the 3rd Phase (Kicking Game) that gave the G-MEN the game-winning FG and off to INDY with a whole lot of CONFIDENCE. They beat the #1 Offense and the #2 DEFENSE to get their. The PATS have the #32nd Ranked D in the Regualr Season and NUMBERS are everything they don't lie.

The PATRIOTS had a BYE WEEK and they had the LUXURY of the BRONCOS and Tim TEBOW doing some of their work for them as the BRONCOS beat the STEELERS to advance to the AFC DIvisional in FOXBORO with the PATS seeing what the BRONCOS Offense did to the STEELERS D..the #1 Ranked D in the Regular Season.

With the PATS analyzing the TAPE all week the BRONCOS and TEBOW had NO SHOT and the PATS put 42 Points on the ORANGE Blush forget the ORANGE Crush that day. BRADY looked like a MAN possessed and he and "GRONK" PATS Tight End Rob GRONKOWSKI were drawing plays up in the GRASS between PLAYS to anihilate the BRONCOS Secondary.

The most impressive part of the GAME was the PATS new D...and I don't know if you can throw that D out in this GAME coming up and say they will control ELI and the G-MEN's Offense but we will see soon enough. The BRONCOS could do nothing and it was the PATS Front led by Vince "I have got to CRASH the TRAINING TABLE every RIP" WILFORK who led the PATS front 4 charge and they looked darn good. Final Score of the game....45-10 PATS.

Then came what many observers called in the AFC...the RAVENS and PATRIOTS dueling it out for a CHANCE at #46. An excellent game as the RAVENS D took much-needed shots and slowed BRADY and that OFFENSE down and at the same time FLACCO and the RAVENS O was exactly going up and down the field either.

The GAME came down to FLACCO and the RAVENS O just like I thought it would and of course you get that AVERAGE JOE and he couldn't make enough plays to WIN the GAME. Ray LEWIS is WRONG and ED REED is right.....it is about JOE and what have you done for me lately. FLACCO and Coach HARBAUGH thinks he is an ELITE QB then get them to the PROMISED LAND that's all I ask.

Brady and PATRIOTS had a little luck on their side and get by the RAVENS 23-20 as RAVENS Place Kicker Billy CUNDIFF misses a Game-Tying FG with :05 Seconds on the clock. It is NOT Billy's Fault I though FLACCO and the OFFENSE were going to score 6 to outright WIN the GAME and they didn't.

Looking at it they both had tough roads to get to #46 and both of these TEAMS had to play TOP 5 Defenses in the LAST GAME so all fronts are equal and nit will come down to who can stop the other team's offense and there is your KEY MATCH-UP for #46.

NOTE: Patriots Tight End Rob GRONKOWSKI was seen walking at INDY International Airport off the PATS Chartered Flight with a WALKING BOOT on what looked like a High-Ankle Sprain. Don't worry they will keep you posted on the most watched ANKLE ever in SUPER BOWL History.