"Surely, you remember The Helmet Catch. Surely, in fact, you remember both ends of The Helmet Catch, The Escape and The Catch, capital letters all around, Eli Manning looking like Francis Tarkenton right down to the red "10" on his jersey on the front side, David Tyree's hardhat clinging to the football as if both were made of Velcro on the back end.

Surely, you remember the game-winning play, a quick toss from Manning to Plaxico Burress on a slant-and-go. In memory and in myth, Burress looks 8 feet tall, plucking the ball out of the air 5 yards deep in the end zone over Ellis Hobbs who, in memory and in myth seems about 4 feet tall."