It’s been nearly 24 hours since the Giants pulled off another road upset with kicker Lawrence Tynes delivering the clutch 47-yard kick to put them into their fourth Super Bowl.

It still hasn’t completely sunk in. When you consider how exciting and unpredictable that NFC championship game was against the Packers at frigid Lambeau, it just makes it all the more special that our Big Blue prevailed. Having reeled off an amazing 10 straight on the road with Tampa, Dallas and Green Bay all falling by the wayside, Tom Coughlin’s gritty bunch truly are the NFL’s version of the Road Warriors.

Not surprisingly, they’re huge underdogs to Bill Belichick’s Patriots with the current line having the perfect Pats favored by 13.5 points. At this point, who cares?!?!?!?!?! That’s all fine and good. Let everyone pick them. Nobody expects our team to win anyway.

It probably will be consistent with how this whole special postseason run has been. With know-it alls such as Fox’s Jimmy Johnson, Howie Long and ‘wagoner Terry Bradshaw going against the Giants.

It’s kind of like I concluded late last night. Maybe this together T-E-A-M has it in them to pull off one more GIANT upset and take it all.

Of course, it’s going to take a heck of a collective effort to derail regular season league MVP Tom Brady and that offensive juggernaut which has gotten just two catches from Randy Moss so far in their two victories raising their perfect NFL mark to 18-0 after a less than impressive 21-12 performance over the derailed Chargers.

Scary aspect. Even when Brady was pedestrian throwing three picks, the Pats still won comfortably running the final 9:16 out thanks to some awesome blocking up front for Laurence Maroney and money third down specialist Kevin Faulk.

So, what were the Giants’ reaction to their remarkable run continuing thanks to Corey Webster setting up Tynes’ heroics or shall we might as well call it the Jewish symbol for Day of Atonement?!?!?!?!?! Had to!

Eli Manning: 

“We haven’t been given a shot, but we’re here and I think we’re deserving of it. Right now I’m excited as I can be. … We knew we could compete with anybody.

“It’s just a matter of getting hot at the right time. It feels good because this is what you work for. We stuck with it, we believed in ourselves and we got to the Super Bowl.“

“We’re thinking, ‘Hey, we’ve been in these situations before.’ We’ve gone through so many moments when things were against us and nobody gave us a chance and we had to rely on each other and find a way to overcome adversity. And you know what? That’s when we play our best. Just give us a chance, and we’ll find a way to make something happen.“

Lawrence Tynes:

“I screwed it up twice. Thank God we got another opportunity.”

Plaxico Burress:

“We just came out here and played our hearts out.“

Antonio Pierce:

“We know there’s going to be a lot of hype about the Patriots, that everybody expects them to go out there and do their 19-0 thing and ride off into the sunset. That’s how it’s got to be – we would expect nothing but that. Trust me, we’re going to go out there and battle.“

Amani Toomer:

“It was a brutal day. If you have any quit in you – if there was any quit in this team, in anybody – this would have made you quit.“

Tom Coughlin:

“I looked up (at the sky) a couple of times and I accused Him,” Coughlin said later, “but I bit my tongue.”

Michael Strahan:

“We know what we’re up against. It’ll be great.“

Shaun O’Hara:

“You know what? We wouldn’t want it any other way. At least now we know nobody will pick us.”

I think you can see just how together these guys are. When things were going wrong, they never gave up. That second half against the Redskins in Week Three and those gutty road wins over the Bears and Bills with the latter getting them in the postseason for the third consecutive season.

A lot of their games had peaks and valleys like we saw last night. It almost epitomizes what New Yorkers are like. We can be so high one moment and then so low in the next instant. It’s always been that way with our sports teams. What I admire most about these Giants is their resiliency when things get tough. There’s a never say die attitude. When the chips are down, they dig deep and find a way to get it done. Just ask the Cowboys and Packers.

I can’t remember ever being prouder of a team. They have true character. It will be severely tested 13 days from now but just maybe that will be enough to shock the world.