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So the most hilarious thing on the internet this week is this petition. The only thing that might be more ridiculous than a petition saying the Patriots should have won the game (I have no idea what the basis for their statement even is), might be the idea of a website called PetitionOnline.com where people can host “public petitions for responsible public advocacy”. This website cracks me up every time a person starts one of these silly things. Has PetionsOnline.com worked? Ever? Once? My vote is no, but they say otherwise.

These people think the play calling would have gone the same way if there was 40 seconds less on the clock. Like the Giants would have still run plays that would have only gotten them 40 seconds away from winning the Super Bowl, and not targeted longer passes or thrown at the end zone. Wow, this is just pure hilarity:

A request for the NFL to investigate the final 1:40 of Super Bowl XLII

Nowhere in the above rules does it state that in the conditions of what was happening on the clock should be stopped. Also in addition to this six seconds were added to the game clock. Had this illegal clock stoppage not occurred there would have been 40 seconds less time on the clock, 46 seconds less if you consider the six seconds added on after the play. This means that after that play, if the clock was running the way it is supposed to by the rulebook, there would only be 42 seconds left on the clock. Furthermore if this was not enough on the subsequent play time was not taken off during the play followed by a random flashing of numbers on the clock.
The following drive took the Giants a total of 52 seconds on the game clock from the point that six seconds were added to the clock. However if the time was managed the way it was supposed to be there would have been no time left on the clock after Eli Manning was tackled at :50 seconds on the game clock. This irrefutable proof demands that Super Bowl XLII be reviewed from the point of the first illegal stoppage.

So should the Patriots have won? Who cares, Eli Manning is going to Disney~~land~~ World, maybe. More on that later, maybe.

My vote is to asterisk the Patriots record with no explanation to whether the asterisk references the “clock management violations” in the Super Bowl or the fact that the Patriots cheated this season at least once. It would be the perfect end to “The Perfect Season®”.

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