I’m getting a series of e-mails from folks who are probably reading too much into a football game (Yay Giants!):

The Patriots didn’t play like a great team tonight, much less like one that had won 18 straight games to get here. There were a lot of things I thought this game might be, but boring wasn’t one of them. Yet when New England had the ball tonight, it mostly was. It is a shame because generally speaking people don’t remember teams who lose the Super Bowl. (Unless they rack up a series of losses and/or blow a game-winning field goal – or both ala Buffalo.) In the end, a perfect regular season just doesn’t mean much if you don’t also win the big one. This year the only perfection that really mattered was 11 and 0 on the road. And that perfect record belonged to the New York Giants. Gee, Mitt’s looking better for Tuesday, all of a sudden.

Hey, who am I to question? Mo is mo, however it’s inspired.

Meanwhile ARG on California and Insider Advantage on Georgia have some reasons for cautious optimism for Romney supporters.

UPDATE: Correction from a (male) reader (further proof that chicks shouldn’t try football analysis?):

I was thrilled that the Giants won, and I say that as an Eagles’ fan who cheers with vigor against the Giants at least twice a year, and usually much more often than that. However, they did NOT have a perfect road record, as they lost their opener on the road (at Dallas) before winning the last 7 regular season road games, 3 road playoff games, and the Super Bowl. Counting the Super Bowl as a road game (iffy, as their opponent wasn’t at home either), their road record was 11-1.