It has to rank up there with all the sports upsets you hear about all the time. NC State over Houston in the ‘83 NCAA Championship. NY Jets over the Colts in Super Bowl 3. Portland Trail Blazers over Philadelphia in the ‘77 NBA Finals.

Save your newspaper clippings tomorrow folks, because the box score is going to be one you’re going to want to treasure if you are a true sports fan, and especially if you’re a New England Patriot hater.

Super Bowl XLII: New York Giants 17, New England Patriots 14.

Patriots come into the game 18-0…and yet they didn’t win the biggest game of the season. Whether you regard it as the biggest choke of all time by one of sports’ greatest teams, an improbable comeback by a team who had won every game on the road but one, or simply as vindication for Spygate, the last five minutes of Super Bowl 42 were absolutely must-see TV.

One huge play that had the crowd audibly wowed, and one that you will undoubtedly see played on highlight reels for years to come as one of the best plays in NFL history, was on the third down play when Eli Manning avoided the sack — I don’t know how in the world he did it — and threw down the field. Somehow, with Rodney Harrison blanketing him, David Tyree came up with the catch, pinning the ball against his helmet on the way down and never letting the ball touch the ground. Take a look at the photo — this will go down as one of the greatest sports plays of all time. I want to watch the replay of that play over and over and over. And now I can…here’s the video on NFL.com.

It only took a few plays from there for Eli to find Plaxico Burress in the endzone for what would prove to be the game-winning TD, when Tom Brady’s magic finally ran out.

Any way you cut it, the Giants are Super Bowl Champions, and listen over the next few days as the sports pundits talk about how the Patriots will go down as the best team in sports history to never win a championship.