Who Won the NFL Super Bowl in 2007?
The New England Patriots won the NFL Super Bowl in 2007.
Introduction
In 2007, the Indianapolis Colts won the Super Bowl. The game was played on February 4, 2007, at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The Colts defeated the Chicago Bears by a score of 29-17.
The New England Patriots
The New England Patriots were led by quarterback Tom Brady, who threw for 3,218 yards and 24 touchdowns during the regular season. Brady was named NFL MVP for the 2007 season. Other key players on the Patriots’ offense included wide receiver Randy Moss and running back Laurence Maroney. The Patriots’ defense was led by linebacker Tedy Bruschi and cornerback Asante Samuel.
The Patriots entered the 2007 NFL playoffs as the number one seed in the AFC. They defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars 28-3 in the divisional round and then defeated the San Diego Chargers 21-12 in the AFC Championship game.
The New England Patriots faced the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII. The Giants were led by quarterback Eli Manning, who threw for 3,338 yards and 23 touchdowns during the regular season. Wide receiver Plaxico Burress was a key player on the Giants’ offense, catching 70 passes for 1,025 yards and 12 touchdowns during the regular season. The Giants’ defense was anchored by defensive end Michael Strahan and linebacker Antonio Pierce.
The New York Giants upset the New England Patriots 17-14 in Super Bowl XLII. Eli Manning was named Super Bowl MVP after throwing for 2 TDs and 266 yards in the game.
The New York Giants
The New York Giants won the Super Bowl in 2007.
Conclusion
The 2007 New England Patriots season was the 38th season for the team in the National Football League and franchise’s 48th overall. The Patriots competed in the NFL as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference (AFC) East division. They played their home games at Gillette Stadium in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts, and finished the season with an undefeated 16–0 record. The Patriots became only the second team in NFL history to finish a regular season undefeated, and the first team to do so since the 1972 Miami Dolphins finished 14–0.
The Patriots were also the first team ever to have four wide receivers catch at least 50 passes each in a single season. They are one of only two teams (the 1985 San Francisco 49ers being the other) to score points on their opening drive of every game.[2]
The Patriots set an NFL record for most first downs in a single season with 417, bettering by one the previous year’s mark of 416 held by their division rivals, the Indianapolis Colts. The team also broke its own previous franchise record of 362 points scored during its Super Bowl-winning 2003 campaign by tallying 589 total points (an average of 36.8 per game). In addition to leading all NFL teams in scoring during 2007, they also became only one fourth team ever to score 600 or more points (joining those ’98 Vikings, ’84 49ers, and ’83 Redskins).[3]
