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The hype can blind you at the Super Bowl, of course. For instance, this year I would say that most people I run across think that the New York Giants will beat New England on Sunday. The Patriots, at last check, were still 2 1/2- or 3-point favorites, which tells you that the betting everywhere is still skewing toward New England. But it feels like two out of three people I have talked with here (players, media, former players, insiders, ticket scalpers, some husband and wife named Teddy and Linda who hang around the hotel lobby) have said that the Giants will win.
They have all sorts of sound reasoning: The Giants will pressure Patriots quarterback Tom Brady into mistakes; the Patriots will struggle with a slowed or missing Rob Gronkowski;...
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