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In the end, the grand graven images of football, those towering or cracked monuments we call legacies, are the result of fine carving, of inches, of a moment here and gone. In Super Bowl XLVI the New York Giants once again toppled the favoured New England Patriots, 21-17 this time, on another drive, another throw, another catch, another comeback. And now Eli Manning is bigger, and Tom Coughlin is bigger, and Mario Manningham will become a walking moment, and they will all deserve it.
But when asked this week what made Bill Belichick great, his longest-serving player, Kevin Faulk, croaked, “Little things. It doesn’t matter what it is, it doesn’t matter what it’s for, what it’s about, because those little things sooner or later add up to something big.”
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