Stumble It!
What a great Super Bowl! The New York Giants were a heavy underdog but on this day they pulled one of the biggest upsets in the history of the game defeating the Patriots 17-14. New England was poised to go an amazing 19-0, but this game showed what heart and desire can do.
There are so many story lines, but the one most of us Dukies enjoy hearing is the Manning-Cutcliffe connection. Eli Manning won the MVP this year. His brother Peyton Manning won it last year. And new Duke Football Coach David Cutcliffe? He had the pleasure of helping develop these two quarterbacks while at Tennessee and Mississippi.
New Duke Football Coach David Cutcliffe talks strategy with Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning during his days at Ole Miss
David Cutcliffe knows how develop young men into Champions. Much like our living legend basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, he seems to have a knack for developing young men to be all they can be.
I'm sure that the Cutcliffe family, many of the Duke Football players and a good portion of our fans were pulling for his protege, Eli Manning. Heck, I am a Dallas Cowboys fanatic, but I put that aside and found myself quite excited when Manning executed a perfect play action pass for his Giants to claim the lead and ultimately the winning score to Burress.
Let me tell you this right now. There is a very positive vibe around the Duke Football program these days. I am sure Thadeus Lewis, Zack Asack, Cappetto and the newly signed Sean Renfree are chomping at the bit to gain some of the Mannings knowledge from Coach Cutcliffe.
Any way you cut it, pardon the pun, there are a lot of excited Duke fans and Spring Football has yet to begin.