News: Cowboys Fail in Playoffs Again - Giants head to Green Bay
Monday, January 14, 2008 at 01:13:14 am

IRVING, Texas (AP) -- Peyton Manning has a championship game to be at next weekend after all. He can go watch baby brother Eli guide the New York Giants.

A few hours after the reigning Super Bowl MVP lost his chance to get back to the big game, the less-heralded, often-criticized member of football's most famous family got the biggest victory of his career. Manning led the Giants past Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 on Sunday and into the NFC title game.

"I won't get tired of hearing that this week," Manning said. "No one's given us much credit and probably still won't. But that's OK. We like it that way."

Eli, the Manning who doesn't do many commercials, threw two touchdown passes to Amani Toomer and led another scoring drive early in the fourth quarter. While he wasn't great, he was good enough to lead New York to its ninth straight road win and into a 10th road game -- at Green Bay, with the winner getting a spot in the Super Bowl. It's the furthest New York has advanced since the 2000 season. . .

Full Article at Yahoo! Sports

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