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NFL- New York Giants - The Road to Super Bowl XLII

5 star:		(47)
4 star:		(19)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I could have easily given this 3 stars or 5 stars. I'm excited to own 5 great games of the greatest Giants' season ever, but the disks disappoint somewhat. If they're not going to put out a Blu-ray version, could they at least put out a widescreen version? It's 2008. How many people are still watching 4:3 TV? If you still are, then these DVD's are a 5. My favorite part of the collection is the Super Bowl DVD with Michael Strahan's commentary track. I just watched the whole thing and you get to hear his comments on every single play. This leads to one final disappointment. There is nothing of the post game on here. I mean zero. Manning takes the final snap, and the DVD goes to the credits. Are you kidding me? Bottom line, if you're a Giants' fan, you have to buy this. Just be prepared it will probably leave you wanting more from it.

What a great move by the NFL. Finally! I have one problem with this. Everything is going digital in 2009 and the aspect ratio is 1.33 to 1? This should be in widescreen at least if not HD-- What is the NFL thinking? Are you listening? The games were broadcast in HD and the DVD being sold is in Standard? Talk about dropping the ball.

Also, this is listed on the Warner Home Video website at $29.95. Where are you getting a list price of $39.98, Amazon? Are you making up list prices?

This set is a must for Giants fans. It follows one of the most historic post-season Super Bowl runs in the NFL. Instead of some retrospective documentary where everybody remembers the days of wine and roses, you get every play of every post-season game including the Super Bowl and the final game of the regular season against New England, a preview of the eventual Super Bowl match up that went in a slightly different direction.

I am a NY Giants fan that lives near Dallas TX.
I pre-ordered this product and just received it on June 3rd, ahead of schedule!
Immediately, I popped Disc 3 (vs Dallas), to relive a great victory over a shocked Dallas team, and to check out the product.
This disc had the game as it was broadcast by Fox with a couple of short pre-game on the field interviews. Then just the game, no commercials or idle time, but all of the action.
I assume the same goes for the other discs/games.

PROS:
Original broadcast (commercial free) complete games:
-Disc 1 Patriots at Giants (last game of regular season)
-Disc 2 Giants at Buccaneers (wild card game)
-Disc 3 Giants at Cowboys (
-Disc 4 Giants at Packers (NFC Championship game)
-Disc 5 Giants at Patriots (Superbowl XLII game)

Reasonable price (less than $29)

CONS:
They are regular broadcast video quality.
(I would have loved for them to be widescreen HD)

I strongly recommend this to all Giants fans and NFL fans in general.

I am assuming the product description is still just a generic description because they didnt know who was going to win the superbowl. I have found a picture of the back of the dvd box and it makes it clear that it will have week 17's game against the patriots, the tampa bay game, the dallas game, the green bay game, and the superbowl game.

I will be one of the first to purchase this item. Like the previous reviewer, I'm shocked, but extremely happy the NFL is going to release a full broadcast version of the Super Bowl. This is something that is way overdue!! The ONLY thing to make this better is to release a BluRay version of this, for those of us wanting to see the game in hi def and widescreen!!!

It was a thrill to be able to buy DVDs of one of the greatest postseason runs of all time, but the set was disappointing. The video transfer is poor in standard definition, and it looks absolutely awful on a large HD set. It's a shame this wasn't released in Blu-Ray (maybe Warner didn't expect a big demand?) and it was absolutely criminal to leave off the postgame celebration and Super Bowl trophy presentation. Certainly they could have cobbled something together out of the postgame plus the parade and subsequent rallies? I'll keep the set for posterity, but if I want to watch the famous 3rd-and-5, I'll have to stick with my lefover DVR recording.

This is an excellent collection for anyone who likes to watch the Giants' rise from an underdog/wild card team to a Superbowl champion

These 5 DVDs have no extra behind the scenes or boring documentary, just the last 5 regular season game and the 2008 playoffs in which the giants dominated (specially on the Defensive side) and managed to upset the previously undefeated New England Patriots.

A real interesting thing is that you can listen to Michael Strahan commenting throughout the Superbowl game.

If you are a Giants fan then this is a must buy.

If you're not then maybe watching this will make you one.

What the giants did is nothing short of amazing, unbelievable and exciting. Proabably the best playoff games I've ever seen by one team I'm going to rate the match ups between 1 and 10 on how the game was.

game 1. Giants vs. Tampa Bay

Great wild card game for the giants and showing why they were so dominant on defense during the season. Also amazing interception by mcquarters sealing the game away for the giants. unfortunately this is the worst on the list of games, but its great nonetheless.
7.5/10

game 2. Giants vs dallas cowboys

Proabably one of the most unexpected wins and greatest finsihes to a playoff game. Going in Giants were completely out matched on offense againt T.O. and Tony Romo Jason Witten Patrick Crayton and much more, but the giants came fighting strong and came up with the win on an amazing interception by McQuarters once again to move on to one of the greatest games played. 9/10

game 3. Giants vs. Packers

A sure fire NFL classic. negative temperatures. missed field goals. winning field goal from 40+ yards in negative temperatures. The giants were once again supposedly outmatched by Aaron Rodgers, Donald Driver, and the all great Brett Farve along with Al Harris and NIck COllins on defense. This was proabably the worst one played by the giants to be honest. giants nearly turned the ball over 4 times which easily could of affected the games outcome, but the giants always got the ball first most of the time which saved their game. anyway lets go in to the best part... 4th quarter... 3 to 8 seconds left. HIGH SNAP AND ITS WIDE LEFT. some how though in OT out of all times to kick a winner Laurence Tynes did it sending the giants on to the biggest upset of all time. 10/10

game 4! giants vs patriots. SBXLII

Biggest upset by far in NFL history... bigger then jets vs. colts from 68. THE BIGGEST UPSET EVER WITH THE BEST PLAY EVER. Going in you had Brady, Randy, Wes Welker, Donte stallworth, Asante Samuel, Teddy Brushci, Junior Seau, much more, and to make it bigger the patriots didn't lose a game all season and were chasing 19-0. Looks like the game was in the bag for patriot fans already. BUT THE GIANTS weren't knocked down by the patriots. Instead they kept Brady running from the giants defense all day, and after it seemed like the patriots had it won, giants came back with the most amazing drive in super bowl history. with the biggest play ever by unbELIvable Eli, and amazing david tyree, and we all know what happens next. 18-1!!! GIANTS WIN!!!. 11/10


Overall this dvd is worth spending your hard earned cash for. Only one question though... on the cover it shows 5 discs. now it either a could be a mistake or it could be the giants loss or win in the minds of some people when they faced new england in week 17 on nfl network( by the way that game is also a 9/10 if it's also in the dvd set), but anyway this dvd collection is definately worth buying. GET IT!

It took awhile but us GIANT fans finally got the dvd we've
been waiting for. All the great games in real time. (minus
commercials). The Strahan commentary was great.