findingDulcinea Publishes AlmostPerfectSeason.com, A Hindsight Review of Media Coverage of the 2007 New York Giants and New England Patriots

And whenever a team plays as poorly as the Giants did at times during the season, and then pulls it all together to triumph over an apparently unbeatable foe in the Super Bowl, the hindsight analysis can be withering.

In that vein, findingDulcinea today introduced AlmostPerfectSeason (www.AlmostPerfectSeason.com), an anthology of memorable media coverage of the 2007 seasons of the Giants and Patriots.

Coverage begins a year ago, as sportswriters question the Giants' re-signing coach Tom Coughlin and the Patriots trading for Randy Moss on NFL draft day. It continues week by week as writers bemoan the Giants' porous defense, curse Eli Manning's inconsistency, and call for coach Coughlin's head, all the while conceding a perfect season to the Patriots. The coverage concludes with the unlikely but unforgettable Giants victory in Super Bowl XLII.

"There's no greater jinx in sports than celebrating a victory before it happens. When I learned that the Patriots had filed for a trademark for '19-0: A Perfect Season,' I knew the Giants would win the Super Bowl," said Adam Hofstetter, senior editor at findingDulcinea. "And when we learned that several books celebrating the undefeated Patriots were not merely revised but scrapped entirely, we created this site so all fans of the Giants, Patriots, irony and hindsight would have something to commemorate the Almost Perfect Season."

In connection with the site launch, findingDulcinea also announced its 2007 Football Season awards for media coverage:

    The "Lone Voice in the Wilderness" Award goes to CBS Sportsline's Pete
    Prisco, who in August 2007 was one of the few writers to predict that
    "Coughlin will turn that thing around. The Giants will be good in 2007."

    The "Smart Enough to Admit I Was Wrong Before It Was Really Too Late"
    Award goes to The New York Post's Mike Vacarro, who wrote a column during
    Super Bowl week entitled "Rewriting Wrongs: Fire Coughlin? Well, It
    Sounded Good at the Time."

    The "Grace Under Fire" Award goes to Jamie Pacheco of Patriot Act, who,
    shortly after the game ended, wrote on his blog, "We, as Patriots fans,
    should simply acknowledge that on this night, the New York Giants were the
    better team."

    The "I Guess That's What Belichick Thought" Award goes to Kerry Byrne, of
    Cold Hard Football Facts, who wrote "Super Bowl XLII is literally the
    NFL's Mismatch of the Century ... and the league is only 88 years old."

Other Sports Web Guides recently produced by findingDulcinea include its popular Web guide to Super Bowl XLII, its Web guide to the Daytona 500 and its Web Guide to catching all the action from the Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues for Major League Baseball's Spring Training (http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides.html?topic=/categories/sports ).

In March findingDulcinea will publish Web Guides to the NCAA's March Madness, the Final Four, and the Kentucky Derby.

About findingDulcinea

findingDulcinea (http://www.findingDulcinea.com) is a human-powered alternative to algorithm-driven search results. It offers users a three-pronged approach to efficiently discovering credible information online. Its core offering is a series of hundreds of narrated guides to hand-selected, credible Web sites, interwoven with context, insight, and research strategies.

Contact

Adam Hofstetter or Mark Moran, findingDulcinea, (212) 685-7303

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