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Giants' winning touchdown a 'mistake'

Published Feb. 5, 2012 12:00 a.m. ET

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Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw did not mean to score the winning touchdown in the Super Bowl, but he will celebrate it all the same.

Bradshaw charged through a wide-open hole for a six-yard score to give his team a 21-17 lead over the Patriots with 57 seconds left in Super Bowl XLVI. But Bradshaw tried to stop right before the end zone and take a knee to leave the Patriots with even less time to retaliate.

He was presumably thinking the Giants would let the clock tick down before trying to score a touchdown on the next play or setting up a chip-shot field goal for Lawrence Tynes.

"Yeah. It was a mistake by me. I had a feeling they might do that. I should have got to him and told him not to score," Eli Manning said. "As I broke the huddle it kind of crossed my mind. As I got the snap I saw their [defensive] line just ease up and I was yelling to Ahmad not to score, not to score.

"I think he thought about it and tried to stop at the last second, but rolled in."

But the extra time did not matter, and the Giants held on to beat the Patriots with a scary Hail Mary landing in the end zone as time expired.

"Oh, man, it was the best feeling in my life," Bradshaw said of the winning score. "I'm just so happy to be with my team and my family."

Bradshaw finished the game with 72 yards on 17 carries, and his 24-yard run up the sideline in the second quarter set up the Giants' first touchdown, which put them ahead 9-0. In between, the Giants had to settle for two Tynes field goals that cut into a 17-9 Patriots lead.

"It's the greatest thing in the world, man," said Bradshaw, who was a rookie on the Giants' 2007-08 Super Bowl team. "I'm just hoping we can win another one. It's the greatest feeling in my life."

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