Tom Coughlin, Eli Manning reap sweet rewards following rocky times

It wasn't that long ago, actually mid-December, weeks before the Giants got on their world championship run, when it looked like Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning, after years of trying, just didn't have that special something it takes to make it in New York.

No coach and quarterback in the NFL had ever been ridiculed more than Coughlin and Manning. That's what made it even sweeter Monday that they were at the day-after news conference for the winning coach and Super Bowl MVP with a championship over the imperfect Patriots. The struggles were just part of the process. Continue