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Was the Giants’ Super Bowl win over the Patriots as big an upset as Buster Douglas over Mike Tyson<\/a>? I remember getting the news about Douglas’ win the morning after, and it was as if the earth had started rotating in the other direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Was the Giants’ Super Bowl win over the Patriots as big an upset as Buster Douglas over Mike Tyson? 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