Once upon a time there was a boy. His name was Ben. Ben liked his sports. His favorites growing up were baseball, basketball and football. Baseball was his favorite by far. He started to get annoyed every year when the NFL took attention away from his beloved baseball. Ben decided even though he liked the game of football he just didn't care that much. Out of principle he didn't watch the NFL on a regular basis.
This continued for many years. If a football game was on, Ben would watch it. The game was still good. However, he still didn't feel like watching all the time.
Then in 2011 Ben and his friend Shep decided they were going to watch football on a regular basis. Ben had tried this the year before but it didn't work. He thought about what the problem was and figured out it was because he didn't have a team to root for. Shep thought it was a great idea to root for the Washington Redskins because he had liked them when he was young.
The season started and Ben and Shep realized that they didn't show very many Redskins games on tv. They decided to watch the other teams in their division so they had a team to root against. This backfired on Ben. He fell in love with a scrappy team that were in the same division as the Redskins, the New York Giants.
Ben and Shep watched many Giants games that season, and with Shep's permission, Ben became a Giants fan. It was a few players that Ben fell in love with. Victor Cruz with his circus catches and fancy dance moves made Ben giggle with joy. Jason Pierre-Paul with his appetite for quarterbacks made Ben giddy with excitement. Jake Ballard, with the speed of a turtle and the strength of a bear would drag would be tacklers for an extra few yards, was Ben's favorite.
The Giants season wasn't looking that great, but Ben didn't care. This was his team now. He was going to root for them no matter what they did.
Then an amazing thing happened. Ben decided he was going to buy a Jake Ballard jersey to support his favorite player and his new favorite team. Once the jersey came in the mail and Ben wore it on game days, the Giants won every single game the rest of the season and made the playoffs. The playoffs were an exciting time as they usually are, but they were especially exciting for Ben. His lovable losers had made it and were playing their hearts out. Time and time again, they beat teams that should have beat them. The Giants made it to the Superbowl!
Ben couldn't believe it. His team was playing for the championship! However, they were going to play a team that again was supposed to beat them. The game was exciting. The game was stressful. It seemed that the referees wanted the other team to win! But it all didn't matter. At the end of the game, Eli Manning did what he does best and that was lead the Giants from behind in the fourth quarter of a game and win!
Ben's team won the Superbowl! He was very happy. He wrote a blog about it. And you just read it.
GO GIANTS!!!!!!!
