How could he drop that pass? It was so perfect and it was going to be an automatic touchdown and probably win the game. This dropped ball that I am referring to is obviously the dropped pass committed by Wes Welker in the late fourth quarter of this years Super Bowl. And then, of course, to top it all off, Mario Manningham comes back three plays later with an insane grab and both feet down before being pushed out of bounds. Obviously for any Patriots fan this amazing catch may bring back memories of the David Tyree velcro-helmet catch that allowed the Giants to defeat the Patriots in Super Bowl 42. This time, we all thought that it would be different. "There's no way that Brady is going to allow the Giants to do it to him agains." Of course this was the talk of every New Englander prior to the game. And then what happened? They did it again.
For this article, Gary Kamiya relied heavily on a strong pathos appeal. He knows that almost everyone that watched the Super Bowl has some sort of emotion about the outcome. For Giants fans, he knows that describing the amazing catch by Manningham is going to bring up very strong positive emotions, while at the same time discussing the incompletion to Welker is going to target those sour emotions felt by almost every Patriot fan. However, the technique that Kamiya uses to make this article seem "intense" also helped appealed to the reader. Certain passages such as, "Facing this explosive offense was a flawed Patriots’ defense, its Achilles heel its secondary" and "Plus, there was the Patriot mystique — their three Super Bowl victories and their brilliant coach Bill Belichick" (Salon.com) gave this article the feel as if it were a Super Bowl itself.
Why are you even bringing up the super bowl? Nobody wants to think about it
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