Several New York Giants said all week long that they were expecting to be Super Bowl XLVI champions.  On the eve before the big game, an image proclaiming the Giants as Super Bowl champions was accidentally posted on the Giants official website. The page was taken down after a "brief period," according to Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPNNewYork.com.

"It is common practice for both teams to create web pages in advance of the conference championship games and Super Bowl," the NFL said in a statement. "In this case, the hidden URL for the page was inadvertently available for a brief period of time while it was being positioned on the NFL server for possible post tomorrow night."

The Giants.com page briefly had a headline that read "The Giants are Super Bowl champions!" with an ad for official Giants Super Bowl championship gear on it. There was a link to enter Giants.com on the image which contained game photos of defensive end Justin Tuck, linebacker Mathias Kiwanuka, defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul, quarterback Eli Manning and a shot of the Vince Lombardi trophy.

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