The 2011-12 Super Bowl Champions, the New York Giants, are one football minded team. The football confidence they displayed in this year’s Super Bowl was an incredible site to see. They exhibited a football mentality that truly made for one of the most exciting and memorable Super Bowl’s of all time. The game winning drive at the end of the 4th quarter and the way the Giants defense shut down the Patriots offense was what mental preparation for football, preparedness, determination and talent is all about.

The MVP of the Super Bowl this year was Eli Manning, the quarterback of the New York Giants. It was well deserved. Eli took a beating in the prior week’s game and in this one too but he held his composure and kept his football confidence and mental toughness in check and played a simply outstanding game. The vast majorities of passes from Eli were right on target and gave the receivers a chance to catch the ball in bounds for the Giants. He also scrambled and avoided many sacks or knock down. He simply rose to the occasion, used his sport psychology for football as well as his physical talents and played a simply outstanding Super Bowl game.

The Head Coach of the Giants, Tom Coughlin went to extraordinary measures to mentally prepare himself and his players or the Super Bowl. Among other things, he had the player’s participate in Yoga classes the week of the Super Bowl to get them to mentally focus on the game at hand. In regard to his own personal mental preparation as he states, “When you do get totally engrossed in the game, it’s not unlike any other game that you’re involved in. But really, you get into a zone and you don’t think about those things. You’re not paying attention to the vastness of the game, the importance of the game.” In other words, his football mentality was totally focused on each play as it was playing out.

David Tyree was another huge contributor to the New York Giants winning the Super Bowl this year. He prepares mentally in the off season for the next year by meeting with a football sport psychologist who helps him to see what he can improve on for next season. Tyree says they usually watch game tape and then the psychologist asks him what was going through Tyree’s mind at the time of the play. It’s a win-win situation.

If you watched the Super Bowl this past year you can infer on your own that there is absolutely no question that the New York Giants were much more mentally prepared for the game and also they had a confidence because of this preparedness to be able to win the game; which they did.