According to Sports Illustrated, John Cena, McLovin and A.C. Slater are all picking the Pats in this one. But these guys, plus Omar Epps, Dean Cain and Jimmy Buffett are wrong.

There’s precedent.

In 480 B.C., 300 Spartans stood against a thousand nations of the Persian Empire. The Persians’ arrows blocked out the sun, but the Spartans still stopped Xerxes from enslaving humanity. In 1919, a 7-to-2 long shot named Upset handed favorite and legendary stallion Man o’ War the only loss of the horse’s career. In 1948, unpopular democratic president Harry S. Truman defeated Republican Thomas Dewey, despite reports to the contrary in the Chicago Daily Tribune. In 1972, 29-year-old Bobby Fischer saved democracy and beat Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky. In 1969, Joe Willie Namath guaranteed victory. In 1980, 20 college kids beat the greatest hockey team on earth.

And in 2008, the Giants will stop the Patriots from achieving perfection.

Plus Johnny Drama and Charles Barkley picked the G-Men.

Pick: Giants 34, Patriots 31 MVP: Eli Manning