Chris Canty again predicted success for his team, this time just hours before Sunday's Super Bowl, when he tweeted his guess at the final score: "Giants 28, New England 17."
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The defensive end then apparently thought better of his tweet and deleted it. It no longer appeared on his Twitter page at 3:45 p.m. ET, over three hours after he sent it.
Canty previously promised that the Giants would be throwing a victory parade next week, making headlines but drawing little in the way of ire from Patriots players.
"When a guy says (what Canty said), you don't really take offense to it because what else is he supposed to think?" Patriots cornerback Devin McCourty told The Star-Ledger on Thursday in response to Canty's parade comments. "He's not supposed to think he's going to walk off the field a loser in the Super Bowl."
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady did his own chirping a week ago. The three-time Super Bowl champion told some 25,000 fans at a send-off in Foxborough, Mass., that he hoped there would be more fans for the rally when the team returned.
Canty tweeted his prediction in response to the following tweet from @JasonRomano, whose LinkedIn bio lists him as an ESPN producer: "Send me your Super Bowl predictions that stink -- Closest to the score gets a copy of @ToddGongwer's new book 'Lead for God's Sake' ".
The NFL -- which allowed players to send tweets during last Sunday's Pro Bowl -- prohibits players from tweeting 90 minutes before other games. Canty's tweet was sent at 12:11 p.m. ET, six hours and 18 minutes before Sunday's scheduled Super Bowl kickoff of 6:29 p.m. ET.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
