Boston gets Butterfinger candy in honor of Patriots loss to Giants

Victory isn't the only thing that's sweet.

Colorado-based online pawn shop Pawngo.com left 900 pounds of Butterfinger candy bars in Boston's Copley Square on Tuesday to mock the New England Patriots.

Patriots receiver Wes Welker dropped a pass late in the fourth quarter of Sunday's Super Bowl XLVI against the Giants, costing his team a shot at the title in a game they lost 21-17.

The website left a large placard near the giant pile of 8,000 candy bars that read, "Thank you Wes Welker."

Welker also was the likely target of Tom Brady's model wife, Gisele Bundchen, who said Sunday on her way out of the game, “My husband cannot f--king throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time! I can’t believe they dropped the ball so many times!”

A spokesman for Pawngo said, “It wasn’t a direct shot at Wes Welker. He wasn’t the only one dropping passes.”

Welker’s already reeling teammates played defense yesterday.

“You can’t point fingers at anybody. Wes made amazing plays all season,” defensive back James Ihedigbo said. "You win it as a team; you win it and lose it as a team. And we lost to a good football team.”

But even Brady’s rival — Giants QB and Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning — said if Brady and Welker had completed that pass, he wouldn’t have had the chance to rally his team to victory.

“It’d be tough just because it’s not so much whether they scored or not, it’s just time at that point,” Manning told ESPN Radio on Monday.

The Patriots were in Giants territory when Welker failed to catch Brady’s deep lob with four minutes left in the game. Welker was open and got his hands on the ball, even though it was thrown slightly behind him.

“If they get that first down, they’re going to run that clock down to maybe under two minutes — or maybe even more,” Manning said.

“We’re very, very fortunate he didn’t hold on to that ball.”

With Don Kaplan