Those had to be impostors wearing red, white and blue last night.

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That couldn't possibly have been Aaron Ross trying to cover Braylon Edwards. That couldn't possibly have been embattled Browns quarterback Derek Anderson getting Edwards the ball down field. That couldn't possibly have been Justin Tuck and Mathias Kiwanuka rushing Anderson.

That couldn't possibly have been Big Blue getting pushed back all the way into Lake Erie.

Those couldn't possibly have been the Road Warriors getting ambushed by the feeble Browns inside a howling Dawg Pound.

That couldn't possibly have been Tom Coughlin looking befuddled and anguished again on the sidelines.

Most of all, that couldn't possibly have been Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning.

That couldn't possibly have been a Brownout in Cleveland last night.

Read it and weep Giant fans: Your franchise quarterback (three interceptions) and your Dream Team had one nightmare of a night.

Manning pointed a finger at himself. "That's unacceptable," Manning said. "That's not the way we win games. That's not the way we've been playing. I've gotta fix that."

Superman turned into Clark Kent at a time when the 4-1 Giants, 35-14 losers, could have -- should have -- taken command of the NFC East in the wake of Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo suffering a broken right pinkie that will keep him sidelined for a month, including the Nov. 2 showdown at Giants Stadium. "Sloppy football," Manning said.

In other words: Blue it. Blue it big.

Manning had thrown an interception on his first pass of the second half, a deep post for Plaxico Burress that wasn't in the same zip code. Manning had thrown one interception through four games when the night began. Now he had three. The Browns led 20-14. "Just a bad throw by me," Manning said.

Then Manning was sacked on third down. No escape on this night, no David Tyree in sight. No Michael Strahan or Osi Umenyiora rattling the quarterback. Anderson began shredding Big Blue as if he were Otto Graham. He rolled right on the first play of the fourth quarter and hit Edwards, against a felled Ross, with an 11-yard TD pass and it was 27-14.

Fourth quarter. Winning Time for champions.

Not these champions. Not this quarterback. Not this time.

Manning, whose Go To Guy last night was Steve Smith, began marching his team downfield. If he could beat the Patriots in the last two minutes in the Super Bowl, he could beat the Browns now. Falling backward at the Cleveland 9, pressured by Willie McGinest, Manning looked right for Amani Toomer. The ball hung in the air and was intercepted by Eric Wright, who returned it 94 yards to paydirt. "Game over there," Manning said.