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Patriots catch #@*%ing hell from Gisele

There is only so much criticism one supermodel can take!

Tom Brady’s wife, Gisele Bundchen, couldn’t handle a little razzing from Giants fans after the Patriots lost 21-17 to Big Blue in Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday — snapping that it was the wide receivers, not her quarterback husband, who botched the game.

“You catch the ball when you’re supposed to catch the ball,” Bundchen seethed to a colleague after running into Giants fans jeering, “Eli rules!” and “Eli owns your husband!” minutes after the Super Bowl ended.

“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!” she said after stepping out of a luxury box at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Bundchen didn’t name names, but her memory was undoubtedly fresh after seeing Brady and Wes Welker fail to connect on a fourth-quarter pass that could have iced the game for New England.

The catwalker’s catty remark had Welker’s already reeling teammates playing defense yesterday.

“You can’t point fingers at anybody. Wes made amazing plays all season,” defensive back James Ihedigbo said yesterday.

“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 that if Brady and Welker had completed that pass, he wouldn’t have had the chance to rally Big Blue 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.

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.”

After the incompletion, Brady failed to connect with Deion Branch on another catchable pass.

The Patriots punted it away, opening the door for Manning’s magic — punctuated by a sideline-dancing grab by Mario Manningham.

Asked about Bundchen’s comments, Manningham said that it was unfair to single out an individual player — and that it was unthinkable that she would make her finger-pointing public.

“Stuff happens, one player doesn’t lose a game,” he said outside a meet-and-greet with fans in Times Square yesterday.

“You’re never supposed to blame a loss on one person.”

The one person Bundchen didn’t blame was her hubby.

“You played the best game of your life . . . You were amazing,” she said into his ear as they rendezvoused inside the stadium after the game, TMZ reported.

Giants defensive end Dave Tollefson said any internal blame games should be kept “in house and not put it out on the street.”

“That’s unfair. It’s a team game and you can’t really blame one person,” Tollefson said.

As the dejected Patriots cleaned out their lockers in Foxborough, Mass., yesterday, only a few players, including Ihedigbo, faced reporters and stuck up for their slippery-fingered teammates.

Ihedigbo said New England couldn’t have even made it to the Super Bowl without Welker.

“You look at the plays that he has made all year long to put us in this position and how he played that game, how hard he prepared that game and across the board,” he said. “Look, we wanted it just as bad as they did. They just made some key plays there at the end and came out on top, so hats off to them.”

Patriots defensive back Antwaun Molden echoed Ihedigbo.

Bundchen’s hiss stood in stark contrast to her sappy email to pals last week, pleading with them to pray for her “Tommy.”

Most Giants fans were delighted by her frustration.

Big Blue diehard Johnny Severino, 19, agreed that Brady’s receivers let him down — but he faulted Gisele for popping off about it.

“She should have been on the field trying to catch the ball — see how that feels,” said Severino, of Brownsville, Brooklyn.