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Dissed by 49ers, Giants show they’re not a fluke with blowout win

DOWN WITH JPP: Jason Pierre-Paul drags down Niners quarterback Alex Smith during the second quarter yesterday for one of the Giants’ six sacks in a 26-3 victory at San Francisco. (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO — The 49ers all but stood on the Golden Gate Bridge and announced for all to hear they wanted the Giants, and they wanted them now, in the middle of their Candlestick Park ring.

Moral of the story: You don’t tug on Superman’s cape. You don’t call Superman a fluke.

Because Superman has feelings too. Superman can get mighty angry and motivated and defiant when you disrespect him, tell him he was lucky to leap tall buildings in a single bound on his way to the Lombardi Trophy. Superman will fight for justice.

In the Tom Coughlin world of Talk Is Cheap Play the Game, the Giants, resounding 26-3 winners yesterday, silenced all the 49ers talk about payback with pad-popping play that spoke volumes about the kind of team they are and the kind of men that fill their locker room.

“We knew last year, we knew it wasn’t a fluke, we knew we earned it, and we wanted to set that statement today,” Ahmad Bradshaw said.

And what was the statement?

“I think we’re tough. … I think we’re a tough team, physically, mentally,” Chris Snee said. “To make this trip is not easy, but to beat a team like that, you need to be physically tough,”

Superman sent a message that will resonate through Philadelphia and Dallas and the nation’s capitol and beyond.

“I think it sends a message to everybody in the NFC … don’t count us out,” David Baas said.

The 49ers fancy themselves as the new bullies on the block, but yesterday the bullies had sand kicked in their faces and their lunch money stolen in broad daylight.

“We talk with our pads,” Jason Pierre-Paul said. “We don’t trash talk or nothing, that ain’t the way the Giants organization works. We just come out here and talk with our pads, and prove what we gotta prove. They thought they had a chip on their shoulders, but nobody picked us to win the game.”

The 49ers couldn’t wait to get their hands on Eli Manning (15-28, 193 yards, one TD) again. In the brutal NFC Championship Game last season, Manning was hit more than Joe Frazier was in Jamaica by George Foreman, his jersey caked in mud, his helmet wearing a clump of grass. Snee was asked how his quarterback looked at the end of this game.

“You tell me,” Snee said.

Sackless in San Francisco.

“Yeah I think everyone was tired of hearing about it, tired of talking about it, tired of watching the tape,” Snee said. “The only way to put that to rest was to perform well today.”

The Giants own an elite quarterback and the 49ers do not. The new and improved Alex Smith? The one who had thrown only three interceptions and was no longer just a game manager? He managed three interceptions yesterday, one by Prince Amukamara and two by Antrel Rolle.

And Perry Fewell’s AWOL Big Blue pass rush? JPP got Smith twice and Linval Joseph and Jacquian Williams, Mathias Kiwanuka and Adrian Tracy got him once each. If Joe Montana was getting flashbacks of Lawrence Taylor and Leonard Marshall and Jim Burt savaging him, you could understand it.

The Big Blue mantra: stop the run (17-80 for the league’s No. 1 attack) and have some fun.

“We rattled the quarterback a lot today,” JPP said. “He was getting out of the pocket, and that’s what you need.”

Rolle’s two picks led to two Lawrence Tynes field goals, and when it became a 23-3 game, Bradshaw and David Wilson ran the ball down the 49ers’ throats with a 7:10 drive that sapped them of their will and drove the nail in the coffin. Heck, the 49ers almost resembled the Jets at the end of their game against San Francisco.

“That’s when the offensive line just takes over the game,” Manning said.

No one is supposed to run for over 100 yards on the 49ers. Bradshaw (27-116, one TD) did. Asked if the Giants wore the 49ers down in the fourth quarter, Bradshaw said: “I think so.”

The 49ers’ Kyle Williams (19.3 kickoff average) wanted redemption for his punt return follies nine months ago? Wilson had the 66-yard kickoff return to open the second half.

It was a dream game for Coughlin in this regard as well: not a single penalty on offense or defense.

Giants to 49ers: Fluke you.

“I’ve heard comments from them, and so be it,” Snee said. “They can think what they want.” He paused and said:

“Was today a fluke?”