Giants fans make WatchDog (and others) look stupid
I'll probably write something about this in my next newspaper column, but no sense waiting for that:
Giants fans Saturday night made me and many other people look silly for spending the week obsessing over Patriots fans snapping up tickets from old, cranky Giants season ticket holders and turning the Meadowlands into Gillette South.
As it turned out . . . not! Patriots fans seemed to be in 20 percent or so of the seats, at best.
The Giants' fans' truly remarkable effort matched that of their team, creating as electric a regular-season atmosphere as I've seen at the soon-to-be-demolished old ballyard. (The spectacular weather surely helped.)
Kudos to all of you, or whomever those loud, young, enthused, perhaps inebriated people were who were standing in front of your regular seats.
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From what I've heard there was still a lot of Pats fans but fans on both sides were on friendly terms. No fights. Pats were probably presently surprised by how different Jets and Giants fans are from each other.
Funny, back in the old AFL days and later in the Steve Grogan or Jim Plunkett days at Schaefer Stadium, Pats fans were known as the louts of the league ... getting wicked pissah on Narragansett beer and throwing the cans at the players ... while Jets fans at Shea had fights that tumbled down the upper deck and burned bonfires on the open end zone bleachers. They can't do that now at the Swamp ... so ....
Trying to get a Gate D report from SNY right now ... but they're running another out-of-market basketball game.
Ahhhh yes, inebriated. Something tells me at leat 70% of those fans don't remember much about last night except that there was traffic...
just because there were seats for sale doesn't mean they all sold. some of the prices were outrageous, so it's safe to say many tried, but failed to sell their ducats.
True, but those people did show up. They did not stay home. The turnstile count was nearly 77,000.
I've been to many Giants games over the last 16 years, including a NFC Chanpionship game, but none matched the energy of last night's game. We, as well as most of the lower level, stood for every play. I only sat during halftime and TV timeouts. The crowd was youner then usual, and I would say that about 15-20% were New England fans. Every one was respectful of one another as far as I could see. For those who sold their tickets or stayed home, you missed the game of a lifetime.
bad hed on this story of yours, neil (i know u didn't write it)
http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/giants/ny-spratings315521200dec31,0,3903539.story
Len: You are correct on both counts. That is an inaccurate headline, and I didn't write it! Thanks for reading carefully. Neil