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  • eli How The New York Giants Help Me Get Through My Life

    I have cried every day that the Giants have been in the Super Bowl. I shed a couple of tears this Sunday, moments after the Patriot's final gasp fell in between Rob Gronkowski's outstretched arms. I bawled when Eli Manning led the team to the biggest upset in Super Bowl history four years ago.

  • 3rd and Long

    Before the start of the 2011 NFL season, Eli Manning made the claim that he belonged in the elite quarterback conversation. He was basically laughed out of the room. Now just a few short months later he is a guaranteed, first ballot lock for the Hall of Fame? He is definitely an elite quarterback in the NFL, but one great year does not make anybody a Hall of Famer.

  • h Patriot League to Begin Offering Football Scholarships

    The Patriot League announced Monday that it would allow member schools to offer athletic scholarships in football, beginning in 2013. Fordham, which is a football-only member of the Patriot League, began offering football scholarships in the 2010 season, a decision which rendered the Rams ineligible for the conference championship.

  • trete Two Minute Drill

    The New York Giants are the champions of the football world after beating the favored New England Patriots by a score of 21-17 in Super Bowl XLVI this past Sunday. And to the victor goes the spoils. What do the world champs receive for reaching the pinnacle of the football world? The answer is the legendary Vince Lombardi Trophy.

  • f Overtime

    Football is far and away my favorite sport. I used to think it was baseball, but the older I get, the more I gravitate towards football. The thing that really gets me is  that there is just so much to like about the sport. When fall hits, you have not one, but two varieties of football to consume, college and pro.

  • Giants and Patriots Take Different Roads to SB XLVI

    Going into their Christmas Eve rivalry showdown with the New York Jets, the New York Giants' record stood at 7-7. They were coming off of a brutal home loss to the hapless Washington Redskins and appeared to be in danger of missing the playoffs altogether.

  • stopwatch Two Minute Drill

    At the beginning of every season, the goal for all 32 NFL teams is to win the Super Bowl, not just to get there. And after looking through history, it is easy to see why. It's called the Super Bowl Hangover. The premise is simple: a team makes it to the Super Bowl, loses the big game and struggles to match the success the following year.