Monday, January 16, 2012

Giants Beat Packers, head to NFC Championship

I want to believe…

It's tempting to get on what Mike Lupica calls Big Blue’s “Big Brother” bandwagon which he named in honor of Rex Ryan.

Imagine going all the way to Indy. What a rush it would be to see Archie and Peyton with the rest of the family in one of those boxes looking on while Eli and company warm up on the field. 

Playing in Indy would be a nod to the real big brother who might have set records on that very field.

This weekend’s 37 - 20 victory over the defending Super Bowl champs allows the Giants to erase some painful memories they had from Lambeau Field where just one year ago they were clobbered by both a blizzard and the Greenbay Packers in a season ending 45 – 17 loss.   

Earlier this week TE Jake Ballard who was not active for last year’s game described attempts to escape the fallout of last year’s storm. 

“We’re standing there, outside some tiny hotel that we’ve been at for a million years, waiting for a cab to take us to a mall we don’t really want to go to, and it’s also zero degrees,” Ballard told The Fifth Down. “Then, all of a sudden, a homeless guy kind of shuffles by. At first he doesn’t notice us, but then he looks up and sees that we’re Giants players and doubles back.

As Ballard tells it, despite the homeless man’s many hardships he was happy not to be in the Giants predicament.  The Giants had hit “rock bottom” OT Kevin Mark Boothe added.

Now there is magic dust in the air.  The Giants are heading to Candlestick Park to face the 49ers for the NFC Championship hoping to strike gold.

Before the Greenbay game, one Gannet paper said that Eli reminded everyone to enjoy the ride:

"It's important, but you have to go out there with the attitude that you're going to enjoy this opportunity; you're going to have fun with it, you're going to take everything in."

Go Big Blue!

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