The NFL isn’t going to sully the anniversary of “The Greatest Game Ever Played” with arguably the worst Giants crew ever assembled.
The Giants’ house finale towards the Colts was one in all 5 Week 17 potentialities to be flexed into three Saturday stand-alone tv time slots, however the recreation might be performed on Sunday, Dec. 29, a supply instructed The Submit.
Had it been moved to Saturday, it could have been performed on the 66th anniversary of the 1958 NFL Championship recreation between the Giants and Colts that’s known as “The Greatest Game Ever Played.”
That historical past would have been a pleasant contact within the Giants’ one centesimal anniversary season – if the season hadn’t gone horribly unsuitable.
The Giants (2-12) might be taking part in that day to keep away from their second-ever winless report at house and making an attempt to not change into the primary crew in NFL historical past to go 0-9 at house (solely 4 seasons of potentialities within the 17-game schedule period).
The Giants have had banners paid for by followers demanding that proprietor John Mara make massive adjustments and “fire everyone” fly over MetLife Stadium earlier than every of their final two house video games.
In the event that they lose Sunday to the Falcons in Atlanta, they are going to set a franchise report for the longest shedding streak at 10 in a row.
Tuesday was the deadline for the NFL to flex three video games from Sunday to Saturday.
The opposite potentialities embrace Broncos-Bengals, Cardinals-Rams, Chargers-Patriots and Falcons-Commanders. No less than one crew in every of these 4 video games is presently within the playoffs, which might’t be mentioned for Giants-Colts after the Indianapolis’ fourth-quarter nightmare in final Sunday’s loss to the Broncos.
The Colts beat the Giants within the NFL’s first sudden-death additional time playoff recreation in 1958 at Yankee Stadium.
