Giants-Eagles: A Rivalry Heightened This Past Decade

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Published: May 26, 2009

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... play each other twice every year, it’s hard to imagine any way that a rivalry could grow.  But that’s just what’s happened in the first decade of the new millennium.

 

Sure, there have been memorable games. Whenever the teams play in Giants Stadium, the broadcast flashes back to the miracle at the Meadowlands game in which the Giants were unable to sit on the ball for a victory and literally gave the game away.

 

There was the wild card game in 1981 in which the Giants upset Philadelphia, ending their bid to repeat as conference champions.

 

But as the '90s rolled around, the intensity seemed to lose its luster.  The reason for that is simple.  In that decade, it was pretty much non-existent for the teams to be competing for any type of postseason success against each other.  Whe...

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