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00:05It's football Sunday!
00:07Nobody wanna see nobody else in the NFL playing except the Eagles and the Giants!
00:10Hit them all!
00:10It's New York-Philly.
00:12I mean, that's how you gotta look at it.
00:14These teams hate each other.
00:15The fans hate each other.
00:16We're not too fond of the Giants.
00:18Top 10 things you love about the Giants-Eagles rivalry.
00:21This'll be fun.
00:34Rivalry is clearly defined by hate.
00:37I mean, this is what makes this so great.
00:39Hate.
00:41I just remembered hating those guys and those smug fans.
00:45I just hated everything about growing up there.
00:48You know there's gonna be a rumble.
00:49That's right.
00:49When I go against Hugh Douglas, it was...
00:52I mean, you hated him.
00:53I wanted him playing Wednesday in the parking lot.
00:54I mean, you were ready to just get into a fist fight.
00:56Every time it's a Giants game, you know it's gonna be a big game.
00:59The just dislike game day that you had for the Giants and they had for us was a beautiful thing.
01:07I loved it.
01:08If you love it, if you love it.
01:09The Eagles and Giants have loved to hate each other since they first met in 1933.
01:15But the rivalry has more than longevity going forward.
01:19You've got history, tradition, and proximity.
01:23Look at the Giants and the Eagles.
01:24They're, they're what?
01:25Ninety miles apart, right down the turnpike.
01:27The Giants suck!
01:29Proximity breeds contempt.
01:30The Giants suck!
01:31They're very similar in terms of temperament.
01:33The people who live there, they're very passionate about sports.
01:36No likes and divorce courts straight ahead!
01:38It was kinda like a college rivalry that was right down the street.
01:41I ain't never seen a city or a team so full of **** holes!
01:45We've compiled a list of games, moments, and matchups.
01:49This is the top 10 things we love about the Eagles-Giants rivalry.
01:56At number 10, Ryan Westbrook's game-winning return.
02:01Yes, sir.
02:02That's gotta be higher!
02:04How is that not higher?
02:05That saved an entire season.
02:07Here comes Hester!
02:08He's gonna win!
02:09Some of those moments are higher than that punt return.
02:12Goodness gracious, the game-winning punt return.
02:13We gotta, whoever made that list, we gotta readjust it a little bit.
02:20After 58 minutes, the Eagles were staring at a 2-4 start to their 2003 season.
02:26There was absolutely no way the Eagles had any business winning that game.
02:32It was ridiculous.
02:33We had dominated.
02:42The whole day.
02:44With 1-34 left in the game, the Giants punt it from midfield.
02:49The one thing you cannot do is put the ball in Brian Westbrook's hands,
02:54because he's the playmaker on the team.
02:56Jeff Eagles will kick, and you know it'll be a directional look.
03:00The Eagles was like a 19-season veteran.
03:03He'd been playing for the Giants forever.
03:05He should've known better than that.
03:07Kick attempt.
03:09In my mind, I'm thinking, catch the ball.
03:11Try to get some positive yards.
03:13Get out of bounds.
03:14You know, let's move to our offensive series.
03:18It was almost like the football gods touched the Eagles.
03:22You could see it materializing as the plays unfold.
03:26Like, why are you kicking the ball to them?
03:28I mean, why are you not hitting that thing out of bounds?
03:31Luckily enough, the ball bounced and kind of bounced right into my hands.
03:35And you're saying, just make a play.
03:36And then you're saying, okay, you got an opportunity to make a big play.
03:39I'm seeing guys flying past me.
03:41I'm seeing these green jerseys blocking.
03:43Okay, I'm thinking of John Landetta, who was playing since 86 or something, 85.
03:49But Jeff Eagles was like a 16-season veteran.
03:52He's gone!
03:53Touchdown!
03:54Brian Westbrook!
03:5684 yards!
03:57The first thing I do is I look around for the flag.
04:02Because you never know.
04:04We're in New York, you know, you just never know.
04:07No penalty flags!
04:08I don't believe it!
04:10And the sound, just the sound in Giant Stadium.
04:14Almost a haunting buzz, like, what just happened?
04:17The crowd was silent.
04:19It just becomes one of the most legendary moments in Eagles history.
04:24That particular play, the punt return, really turned our season around.
04:28They were going right in the tank.
04:29He ran that back and all of a sudden they have a great season.
04:32Conversely, he ruined the Giants season.
04:34I think that was like a dagger in the heart.
04:36They wound up finishing 4-12 that year.
04:39Why in the world do you punt that football where it can be returned?
04:43You want me to tell you the back story?
04:45We're getting ready to punt.
04:47Our kicker, Jeff Eagles, goes over to our coach and says,
04:49Alright coach, I'm just going to kick it out of bounds.
04:52And, you know, then our defense is going to stop him and we're going to win the game.
04:55Coach says, what are you talking about?
04:56We can cover him. Kick it away to him.
04:59Are you serious?
05:00I just exploded!
05:02After the game, Coach Fossil goes up to Jeff Eagles and says,
05:06Hey, why don't you just tell him that you mishit it?
05:10And that's one of the reasons why a lot of people had issues with Coach Fossil.
05:14Because he'd do things like that and throw his own team under the bus.
05:19I would argue that the Brian West punt return is not ten.
05:22If there are nine plays or moments in this rivalry that are better or more intense than that,
05:29I have yet to see them.
05:29It's a beautiful day in a wonderful city of brotherly love.
05:34If you want to...
05:38Giants and the men that...
05:40Giants and the men that.
05:45Private rivalry. The Giants now.
05:48That's twelve times.
05:49The Giants began the 2007 season 0-2, thanks to a defense that gave up 80 points.
05:56The media started out with, fire Coughlin, fire the players, let's get rid of everybody.
06:01Tired of taking it, Tom Coughlin's squad decided to dish it out on Philly's Donovan McNabb,
06:07sacking him 12 times.
06:0912 times you get sacked in the same game?
06:11Yeah, that was pretty much like easy pass on the New Jersey turnpike.
06:15Beep, beep, I'm going to get him again.
06:18Beep, beep, I got McNabb again.
06:19I'm looking at Bob get up time and time and time and time and time and time and time again.
06:27This is downright depressing tonight.
06:29Rossi of Munura had like six.
06:32One of the worst performances by an offensive line you could possibly imagine.
06:37Winston Justice is a tackle here.
06:39Here's Jumanura, he just runs right by him.
06:43That was the Winston Justice game.
06:45Winston Justice, that poor bastard.
06:48He was thrust into the starting lineup as a fill-in because Trey Thomas was hurt at left tackle.
06:53Thomas hurt, Justice makes his first career start.
06:56Winston is a hard worker guy who, when he was able to get that opportunity,
07:00I felt confident that Winston was going to be fine.
07:03Poor Winston Justice, O.C. Uminura just ate him alive.
07:07O.C. had six of the 12 sacks.
07:09It was like he was just toying with him.
07:10Six!
07:11He was just a human turnstile for 60 minutes.
07:13I think by now you would know that Winston Justice by himself could not block O.C. Uminura.
07:19At halftime, what was the adjustment to say, let's help this guy?
07:23This guy's getting killed.
07:24That guy couldn't even go get some food at the drive-thru without them throwing the food at him.
07:28Terrible coaching job on my part.
07:30We tried to make a few adjustments here and there and it wasn't working.
07:32They completely disrupted our world.
07:38The architect of the beating happened to be a former Eagles coach.
07:43They have their new defensive coordinator, Steve Spagnuolo, dialing up all kinds of crafty blitzes.
07:49Here he is as a linebacker running a blitz up the middle with a stunt.
07:53He's a guy they plucked out of the Eagles coaching staff.
07:57He was a linebacker coach under the great Jim Johnson, the defensive coordinator,
08:00who was always so instrumental in hurting the Giants.
08:03The way the Giants ended up winning the Super Bowl that year
08:06and upsetting the undefeated Patriots to do so was getting pressure on the quarterback.
08:14You have to look back at the game where they just crushed McNabb as a blueprint
08:18for what they were able to do the rest of the season.
08:21Bittersweet because I love Spag is my guy.
08:24I mean, I love him.
08:24To see him go out and win, it was a beautiful thing for me.
08:27But as far as the Eagles-Giants thing, you're like, man, this is unbelievable.
08:32I'm looking at these guys celebrating.
08:34The New York Giants have knocked off the New England Patriots.
08:38As you know.
08:38Eagle-Giants rivalry.
08:41LT versus Jaws.
08:42Hey, baby, let's go out there like a bunch of crazy dogs.
08:49Number 56 was out there to do one thing.
08:52He was there to take your quarterback's head off.
08:54LT frequently feasted on Phillies' Ron Jaworski.
08:58Jaworski would take one hellacious hit after another from Lawrence Taylor.
09:05You think to yourself, my God, how did the man ever get up?
09:09It was almost cruel and unusual punishment.
09:13Sometimes after the games, man, I used to see Jaws, man, with ice bags.
09:17That was his personal tackling dummy.
09:20It feels like every time the Giants played the Eagles, he had four sacks.
09:26LT came to the league in 1981.
09:28Lawrence Taylor, the rookie out of North Carolina.
09:31And Jaws had just taken his team to the Super Bowl.
09:34Polish rifle still had game left.
09:35It was here.
09:36He looks.
09:37He throws the pass down the far side.
09:39The pass is good.
09:40And it's a touchdown.
09:41No matter how much a guy like Ron Jaworski studies Lawrence Taylor, he's not going to be able to get
09:47out of the way.
09:47It was a perfect match.
09:49The guy with feet of concrete versus one of the best pass rushers of all time.
09:54It should have been some sort of handicap.
09:56Like, you know, when you're playing flag football and you have to count to seven Mississippi.
10:00They should have had LT do that.
10:01That would have made the fair.
10:02Jaworski's just got it surveyed the field.
10:04But for some reason, he always had that head to the left when he played the Giants.
10:09It was like a sudden jerk.
10:11Where's LT?
10:12Where's LT?
10:13Where's LT?
10:13Jaworski literally would start to quiver sometimes when he was calling the signals.
10:18That's fear.
10:20No one made a sack look uglier than Ron Jaworski.
10:26All you see is Jaws helmet going like this.
10:31You coming straight down on a forehead of steam.
10:35Like that.
10:36Like a Heisman trophy.
10:39Jaworski!
10:40Oh!
10:41Ron Jaworski is one of the toughest football players I've ever seen.
10:44And nobody really gave him enough credit for being tough.
10:46Ron Jaworski, he does take punishment.
10:49I mean, there is a tough guy.
10:51Ron took a...
10:54Like a man.
10:55He took a beating and kept getting the...
11:00In this movie, Jaws was the hunted.
11:02Almost 10% of Taylor's career sacks came against number seven.
11:07Jaws had a great line.
11:09He said that Lawrence used to be on me so much that people thought my number was 56.
11:14At Lawrence Taylor's Hall of Fame induction, he was presented by his son.
11:19And his son thanked Ron Jaworski.
11:22I thank Ron Jaworski for making my father what he is.
11:25Because without him, he probably would have never broken that sack record.
11:30I laugh every time I see Ron Jaworski.
11:33LT!
11:34Who?
11:34Where is he?
11:35Let's go!
11:36Where are you guys?
11:37I tell you a lot...
11:38It's like sitting on the city bus, watching two crazy guys fight.
11:42Got the outside guy to the weak side.
11:44Number two.
11:46Kotite may be remembered not so fondly in Philly, but in two years against Ray Hanley, he went 4-0.
11:53A lot of teams wouldn't have come back from 20 to 6.
11:57That's probably the only time you can ever say in Rich Kotite's coaching history that he was on the top
12:03half of the mismatch.
12:05New York won't even give us the satisfaction that we had the worst coach.
12:10You know, you get into an argument, it's like, oh, Hanley was worse.
12:12No, Kotite was worse.
12:13Please give us Kotite.
12:15Kotite-Hanley didn't rank, but their coaching predecessors come in at number seven.
12:20The number seven thing we love about Eagles vs. Giants, Bill Parcells vs. Buddy Ryan.
12:27Two guys who said what was on their minds.
12:29Hey, Fred!
12:31I'm gonna tell you, those f***ing blinders standing around, wandering around!
12:34It just added another layer of flavor to what was already a pretty intense rivalry.
12:39Hey, hey, hey, Finchie-Five!
12:41Who you think's got this f***ing?
12:43They were perfect for their cities.
12:44They were both guys who, their teams didn't back down on the field, but then off the field, you had
12:49this extra pump.
12:51I lost a couple pounds, and I thought I was looking good.
12:54Buddy had a lot of respect for Parcells, and Parcells had a lot of respect for Buddy.
13:02But they wanted to beat each other's brains out.
13:04Your personality, you've got it figured out.
13:07I ain't got it figured out, no.
13:09Don't let it bother you.
13:11It was kind of an arms race, and both of those guys were the ministers of defense.
13:16We showed those folks, and we told them, get the hell out of Dodge.
13:23It's my favorite place.
13:25It is!
13:26Whenever I think of Parcells and Buddy Ryan, I think of two teams pulling off of the turnpike at a
13:32rest stop
13:32and literally getting off the buses and just going at it in the parking lot.
13:37The Eagles-Giants rivalry reached a heated pitch in the late 80s.
13:42Over a three-year span between 1988 and 1990, Buddy's Eagles won five of six against Bill's Giants.
13:49Brad Rose is running in his 100 waters for the touchdown!
13:53And Buddy Ryan would come out and say,
13:55These are team, 90 team, went on and won the Super Bowl.
14:01How do you not beat the Eagles?
14:04We know we're going to beat them.
14:05They know we're going to beat them.
14:07And somehow, they always beat them.
14:09We had the best team in the NFC East,
14:14but yet, we could not defeat the Eagles for a long period of time.
14:20Anything that could happen, probably did happen.
14:23The kick is blocked!
14:25It's blocked!
14:26But it's picked up!
14:28Bryce Simmons, I think, bro.
14:30And running in for a touchdown!
14:32The Eagles win!
14:35I remember on the 1990 season,
14:37when the Giants got off to that 10-0 start,
14:40and they had played a game down in Philadelphia.
14:4111-0 Giants? Can't beat it.
14:44The Giants were the undefeated Big Bad Brothers coming down the turnpike.
14:48Just because they're 6-4 and they're 10-0.
14:50Hey, man, you're better than these guys.
14:52The Eagles didn't just beat them.
14:54The Eagles crushed them.
14:56Touchdown!
14:57Yeah, what?
14:58What's going on?
15:00Keith Byers threw one of the greatest downfield blocks
15:03in the history of the National Football League.
15:05It was a big...
15:06Lifts!
15:07He just knocks him off screen.
15:10Lifts him.
15:11Look at it.
15:11Cleeter.
15:12I'm mad.
15:13I want to go fight Keith now.
15:15It was personal when it came to the two teams.
15:20Unnecessary breakfast.
15:22Number 89 and a discreditation.
15:25Oh, high five.
15:27And that's when you kind of knew that Parcells and the Giants,
15:29that Philadelphia was sort of in their head.
15:32That's right.
15:33Two.
15:39Two.
15:40Two.
15:42This is one of my favorite quotes in NFL history, okay?
15:45Mark Bavaro actually admitting he has dreams about murdering Buddy Ryan.
15:50I dreamed of murdering him.
15:53I mean, does that not say at all about this rivalry?
15:57He was a bad person.
16:01Ironically, I ended up going and playing for those guys.
16:06I don't think anybody said hello to me until around November.
16:13Buddy's Eagles won the battles, but Parcells Giants won the war.
16:18It felt like they got the better of the Giants,
16:20and then here you have the Giants who go off and win the Super Bowl,
16:22and you wonder, when is it Philly's turn?
16:25Buddy Ryan could have the skins on the wall as far as...
16:282017 and two years ago.
16:31...saying we beat the Giants a number of times,
16:33but as we know, the Eagles never got over the hump there,
16:36where the Giants, during all those fierce battles with the Eagles,
16:39won two Super Bowls.
16:40The good news is we ended up with two championships.
16:43They ended up with, you know, nothing.
16:45And bragging rights that they beat us. That's it.
16:48The number six thing we love about Eagles versus Giants,
16:52New York's 2006 epic comeback.
16:55I remember sobbing at the end.
16:57I remember thinking, how did they blow it?
17:0067,000 people depart in silence.
17:03What a comeback.
17:07Eli Manning's fairytale ending started out more like a horror show.
17:12I feared for the guy's help,
17:15because they were just scraping the pump off the ground,
17:17and he was taking all these hits.
17:19And you're sitting there saying,
17:21how the hell is he going to finish the game?
17:22It was kind of one of those feelings, like,
17:24all right, is this going to be a blowout?
17:26Caught! Touchdown!
17:28Dante Stoller!
17:29I just remember Donna McNabb on your center laughing at our defense
17:34because they were up by so much.
17:36These things like that happen.
17:38And you always know that the football gods don't like that.
17:43Beginning of that fourth quarter,
17:44the momentum just started to swing a little bit towards them.
17:47Lowers the shoulder, then fumbles it!
17:49The next thing you know, the ball's just rolling on the ground,
17:52and I'm running after it.
17:53Tim's running after it.
17:54Tim jumps on in the end zone,
17:56and I'm thinking, does that even count?
17:58And Tim Conner falls on it!
18:04They didn't have to advance it
18:05because it was already a touchdown.
18:08Something special's happening here.
18:09The thing that kind of opened the door
18:11for the Giants in that game in the fourth quarter
18:13was Brian Westbrook, who'd been a Giant killer.
18:15Hadn't fumbled in two years.
18:16He coughed the ball up in the fourth quarter.
18:18Here's a guy, if ever you wanted to salt the game away,
18:22you get a ball to Westbrook
18:23because he doesn't fumble.
18:25And this could let New York right back in the game.
18:27And I guess that's the way it works in the Eagles-Giants.
18:30I mean, they don't play normal games.
18:32That's like these quirky games where all of a sudden
18:33you think you know what's going to happen,
18:35and then sure enough, you don't.
18:39The Eagles still had control of the game
18:41until a Trent Cole personal foul with 15 seconds left
18:45turned a 50-yard game-tying attempt into a chip shot.
18:51Trent Cole kicked one of our players in the unmentionables.
18:54That's a Leon Lapp play.
18:56That's not a Trent Cole play.
18:57And just like that,
18:59the Giants have come all the way back to tie it at 24.
19:03That was a costly penalty.
19:04A costly penalty.
19:06And I would imagine the fans here are stunned.
19:12Heaves it left for Plaxico Burris,
19:14who makes the catchphrase down!
19:17Eli throws this, you know,
19:19basically a desperation bomb to Plaxico Burris.
19:22It's more than Sheldon Brown,
19:24and you're sitting there watching this game going,
19:26really?
19:26The Giants just won this game?
19:28The Eagles were up.
19:29Weren't the Eagles up 24-7 a minute ago?
19:31What a great job!
19:32Plaxico Burris just made every big,
19:36mostly every big catch in Giants history.
19:39All the time.
19:41By Eli Manning!
19:43I don't think there's any doubt that it was this coming-of-age game.
19:45I'm here.
19:46I'm a leader that can bring my team and lead them to victory.
19:48I saw a little bit of New York Giant pride!
19:54I think that was one of our first wins in a long time against the Eagles.
19:57So for us to do it in that way was special.
20:01I don't think we even watched a film on that game.
20:03It just kind of pissed us off.
20:05This song sucks.
20:07Boring.
20:08We need to update it.
20:11Coming in at number five,
20:13Strahan versus Runyon.
20:21From 2000 to 2007,
20:24Giants defensive end Michael Strahan
20:26and Eagles tackle John Runyon
20:28waged war in the trenches.
20:31This might be the best pure man-for-man rivalry
20:35the NFL has seen in 20 or 30 years.
20:38Genuine dislike between the two.
20:42I tell you right now,
20:43you know everybody gonna watch this
20:45what I'm gonna put on you, right?
20:46They just love beating the hell out of each other.
20:52You had two guys that were just beasts.
20:55Both of them loved the competition.
21:03Strahan was the glitzy, spotlight-loving superstar from New York.
21:09Who's the perfect person to try to neutralize him?
21:13John Runyon.
21:146'6.
21:15Nasty.
21:15The Eagles signed Runyon in 2000
21:17for the specific reason of matching up with Strahan.
21:21John Runyon is Chewbacca.
21:23Damn, you big and hairy, dude.
21:25He is just vicious to defensive ends.
21:27Every time he got in the stands,
21:29he felt like he was gonna pancake the guy
21:31and make him pay for even thinking about
21:33trying to get past him.
21:39John Runyon was kind of dirty.
21:40Give him a little jab here
21:41or give him a little tug here.
21:43If he's going down,
21:44put your hands off
21:45and give him a flying elbow.
21:46And that's why he's now a politician.
21:49You know,
21:50little dirty tricks here and there.
21:51It's not dirty.
21:52He just played to the echo of the whistle.
21:57John Runyon was a terrific offensive lineman.
22:00Terrific.
22:01Michael Strahan kicked his ass
22:02every single time.
22:04He beat him
22:04and he beat him alive.
22:07It beat him like a drum.
22:08Well, I'll tell you,
22:09Strahan is really having his way
22:11with John Runyon.
22:12There were times that
22:14Strahan would literally lift this guy
22:15who's got 50 pounds on him
22:16and throw him to the ground
22:17like a, you know,
22:18a WWE wrestling match.
22:20Runyon's hook!
22:22Runyon's hook!
22:23Mike probably had more sacks
22:24or me than anybody he faced.
22:26So I can do his Hall of Fame.
22:30You would assume that Strahan,
22:32and in fact,
22:32Runyon gave Strahan fits.
22:40As with any pass rusher,
22:42all you have to do
22:43is win about two of those battles
22:45every game
22:46and you're one of the great guys
22:48in the game.
22:48One or two.
22:50You're great.
22:52I think over time,
22:54because they wore each other out so much,
22:57they really came to respect each other
22:59and I think genuinely
23:00like each other.
23:09At the Pro Bowl,
23:10they're hanging out
23:11with each other all week.
23:12You would have thought
23:12they were teammates.
23:13What finally won me over
23:15at the Pro Bowl,
23:15they had a party
23:16and I see this big
23:18six, seven, eight guy
23:20dirty dancing
23:21with his five foot wet wife.
23:24And I said,
23:25you know what?
23:26I love the guy.
23:30When John Runyon ran for Congress,
23:33Strahan supported him.
23:36Well, I hear Strahan's
23:37getting into politics,
23:38so I figured Runyon's the president,
23:40Strahan's the vice president.
23:42Maybe it's vice versa.
23:43Who's going to get out of line
23:43with those guys?
23:44I thank you for
23:45letting me beat the crap out of you.
23:47The number four thing
23:48we love about
23:49the Eagles-Giants rivalry,
23:51Fetneric Globber's Dicker.
23:53As a kid,
23:54you remember that hit.
23:56That's not high enough.
23:58That's the hit.
24:00That's like the most famous
24:02tackle in NFL history
24:03or second.
24:04Because scared you.
24:07Wow.
24:10You have a Hall of Famer
24:11hitting a Hall of Famer.
24:14It was the hit heard
24:15around the world.
24:17Probably most remembered
24:18defensive play
24:19in NFL history.
24:21They thought Frank Gifford
24:22was dead.
24:25There was a person
24:26who died at Yankee Stadium
24:28that they had a heart attack
24:29and a giant player
24:30went into the locker room
24:32after the game
24:32and there was a stretcher
24:34with a sheep
24:35over somebody
24:37and Pat Summerall
24:38thought that was actually
24:38Frank Gifford who died.
24:43You get into that
24:45sort of a cannibalistic feeling.
24:47All you want to do
24:48is go out there
24:48and like I say,
24:49you just want to kill somebody.
24:51Chuck McNerrick felt
24:52little in common
24:53with his rivals
24:54to the north.
24:55He hated the Giants.
24:58Here's this great
24:58two-way player.
25:06Frank Gifford was from the West.
25:09He was from California.
25:10He was the glamour guy.
25:13There's nothing glamorous
25:15about Chuck McNerrick.
25:18He's...
25:18Hollywood thing going.
25:20McNerrick was just
25:21a breathing fire linebacker
25:23and Frank Gifford
25:24was the glamour boy
25:25of New York.
25:26Diley's riding gift
25:27goes 78 yards.
25:30He was one hell
25:31of a football player.
25:32He could run.
25:33He could catch the ball.
25:35He could pass the ball.
25:36Gifford leaps and crossfires.
25:38A touchdown test.
25:39He was everything
25:40that the Giants stood for
25:41at that time.
25:42The Madison Avenue image.
25:44And we hated Gifford
25:45because he even read
25:46an article in the New York Times.
25:47So we were going to
25:48try to kill him.
25:53Concrete Charlie came close
25:55to accomplishing defeat
25:56in 1960.
25:58Clock is running down.
25:59It's about a minute and a half
26:00to play in a game.
26:01Gifford swings out
26:02of the backfield.
26:03As soon as he caught the ball,
26:05I rammed him.
26:07And you could hear it.
26:08It was a tremendous shock.
26:10Frank's body just floating
26:11through the air
26:12and then slamming down
26:13on the ground
26:14and his head hitting the ground.
26:16I thought he was dead.
26:17I knew the game was
26:18it wasn't a hit.
26:20Really, it was a good hit.
26:22But it was the landing
26:23that did more.
26:24I had no idea
26:25where Frank Gifford was.
26:27And I said,
26:28he's a
26:30effing game
26:31game is over.
26:33Classic Philadelphia-New York dynamic.
26:35And Eric,
26:36the tough, gnarled guy
26:37with the fingers
26:38that are broken
26:38and Gifford,
26:39the Hollywood matinee idol,
26:41and he goes down.
26:42It was like,
26:42okay,
26:43here's our moment
26:43in the sun.
26:44We bought the ticket
26:45for Broadway
26:46and we spilled popcorn
26:48in their aisles.
26:52I think it's the single
26:53most defining play
26:55in the history
26:56of the Eagles
26:57because ultimately,
26:59I think that was
27:00the key to the Eagles
27:01going on to winning
27:02an NFL championship.
27:03Jim Taylor
27:04nearly gets loose
27:05but Chuck Bednarik
27:06grabs him on the 10
27:07and that's the end
27:08of the line.
27:11Gifford suffered
27:12a very, very deep
27:13concussion
27:14that finished him
27:15for the rest
27:16of the 1960 season
27:17and all of the 1961
27:19season.
27:20When he came back,
27:21he came back
27:21as a wide receiver
27:22and not as a halfback.
27:24I think that hit
27:25was so violent
27:26and so vicious
27:26in nature
27:27to a point where
27:28a man is knocked out
27:29for an entire season.
27:30I think that completely
27:32embodies
27:32and epitomizes
27:33Giants Eagles.
27:39Coming up.
27:39Who in their right mind
27:40would just pick up
27:41before he shoved
27:41that phone up his head?
27:43Ask us
27:43which Eagle reached out
27:44and bought the Giants
27:45and we'll tell you.
27:47The number three thing
27:47we love about
27:48the Eagles-Giants rivalry.
27:50Playoff drama.
27:52To play against them
27:53in the playoffs
27:54where really
27:55all the chips are in,
27:56it's more than a rival.
27:59You've got a lot
27:59of playoff football
28:00here at Giants Stadium.
28:02The Eagles and Giants
28:03have met four times
28:04in the playoffs.
28:05The first came
28:06in 1981
28:07when the Eagles
28:09were the defending
28:10NFC champs.
28:11Wally Henry
28:12had not one
28:13but two
28:15misadventures
28:15on special teams.
28:17Henry comes up
28:18to handle
28:19he's fumbled
28:19and the Giants
28:21get the fumble.
28:22The Giants
28:23were up 20 to nothing
28:24before we could
28:25blink.
28:26Wally Henry
28:27will be able
28:28to handle it.
28:28Are you serious?
28:30Finally fix it up.
28:31He's on the ground
28:31and look out.
28:32Are you serious?
28:33It'll be touchdown Giants.
28:35It is!
28:35It is!
28:36You feel like
28:37you were snakebitten.
28:38I'm like,
28:39oh man
28:39it's going to be
28:40one of those days.
28:42That was a heartbreaking
28:43loss for that team.
28:45I thought that game
28:46really catapulted
28:47the Giants
28:48propelled them
28:48to where they would
28:49eventually get
28:50five years later
28:50and win a Super Bowl.
28:56The rivals
28:57did not meet again
28:58in the playoffs
28:58until 2000
28:59when the game
29:00again turned
29:01on an early return.
29:03This one
29:03to start the game.
29:05Ron Dixon's
29:06going to score!
29:06To me
29:07when Dixon
29:08returned that kick
29:08I thought
29:09that stunned them.
29:11But this is
29:11the best way
29:12you can ever imagine
29:13the start of
29:14a football game.
29:15We just knew
29:15we were going to
29:16go into their stadium
29:17and beat them
29:17and now we're down
29:18seven before the game
29:19even starts.
29:20And you're thinking
29:21okay that's it
29:21the game is over
29:22the Eagles have no chance.
29:24And it's intercepted
29:25by Seahawks
29:25he's got it on the run!
29:27Honestly
29:27we didn't even
29:28really respect them
29:29that much
29:29at that point.
29:30It's like yeah
29:30they're a good team
29:31but when they come
29:32to the Meadowlands
29:33you know
29:33we're the big brother.
29:37You think
29:38the script was flipped
29:39in 2006
29:40and it was a game
29:41ending play
29:42not a game
29:43starting play
29:44that made the difference.
29:45It's got the distance!
29:47It's got the distance!
29:49It may have been
29:50an Eagles win
29:51but it ultimately
29:52led to a Giants crowning.
29:54When David Akers
29:55kicked that field goal
29:56he nearly
29:56cost Tom Coughlin
29:57his job.
29:59Management was not
29:59happening
30:00and after that season
30:01they called him in
30:02and said you've got to
30:02change
30:03you've got to have
30:03a little lighter touch
30:04with the players
30:05with the media.
30:06It actually led
30:07to the evolution
30:08of Coughlin
30:08and then ultimately
30:09the next season
30:09the Giants
30:10would win the Super Bowl.
30:11The New York Giants
30:12have knocked off
30:13the New England Patriots!
30:17Come out here today
30:18and play football!
30:19When New York
30:20made a bid
30:21for a repeat
30:21it was their rival
30:23sending a message
30:24or
30:25leaving a message.
30:27Typical Eagles
30:28of that era
30:28or pre-2017
30:31they can beat
30:32the Giants
30:32but
30:33not win
30:34the game
30:34that counts
30:35the most.
30:36They beat
30:36the Giants
30:37before and
30:37after they won
30:38the Super Bowl.
30:40Why didn't
30:41they knock them
30:41out of the playoffs
30:42in 2007?
30:48Who'll forget
30:49McNabb
30:50kicking the Giants
30:51butt
30:51in the Giants
30:52stadium
30:52and then going
30:53on the sideline
30:53picking up the phone
30:54rubbing it in.
30:55Boy that move
30:57really ticked
30:58a lot of guys off.
30:59I was like
31:00hello, hello, hello
31:00and then I hung up.
31:02We took offense
31:02to it but
31:03knowing Donovan
31:04he's just kind of
31:05silly.
31:06It was just
31:06trying to have fun
31:07with the whole
31:07situation.
31:08Donovan, you are
31:09not E.T.
31:10do not phone home.
31:11You know, sometimes
31:12I don't know
31:13what runs
31:14through that guy's head.
31:15You can't get
31:16Philadelphians
31:16and New Yorkers
31:17to agree on
31:18anything at all.
31:19On that!
31:20On that!
31:21And then we all
31:22saw this and
31:23everybody just kind
31:24of looked at each
31:24other like wow
31:25that was ridiculous.
31:27Donovan uniting people.
31:29Hey!
31:30You were supposed
31:30to eat!
31:30The Eagle in America
31:31damn it!
31:32He's against the
31:32on our countdown.
31:34Oh, the miracle.
31:36Number two
31:36thing we looked up
31:37about the Eagles
31:38Giants rivalry.
31:39The miracle
31:40of the Meadowlands.
31:41This is the
31:41Buster Douglas
31:42beating Mike Tyson
31:43moment.
31:43This should be
31:44number one.
31:44How is it not?
31:45Number one is
31:46the miracle
31:47of the Meadowlands.
31:48Should be number one.
31:49Of course it should
31:49be number one.
31:50Herman Alverspond?
31:51Way overrated.
31:52How could that
31:53possibly not be
31:54number one?
31:54I mean, you had
31:55to get in that
31:56situation the
31:57perfect storm.
32:01And the Eagles
32:02out of timeouts.
32:03We thank our
32:04producer Bob Rowe.
32:05There was a possibility
32:06that we could go to
32:07the playoffs.
32:08We were starting to
32:08celebrate.
32:09Clock was winding down.
32:11We thought it was over
32:12but it was not.
32:12There's 33 seconds to go.
32:14They have no timeouts.
32:15I just go in there
32:15following the ball.
32:16I'm not looking for a play.
32:17I think I'm going to
32:17fall on the ball
32:18three times.
32:19We were going to
32:20shoot a gap.
32:20We were just going to
32:21try to make anything
32:22happen, any kind of
32:23mayhem.
32:24Now they go into
32:25a tight formation
32:26very close to
32:26Bizarczyk.
32:27He's not given
32:28a risker handoff.
32:29Bizarczyk takes the
32:30ball down at his
32:3017-yard line and the
32:32guys start to mix it up.
32:33Giant coach saw the
32:34Eagles pile on him
32:35and for some reason
32:36he said, well, I don't
32:37want Joe to get hurt.
32:38An offensive coordinator
32:39named Bob Gibson called
32:41a handoff.
32:43Wait a minute.
32:44Here's a free fight.
32:45I don't believe it.
32:45The single dumbest thing
32:48he has ever done in
32:50his life.
32:53Take the knee.
32:55That's all he had to
32:55do.
32:56Bizarczyk fumbles the
32:57football.
32:58It's picked up by
32:59Helmut Edwards.
33:0015, 10, 5,
33:02touchdown Eagles.
33:04I don't believe it.
33:05It was like a gift
33:06that just fell out of
33:07the sky.
33:08I'm thinking, oh my
33:09God, this can't
33:09be happening.
33:10We're going to win
33:11this thing.
33:11They're going to lose.
33:12I mean, then it all
33:13hell breaks loose.
33:14I do not believe what
33:15has occurred here,
33:16ladies and gentlemen.
33:17Talk about miracles,
33:19folks.
33:19I do not believe this
33:21one.
33:21I was fortunate enough
33:22to be in the right
33:23place at the right
33:24time.
33:24You know, people say
33:25it was luck.
33:26This is what I know
33:27about luck.
33:27When you work hard,
33:29you get some lucky
33:29bounces.
33:30An incredible
33:31development.
33:36That was the win in
33:381978 that really,
33:39I think, lifted the
33:42Eagles.
33:42From that point,
33:43they went on and
33:44they surged.
33:45They made the playoffs
33:46that year for the
33:47first time under
33:47Vermeer.
33:48The Eagles are
33:48winners, buddy!
33:50The Eagles are
33:50winners!
33:51Two years later, the
33:53birds were in the
33:53Super Bowl.
33:59John McVeigh has to
34:01be the most
34:01disappointing loss he's
34:03ever come up with as a
34:04football coach.
34:05I'm down to about one
34:06nightmare a week from
34:08that.
34:09It was a tough thing to
34:10happen.
34:11It was tough on the team.
34:12It was tough on the
34:13ownership.
34:13Yeah, it was a sad day
34:14in Giants history.
34:15That game was such a
34:17travesty that that was
34:20it.
34:20The Giants cleaned
34:22house, hired George
34:23Young, and changed the
34:25course of the franchise.
34:27George Young hired Bill
34:28Garcells.
34:29This is why you do all
34:30it!
34:30And the Giants went on
34:32to become the team of
34:34the 80s.
34:35There's still a few Giants
34:36fans that were like
34:37Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
34:38the team of the 80s?
34:40The Niners were the team
34:42of the 80s.
34:42Worth it.
34:43I don't care.
34:44Two Super Bowl
34:45championships, a decade's
34:46worth of success.
34:47I don't care.
34:48Beat the Eagles.
34:49You just had to kneel on
34:50the ball.
34:52We number one, baby.
34:53This is gonna end up,
34:54baby.
34:54We gotta kick the
34:54ground.
34:55You better get it on
34:56the first bounce.
34:57And if you can get it
34:58on the first bounce, you
34:59got a chance.
35:01And now, the number one
35:03thing we love about
35:04Eagles Giants.
35:06In Philadelphia, it's
35:08known as the miracle
35:09of the Meadowlands
35:10part two.
35:11He's gonna go!
35:13In New York, it's
35:14known as what in the
35:16hell is going on
35:17here?
35:17The most remarkable
35:19win I have ever
35:20seen!
35:21I still believe the
35:22fumble for the shock
35:23value of it should be
35:25ranked number one.
35:26This should be number
35:27two.
35:27I figured that because
35:29his was in high
35:29definition.
35:30Mine was not.
35:31There's a reason
35:32that it's called
35:33Miracle of the
35:34Meadowlands 2
35:36because there was
35:37an original.
35:38Well, the sequel's
35:39never as good as
35:40the original, so I
35:41don't know what
35:41you guys are doing
35:41here.
35:42We cannot put the
35:43sequel ahead.
35:44Whoa, whoa, whoa,
35:44whoa, whoa, whoa.
35:46What about Back to
35:47the Future 2?
35:49...head of number
35:50one.
35:51Godfather.
35:52That was pretty
35:52good.
35:53And the Empire
35:54Strikes Back.
35:56Some sequels are
35:57better.
35:58This is one of
35:59those times.
36:01It has the
36:02original Miracle of
36:03the Meadowlands in
36:04Deshaun Jackson's
36:05punt return, and it
36:06has an unbelievable
36:08back leading up to
36:09that moment.
36:10Changed the
36:11trajectory of either
36:12franchise.
36:13And that should
36:14wrap it up.
36:15You know when you're
36:15playing Little League
36:17baseball and they get
36:18to a mercy rule because
36:19one team is smacking
36:20the other team so bad
36:21by ten runs and they
36:22say, okay, everybody
36:22time out, we're going
36:23to go to Dairy Queen?
36:24They should have
36:24taken the entire
36:25Eagles team to Dairy Queen.
36:26The Eagles trail by
36:2821 points with seven
36:30minutes left in the
36:31game.
36:31That's when things
36:33went wacky.
36:34Michael Vick just
36:35goes crazy and
36:36arguably he's one of
36:38the greatest seven
36:39minutes of football
36:39you know, ever played
36:41in a regular season
36:42game.
36:43Oh!
36:44The Eagles are
36:45alive!
36:46What a
36:47disaster.
36:49I don't know
36:49that I'm
36:50do it.
36:53I'm
36:54sure you just need
36:56to kick the ball
36:56out of bounds,
36:57right?
36:58Just anywhere.
36:59Ten rows there,
37:0014 rows there,
37:01into the end zone.
37:02You just can't kick
37:03it within like the
37:04ten yard that
37:05Deshaun Jackson
37:06stands.
37:07Honestly, I didn't
37:07really think he was
37:08going to play it
37:09soon.
37:09Gets it away.
37:11It's a nut throw.
37:12When the punt went
37:12to Deshaun, you
37:14know, only bad
37:14things could happen
37:15and the worst
37:16thing possibly
37:16did.
37:18Jackson takes
37:18it at the 35.
37:20Huffles it.
37:20Picks it up.
37:21Looks for
37:21running room.
37:22You give him the
37:23limelight in the
37:24biggest city in the
37:25National Football
37:26League.
37:26He's got a goal!
37:28With all the eyes
37:29of the country on
37:30him, and this guy
37:31flourishes in those
37:32situations.
37:34In true Eagles
37:35Giants fashion,
37:36Jackson took time
37:38to enjoy our
37:39number one moment.
37:40Oh, he's not in the
37:41end zone.
37:42He's running the
37:42one and then he
37:43goes in.
37:44As time expires!
37:46Giant players did
37:47not appreciate
37:48Jackson's little
37:49dance along the
37:50end line.
37:50The way this rivalry
37:51works is you can't
37:52just score a game
37:53when you catch
37:53John, you had to
37:54kind of not only
37:55put the knife, but
37:56you kind of have to
37:57twist it a little
37:57bit.
37:58It's just the
37:58silly.
37:59Get in the end
37:59zone.
38:00Get in the end
38:00zone, get the
38:01win, get on the
38:02bus, and go
38:03home.
38:04Go home!
38:05If I'd have some
38:05wins, I'd have
38:06probably jumped in
38:06from the 20-yard line.
38:10Never mind all
38:11the litany of
38:11failures that led
38:13up to that moment.
38:14Tom Coughlin has
38:15to take out his
38:16anger on his poor
38:17rookie punter, Matt
38:18Dodge.
38:19He looked like
38:19most of the Giants
38:20fans in the
38:20building.
38:21Like, absolutely
38:22shocked.
38:22That look was
38:23indescribable.
38:27That face.
38:28That classic
38:29Coughlin face.
38:30Just adds to the
38:32misery here for
38:33Tom Coughlin.
38:33It did ruin the
38:34Giants' season.
38:35It basically
38:36knocked the Giants
38:37out of the
38:38playoffs.
38:43There's nothing
38:45that'll ever top
38:45it.
38:46There'll never be
38:47anything like that
38:48in football again.
38:49Period.
38:50You'd think the
38:50Giants would
38:51learn.
38:51They repeated
38:52almost every year.
38:53They had the
38:53miracle at the
38:54Meadowlands, then
38:54you had Brian
38:55Westbrooks, then
38:56you had the
38:56miracle at the
38:56Meadowlands part
38:57two.
38:57They're running
38:57out of names for
38:58these things.
39:00That's going to
39:00start looking like
39:01the Super Bowl
39:01where you're just
39:02like you're going
39:02to have M's and
39:03X's and nobody's
39:04going to know
39:04what it means.
39:07It seems like the
39:08Giants always get
39:10the short end of
39:11the stick in these
39:11games with the
39:12Eagles.
39:12You know?
39:13The Eagles may
39:14have scored the
39:15top moments on
39:16this list, but the
39:17Giants maintain the
39:19edge elsewhere.
39:20Our fans would, but
39:22I would never ask to
39:23see the Eagles
39:24trophy case down
39:26there in Philadelphia
39:26because there's
39:28nothing in it.
39:28Come on.
39:29The Giants got the
39:30Super Bowls.
39:30Let us have this.
39:31Right?
39:31If you're an Eagles
39:32fan, we get this one
39:33thing.
39:33Okay?
39:34The big moments
39:35against the Giants.
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