Some games
stay with you.
Fourth-and-seventeen made me believe. Eleanor got me into the stadium. Eli gave us two playoff runs I could watch forever. These are the games I carry.
Fourth and seventeen. I knew.
I had watched Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Oakland make plays like that. Now Phil Simms was doing it for us.
Read the game →December 1, 1986 · 21–17Bavaro kept going.
Seventeen points behind at Candlestick. Simms brought us back, and Bavaro gave us a play that still looks like pure stubbornness.
Read the game →January 4, 1987 · 49–3Forty-nine to three. Our Giants.
Rice’s fumble leaves room for a what-if. I still know which team I would have put my money on.
Read the game →December 3, 1990 · 3–7Face mask to face mask.
We lost 7–3. Phil Simms and Ronnie Lott are still one of the images I love most from that rivalry.
Read the game →January 14, 2001 · 41–0What an arm. What an afternoon.
Kerry Collins against Minnesota. The kind of passing day that makes you want to watch every throw again.
Read the game →I was in the building.
The first home playoff win in years. The Flipper Anderson heartbreak. My aunt made both memories possible.
Tickets, Tyler, the picket line, and the signed program →Three road wins. Then the perfect ending.
Say what you want about regular-season Eli. In these postseasons, he played as well as I could ask. Every game deserves its place.
Start the run.
One road game at a time. Every one of these belongs in the story.
Read this part of the season →Dallas · January 13, 2008 · 21–17In their house.
Toomer, McQuarters, and the pleasure of ending Dallas’s season in Dallas.
Read this part of the season →Green Bay · January 20, 2008 · 23–20 OTOne more kick.
Burress kept winning. Webster gave us the ball. Tynes finished it.
Read this part of the season →New England · February 3, 2008 · 17–14They finished 18–1.
The rush, Eli getting free, Tyree holding on, and Burress in the end zone.
Read this part of the season →Eli kept getting up. We kept going.
Another four playoff games. Another championship. These players competed, and I loved watching every round.
Keep the zero on defense.
Our defense held the Falcons’ offense scoreless. Give our defense its afternoon.
Read this part of the season →Green Bay · January 15, 2012 · 37–20Fifteen and one met our guys.
Nicks before halftime. Another great team beaten on its own field.
Read this part of the season →San Francisco · January 22, 2012 · 20–17 OTStand back in there.
Six sacks. Eli kept playing. Special teams gave Tynes his chance.
Read this part of the season →New England · February 5, 2012 · 21–17The throws to Manningham.
Thirty-eight yards along the sideline. Then sixteen more. Then two. Keep watching.
Read this part of the season →What’s the game you carry?
A play, a seat, a person beside you. Tell us why it stayed.