NY Giants vs. Minnesota Vikings
Viking 28, Giants 6
I don’t even know where to start with this game. It was the first game of the season and there was much pomp and circumstance for the Giants 100th season. They had on.. What could charitably be called a throwback uniform and I’m not sure what was worse the play on the field or those uniforms.
I suspect Metlife stadium was cursed at some point in the last few years by an angry witch or warlock because it defies belief that the JETS and the Giants are this bad. I’m not even a Giants fan and I was getting angry at how bad the Giants were playing. I mean that pick six from their own 5 yard line was just a signal of how the season was going to progress (although in true Giants fashion they won a few games at the end to drop out of the top of the draft)
In this case I had nicer seats so at least I could enjoy this debacle from the comfort of a padded chair and with an open bar and free food but man was the football product on the field terrible. Watching Jets castoff Sam Darnold tear it up was adding insult to injury – what could have been if the organization wasn’t so inept.
We did a bit of tailgating – hanging out in the lot and enjoying some fresh cut Philly cheesesteaks and some craft beers to help get us into the mood to watch terrible football. Metlife stadium continues to be the most boring stadium in all of sports and seeing it decked out in Giants blue instead of the Jets green I’m used to was pretty neat but overall it had nothing notable about it at all. It’s amazing to me how they decided that THAT was the design they were going to go with.
I remember seeing architecture mockups of what a new Jets stadium in Manhattan would look like and being really impressed with the designs. They opted to not do that, return to a partnership with the Giants and build a stadium with all the panache of a soviet housing block.
Still – it as a nice day and we were watching a football game with lots of food and drink so it still was a good day. I mean most of the fans left in the third quarter to beat the traffic and I kind of wish we were one of them as getting out of the stadium lots is a 40 minute endeavor sometimes.
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