4
Jan
2012
Giants-Cowboys New Year’s Day Photo Essay (20 PICS)
By ArtieFufkin
This past Sunday, on New Year’s Day 2012, we were fortunate enough to attend the much-hyped Giants-Cowboys game at MetLife Stadium.
This was for all the marbles in the NFC East, with the winner taking the division and the loser going home to face a long off-season, watching the playoffs from the outside looking in. A play-in game, if you will, between bitter division rivals. As regular season match-ups go, it doesn’t get much bigger than this. So we battled our hangovers and made the trip to East Rutherford, where we took a lot of pictures along the way to share with you, our loyal readers.
Despite our sterling reputation as an emerging force in new sports media, we didn’t have any press passes or fancy cameras for this one, so these photos are all from the fan’s perpective … and all of them were taken on an iPhone 4s. We hope you enjoy!
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The new MetLife stadium is quite impressive from the outside (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
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The rain couldn't dampen the spirits of Giants fans, who were fired up for this one (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
Romo and Co. are greeted warmly by the New York fans (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
Oooh ... fireworks! (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
CONTINUE AFTER THE JUMP FOR MORE PHOTOS FROM THE GIANTS/COWBOYS GAME
And the Giants take the field! (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
Minutes later, Victor Cruz (left) would sprint toward us down this sideline into the endzone for a 74-yard 1st quarter score (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
Cruz, Rolle and Bradshaw would all have big nights for NY (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
The Giants' front four came to play tonight (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
Led by JPP and Tuck, who got the crowd involved early (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
Romo would get taken down 6 times by the Giants D (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
Eli leads the Giants on a scoring drive toward the end of the 1st quarter (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
The Giants offense came out firing on all cylinders (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
Eli rolls to his right in the 2nd quarter (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
Aaaaand halftime (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
Romo finds himself backed up against his own endzone (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
Eli surveys the Dallas coverage (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
In the 4th, Eli looks left to Hakeem Nicks ... (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
... who can't reel in the low pass (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
Unfortunately for Jerry Jones and Romo, Dallas' rally attempt fell short (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
And the Giants are NFC East Champions! (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
And here's the towel the fans received, and waved tirelessly throughout the game (Photo: ArtieFufkin)
