You almost forgot a team like this band of Giants could still exist. You almost forgot you don't always have to have a superstar personality or the most shoe contracts in the NFL to consider yourself successful.
Tattoos can be optional.
You can win without them. They got coach Jim Fassel to supply the heartbeat of this team nine weeks ago, with a passionate prediction the Giants would make the playoffs. And then Sunday they got quarterback Kerry Collins to lead what might have been as close to a perfect day as a Giants team has ever had. To watch this 41-0 mismatch come alive was to see a plan and a team in such sync that the day should have been put to music. The Giants won this one as much because of their defense as their offense, as much because of their special teams as anything.