
Giants 36, Cowboys 22. A look back on last night's game: Eli Manning completed less than 50% of his passes and threw an interception in the red zone. Drew Bledsoe one-upped Manning with a terrible interception at the goal line with less than two minutes left in the first half, when a touchdown would have given the 'Boys the lead at the half. Well played, Drew. Well played.
But Bill Parcells — that wily old coot — benched Bledsoe and put in Tony Romo at the start of the third quarter. The home crowd erupted in cheers for their long-sought hero. And then… First pass: interception. Romo threw three picks in a half of work, including the game-sealing red zone pick-6 that I can only call Bledsonian. Ouch.
The bad thing about the Romo/Bledsoe bed-defecation isn't that the Cowboys lost — I think we can agree that's a good thing — but that it detracts from one of the other goats: Terrell Owens. His ridiculous drop on 4th-and-2 really deserves its share of the blame for the Cowboys loss.
Oh, and I guess the Giants deserve some credit, too. I think Tiki Barber cured polio at halftime or something.


Eli had a pretty bad night against a fantastic pass defense. Bledsoe and Romo struggled against a secondary full of chuckleheads. I don’t have a point.
The most impressive part of that game was Strahan’s broadcasting debut afterward. Possibly the first Giant ever in a sweaty game jersey and stage make-up. Although, after that picture of Eli riding the bull, I can’t be sure about that statement.
I heard T.O. dropped that pass on 4th and 2 because he was thinking about Tiki Barber’s thoughtful essay on post-modern deconstructionism.
I heard the only reason T.O. is still alive is because Tiki sensed a disturbance in the force, like 25 million reasons to live suddenly crying out and shit, and used the teleporter he secretly built when he’s not busy nursing third world land-mine victims back to health to *whoosh* himself to T.O.’s side and Heimlich all those pills out of his stomach. And then he just *whooshed* the hell out of there before anyone knew what happened, because real heroes don’t stick around to take credit for just doing their damn jobs, besides which ‘Project Runway’ was on.