Victor Cruz looked around, his eyes slightly dazed, trying to take it all in, but even though he was right there, in the moment, he could not believe this was happening to him.
“Who would have thought it?’’ he said, sounding truly incredulous and full of emotion. “It’s crazy. Crazy.’’
This was Cruz immediately after his dominating performance helped the Giants edge the 49ers, in overtime, in the NFC Championship game in January 2012, sending Cruz to a Super Bowl, his “dream come true.’’ This could also serve as the mere handful of words needed to describe the Victor Cruz Story, a tale that indeed was part crazy, mostly a dream come true, a tale a kid growing up in Paterson, N.