The Giants honored their 2011 Super Bowl-winning team at halftime on Sunday.
They may have been better served having that squad on the field during the game. Even all those years removed from their moment of glory, hints of middle age creeping into some of their hairlines and waistlines, they might have been able to give a better showing than the current vintage provided.
The 38-11 loss to the Rams only made the success of that season 10 years ago seem more distant than it really is. Eli Manning carried the Lombardi Trophy into MetLife Stadium and Tom Coughlin addressed the crowd at halftime with a thunderous speech about resilience and fortitude and overcoming adversity, and it felt as if they had arrived from a difference century rather than a mere decade.