The “No Toughness, No Championship!” signs have followed the Giants from their old Giants Stadium headquarters to the Timex Performance Center.
They might want to start plastering a new sign as we close in on Sunday’s NFC Championship in San Francisco against the 49ers, which likely is to be remembered more as the Blood Bowl than the Mud Bowl.
“No Blood, No Championship!”
“This is going to be a bloodbath,” defensive tackle Chris Canty said.
The word from the West Coast, however, is that these 49ers would welcome a Blood Bowl.
“If that’s the kind of game this is gonna turn out to be,” Hall of Fame 49er Ronnie Lott told the Post last night by cell phone, “it means it probably...
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