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Eli Manning playfully taunts Patrick Mahomes with Gotham FC ring

Former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and current Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes have more in common than just football.

Both have business ventures that extend to a variety of industries, and both have a vested interest in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL).

Mahomes’ wife is a former soccer player and the two share an investment stake in both Sporting KC (MLS) and the Kansas City Current (MWSL). The Current joined the NWSL in 2022 as an expansion team post-pandemic and the Mahomes’ joined the ownership group in 2023.

Manning has an ownership stake in Gotham FC, formerly Sky Blue FC, of the NWSL, something he began in 2022. Gotham FC has been around for some time under alternate names and was a founding member of the NWSL in 2013.

Finally, in November 2023, Gotham FC won its first NWSL Championship.

Gotham FC’s 20424 home opener is April 14 against the Current, so Eli couldn’t resist playing taunting Mahomes ahead of the opener.

“Hey, Mahomes. You may have one more of these than me, but do you have one of these? I don’t think so,” Manning said. “See you at the home opener April 14th. Let’s go, Gotham!”

Sunday’s home opener will be fun to watch, and the banter between Manning and Mahomes will be in jest, both wanting nothing more than to promote and support the teams they own.



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Giants great Tiki Barber not a fan of NFL’s playoff overtime rules

Super Bowl LVIII between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs went into overtime, testing the new rule approved by the league last March.

Under the old rules, overtime periods were set at 10 minutes in length. If the team that possesses the ball first in overtime scores a touchdown on that drive, they win the game. The other offense never gets a chance to even take the field to answer.

On the other hand, if that first team kicks a field goal, the other team will get a possession to answer to win it with a touchdown or tie it with a field goal. At that point, the game becomes a ‘sudden death’ scenario with the next team to score points winning that game.

The new playoff overtime rules set the periods at 15 minutes instead of the 10-minute overtime period in the regular season. If the team that possesses the ball first does not score a touchdown, or if the score is tied after each team has had a possession, then sudden death sets in, and the next score wins the game.

Former New York Giants great Tiki Barber believes the overtime rules in the postseason are nonsense, claiming they make the clock irrelevant.

“The new NFL overtime rule in the playoffs is nonsense. It’s absolute nonsense. To make a clock mean nothing is nonsense,” Barber said Monday on WFAN. “The clock has to end the game. I understand why they do it this way because you want to be fair. But it takes all urgency out of football.

“I hate that. Football, in my mind, is competing against an opponent. But it’s also competing against these forces that constrain you. It’s the field, it’s the officials, and it’s the clock. And overtime in the NFL playoffs, they have neutered the clock, and it makes no sense to me.”

I understand his point, but keep in mind, it’s the postseason. The game needs to produce a winner. In the old days (think the 1956 NFL Championship between the Giants and Baltimore Colts) it was a true sudden-death affair — first team to score wins.

The clock ticked but it clearly was irrelevant when it came to urgency as Tiki was intimating. Isn’t that basically still the case? The only difference between 1958 and today is that both teams get a shot as the clock ticks in the background, albeit pointlessly.



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Ex-Giant Steve Spagnuolo is now the most decorated DC of all time

The Kansas City Chiefs stormed back twice on Sunday night, finally defeating the San Francisco 49ers, 25-22, in overtime of Super Bowl LVIII.

With the win, former New York Giants defensive coordinator and interim head coach, Steve Spagnuolo, became the most decorated coordinator in the NFL’s long history.

Not only is Spagnuolo the first coordinator to win titles with multiple teams but after hoisting his fourth Lombardi Trophy, he broke a five-way tie with Richie Petibon, Charlie Weis, Romeo Crennel, and Josh McDaniels, who each won three.

“You end up in the positions as they come, right?” Spagnuolo said, via Giants.com before the Super Bowl. “You can’t control that sometimes. I’ll be honest with you, it’s great to have all that, but it’s always been about the relationships with the players. And I value that more than anything. When it’s all said and done, I hope my personal legacy is that I was able to share, educate, mentor, coach, teach guys along the way in this business.

“It’s always been about trying to influence, help, mentor, better somebody and something, and it happened to be football. So, I hope when it’s all said and done, it’ll be the relationships and I would’ve been able to at least help some guys along the way.”

Spagnuolo, of course, was the architect behind the Giants’ defensive gameplan that limited the then-perfect New England Patriots — the NFL’s highest-scoring team that season — to just 14 points in Super Bowl XLII.

After winning his fourth championship, it’s time for Spagnuolo to not only get a second chance as an NFL head coach but to begin being discussed as a potential Pro Football Hall of Famer.

Once a Giant, Always a Giant.

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Ex-New York Giants WR Kadarius Toney won’t play in Super Bowl LVIII

Former New York Giants wide receiver Kadarius Toney has been removed from the injury report ahead of Super Bowl LVIII but the Kansas City Chiefs still intend to sit him.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that Toney will not play on Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers, potentially bringing an end to his career in Kansas City.

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Kadarius Toney is not expected to play Sunday in Super Bowl LVIII, a league source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

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Toney hasn’t played since a Week 15 game against the New England Patriots in which he deflected a pass to a defender for an interception for the second time this season. He was not listed on the Chiefs’ injury report, however, for the Super Bowl against the San Francisco 49ers.

After being listed as an inactive ahead of the AFC Championship Game, Toney lashed out at the Chiefs in an expletive-laden Instagram Live rant in which he accused them of lying.

“Y’all reading all this cap-(expletive) (expletive)? You didn’t believe it, I don’t give a (expletive),” Toney said on his Instagram live. “Ain’t never been a (expletive) to do all that but man, that (expletive) cap.

“I’m not hurt. None of that (expletive). Save that (expletive). Suck my (expletive), too. I’m not hurt. None of that. It goes from hip to ankle to this to that.”

After that created a stir, Toney attempted to walk back his words, claiming his livestream was “chopped up” and that it was actually directed at fans of the Giants.

“In the process of that, I got interrupted so it got like a mixed message behind it, I guess you could say. Then, a lot of footage got chopped up in the release, so it made it like I was attacking doing what I love the most,” Toney said during NFL Media Day. “I never attacked the Chiefs, never said anything about the Chiefs. Who I was referring to was the Giants fans and the people in my comment box, not even on my live recording, so you wouldn’t even know they were there. But I was referring to them, which I shouldn’t have. I just wanted to go out there. I just wanted to get my message across as far as my injury, but I shouldn’t have did that at the end of the day.

“I’m a man, and I can accept my mistakes just like I can accept my wins. But I’m just moving past it right now. We’re heading out. We’re just trying to win.”

The delusional Toney made similar claims at the end of his tenure with the Giants, claiming they had lied about his injuries as well.

News that he’ll be benched won’t sit well with Toney, so expect another social media meltdown that he later blames on the Giants and their fans.

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Ex-Giant Steve Spagnuolo could become most decorated DC in NFL history

Former New York Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo is set to coach in his sixth Super Bowl this Sunday when the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers face off in Las Vegas.

Spagnuolo has already won three Super Bowl titles and is the only offensive or defensive coordinator in NFL history to win a ring with multiple teams.

Four other coordinators have won three Super Bowls — Richie Petibon, Charlie Weis, Romeo Crennel and Josh McDaniels. Two of those four (Weis and Crennel) have Super Bowl wins as Giants assistants.

Should Spagnuolo’s Chiefs win on Sunday, he would become the most decorated defensive or offensive coordinator in NFL history. But don’t try and tell him how great he is — Spagnuolo brushes that talk off.

“You end up in the positions as they come, right?” Spagnuolo said, via Giants.com. “You can’t control that sometimes. I’ll be honest with you, it’s great to have all that, but it’s always been about the relationships with the players. And I value that more than anything. When it’s all said and done, I hope my personal legacy is that I was able to share, educate, mentor, coach, teach guys along the way in this business.

“It’s always been about trying to influence, help, mentor, better somebody and something, and it happened to be football. So, I hope when it’s all said and done, it’ll be the relationships and I would’ve been able to at least help some guys along the way.”

Sure, you end up in the positions as they come, but those positions do not always indicate success. Success is something you earn, and you can’t be a successful coach without helping people along the way.

Spagnuolo has been one of those coaches, and a win on Sunday solidifies his legacy as one of the greatest coordinators of all time.

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‘Would be a dream come true’ to return to Giants someday

Kansas City Chiefs defensive backs coach Dave Merritt spent 14 years with the New York Giants — first as a defensive assistant and quality control coach, then as a defensive assistant, but the majority of his tenure with the team was as a secondary coach and safeties coach.

Even though he’s with the Chiefs now, Merritt still hopes to return to New York one day.

A few years ago, Merritt ran into Giants co-owner John Mara at a league event and made it clear he’d love to return.

“I said it’s getting close to the time for me to come home,” Meritt told Newsday on Monday on opening night of the Super Bowl. “And he kind of looked at me and winked.”

However, Merritt was not contacted for the recently open defensive coordinator role in New York, but that isn’t a deterrent for Merrit.

“If I go back to the Giants in any capacity, that would be a dream come true,” Merritt said. “But I will say this right now: What Mr. Hunt has done here and my feeling toward Kansas City, it is second to none. They are right there with the New York Giants in how they treat me and my family. It’s been great.”

Merritt helped the Giants win two Super Bowls and is now hoping for his third ring with Kansas City. Even though the Giants won’t bring him back in 2024, he is someone who should be high on their list in the future.

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Kadarius Toney says his latest rant was aimed at New York Giants fans

Just before kickoff of the AFC Championship Game, Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Kadarius Toney accused the team of lying about his injuries.

Toney had been ruled out due to a lingering hip injury and “personal reasons,” which turned out to be the birth of his daughter. But he took exception to the injury designation and unloaded on the Chiefs in an expletive-laden rant.

“Y’all reading all this cap-(expletive) (expletive)? You didn’t believe it, I don’t give a (expletive),” Toney said on his Instagram live. “Ain’t never been a (expletive) to do all that but man, that (expletive) cap.

“I’m not hurt. None of that (expletive). Save that (expletive). Suck my (expletive), too. I’m not hurt. None of that. It goes from hip to ankle to this to that.”

This was par for the course for Toney, who did something remarkably similar during his time with the New York Giants.

But on Monday, during Super Bowl Media Day, Toney made even more bizarre and unhinged claims, suggesting his own Instagram livestream was “chopped up” and that his intention was never to bash the Chiefs.

Rather, Toney says, the entire thing was aimed at Giants fans.

“It kind of started like that,” Toney said. “In the process of that, I got interrupted so it got like a mixed message behind it, I guess you could say. Then, a lot of footage got chopped up in the release, so it made it like I was attacking doing what I love the most. . . I never attacked the Chiefs, never said anything about the Chiefs. Who I was referring to was the Giants fans and the people in my comment box, not even on my live recording, so you wouldn’t even know they were there. But I was referring to them, which I shouldn’t have. I just wanted to go out there. I just wanted to get my message across as far as my injury, but I shouldn’t have did that at the end of the day.

“I’m a man, and I can accept my mistakes just like I can accept my wins. But I’m just moving past it right now. We’re heading out. We’re just trying to win.”

O… K…

That wasn’t the only wild and inaccurate claim Toney made on Monday. He also suggested he’s a true No. 1 receiver and has the potential to be among the league’s best.

Toney last suited up for the Chiefs in Week 15 when he dropped a pass that hit him right in the hands, leading to a Patrick Mahomes interception. The veteran quarterback fumed and it was the last anyone saw of Toney.



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8 ex-New York Giants will play or participate in Super Bowl LVIII

On Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Baltimore Ravens, 17-10, to punch their ticket to Super Bowl LVIII.

Mere hours later, the San Francisco 49ers roared back and picked up a come-from-behind win over the Detroit Lions, 34-31, sending them to The Big Game.

The game will be a rematch of Super Bowl LIV — a 31-20 Kansas City victory.

There will also be a slight New York Giants flavor to the entire thing. Eight former members of the team will either play, coach or participate in the NFL’s classic finale.

Here’s a look at all eight (front office members were not included):

New York Giants helmet

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Years with Giants: 1992

AP Photo/John Munson

Years with Giants: 2022

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Years with Giants: 2019

AP Photo/Frank Franklin II

Years with Giants: 2020-2021

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Years with Giants: 2007-2008, 2015-2017

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Years with Giants: 2004-2017

AP Photo/Brett Duke

Years with Giants: 2021-2022

Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images

Years with Giants: 2022

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Ex-Giant Kadarius Toney accuses Chiefs of lying about his injuries

The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Baltimore Ravens, 17-10, in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday but former New York Giants wide receiver Kadarius Toney wasn’t there to enjoy it with his teammates.

A day prior, the Chiefs had ruled Toney out due to a hip injury and “personal reasons” following the birth of his daughter. He did not travel with the team.

But that explanation did not sit well with Toney, who unloaded on the Chiefs just before Sunday’s kickoff, making an all-too-familiar claim.

“Y’all reading all this cap-(expletive) (expletive)? You didn’t believe it, I don’t give a (expletive),” Toney said on his Instagram live. “Ain’t never been a (expletive) to do all that but man, that (expletive) cap.

“I’m not hurt. None of that (expletive). Save that (expletive). Suck my (expletive), too. I’m not hurt. None of that. It goes from hip to ankle to this to that.”

Toney last suited up for the Chiefs in Week 15 when he dropped a pass that hit him right in the hands, leading to a Patrick Mahomes interception. The veteran quarterback fumed and it was the last anyone saw of Toney.

The issues are similar to those he had in New York. Toney was inconsistent on the field, repeatedly hurt, and spent a lot of his time griping with fans and claiming the Giants were lying about his injuries.

Toney was selected 20th overall in the 2021 NFL draft but it didn’t take the Giants long to realize they had made a mistake. He was shipped off to the Chiefs in October of 2022 in exchange for a third- and a sixth-round pick in the 2023 NFL draft.

This latest outburst could spell the end of Toney’s NFL career.



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Ex-Giants WR Kadarius Toney ruled out for AFC Championship Game

Former New York Giants first-round pick Kadarius Toney will not play for the Kansas City Chiefs in Sunday’s AFC Championship Game against the Ravens in Baltimore.

Toney has been officially ruled out due to injury and “personal reasons.”

It is a headline that does not come as a surprise to many Giant fans.

Toney, a wide receiver out of Florida, was selected 20th overall by the Giants in the 2021 NFL draft. He played in only 10 games as a rookie due to multiple injuries/illnesses and then was traded to Kansas City the next season by first-year general manager Joe Schoen for third- and sixth-round draft picks after appearing in just two games.

The Giants traded the third-round pick they got in the Toney deal to the Las Vegas Raiders last spring in exchange for Pro Bowl tight end Darren Waller. They selected Old Dominion defensive back Tre Hawkins III with the sixth-round selection.

As a Giant, Toney showed some prowess, catching 39 passes for 420 yards as a rookie but failed to get into the end zone.

He hasn’t had much success as a Chief, however, with 39 receptions for 335 yards and three touchdowns in 19 games. He did, however, score a touchdown in last year’s Super Bowl win against Philadelphia.



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