This was Week 12 back in 1993, and it seemed like the Giants were about to be figured out. This was after Dan Reeves had come in and begun to coax one last bit of life out of the old championship Giants of the ’80s and early ’90s, he’d reinvigorated Phil Simms and gotten a thanks-for-the-memories season out of Lawrence Taylor. 

But for much of that afternoon at old Veterans Stadium, against Rich Kotite’s Eagles, they’d been locked down. Simms threw a pick. Rodney Hampton fumbled. The Eagles kicked a third-quarter field goal and after three quarters it was still 3-0, Philly. The Eagles weren’t very good that year but that mattered little to the 62,928 on hand. 

Beating the Giants is never treated lightly there. 

But then on the first play of the fourth quarter, Simms found Mark Jackson for a 26-yard touchdown pass. The Eagles would get the ball back four more times. They never moved it past their own 49. The Giants stopped them twice on fourth down. The Giants won, 7-3, and moved to 7-3 on the season. That was impressive.