"Eli Manning began walking off the field at MetLife Stadium, a place of sheer Bluephoria that had unmistakably become Giants Stadium, his arm around his wife, Abby, and soon the championship face of the championship franchise was all alone, walking tall and proud toward the tunnel, waving at the fans who were standing and cheering for him and moments earlier had serenaded him with "MVP, MVP, MVP" when he addressed the estimated crowd of 40-45,000.

I caught up to Manning, and now it was the two of us, and when I joked that all the cheers were for me, not for him, he playfully elbowed me."