The New York Giants are back again with another headline, and no they did not release Eli Manning yet. This new headline is from the most unlikely of sources, a cat. Yesterday’s Monday Night Football matchup had the Giants hosting the Dallas Cowboys in a divisional game. Daniel Jones versus Dak Prescott, Saquon Barkley versus Ezekiel Elliott, the people of New York versus the people of Dallas, how much excitement could there possibly be. Well to everyone’s dissatisfaction, this was an awful game as the Cowboys bulldozed their way to a 37 to 18 victory. You would think a dazzling performance would be the headliner of this game. Well, you are wrong for the second week in a row if you’ve read my previous post. This game was dictated by a random cat that found its way onto the field.

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Close to the end of the second quarter, this adventurous feline found itself strutting its paws on the Giants’ goal line. It then proceeded to stop the game for the next two minutes as it ran aimlessly around the field.  Security and grounds crew tried to get ahold of the cat, however, it seemed just as elusive as Saquon Barkley. Actually, let me take that back because the cat WAS more elusive than him in this contest. After the cat was on the field, the Cowboys held the Giants to only nine points for the rest of the game. This included holding Barkley to only 28 total yards which, ironically, is less than what the cat ran which was a total of 50 yards. It is common belief that black cats cause bad luck and this little fella decided to spread that to the Giants. In fact, there is going to be a lot more of that considering a whole litter of stray cats were found after the game concluded.

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Cowboys owner Jerry Jones even commented on the luck as he said, “But things did kind of change when the black cat came. What was amazing to me was how few people wanted to grab him”. Defensive end Demarcus Lawrence also had his fun taking side with the cat as he stated after the game, “Man, the game was over. If a black cat runs on the damn field on a Monday Night Football game, a black cat, you might want to call it quits, bro”. This cat has even found its way onto social media with countless fans rallying behind it. It has become so much of an icon that The Checkdown, a football social media page, went out of their way to make a short documentary spoof on the cat. The cat was a little late for Halloween, but it sure did provide the much-needed entertainment on this Monday Night game.