Hate to admit it but I watch NFL Live. Yeah, okay, I know, it’s goofy but, hey, it’s July and I’ve been suffering through ‘football withdrawal,’ since March, okay? I watch it the way I watch really bad old movies on TV that make you laugh at all the wrong times. But, last week I stopped laughing when resident genius, Trey Wingo, said the 2007 Giants were a fluke. Then he corrected himself by saying, “Well, maybe not a fluke but certainly freaky” — which, I assume, constitutes a freakin’ fluke. Was it? Wingo and every other “expert ” prognosticator says the Giants are NOT the 2008 NFC “team-to-beat” because they just don’t match up — man for man — with Cowboy’s All-Pro roster — which, by the way, is as true now as it was in 2007. So, if he’s right, was 2007 a “freakin’ fluke?”

His logic is almost impeccable. Almost. They Giants really don’t have an All-Pro Player Roster. But, they do have something at least as important. They have an All-Pro front-office, management and coaching roster; and, in the salary cap, free-agency era, where players come and go from year to year, that may be the most important roster on any team. That roster built a ‘character,’ team. Not a team of characters but, rather a team with ‘character.’ And the overriding quality of that ‘character’ was; they simply never knew they WEREN’T supposed to win. That’s not a fluke. That’s not even a freakin’ fluke. That’s ‘character.’ Okay, maybe the Giants really aren’t the “team-to-beat” in 2008 — but these guys still don’t know they’re NOT supposed to win. Freakin’ fluke, my ass!