At halftime Monday night, MetLife Stadium honored the 2007 New York Giants. Many members of the Super Bowl champion team walked to the middle of the field and waved to the crowd, basking in warm nostalgia. One of them sat in the Giants locker room, trying to solve what has gone horribly wrong for the current edition of the Giants.
Quarterback Eli Manning is one of two Giants remaining from the team that knocked off the undefeated New England Patriots. (Long snapper Zak DeOssie is the other.) Manning is 36 years old. The bellies and receding hairlines of his retired teammates offered a reminder that his own career, which will send him to the Hall of Fame, will end soon.