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For Victor Cruz, ending could not have been more perfect

Bob Glauber

Bob Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets

ARLINGTON, Texas

he confluence of events and the crescendo of feelings could not have been more breathtakingly dramatic or more soul-stirringly emotional for Victor Cruz.

Nearly two years removed from a horrific knee injury that threatened his career, and a year after an aborted comeback from a calf injury that also required surgery, the 29-year-old receiver yesterday played his first regular-season game against a divisional opponent that was punctuated by deeply personal memories of one of America’s worst tragedies.