The NFL’s 32 teams will wrap up their exhibition slate on Thursday evening in perhaps the biggest example of football purgatory.
We’re oh so close to kicking off the 2017-18 NFL season, but we have to work through this last slate of meaningless games. Games where fans will root for their teams despite not knowing who a majority of the players are, only proving Jerry Seinfeld’s point that at the end of the day, we’re rooting for laundry. The New York Giants are among that group, carrying on a summer tradition dating back to 2001 as they’ll end their preseason against the New England Patriots (7:30 PM, WNBC) in games that resemble anything but Super Bowls XLII and XLVI.