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Speaker 1: traveled to Minnesota to take on the Vikings. When you

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Speaker 1: think of Giants and Vikings, you got to think of

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Speaker 1: the NFC Championship Game of two thousand and Carrie Collins,

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Speaker 1: who was the star of the day, takes a couple

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Speaker 1: Giant Hubtle Podcast. Carrie, First of all, Merry Christmas to

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Speaker 1: you and your family. Hope everybody's uh fired up for

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Speaker 1: the holidays and enjoying things. Yeah, definitely the same thing

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Speaker 1: to you, Bob, And uh good to talk about. This

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Speaker 1: game is obviously a special, uh special moment in my

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Speaker 1: career and and uh it's always good to reminisce about it. Well,

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Speaker 1: when you think about the his stree of the Giants

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Speaker 1: seventy six and they won an NFC Championship game against Washington.

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Speaker 1: But I think most people would say that the greatest

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Speaker 1: the one that you were the quarterback of in shutting

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Speaker 1: out the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship game January

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Speaker 1: the four teens, two thousand and one, forty one. Nothing.

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Speaker 1: When I say Vikings to carry Collins. When you hear

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Speaker 1: the word Vikings, does your brain automatically jump to that. Oh?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. I mean what a special day, right, I mean, uh,

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Speaker 1: the way it did. I mean, it was just uh,

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Speaker 1: and one uh one that uh, you know, I always

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Speaker 1: five touchdowns in the game. Um, you guys, just you

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Speaker 1: were dominant. I kill you. It had ten catches for

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Speaker 1: I mean Greg Camella, Joejurovicious had touchdown. You spread it

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Speaker 1: to before the game, early before the game was even played.

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Speaker 1: So the feeling was amongst a lot of people in

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Speaker 1: They've got Dante Culpepper, They've got Randy Moss. Uh, they've

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Speaker 1: They play fast break. And when the early week weather

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Speaker 1: felt differently, though, didn't you. Yeah, Well, going into the game, Um,

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Speaker 1: So now, in today's world, you win the coin toss,

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Speaker 1: So now the ensuing kickoff, Mo Williams fumbles it, you

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Speaker 1: And you know, of all the weapons you had, and

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Speaker 1: It's it's not often that you go into a four

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