EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — A small aircraft circled MetLife Stadium roughly 90 minutes earlier than New York hosted the New Orleans Saints on Sunday, urging Giants co-owner John Mara to overtake a group that has made the playoffs twice since successful the Super Bowl in February 2012.
“Mr. Mara, sufficient. Please repair this dumpster fireplace!” learn the message on a banner towed by the aircraft.
Mara declined to remark.
Kicker Graham Gano, coach Brian Daboll, rookie receiver Malik Nabers, veteran receiver Darius Slayton and linebacker Brian Burns all stated after the Giants misplaced 14-11 to the Saints that they did not see the aircraft and banner.
Nabers, who had 5 catches for 79 yards, quipped that he had nothing to do with the stunt.
“I ain’t pay for the aircraft,” Nabers stated.
Slayton stated the followers have a proper to complain after one successful season since 2016.
“People have time and money to do stuff like that. If that’s what they select to do, that’s what they select to do,” Slayton stated.
“I actually nonetheless don’t know what you’re speaking about,” Burns stated after being advised concerning the flyover, which began roughly two hours earlier than the kickoff and lasted about half-hour. “But I don’t actually have a touch upon that.”
The Giants (2-11) suffered certainly one of their most excruciating losses of the season when Gano had a game-tying 35-yard field goal attempt blocked with 11 seconds to play. It was New York’s eighth straight loss, one shy of tying the group file, and the Giants fell to 0-7 at residence with Baltimore (8-5) set to go to subsequent weekend.
Daboll was requested concerning the followers calling for sweeping modifications.
“I’m dissatisfied we’ve two wins,” he stated. “So, we’re simply going to maintain on grinding it out and attempt to hold growing these younger gamers and prepare to play an amazing group subsequent week.”
The skid has put Daboll and basic supervisor Joe Schoen on the recent seat. New York was 6-11 in 2023 after making the playoffs in Daboll’s first season in 2022 with a 9-7-1 file and successful a postseason sport for the primary time since Super Bowl 46.
Quarterback Drew Lock stated he was centered on the sport and did not see the aircraft.
“That’s going to fairly far lengths to attempt to take a message however no, I didn’t see it,” stated Lock, including the message was in a single ear and out the opposite.
This season, the Giants gave up on quarterback Daniel Jones lower than midway right into a four-year, $160 million contract. He was lower on Nov. 22 after the Giants advised him he was not going to play once more this season, and he requested Mara to launch him. Jones signed with the Vikings observe squad the next week.
There was an identical incident within the late Nineteen Seventies when a aircraft employed by followers flew over Giants Stadium with a trailing banner that learn “15 Years of Lousy Football. … We’ve Had Enough.” Between 1973-79, the Giants received not more than six video games in a season, with the six wins coming in ‘78 and ’79 when the NFL expanded from a 14-game to a 16-game common season.
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