The Jets may have been playing at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, but the Giants went out of their way to make sure they didn't feel right at home.
Big Blue was the home team for the Battle of New York, which actually took place in East Rutherford, N.J., but the Giants weren't exactly accommodating to their co-inhabitants. The Giants brass instructed the stadium staff, which works for both organizations, to treat the Jets as though they were any other road team.
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"The Jets were treated as strangers in their own home," a source told The New York Post's Page Six.
Perhaps the Giants got what they deserved when Tom Coughlin's team blew yet another fourth quarter lead and lost 23-20 in overtime to first-year head coach Todd Bowles' squad. The home team led 20-10 heading into the second half, but allowed 10 points in the fourth quarter to necessitate overtime.
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Randy Bullock then notched a go-ahead field goal in overtime for the Jets, while the Giants missed their attempt to give the "road" team a victory. The Jets were treated as just that, a road team in their own building.
There were several awkward encounters on Sunday as Jets receiver Brandon Marshall was denied access to the parking lot he usually parks in with his teammates and told to use the visitor's lot. Marshall responded by hauling in 12 receptions for 131 yards and scoring the game-tying touchdown on a 9-yard throw from Ryan Fitzpatrick late in the fourth quarter.
Jets owner Woody Johnson's wife, Suzanne, was told to use the loading dock to get into the stadium rather than the VIP entrance.
"Suzanne was good-natured about it, and it wasn't the staff's fault," a source told the Post. "They were just following orders. But it put them in a really awkward position."
The Giants may have been countering the Jets' insistence on covering up their championship banners at MetLife Stadium when these two franchises last crossed paths in the regular season. Then-Jets head coach Rex Ryan and company opted to hide the banners for the home game, drawing the ire of Big Blue on Christmas Eve.
It seems the Giants didn't learn the lesson in karma that they taught their intrastate rivals, as they handed the Jets a 29-14 defeat that day.
This time it was the Giants acting petty, but the Jets got the last laugh with a thrilling victory inside a stadium that didn't quite feel like home.
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