They have spent most of the last year relishing their role as the most overlooked, disrespected and underappreciated team in professional sports, and their desire to prove their critics wrong even powered them to a Super Bowl championship. But now the Giants find themselves in an unfamiliar spot. They are suddenly everybody's darling. They're the unanimous No. 1 team in the land.
Four weeks into their title defense, the Giants have been stripped of one of their most cherished possessions - their perennial underdog status. The internet power rankings that once made their blood boil now have them ranked at the top, without exception. And the experts, who used to regularly tick them off, are now singing a different tune. Continue
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