My Thoughts on the Game:

• There were 10,000 empty seats, about twice as many as were at Yankee Stadium on Monday night. An absolute disgrace on the part of Giants fans. Here we were, with a solid chance to be one of seven NFL teams to start the year 2-0 (which we did), and we couldn't come close to filling the stadium for a game that was supposed to double as a charity drive ...

• ... which it hardly was. Sure, there were signs everywhere touting charitable websites, but I saw only one person collecting cash in a bucket. And he needed a bodyguard to protect the booty. I had to retreat during a piss-break sprint just to catch him.

• The fans that were there were true Big Blue backers. Wow, I forgot how much energy runs through that joint.

• The Giants play at San Diego on Sunday night, which means we're playing with house money. Even a loss would bring us back home at 2-1 against the shaky Rams on Oct. 2. Come back 3-0 and you're gonna see the most raucous tailgate and in-game crowd since the 2000 NFC championship run.

• I have total confidence in Eli Manning to make the right read and almost none to make a great throw. I missed the ESPN Sunday Night Football's crew's take on the game, but I imagine they called him a rising star. In reality, he's been pretty pedestrian, even with the Giants' combined total of 69-29 through two games.

• Payback's a bitch, and I never forgot the shit I took in New Orleans from Saints fans who yelled curses at me for wearing my No. 80 Shockey jersey to the Superdome in the Joe Horn Cell Phone Game in December 2003. Fuck 'em.

• Our pre-game meal included hamburger, cheese, bacon, chili, sausage and an obscene amount of beer. The rule for Section 129, Row 11 was: "If you smelt it, you dealt it ... and probably weren't the only one."

• There's never been a better scenario than this: Giants go to 2-0, both my fantasy teams go to 2-0, the Yanks win, and the Sux lose. Great night.