GREENWICH, CT — By most accounts, the New York Giants are the underdog going into Sunday's Super Bowl LXII against the undefeated New England Patriots. Their post-season history in the last two decades, and their 10-6 regular season performance this year, begs the question: “How could they possibly find themselves here?”
Fan Says He Knows the Secret of the Giants’ Success
GREENWICH, CT — By most accounts, the New York Giants are the underdog going into Sunday’s Super Bowl LXII against the undefeated New England Patriots. Their post-season history in the last two decades, and their 10-6 regular season performance this year, begs the question: “How could they possibly find themselves here?”
Jay Greenfield, 49, thinks he has the answer, and it doesn’t have anything to do with touchdowns, yards rushed or tackles. Self-identified as perhaps the most intense Giants fan since the age of 6 – that’s about three years before the first Super Bowl saw the Green Bay Packers best the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 – he says with confidence that his putting on tefillin three times a week since early on in the season shifted the odds in his home team’s favor.
Back in the fall, Greenfield had grown despondent over his beloved Giants’ 0-2 season start before going into the Sept. 23 showdown over their arch rival, the Washington Redskins. The team finished the pre-season 1-3, and were trounced by the Packers and the Dallas Cowboys in the regular season’s first two games.
Two days before the big game – the Friday before Yom Kippur – good friend Rabbi Yisroel Shemtov had stopped by to get him to put on tefillin, a regular practice since the Brooklyn, N.Y., garment salesman and Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid met Greenfield several years ago. The football fan was oddly reluctant.
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THE RESULTS ARE IN! TEFFILIN 1 PATRIOTS 0