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Article: Giants' success intensifies New York-New Jersey feud
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- January 20, 2001
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NEW YORK - Everyone loves a winner, especially New York City
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. There he was in the New York Giants' locker
room after they beat the Minnesota Vikings 41-0 for the NFC
championship, chatting about ticker-tape parades with quarterback
Kerry Collins.
That didn't go over well with Bergen County, N.J., executive
William Schuber.
"Given the Giants' strong ties to New Jersey, I believe the
appropriate venue for a celebration of the team's successful 2000
season is in Bergen County," Schuber, the county's top political
official, wrote in a letter to team owner Wellington Mara and the
operators of the Meadowlands sports complex.
That raised the question - and not for the first ...