Giants vs. Bengals

On September 21, 2008 the 2-0 New York Giants faced off against the 0-2 Cincinnati Bengals at Giants stadium in New Jersey. The Giants were favored by 13.5 points going into the game, but many thought that this game would be much closer than that. The Giants defense, who has played stellar in the first two games this season, started off this game with another great opening drive stand. Even though the defense hasn't played as well as it had in the first two games, they still played good enough. Sacking the Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer six times, the Bengals couldn't really get anything going offensively. The defense held the Bengals to only two touchdowns, but also allowed three field goals, with one of them being at the end of regulation which tied the game up and sent it into overtime. The offense of the Giants was led by quarterback Eli Manning who went 26-43 with 289 yards passing, and kicker John Carney who went four for four in field goal attempts including one from 22 yards out in overtime to give the Giants a 26-23 victory over the Bengals. Carney who was a free agent before the beginning of the season is now nine for nine in field goal attempts this season, and has played a major role in two of the Giants three victories this season. The Giants have now moved to 3-0 while the under achieving Bengals move to a disappointing 0-3. This was a big game for the Giants because now they go into their bye week at 3-0 and at a tie for first place in the NFC East with their rival, the Dallas Cowboys.

Giants vs. Rams

On September 14, 2008 the New York Giants faced off against the St. Louis Rams at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. The Giants were led by their star quarterback Eli manning, and the rest of the highly powered offense who put up a total of 441 offense yards. Manning threw for three touchdown passes including ones to Amani Toomer, and star receiver Plaxico Burress. The Giants defense who was very under rated going into the season after losing their two top players Michael Strahan, and Osi Umeniorya put up another outstanding performance only allowing one offense touchdown for the second week in a row. The game was much closer then people thought it would be, up until the final quarter. The play off the game was when Giants defensive end Justin Tuck intercepted Rams quarterback Marc Bulger, and returned it for a touchdown to make the then close game turn into a blow out. The Giants ended the game in dominating fashion by scoring three touchdowns in the final quarter in route to a 41-13 victory to increase their record to 2-0, while the struggling Rams are now 0-2 allowing a combined 79 points against in two games.

Hunnter vs Rodriguez

The Angel's centerfielder, Torii Hunter, and Yankee's catcher, Ivan Rodriguez were both kicked out of Monday night's game. Everyone who watches baseball knows what a disappointing season the Yankees have had and on Monday night it shows that this disappointment has finally caught up to them. It was the sixth inning of the game when Angel's centerfielder, Torii Hunter was caught in a rundown between third base and home plate. The ball was being thrown back and forth a couple of time between Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, and catcher Ivan Rodriguez, trying to tag out Torii Hunter who was attempting to score on a ball he should not have ran on. Hunter finally gave himself up and continued running to home. Ivan Rodriguez tagged him out, but while tagging him out, gave him a little elbow to the back. It seemed like nothing harmful, but Hunter took exception. Rodriguez, after tagging him out, walked out to the pitchers mound to hand the ball back the the Yankees pitcher at the time, Dan Giese. No one thought anything of this little elbow given to Hunter, but before you know it, Hunter was behind Rodriguez and shoved him in the back. Rodriguez then turned around, and that is when the benches proceeded to clear. Rodriguez turned towards Hunter and tried to hit him with a round house slap right to the face, but missed. The two players were restrained by their teammates and thrown out of the game. The final score of this game was 12-1 in favor of the Angel's. This showed the Yankees frustration of their long and under achieving season, because everyone knows that the Yankees organization is one of the classier franchises in sports, and they usually never fight. The two were both suspended two games for their actions, and hopefully have learned their lessons.