Giants Can't KO Team Turmoil

Giants Can't KO Team Turmoil
December 15
New York Post columnist Steve Serby
"Champions come into a house divided and burn it to the ground.

The Giants (11-3), 20-8 losers last night, have suddenly stopped looking like champions, and beware the surging Carolina Panthers next week in the rumble for the No. 1 seed at Giants Stadium.

The Cowboys were all on the ropes, their season on the brink . . . the egomaniacal owner driven mad by star power, no matter what the price to the chemistry of his team . . . the soft head coach, who commands too little respect and cannot prevent the inmates from running the asylum . . . the Hollywood quarterback, who has this troubling habit of spitting the bit in December and January . . . and last, but certainly not least, the selfish, attention-starved quarterback-killer who poisons the fabric of every team that indulges his just-give-me-the-damn-ball talents.

America's Team was a simmering powder keg, ready to implode.

Terrell Owens was at the root of all the evil, of course, stirring the pot over quarterback Tony Romo throwing the ball too often to his buddy, tight end Jason Witten, airing his grievances with offensive coordinator Jason Garrett, reportedly having to be separated from Witten behind closed doors.

But Big Blue couldn't dance on Jerry Jones' grave.

Eli Manning's passing game was impotent again without Plaxico Burress and the running game smashed no one in the mouth without Brandon Jacobs and the best offensive line in football was anything but, allowing eight sacks.

So should the Giants meet up again with Team Turmoil in the playoffs, and somehow don't find a way to get it done, they will have no one to blame but themselves.

Lo and behold, that was suddenly Team Happy - Romo, T.O. and Witten - smiling on the field together for postgame NBC interviews with Andrea Kremer.

"It wasn't a pretty win, but we got it done," T.O. said. "
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