Eli Manning
The New York Giants apologized for their performance in Sunday’s 41-9 loss to the Carolina Panthers in their final game ever at Giants Stadium.
Giants coach Tom Coughlin and quarterback Eli Manning led the charge of apologies one day after the team was eliminated from playoff contention.
“The one thing I want to say to our fans, and to a man also, is we’d like to apologize for yesterday,” Coughlin said Monday per the Star-Ledger. “For whatever reason, a team that had an awful lot to play for, that had opportunities there, that was playing Giants Stadium for the last regular season game of the Giants, didn’t play up to our capabilities. It’s a very frustrating thing.”
As for Eli Manning… his feelings weren’t that different.
“I apologize,” Manning stated. “I wish we would have come out and played better football. I don’t have the answer to why it happened and why it’s happened throughout the season where we’ve been up and down in our play.”
The Giants wrap up their 2009 campaign on the road against the Minnesota vikings next Sunday.