On Monday December 3rd the New York Giants will play the Washington Redskins, and three ALL TIME GIANTS GREATS will be available to watch it with you!  Join Harry Carson, Lawrence Taylor, and Mark Bavaro at Dave and Busters Times Square as they sign autographs and discuss the state of the Giants.  This is truly a once in a lifetime chance to spend time with Giants legends and hear their take on the game as it is being played.  There will be an open bar and stadium food will available  all night.

GMenHQ will be conducting a ticket giveaway this Wednesday right here on the site  through Spreecast at 1:00 PM Eastern.  Don’t miss this opportunity to win two tickets to this amazing event.  Tickets may also be purchased through Giants.brownpapertickets.com

GMenHQ, Inside The Iggles,  and the FanSided Sports Network invite you to join us in watching the  Sunday Night Football showdown between the New York Giants and The Philadelphia Eagles with a select and exclusive group of fans on an exciting new iPad application called TV Dinner.  If you don’t have an IPad, it’s O.K., just jump on the web and go to TV-Dinner.com

TV Dinner is one of the most exciting social experiences to come along in some time. Taking some of the best aspects of Twitter and Facebook, TV Dinner allows you to join other folks from across the world to watch and discuss television events in real time.

The brilliance of TV Dinner is that it cuts out the noise. Instead of wading through all the other chatter on Facebook and Twitter, the TV Dinner main menu breaks the conversation down by events.

Sports, TV and award shows. If it’s on TV, it’s on TV Dinner!

Just log in, select an event (like SNF) and jump right into the conversation. You can comment on the action, post pictures with a caption and even put together a poll so other users can vote.

The messages, called “Nibbles” are shared with the rest of the group. If other users like your nibbles, they can vote for you by “Cherry Picking” it. You see, along with being a fun way to interact with other people enjoying the same event as you, TV Dinner is also a game. The “Leader Board” will flash periodically throughout the event showing the users who are getting the most votes from others. Users can even share their favorite content on Facebook!

TV Dinner and FanSided are offering you a chance to help shape this fun new application by joining Sunday’s special Beta Test Group for Sunday Night Football.

Sign up to be reminded about Sunday’s TV Dinner – Powered by FanSided

I’ve been a part of two TV Dinner Beta Tests so far and I have to tell you, it is a blast. It is really simple to use and you’ll likely figure it out in mere minutes.

We hope you enjoy the experience and we’ll see you Sunday night at 8EST on TV Dinner!

Game Time: 4:15pm EST3:15 CST

Location: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ

TV: America’s Game of the Week on FOX. WNYW FOX 5 (NY, NJ, PA, CT), WTIC-TV FOX 61 (CT, RI, MA) and WLUK-TV 11 (WI)

Announcers:  Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, and Pam Oliver

Radio: WFAN 660-AM (NY, NJ, PA, CT, MA) and  WTMJ AM620 (WI and MI).

Game Time Weather: Kick Off: 54* Winds 7-10 mph from SE

Half-Time: 51* Winds 7-10 mph from SE

4th Quarter: 49* Winds from 5-7 mph from SW

Current Line: Packers by 7 with Over/Under at 54 points

Dallas Cowboys at Arizona Cardinals. Dallas lost in overtime. The Cowboys are 7-5. They are half game ahead of the GIANTS.

Detroit Lions at New Orleans Saints. The Lions are 7-4 and one game ahead of the GIANTS. The Lions are one game behind the Falcons/Bears for the final playoff spot.

Kansas City Chiefs at Chicago Bears. Kansas City won 10-3 . The Bears are 7-5 and are a tiebreaker ahead of the Lions and .5 games ahead of the Giants for the final playoff spot.

Atlanta Falcons at Houston Texans. Houston won 17-10. The Falcons are 7-5 and are a tiebreaker ahead of the Lions and .5 games ahead of the Giants for the final playoff spot.

New York Jets at Washington Redskins. The Jets won 34-19.  The Redskins are 4-8 and are  basically eliminated from the playoffs.

Bears at Raiders: Oakland won 25-20. The Bears are currently tied with the Falcons for the final playoff spot and .5 games ahead of the GIANTS.

Eagles at Patriots: Patriots won 38-20. The Eagles are 4-7 and 3 games behind the Falcons and 2.5 games behind the GIANTS.

Redskins at Seahawks: Redskins won 23-17. Seahawks are now 3 games behind the Falcons and 2.5 behind the GIANTS.

Vikings at Falcons: Falcons won 24-14. They are now 7-4. The Falcons are tied with the Lions for the final  playoff spot. The GIANTS are .5 games behind the Lions.

Eagles 10

Its been UGLY! The GIANTS forgot to show up in the first half…pathetic!

Key Moments

1. Young cannot get it into the end zone. Eagles settle for Field Goal.
2. Nicks couldn’t hold onto the deep ball from Eli
3. Jacobs gets stuffed on 3rd and 1…shockers!!! not!
4. Phillips gets a pick off a nice deflection by Ross
5. Three and out after starting on the Eagles 45, end up on our own 43
6. Jackson decides to taunt the GIANTS and costs his team big time!
7. Near INT but led to a big hold by the GIANTS defense at 2:27 mark of the 2nd Quarter.
8. We punted to Jackson–enough said. Ran it back to the 14 yard line of the GIANTS
9. Steve Smith burns the GIANTS and scores a TD from Young. Kiwi got burned on the play
10. Ballard drops another big pass down the middle of the field
11. Three dropped passes
12. Tynes good from 48 yards, gets the GIANTS 3pts
13. Giants were pathetic in the first half.

Chat begins at 1pm

LETS GO GIANTS!

Check back here for the console at 12:30 EST to join in on the fun. If youd like, you can participate directly from twitter by using the following hash tag in your tweets: #gmenhq

Follow GMENHQ on twitter to keep up with live in-game tweets as well: twitter.com/gmenhq

You can tweet #gmenhq to participate directly in the chat from twitter as well

I’ll be discussing gameplay live from central VA’s home for true Giants fans — The Forest.

The chat panel will come up automatically at 8:30 for the start of the game. If you want to participate from twitter, hash tag #gmenhq will also be inserted into the chat window for everyone following here on the site.

Follow GMENHQ on twitter for live tweets during the game as well – @gmenhq

The Giants enter this season with more questions surrounding their team than in any other season since 2007.  That year we had a new defensive coordinator, and some new faces on offense.  This year we have injuries to both sides of the ball, and lots of new faces in some key positions.  I think what you will see is a faster, quicker, more attacking defense.  An offense based, as usual. off the running game, and much improved special teams play.

The Giants go up against a Redskin team that has 8 new starters of their own.  Mike Shanahan is building the team he wants, not just working with what was left him.  The ‘Skins had a strange pre-season of sorts.  They were looking for a starting QB to emerge from their roster, and yet they averaged 145 yards per game on the ground.  Seems like an odd way to run a QB battle.  They have settled on Rex Grossman, and that gives the Giants an edge.  Grossman has the weaker arm of the two choices at QB.  He is a streaky player that lives with short to intermediate passes.  This will allow the Giants to play a little tighter to the line of scrimmage, and to pressure Rex relentlessly.  His receiver corps is not strong with the ageless Santana Moss still being the only deep threat, and tight end Chris Cooley injured.  Look for the Redskins to establish Tim Hightower and the running game early, allowing them to run some play action passes a little later in the game.

For the Giants the very predictable Kevin Gilbride might be even more predictable today.  The Giants know their strength is at running back, and they will try and get the ball in Jacobs and Bradshaw’s hands as much as possible.  They will run screens, wheel routes, and tosses.  The key to this offense is going to be the control of the very talented defensive line of the Redskins.  Once again look for how the line, tight ends, backs, and even the wide receivers are blocking.  Everyone needs to be involved and at least holding their own for this offense to be effective.  The play action passes to Nicks and Manningham will be there today with the Redskins missing safety Laron Landry.  Hopefully we get some production out of the tight end position, and the combination of Hixon, Cruz, and Devin Thomas from the third receiver spot.

I know most Giants fans will always check off a win next to any game against the Redskins, but this is a different group, and this might be a tougher game than most predict.  I still think the Giants prevail today, but this Washington team later in the year will be a major challenge as they develop their players.

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