2018 NFL Playoffs- Can The Giants pull off the impossible

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Look, let’s get this out of the way at the top: Unless a number of extraordinary and unforeseeable things happen, the Giants aren’t going to make the playoffs. Just about every viable site that formulates such mathematical probabilities stands in agreement with this, but let’s rely on the smart folks at FiveThirtyEight, which lists Big Blue thusly right now:
N.Y. Giants < 1%.

As in: less than 1 percent.
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And it’s fair to wonder: How is it possibly that high?
Still, what’s the point in being a sports fan if you aren’t willing to sign up for impossible dreams? That long-ago song from “Man of La Mancha” wasn’t written with sports teams in mind — the story of Don Quixote was written between 1605 and 1615, meaning he’s even older than Eli Manning — but its timeless anthem perennially applies to the true sporting believer:

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To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe …
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star …

And, look: We’ve seen plenty of impossible dreams around here, and that’s not counting the usual suspects — say, the 1978 Yankees and ’51 baseball Giants, and other fine candidates in the 1958 and ’11 football Giants — who overcame steep odds to play for or win championships; those, after all, were excellent teams who would’ve had good seasons anyway, even if they hadn’t ended in the playoffs.
No, if the 2018 Giants pull off this crazy trick of theirs, they would join a far more exclusive club of New York teams that were, for the most part, ordinary (to be kind) or pedestrian (to be blunt) yet still managed to foil the Grim Sporting Reaper despite long, unsightly odds. These are the best of the worst of that bunch:
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1) 1973 Mets
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How dead were they? Team chairman Don Grant tried to offer up a comical pregame pep talk during the doggiest of dog days, encouraging the team to keep believing in itself. Tug McGraw, having a dreadful season, had enough and started making fun of Grant right in front of him — “You gotta believe, guys! You gotta believe!” — only, amazingly, the team turned things around immediately, as did McGraw, who became unhittable and beloved and coined the most famous slogan in team history as a bargain.
 

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