But regardless of Sunday's outcome, the Giants — with the league's third-youngest roster, a coach expected to sign a long-term contract extension and a quarterback no longer battered by comparisons to his own potential —will probably be considered a favorite to contend again.
He makes no mistake, battering a shot under Romero and into the net.
In Game of Thrones, there are no heroes battering evil orcs; just men and women scrabbling for power and murdering those unfortunate enough to get in their way.
Perhaps what I'll miss most about doing all-nighters in cheap multi-genre clubs, then, is being able to turn up in town wearing PVC fancy dress and basically no one battering an eyelid.
Outside in the parking lot, long-haired and wispily bearded young men in horn-rimmed no-sex-spex are battering songs out on electrified acoustic guitars for an audience of similarly bearded young men and the odd frizzy-haired woman.
Often the men are older, battered, no longer successful, and the women have had their patience sorely tried.
No batter swung at and missed any of Clemens's 39 pitches.
