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This isn’t just the usual renewal Opening Day brings, any time, any sport, any season. Yes, there is something magical about snapping open this newspaper and seeing standings where all 32 teams sit on the same precise ledge,Cheap NFL jerseys  sporting identical 0-0 records.Never does the impossible seem more possible than on Opening Day.Neverdoes boundless optimism of the true believer ring louder.That applies to everyone, from Baltimore to Buffalo, from Seattle to St. Louis, from Denver to Dallas to Detroit. But nowhere does the flush and the rush of a real game come as more of a welcome island than for the Giants, who will take to the turf at FedEx Field amid a patriotic rush of a 9/11 ceremony, then take on the Redskins in a game that counts, blessedly, mercifully, for real.

“It’s exciting, because there’s been so much talk and so much anticipation and we really want to get started with the season,” quarterback Eil Manning said earlier in the week. “There’s a lot of talent in this room and I can’t wait to see what it looks like once the season begins and everything counts for real.”The Giants endured one of the longest offseasons imaginable, one that really began in the fourth quarter of that horrific meltdown against the Eagles last December, one that endured a lockout, an endless string of defections early in training camp and a troubling rush of injuries late.They enter this season where they exited last season, at this sprawling suburban mall of a stadium against a team that once upon a time was one of their most bitter rivals. When they were here last, NFL Wholesale Jerseys on the day after New Year’s, they tried their best to hang onto their 2010 season, beating the Redskins, while watching helplessly as the out-of-town scoreboard kept getting more and more grim, the Packers beating the Bears in Green Bay and putting an official lid on the Giants’ collapse.A few minutes later, John Mara gave a vote of confidence to the head coach, a vote that was backed up by a contact extension for Tom Coughlin last month. And for all the losses, Coughlin has remained a staunch believer these 2011 Giants have the goods to compete for the NFC East. Up and down the locker room, you hear the same thing.