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Tom Coughlin's fate rests on this game

Tom Coughlin viewing the last-minute action during the

Photo credit: David Pokress | Tom Coughlin viewing the last-minute action during the Giants and Packers game. (Dec. 4, 2011)

Chris Mara was only 12 years old when he stood on the sideline for the first preseason meeting between the Giants and Jets at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn. He'll never forget the look on his father's face after the Jets, who had won Super Bowl III only seven months earlier, walloped the Giants, 37-14, in front of more than 70,000.

"He was absolutely livid," Mara, now the Giants' vice president...

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