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For fans, it's screams and tears

Inside the jam-packed Brickhouse Brewery in Patchogue, the Giants' down-to-the-wire victory was enough to bring the toughest men to tears.

Bob Baker, 54, of Ronkonkoma, started crying after Eli Manning's touchdown lob in the closing minutes put the Giants ahead. At game's end, as the bar crowd roared, he hugged his son Bob Jr., 22, and tried to make sense of what he had just witnessed.

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