Members of MLB's San Francisco Giants broke bread with former players from the NFL's New York Giants on Sunday, serving up a tasty punchline to a quirky, decade-old sports radio moment.
Ten years ago, a caller known as "Dan in Warwick" phoned into Mike Francesa's sports talk radio show with a burning question: Did the baseball Giants - who moved from New York to San Francisco in 1958 - and the football Giants ever get together, since they once shared a city and a name?
"What are you talking about?" Francesa replied, bewildered, before promptly ending the call.
The odd inquiry lingered in sports lore, unanswered - until now.
This weekend, as the San Francisco Giants were in town to play the New York Mets, current Giants stars Logan Webb and Matt Chapman met up for a meal with former New York Giants players Eli Manning and Shaun O'Hara.
The scene was captured in a playful video, where Francesa himself opens a door to discover the two Giants squads enjoying a meal beneath a banner proclaiming their "Annual Meetup."
The festivities included two-time Super Bowl champion Eli Manning watching a highlight reel of Webb's high school days as a quarterback.
"I think you made the right choice to stick with baseball," Manning joked, prompting laughter from Webb.
"I did, I did," Webb replied with a grin.
The group even brainstormed ideas for next year's Giants gathering before it was revealed to be a promotion for the coming fifth season of the Eli Manning Show.
"I was thinking next year we should have a picnic," Manning proposed.
"We should do a relay race," Webb suggested.
"Giants-Giants barbecue," Chapman chimed in.
"Just Giants barbecue, I don't think you need both of them," said O'Hara.
Meanwhile, the New York Giants put the spotlight
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