Last Sunday my New York Giants Football team defeated the Dallas Cowboys by the score of 34-17.  

I have been a Giant fan since boyhood and am proud to brag that I attended the Giants 1956 47-7 victory over the George Halas Chicago Bears in the (pre Super Bowl) National Football League Championship game and, 2 years later, attended "The Greatest Game Ever Played" when the Baltimore Colts beat the Giants in sudden death overtime in the NFL Championship game.  

Over the years there have been Giant Super Bowl victories, but for quite a while they have been consistent losers.   

This downturn has been tough as fun is more fun when you win, you play to win the game and there is no substitute for victory!

With this as subtext, if on Sunday the Giants continued their losing ways they would have been "rewarded" with the first pick of next season's draft of the best college players.  

In this context there is an unfortunate concept of "tanking", whereby a team intentionally loses to improve its draft position. Whether teams actually do so is open to conjecture, what is not conjecture is that if the Giants lost on Sunday they would have secured the prized # 1 pick.  

I for one am happy that the Giants played it straight, but many Giant fans don't agree with me, saying they can't win for losing.

In the end, it's just a game and there are winners and losers...