{"id":220709,"date":"2026-05-05T15:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220709\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:05:19","slug":"new-york-giants-eagles-team-up-for-an-excellent-cause-in-new-jersey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220709\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Giants, Eagles team up for an excellent cause in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Giants<\/a> have teamed up with an unusual partner for a worthy cause in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

The Giants have partnered with the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> in an effort to expand girls’ flag football throughout the state, reports ESPN’s Adam Schefter.<\/p>\n

The initiative between the long-time rivals recently reached a significant milestone, as the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA) voted to recognize girls’ flag football as a state-sanctioned sport at the high school level.<\/p>\n

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New Jersey will officially become the 21st state to sanction girls’ flag football. The development marks a major accomplishment for both the Giants and the Eagles, who set aside their NFC East rivalry to pursue this rare joint effort.<\/p>\n

The two teams split their 2025 season series one game apiece. While their rivalry will surely be renewed ahead of Week 1 in September, both organizations were able to put aside their differences to support this important cause.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Giants Wire: New York Giants, Eagles team up for an excellent cause in New Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants have teamed up with an unusual partner for a worthy cause in New Jersey.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46218,15906,87001,1066,9,2683,11,10,87000,2685,3918],"class_list":["post-220709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adam-schefter","tag-flag-football","tag-joint-effort","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-njsiaa","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-the-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}