{"id":364628,"date":"2026-10-05T07:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364628\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T07:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:52:19","slug":"deonte-banks-needed-his-98-yard-pick-6-even-if-the-giants-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364628\/","title":{"rendered":"Deonte Banks needed his 98-yard pick-6 \u2014 even if the Giants didn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The player had the ball and was racing, alone, from darn near the north end zone all the way into the south end zone. The clock was ticking down, down, down and the Giants were going to win it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the player went down, the final score would have been 30-24 and that would have been just fine for the home team. Deonte Banks could have slid down onto the turf and that would have been that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That was not enough for this player. He was not going down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, f\u2013k it, no,\u201d Banks said. \u201cI was going for the touchdown.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The player had the ball and was racing, alone, from darn near the north end zone all the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21019,9,2683,11,10,22,319,428],"class_list":["post-364628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-deonte-banks","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364628","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=364628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}