{"id":62911,"date":"2025-12-06T22:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T22:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/62911\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T22:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T22:46:17","slug":"giants-rb-tyrone-tracy-jr-connects-with-local-big-blue-fans-at-limitless-athletics-on-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/62911\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants RB Tyrone Tracy Jr. connects with local Big Blue fans at Limitless Athletics on Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.\u2014 Just two months after New York Giants tight ends Theo Johnson and Daniel Bellinger visited Staten Island<\/a> to connect with local fans, Big Blue running back Tyrone Tracy Jr. made his own trip to the borough on Saturday afternoon, taking time to meet with dozens of supporters at fitness center Limitless Athletics in Oakwood.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing; it fills my heart that people want to talk with me,\u201d Tracy Jr. told the Advance\/SILive.com when asked about the opportunity to engage with fans, especially during the holiday season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great getting to talk with fans and get to know them in addition to them getting to know me off the field a little better,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Brandon Auerbach, co-founder of Limitless Athletics, said hosting Tracy was an ideal opportunity to use their space to bring the local community together \u2014 a core pillar of their mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very involved with the community here. We like to be very engaged, and we\u2019re big on getting everybody to come together in some way, shape or form,\u201d Auerbach began.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe throw a lot of events here, so this was a great one that we were very excited to host. We had a lot of vendors and sponsorships, and, like I said, we hope it was beneficial for everyone \u2014 a great community event to bring everyone together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GiantsNicole Minstretta and Vanessa Raggi, representatives from Next Level Sports, were on hand to raise awareness about opportunities in youth sports as part of a meet and greet event with Giants RB Tyrone Tracy Jr. on Dec. 6, 2025.Michael O’Brien<\/p>\n

Among the local vendors in attendance were Napoli Pizza, Tactical Beards, JAG Physical Therapy, and Next Level Sports, a youth sports organization that raffled off a free year of opportunities to participate in activities such as flag football.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Auerbachs reached out to us to come down today; we\u2019re in the Staten Island community, so we want to help our local businesses as much as possible,\u201d said Nicole Mistretta, a representative from Next Level.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are rooted in flag football \u2014 it\u2019s part of our DNA. We\u2019re one the largest flag football leagues in the tri-state area, so we were really excited to do this and we\u2019re happy to be here. It\u2018s great for our Next Level community to see our affiliation with Tyrone and hopefully he can support us and grow youth flag football.”<\/p>\n

In addition to hopes that the event would raise awareness for youth athletics, one young Giants fan in particular \u2014 Giuseppe Maneiro<\/a> \u2014 was thrilled to travel to Staten Island from New Jersey to meet Tracy, marking yet another occasion in which the leukemia warrior has met players from his favorite team.<\/p>\n

\"GiantsGiants superfan Giuseppe Maneiro and his mother, Melissa, receive an autograph from running back Tyrone Tracy Jr. at a meet and greet event at Limitless Athletics on Dec. 6, 2025.Michael O’Brien<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been great,\u201d Giuseppe\u2019s mother, Melissa, said of the warmth Giants players have shown her son.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s literally his strength when he\u2019s having a bad day; he always watches the Giants. And now that he\u2019s gotten to see them and talk to them, it motivates him to keep going. Our entire family are diehard Giants fans, so this has just been amazing,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

Eric Laverty, another devoted Giants fan from Staten Island, said the chance to meet one of Big Blue\u2019s biggest contributors this season was too good to pass up, adding that he admires the effort Tracy has given the organization so far.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a big Giants fan, and Tyrone Tracy is a great Giant. He\u2019s been an honorable Giant since he was drafted out of Purdue; he\u2019s always done the right thing by the organization, and I felt this was a great opportunity to meet him and get an autograph,\u201d Laverty shared.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only about a 40-minute drive from the stadium from here, and there\u2019s a strong Staten Island presence in the Giants fandom, so for him to come out and engage with that part of the fan base is an awesome opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for how Tracy, a second-year player who has accumulated 1,953 all-purpose yards and seven TDs in just 28 career games as a Giant, has adapted to his time in New York\/Jersey, he said, \u201cWhen you get here, you hear a lot about how intense the fans are, but I love that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m an intense person myself and I like to think that I play with a lot of passion; so far the fans have matched my energy. They\u2019ve treated me really well when I\u2019ve been out and about. The fans are amazing here.\u201d <\/p>\n

While Big Blue may be out of playoff contention this year, Tracy, who\u2019s part of a young Giants core alongside fellow talents Jaxson Dart, Cam Skattebo and Abdul Carter, shared a simple message for fans hoping for a postseason run in the near future: \u201cStick with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GiantsA Giants fan snaps a picture with running back Tyrone Tracy Jr. during a meet and greet event hosted at Limitless Athletics on Dec. 6, 2025.Michael O’Brien<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re far off from where we want to be. I think the fans know that and we as players know that. So stick with us, and know that it\u2019s a process to get where we want to go,\u201d Tracy concluded.<\/p>\n

Coming off their bye week, Tracy will look to help the Giants finish the final four games of the season strong, starting with a division rivalry matchup against the Washington Commanders on Dec. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.\u2014 Just two months after New York Giants tight ends Theo Johnson and Daniel Bellinger visited…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-62911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62911","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=62911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}