2007 New England Patriots–New York Giants game

New England Patriots at New York Giants

Giants Stadium (seen in 2006)
New England Patriots (16–0) New York Giants (10–6) 38 35 Head coach: Bill Belichick Head coach: Tom Coughlin
1 2 3 4 Total NE 3 13 7 15 38 NYG 7 14 7 7 35
Date	December 29, 2007
Stadium	Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
Referee	Mike Carey
Attendance	79,110
TV in the United States
Network	NFL Network, NBC*, and CBS* *Game was simulcast
Announcers	Bryant Gumbel and Cris Collinsworth

On December 29, 2007, during the final week of the 2007 season, the New England Patriots defeated the New York Giants, 38–35, at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. In what became a preview of Super Bowl XLII, the game was a close comeback win for the Patriots, giving them the first undefeated regular season since the 1972 Miami Dolphins and the only undefeated regular season since the league expanded to 16 games.

The game, notable for the events related to its television broadcast, was the second of three meetings between the teams in the 2007 season: they met in the last week of the preseason, and again in Super Bowl XLII, in which the Giants upset the Patriots 17–14.

When the NFL announced its 2007 regular season schedule, the game was scheduled to air exclusively on the NFL Network, as was the case with all Saturday NFL games beginning with the 2006 television contract in an attempt to boost carriage of the NFL Network by cable providers.

The game was also offered to local stations in each team's home market under a long-standing league policy for games televised on cable networks. In the case of the Patriots-Giants game, the local rights were originally sold to WCVB-TV and WMUR-TV (both ABC affiliates owned by Hearst-Argyle Television) in the Boston / Manchester market, and MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WWOR-TV in the New York City market.