"John Mara recalled some strange road trips over the years for the Giants but none quite like this. "This one probably presented more challenges than I can ever remember," the Giants co-owner said. No kidding. The Giants left New Jersey early on Saturday in order to beat a snowstorm headed to Minneapolis for their game yesterday afternoon with the Vikings. That seems like ancient history now. Instead, the Giants — never having set foot in the state of Minnesota — spent more than 24 hours in Kansas City and will finally get to play the Vikings tonight at 7:20 — only at Ford Field in Detroit. The wild and crazy travel machinations left the Giants (8-4) eager to get on with the business of continuing their determined push to the playoffs. "I think they've handled it very well," Tom Coughlin said after the team made it to Detroit. "I think that the guys realized right away that it was out of our hands and really fully out of our control." The Giants' flight Saturday morning left three hours early, attempting to beat the blizzard pounding the Twin Cities, but it was diverted to Kansas City when the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport was closed. The Giants expected to spend the night in Kansas City and make a hasty getaway yesterday morning, arriving just a few hours before their 1 p.m. EST kickoff. That plan was scrapped when concerns arose about all the snow on the roof of the Metrodome and the game was pushed back to Monday at 8 p.m. At around 5 o'clock yesterday morning the Giants were informed a portion of the Metrodome's Teflon-coated fiberglass roof collapsed from the weight of nearly 2 feet of snow and that the building would not be ready for football any time soon." Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/giants/giants_vikes_shift_for_D3p1vMCKgcWBbxOjy6B9oJ
