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Black Cat Scurries Onto Field During First Half of Giants-Cowboys Game

A black cat made a grand appearance during the second quarter of Monday night's Giants-Cowboys game.

Ben Pickman

Black Cat Scurries Onto Field During First Half of Giants-Cowboys Game
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At Shea Stadium on Sept. 9, 1969, a black cat ran in front of the Chicago Cubs’s dugout during their game against the Mets. In the weeks that followed, Chicago underwent a near-historic regular-season collapse while the Mets went on a World Series run.

Forty years later, the Cowboys are hoping that another black cat sighting during a game against a New York team doesn’t lead to a similar fate.

With 5:32 left to go in the second quarter of Monday night’s Giants-Cowboys game, a black cat ran onto the MetLife Stadium turf, scampering around the field, causing a brief delay. 

New Jersey State troopers tried corralling the animal as players watched from the sidelines, before the cat finally ran down one of the stadium’s end zone tunnels.

The moment purr-duced a wave of reactions online.

And Kevin Harlan provided one of the best radio play-by-play calls fans might hear all year.

But will the black cat provide similar bad luck to the Cowboys on Monday night and beyond?

Dallas took a 13-12 lead into the halftime locker room, but the Giants proved to be a more than fur-midable foe.

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