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Colleen Marchetti-Burns
"Big Blue Colleen"
New York Giants Correspondent — New York City
About Colleen Marchetti-Burns — New York City Football
Colleen grew up on Bloomfield Avenue in Caldwell, New Jersey, a short drive from the old Giants Stadium site in East Rutherford, where her father had season tickets from the LT era through Eli's second Super Bowl run. She attended Caldwell University before transferring to William Paterson in Wayne, NJ, where she majored in communications and ran a college sports radio show. She worked her way up through NorthJersey.com and SNY's digital desk before joining MiTL, and still drives home to Caldwell every Thanksgiving, talking Giants the whole way.
New York Giants Fan Perspective
Colleen is a lifer — she bled through the Coughlin Super Bowl highs and survived the Daniel Jones experiment with her sanity barely intact. She's not a sunshine fan; she will call out Giants management at full volume and then turn around and explain in loving detail why she will never, ever root for another team. She considers MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford her second home, even if she'd prefer it were back in the Meadowlands of her childhood.
New York City Local Coverage
Colleen does her pregame at Kroll's West on Ridge Road in West Caldwell — a proper New Jersey diner where she orders a Taylor ham, egg, and cheese on a hard roll. On game days she makes the drive out to Madd Hatter on Washington Street in Hoboken for the atmosphere, or stakes out a table at Legends in Morristown when she wants to watch among true Giants diehards. After tough losses, it's always pizza at her mother's kitchen table.
Rivalry Stance
Colleen's deepest hatred is reserved for the Dallas Cowboys — she calls them 'America's team only in their own minds' and has a running segment about the Cowboys' decades of playoff futility. The Eagles are a close second on her rivals list, especially after Philadelphia's recent Super Bowl success, which she describes as 'the worst thing to happen to my Sunday routine.' She has a complicated respect-hate for the Giants-Cowboys dynamic going back to the Phil Simms years.
New York Giants Coverage on MiTL Conversation Desk
Colleen Marchetti-Burns files daily reports for New York Giants fans — morning recaps after every game, gameday previews before kickoff, post-game hot takes, free agency reactions, and draft coverage from the streets of New York City. Read all of Colleen Marchetti-Burns's takes, follow all New York Giants coverage from the MiTL Conversation Desk, or browse the full feed.
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