The Empire State Building in Eagle Green lit up. Giants fans weren’t thrilled.

In a sickening scene in the hometown of Giants fans, the lights above the Empire State Building turned green and white Sunday night — and it certainly wasn’t in honor of the Jets.

Instead, the Giants’ hated rivals, the Philadelphia Eagles, had Who won the NFC Championship Sunday and advanced to the Super Bowl, just one week after the Giants were knocked out of the playoffs Humiliating explosion.

light show It really didn’t go well.

New York City Sanitation Department invited him “Traitor, traitor, unforgivable.” Keith Powers, a city council member who represents an area of ​​Manhattan that includes the Empire State Building, I considered it “Too silly.” The New York Post looked at the news First page worthmistakenly calling it “uncoloured”. asked the Daily NewsWhere is the loyalty?!

“What on earth… let me close these curtains,” Giants quarterback Julian Love said, he said on Twitter.

And there it was Thousands of other responses Giants fans, as well as other NFL fans, were distraught at the betrayal.

For many, seeing a Philadelphia victory smashed into New Yorkers’ faces, on their own turf, violates the basic rule of the sport’s fanbase: If you’re not happy with your team, you can at least root for your competitors’ misfortune. An Eagles win is a Giants loss, even if they don’t play.

Giants fans were in no mood to see reminders that Philadelphia sports fans would experience a rare moment of joy. Now, all Giants fans who work with this gabroni from Fishtown He’ll have to listen to it constantly for the next two weeks, and it’ll probably wear out Dawkins Jersey to work, that beast. The less you talk about it, the better.

Although this wasn’t the Empire State Building’s most popular moment, it is She frequently changes the colors of her tower lights To reflect national and world events, and to recognize sporting victories. Just this month, the lights turned red, black and green for Martin Luther King’s birthday; glowing red for the Lunar New Year; And turned yellow to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust.

The lights turned blue to honor the Giants on January 13, when they clinched a spot in the NFL playoffs after a season that exceeded expectations. In past years, the building has honored Super Bowl champions, including in 2018 When a similar backlash formed after the Eagles win.

After about four hours of comments piling up on social media Sunday, the building tweeted shortly after 10 p.m. that it was turning red in honor of the Kansas City Chiefs, who had just won the AFC championship. At long last, the nightmare is over.