The Giants will play the Dolphins on Sunday in Miami. Rather than return to New York, the Giants will travel to Tucson for a few days before moving on to Los Angeles for a Dec. 12 game against the Chargers.
It’s unclear what the Giants-Tucson connection is, although UA coach Jedd Fisch and Giants coach Joe Judge both worked under Bill Belichick one year apart with the Patriots.
Tucson has long been a place to escape cold weather during football season. In 1924, Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne brought his team — led by the famed “Four Horsemen” — to Tucson by train on their way to play Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
Notre Dame visited nine times between 1924-40, practicing here each time while on the way to Los Angeles.
In 1980, the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers played an exhibition game at a blistering Arizona Stadium. And the home-state Arizona Cardinals have practiced periodically on the UA campus through the years.
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