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A diehard Giants fan who I know, immediately following the team’s second Super Bowl victory over the Patriots early in 2012, essentially said he’d be perfectly OK with any bad times the franchise endured afterward.

“It’s the ultimate house-money situation,” he said.

That same person’s take after Sunday’s loss to the Chargers clinched the Giants’ fifth consecutive losing season and all but assured that their forgettable 2016 one-and-done will remain the franchise’s lone postseason appearance in the decade since those wholly unexpected wins over Tom Brady and Bill Belichick: