Saquon Barkley (Saquon is Iroquois for “breaker of tackles”) scored on a determined run Sunday, then appeared headed to hand the ball to the nearest official.

That’s when Odell Beckham Jr., the newly enriched, more mature version, intercepted Barkley, swatted the ball from his hand and invited his Giants teammate to join him in a gyrating dance. Barkley shook his head “No,” retrieved the ball and tossed it to an official.

Remarkable.

Yet on Fox, not a word about it and no replay. This can’t-miss-it moment of startling civility was ignored.

Later, Giants receiver Cody Latimer caught a short pass, then signaled that tired “Look what I did, first-down gesture.” This Fox found worthy of a slow-motion replay.

Why? What was the thought from the truck? What was the purpose?

In that same game, the Giants’ defense, though the team was 0-2, proved it spends practice time rehearsing group celebrations. Fox was eager to emphasize that, too.

Later, Sunday, Rams receiver Cooper Kupp caught a pass, then broke free for a touchdown. He flipped the ball to the nearest official, depriving himself of additional attention by CBS because, like Barkley, he chose to act as a team-first professional instead of an immodest fool.

Perhaps Kupp didn’t agree with his coach, Sean McVay, who this season endorsed receiver Marcus Peters’ crotch-grabbing TD celebration as “a lighthearted moment.”

Regardless, because it’s all backwards, the day’s second restoration of some sport to the sport passed without comment or attention.

Yet commentary atop NFL telecasts otherwise has blown past stop signs to enter the land of Enough Already!

Fox’s latest long-story laureate, Ronde Barber, assigned Sunday to his second Giants telecast, at the top said coach Pat Shurmur “wants the momentum to start on defense for his football team. Third-and-8 here, let’s see if they can get off the football field.”

When the Giants stopped themselves, kicking a field goal following a 15-yard taunting penalty against them, Barber piped, “Good stop by this Texans defense!”

And after Houston quarterback Deshaun Watson scrambled free, Barber said, “Watson’s so calm under pressure.” In the previous possession, Watson, under pressure, threw an easy, floating goal-line interception.

All day, all night. NBC’s Cris Collinsworth, former plain-talker, Sunday night on Lions receiver Kenny Golladay: “He is one of the most impressive catchers of the football I’ve seen this year.”

Reader Mike Rowan: “Who talks like that?” Most of them. But only on TV.

Reader Robert Hagen writes that he had an anthropology professor who explained his course as “taking the familiar and making it seem strange.”

That’s about right.

It never has been enough that Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer of his generation. The media has portrayed him as the world’s greatest son, husband, father, human.

And as of Sunday, he performed “The greatest comeback in the history of golf!”

In 1949, Ben Hogan was driving his car when it was struck head-on by a Greyhound bus passing a truck. Double fracture of the pelvis, fractured ankle, broken ribs, near-fatal blood clots. At 5-foot-9, 145 pounds, he lost more than 20 pounds as he spent the next two months hospitalized.

Sixteen months after that crash, Hogan won the US Open.

So Mike Francesa walks away from the cashier’s window, counting his winnings. … Well, it could happen.

Blessed are we to share the same oxygen with Francesa. We will never again encounter such an all-knowing, all-seeing self-anointed sports genius, who is not just consistently wrong, but spectacularly wrong.

Sunday the Bills, 16½-point underdogs at Minnesota, registered the biggest NFL upset in 23 years, winning 27-6. Guess Francesa’s best bet? “Giving 16½ is a lot,” he said, Friday, “but it won’t matter when they win by more than that — and they will.”

That’s up there with his authoritative claim that Hurricane Sandy would be a passing shower.

Francesa’s “lock” was wrong by a historic 38 points. And while he speaks as if people would actually pay for his picks — “they have value” — he’s now 3-6.

Wednesday, when a caller asked what he thought of the Bills’ win, Francesa called it surprising, but no mention of his Vikings’ sure-thing tout. That only happens when he gets one right. Again, it could happen.

Big Ten fever can be fatal. When Rutgers, now 1-3 and 7-28 in the Big Ten since joining in 2014, scheduled the MAC’s Buffalo to play in Piscataway, on Saturday, the idea was to pad win totals in the quest to become “bowl eligible.”

The taxpayer-supported state school agreed to pay Buffalo a reported $900,000 for the privilege of losing to a rising Big Ten team.

Buffalo won, 42-13, before an estimated 17,000 in Rutgers’ 52,500-seat stadium, thus the financial hole Rutgers dug to play in the Big Ten grew deeper.

Also in the Big Ten, while up 42-6 against Tulane, Urban “Who Knew?” Meyer, in his welcome-back game, had Ohio State throw four passes in its last possession to make it 49-6 with one minute left. That covered the 38-point spread. But who knew?

The Mets lost to Atlanta, Tuesday, 7-3, after Mickey Callaway pulled an ill Noah Syndergaard in the sixth, 89 pitches in and with a 3-0 lead, then went on to play bullpen roulette.

There’s a significant message here for baseball’s most important fans: those who buy tickets. Games are now managed as if they’re relief-pitcher tryouts.

Cleveland has become the first team to have four pitchers strike out 200 or more batters because putting the ball in play rather than trying to hit a home run, especially with two strikes, is a vanishing skill.

MLB already has set a record for most games in which seven or more pitchers have appeared. The season will end with roughly 300 such games.

Monday, in an important game at Arizona, Manny Machado, now with the Dodgers and anticipating a monster free-agent deal, hit an easy, stand-up triple. But until he saw the ball smack against the wall, then ricochet toward the infield, he stood posing, thus he hit a “home run” double.

If this is how MLB is now played, what are tickets worth?

Readers Write: Alan Hirschberg: “Did Ray Lewis wear his white suit to Ray Lewis Day, Sunday in Baltimore?” A: No, it was at the cleaners.

The Browns this week replaced TE Pharaoh McKever on their roster with TE Pharaoh Brown. John DeMarchi suspects a pyramid scheme.